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Post by knawes on Jul 14, 2010 21:32:35 GMT
Hello and welcome from yet another newbie! There's a whole batch of us migrated over from the eBay thread, so despite eBay pulling the group we've done well. I'm also a Riva fan, I think the recommendation and the review came out just as at the right time for us all. The Riva doesn't come with any juice. I ordered mine from James at the same time as the Riva order went in and they both arrived on the same day. As the others have said, despends on how much you smoked as to how much juice you will need. 5ml would last me a couple of days only! Pat on the back for everyone!
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Post by knawes on Jul 14, 2010 21:27:11 GMT
Just caught up on this thread - still umpteen others to check!
The order didn't arrive today, will keep my fingers crossed for tomorrow. Some of you still haven't given me your addresses to post to! Jaki, Lilac and Scylla - please note!
As soon as it arrives I will get it sorted into appropriate batches, and enclose a converted invoice with each parcel. I will also give you my Paypal details, Bank Account and obviously address, so you can send cheque or Postal Order if you like. Shall I just split the postage between the number of people that ordered? And what about charges, if any? Fairest way is to charge appropriately for the value of each order?
Let me know if the above is agreable to you all.
(Don't I sound like an office admin person up there ^^^^^ ?)
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Post by knawes on Jul 14, 2010 11:41:15 GMT
Hi Lolli,
I'm one of the newbies, I guess you may have seen some of my posts.
Anyway - I am sure the vet told you, and just checking, that you have to massage their "bottom ends" after feeding? To make them pee and poo? I only say this because my sister had some kittens that the mother totally ignored, and she had to raise by hand. But didn't get any advice and didn't know to do this. If she had only asked me....... Her kittens unfortunately died as they were not getting rid of waste.
Good luck! Keep us posted on progress.
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Post by knawes on Jul 13, 2010 17:40:59 GMT
Thanks for that Chrissie, I was just reading the forum posts before checking the tracking myself. And it's in customs.....awaiting charging...I wonder how much we will get hit?
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Post by knawes on Jul 13, 2010 17:34:02 GMT
Talking about atties, I said a week or so ago, that I cahnged to one of the ones I bought from TW, a five pack of 510's. I hate the bloody things! The ones that came with the Riva are/were fine. But I've had terrible problems with the TW ones. The gunk they put on them tastes like nothing on earth and puts me off vaping. Yesterday evening I was nearly ready for throwing the whole thing in the bin! I blew the last attie out, there is so much stuff in there, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get enough vapour, taste or hit. I flooded the darn things, then had them too dry.....it just went on and on. I swapped carts, but clean fluval in, put blue stuff in, swapped atties, etc. It pains me to say it but I had 3 normal cigs. (Over the course of the evening, and would have been more like 20 in the old days.) The atties with the Riva are normal ones, the TW are normal. My order from Eastmall is for LR ones. I really think I need these, because of how much I used to smoke and the hit I need. The other weird thing is that anything I had past my lips last night tasted awful and weird and my mouth had an awful taste in it. Whatever the gunk is, didn't agree with me, and left I couldn't even taste the normal cigs. Whether it's my taste buds changing or the gunk ( I go for the gunk) I don't really know. My vaping is back to normal today, so sleeping and leaving my mouth alone seems to have helped. I get really frustrated when it's not going right. I have so many carts and atties next to me on a piece of kitchen roll, I don't know where I am, which is an old attie, which is new.... I think I worked out how to tell when they die though....it's an awful burnt taste? I got even more frustrated when my mouse (I use a Logitech Trackball big thing) died and I couldn't do anything properly, hence no postings yesterday! Then I tried to get onto Eastmall website and couldn't, the site didn't exist. I was thinking they'd buggered off with all our money! I ended up watching TV and . Seems Estmall was down for a re-design. My new replacement mouse arrived, and I'm vaping away! Phew! Kath
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Post by knawes on Jul 10, 2010 20:46:43 GMT
Hanow, I already posted something about the primer in another thread. Mine don't seem to work at first, but I think it's the primer....blow them out, drip a bit of juice in, burn it off (no cart, no vaping) and try again. Don't burn too long though, only a couple of seconds. Or drip some juice in and leave overnight. The ones I got from TW are labelled Titan and Tornado. The ones I ordered from Eastmall are LR ones, www.eastmall.net/product_info.php/cPath/123/products_id/982Kath
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Post by knawes on Jul 10, 2010 20:32:28 GMT
Judy,
Yes, I was expecting a big coughing fit every day, and gunge to come up but nothing has. Like you, I am not coughing in the morning when I wake up either. What's that all about? I feel loads better in myself.
