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Post by davetherayon on Jul 2, 2020 16:42:21 GMT
I still have that box mod... should break it out and check it still works. Some of my older attys and mods are dead, mainly due to parts rusting! Turns out leaving metal items with juice still in them around for years has a bad effect on them. Don't leave your vapegear dirty like I did  |
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Post by davetherayon on Jul 2, 2020 16:08:57 GMT
Hi gill2009 ! Lovely to come back and see the forum again. Oh wow, I just spotted the link in my post. "adventures with epoxy" and it's still up! Shame the images are lost though. |
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Post by davetherayon on Jul 2, 2020 15:55:18 GMT
Hello again my dearios  I just ordered what is for me a shiny new combo, though its been on the market for a year. Smok Morph 219. Bunch of attys too. Having had a couple of Smok Aliens for close to 4 years now, they never missed a step so happy to give them some more queen quids. I should get back into coil building, got enough materials to last till doomsday. |
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Post by davetherayon on Jul 2, 2020 15:50:52 GMT
Hi all, been a long time since I was on AAEC. Back when rayon was a shiny new thing, that long. I've been vaping now for 9 years, never regretted a day of it. My current and long-standing setup is a Smok Alien alternating TFV4 (!) Captain and Smok baby beast attys. Not a cloud chaser, but I prefer to use wattage rather than TC coils, TC just ended up not delivering as well for me. I still make 90% of my juice, to the extent that measuring content by eye is second nature these days. 9 to 12 mg strength is my regular vape. So how's everyone doing?
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Post by davetherayon on Aug 23, 2017 19:30:41 GMT
Ello  Still vaping! Every month more people I know from work who smoke are picking up the vape stick. Some of them have better mods than me  - my most recent setup is a tfv8 baby beast, along with a couple of boxes of coils. The wibbly water bath (aka jewel cleaner) gets a lot of action and I'm still making my own juice : got enough 72mg nic in the freezer bought for just storing the nic has enough to last 10 years at last calculation, heh. Anyway keep on vaping and toot toot! |
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Post by davetherayon on Jul 15, 2016 8:54:38 GMT
What? These guys are selling PG and VG "pharmaceutical grade, suitable for vaping" at a price of £5.50 including p&p. That's even cheaper than Boots value glycerin (they've hoiked the price up in the shops to £2.29 for 200ml, just been to a Boots to restock)! Anyone had dealings with them, positive or negative? |
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Post by davetherayon on Jul 7, 2016 16:24:00 GMT
Another smok? Oh wow, may have to get one to join the stable. It'll look good alongside its tfv4 amigos.
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Post by davetherayon on May 30, 2016 14:49:05 GMT
I can identify what's been spent on internet purchases (so missing are the tools bought to bodge build mods, storage boxes, and several bottles of vg from Boots which costs naff all anyway) but only have history going back to Sept 2014. So in 1 year 9 months I've spent £1350 on mods and associated stuff (e.g. batteries and power bank), £400 on atomisers, and £920 on concentrates, vg, pg, nic. Not as much as I'd thought, but I knew that mods would be the biggest spend as it's all up front. Still, £2700 in that time period versus £8 a pack of fags, 40 a day over 90 weeks, I'm £7300 up on the deal.
Edit : looks at sig. Years 1 and 2 if I spent say £3500 that's £6200 over the period. Still in the black (except in respect to the colour of my lungs).
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Post by davetherayon on May 27, 2016 17:49:18 GMT
"Bap" is one we use a lot round here, that's an interesting one as the regional variation is very wide when you travel not far at all. The often encountered "roll" is identical, as is the Coventrarian "batch", and to the Yorkshire guys I used to work with it was a "sandwich".
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Post by davetherayon on May 24, 2016 17:20:07 GMT
This came up in conversation today, someone uttered it in a meeting and there were blank faces among a lot of people... I knew what he meant, 'common cokum' when I were a lad was like 'common sense', 'use your noodle', and so on. So to educate the young'ns who'd never heard this phrase I googled it ... zero responses! Cokum, cocum, coakam, all returned nothing relevant. Surely not a word with no internet knowledge? There's kokum, which is a tree, but 'use your tropical evergreen tree from India, Garcinia indica, that produces fruit which is dark purple when ripe containing large seeds from which an important edible fat is obtained' doesn't quite fit the desired meaning.
Is this one of those olde English words that's fallen by the wayside? Anyone know the etymology of it?
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Post by davetherayon on May 22, 2016 10:35:44 GMT
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Post by davetherayon on May 17, 2016 21:38:39 GMT
Will Dave keep that long  I'd give davetherayon evens at best  Piffle! Starting a google search for 'nicotine is a' returns : stimulant, cognitive enhancer, insecticide, and laxative. So I'll have no problems with keeping awake, alert, flyless and... regular for a long time to come.  |
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Post by davetherayon on May 17, 2016 19:16:25 GMT
Mini freezer purchased, another 2 L of base on order, that makes 6 L. At current usage (3 mg mix, 4.17 ML of base per 100ML that is, 100ML usage a week) that'll keep me going for 27.6 years. Sorted, unless PG and VG are somehow illegalised...!
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Post by davetherayon on May 10, 2016 20:40:52 GMT
Whilst being surrounded by subohmage, there's a KFL sitting in quiet contemplation on top of a Provari in the back. Still filled with red astaire. Every now and again it gets a toot or ten, as you say it doesn't gas up the room but the flavour is full and chewy. Nice to vape it and recall life pre-subohm |
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Post by davetherayon on May 6, 2016 19:37:23 GMT
Symptom : the istick tc100's got a rather nice side-activated fire button, simple enough in that one of the magnetically held on battery covers rests against a push-to-make switch button. But if it suffers, let's say, a trauma due to being dropped on its side, the button will push all the way into its hole in the side and not actuate.
Diagnosis : the unit's easy enough to dismantle, two screws hold the section on that when removed reveals the switch which is on its own small pcb, and connects to the positives of battery and control board. The problem was clear, this wee board is just held in place on the main board by a bit of glue, and some dabs of solder that connect them.
Fix : superglue the button board back on (make sure it's oriented correctly), then solder across the 4 broken terminals on the button side. To reach the two inner terminals, pull and hold the switch spring up and out of the way (it doesn't detach, well not without looking like it'd break the switch altogether). I used a croc clip lead weighed down to provide the pull.
The repaired unit in my case takes a little more pressure to activate, as it's been glooed back on a little further into than it was originally held in. But it ain't shifting any time soon, and best of all it works.
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I just ordered what is for me a shiny new combo, though its been on the market for a year. Smok Morph 219. Bunch of attys too. Having had a couple of Smok Aliens for close to 4 years now, they never missed a step so happy to give them some more queen quids. I should get back into coil building, got enough materials to last till doomsday.
Still vaping! Every month more people I know from work who smoke are picking up the vape stick. Some of them have better mods than me 
- my most recent setup is a tfv8 baby beast, along with a couple of boxes of coils. The wibbly water bath (aka jewel cleaner) gets a lot of action and I'm still making my own juice : got enough 72mg nic in the freezer bought for just storing the nic has enough to last 10 years at last calculation, heh. 
