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Vaping kit mainly - Spheroid, MarkBugs, Vapor Freak, Pink Mule and a couple of others including Inawera flavours from Poland.

Aside from that maybe a couple of bits from ebay - and indirectly the French Aroma Zone Organic VG from taobao.com over here in China.

Wasn't going to complain as it was a freebie from visit to Joyetech - and have a Delta 2 to play including the RBA deck - so can wait until China re-opens

The precursor not only to our VW/TC/TCR mods - but TW too!

Many things have changed - including the Cropper in charge - but some things stay the same - bet it was a tad more expensive than similar models on the market from other vendors

Can't say, as Kevin just said "Let me just sort you out some puff", disappeared, and was I vaguely disappointed when all i got was a bag of cotton

I found Vapor's Choice Cotton - on Taobao - which looked interesting - and then left it back at my college apartment

Joyetech did supply me with some Puff - so i'll give that a go when i rebuild the Delta 2 It doesn't mean to say that Joyetech 'officially endorse' Puff - just that's what Kevin called it when i mentioned being short of cotton

I've also found the UD from FT to be acceptable - and enjoyed using Cotton Bacon too.

Will let thee know about the Vapor's Choice once i actually get around to using it.

Gave up on waiting for Photobucket's maintenance!

The Joyetech Reception Desk - from the outside pretty much any white painted Chinese factory



Me and 'Mr. Yao' - all that accomplishment and still only 38!




Apologies for the clothing - it pished it down the day before - right after i'd left the hotel without me umbrella and then got lost. Had to buy new clothes for the meeting and accept what was available in my size - and i'm an XXXL here for sleeve length if nothing else - trousers were a tad tight (as is the fashion here), the Chinese may have long legs but generally skinnier than mine, so getting them over me thighs was an issue(had the same kind of issue as a kid - Tesco school trousers not made for kids who had a small waist and cycled and swam in Cornwall for fun) . Ended up with some of the lads in the shop running around trying to find something that might fit, whilst four of them took selfies with the detrousered Laowai

I feel very privileged and honoured as i met up with Kevin Chung earlier today, Very Big at Joyetech USA, who took me up to the Joyetech Factory complex and not only spent over an hour chatting about Vaping, Joyetech and how vaping might be in the future - but also a bit of a tour around the factory itself. This is unprecedented, as 'random' visitors are rarely invited to, and never shown around the facilities at Joyetech if they are, but Kevin just didn't ask permission!

Today i got to meet a true Legend in Vaping History - who the majority of Vapers (including me before this morning ) had never actually heard of - Mr. Yao!

In 2010 when i first started vaping, though not 'Full Time', the best device i found was the KR808 - reasonable power output and battery life (= very long thin cig-a-like) but for me (and more importantly the dude with MS i stumbled across vaping for) cartomisers (i could top up his cartos, and at the time at least, he could just about manage to unscrew one and swap it for a fresh one). Vapour production, flavour and battery life were OK at best, and that was still better than smoking.

The Mr. Yao invented.....DRUM ROLL....The 510 connector - TA DA! The 510 cig-a-like was something i tried but stuck with me KR808 (510 was just a different option - and for those who remember - used to carry different adapter to use different misers or battery combos LoL)

Not content with this - now seen as the standard (if not necessarily the best) connector - Mr. Yao continued with his Vape Changing Inventiveness.

In 2010 - just as i was thinking o giving up the idea of vaping as something for the future, but not good enough yet - he invented the most successful, and copied/cloned vaping device the World has yet seen - the eGo! The eGo was a genuine game changer, as the average battery circa 2010 was around 90-100mAh, so many folk had 10 battery charger units, to keep them going, with batteries being a tenner a pop! With it's 650mAh battery - and within a couple of months of it's launch the 510 cartomiser -the permanent switch to vaping became a much more viable alternative for me and many others (never was an atomiser fan)!

Now i'm not sure if these were purely solo efforts, or he was the project leader - or lets be honest here, if Kevin just grabbed a random Chinese worker form the factory and presented him to me as Mr Yao - and that the Chinese he was speaking was actually telling me this wasn't true, and he was "Just a Guy, you know?" - but still shook his hand - just in case!

Also walked away with a Joyetech 'Goodie' bag, including some interesting add-ons, and importantly some much needed Cotton wick

Huge thanks to John Manzione at Spinfuel for putting Kevin in touch with me in the first place, for Kevin for being such a thoroughly good bloke and fellow vaper (he started off with his own vape shop) and a big Thank You to Mr. Yao - real or invented i salute you!