I've still to take the leap of vaping in places where smoking is banned, other than my own office where there is no-one else most of the time, and as I'm the boss, no one to tell me not to! Having said that, I've not really been anywhere yet. We're not pub goers, and tend to hibernate at home all the time. We did have the holiday in a non-smoking caravan, but again no one to say we couldn't vape. So looking forward to flying Ryanair in September and vaping to my hearts content. I am also going to vape in the airport, especially when you have that long wait after going through security. Bring it on!
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Post by knawes on Jul 10, 2010 20:18:15 GMT
Ooher....I just caught up with the eBay thread. I think you all did fine. I'm sat on my hands (well not really #cos I'm typing this!) but that Madam really is a madam isn't she?
Fairly heavy smoker - 10 to 20 a day? I don't THINK so!
And she's moaning about how the e-cigs feel. My Riva is NOT all hard and cold, it's my best friend now. I find it very tactile. Easier to keep that in my hand than a fag that's dripping ash all over the place.
Oh, well, we can't win them all?
Kath
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Post by knawes on Jul 10, 2010 19:52:04 GMT
Hanow,
They work.....after an age. That horrible gunk (Chrissie said primer) is atrocious. Like vaping castor oil. I blew through the hole onto kitchen paper with the last one and loads came out but you can still taste it. So I dripped and burnt it off, then just kept persevering, but didn't have such a good vape last night. Put one of the old ones back, in desperation, and got that working again. I'm not even sure when they are "dead". I presume when nothing happens? This morning, the new attie was OK, and I have been using it all day. I guess leaving it overnight gets the preferred juice to soak in?
I've got about 5 atties on the go, two of which are LR but I'm pretty sure one is dead. The only thing is, I am loathe to throw any of them away, just in case they "spring into life"! How do I know they are useless?
Kath
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Post by knawes on Jul 10, 2010 11:35:00 GMT
Hi Lettie!
Can't remember whether I've said HI already, so you might have one greeting above, or two! As you can see (and as Chrissie says) we are all mad here! But nice with it also.
Because I still have some normal fags, and I'm not giving them away, I've been smoking a little as well as vaping, depending on the circumstances I find myself in.
I decide last night, before going to bed that I will "treat" myself to a normal fag, as I'd just changed to a new attie and it was giving me grief. I lit the fag, took a drag, put it down in the ashtray, and the next thing I knew I'd forgotten about it and picked up the Riva again!
(This pack of new atties I have, when I take out of the cellophane wrapper have some sort of oil all over them, so I blew it out before using but took ages to get going properly and get rid of the taste. This is the problem I had the other day also, for those that read the thread. They are from Totally Wicked and say Titan and Tornado. I'm waiting for the ones from Estmall to arrive to have a go with them. )
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Post by knawes on Jul 10, 2010 6:57:53 GMT
My first one was faulty. The second one is working alright.
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Post by knawes on Jul 9, 2010 21:32:45 GMT
Done!
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Post by knawes on Jul 9, 2010 11:40:42 GMT
Hopefully, nobody in their right mind would bother ordering anything from one of those magazine inserts. It's all carp, for a lot of money. Long handled toe-nail clippers, two feet in one foot muff (so you have to hop!?) Nose hair cutters. CD Flipper gadget. And so on....
I, too, am doing all I can to promote it. I've sent my two smoking sisters lots of info from this board, copied and pasted, together with pics of the Riva etc.. One is going to persue it further when I visit in September when her daughter (my niece) gets married as she wants to see it in action first and have a suck!! The other one should have received her bumpf today.
I did mention it on the eBay techie board the other day.
Sort of on the same subject - has anybody ever met anybody else who vapes? Anywhere? While out an about? I haven't. Just saying, because I don't think too many folks know about it still.
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Post by knawes on Jul 9, 2010 7:12:19 GMT
Lilac, I'll have a browse. It sounds interesting. Now that I am more into vaping and sort of know what I am doing, I will read and investigate more. I can't ever imagine having quite as many contraptions as Chrissie or Scylla though.....at least I think it's them that have a selection of items? Or like the link to the person in another thread who had cupboard fulls? ! Kath
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Post by knawes on Jul 8, 2010 22:43:34 GMT
Hanow,
It's mostly when I get frustrated also, but I'm getting used to finding out what's gone "wrong" now. I took notice of all those hints and tips we got, like you, and more or less have it sussed and don't panic like I did. I have also experimented with dripping - and that's something else! The hit is unbelievable!
Kath
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