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I recently picked up a perfectly decent, 720p 26" TV off ebay for £40, I could have gotten more for my money but I limited myself to within 20mi of my postcode..
I use it as a normal TV, and when I want to watch films that I've <legitimately acquired> I just run an HDMI lead from the back of the computer to the TV instead of my monitor.
Although that said being "only" 720p I don't use it for games, but for films & TV it's fine.


For gaming you're normally pretty close to the screen certainly way closer than traditional "home cinema" type useage, so a giganto-screen seems a touch overkill to me (anything approaching 32" etc..) - My 19" PC monitor (higher res than the TV but smaller in inches) was £90 brand new, I know thick end of £100 isn't cheap by any standard but I shouldn't think you'd struggle at that kind of price for summat decent?

A 1080p monitor (1920x1080 res) around the 19-21" size would be more than sufficient for console gaming I would have thought?

Heh

"Steeping" is just the act of letting the juice "settle" so to speak for a while before you use it, makes them taste much nicer.
For example, I got some 10ml bottles from JooseJuice a while back, tried them the day they came & tasted horrible (to me).

I just stuck them in a drawer for a fortnight, and it was like a totally different world, they tasted really good when I came back to them.
That's because their stuff is freshly made.

However, if I go to my local bricks & mortar shop and buy a bottle of whatever-flavour juice, I can take it home, fill up a tank & it's ready to go - Probably because it was manufactured weeks or months ago & has been sitting on a shelf for however-long.

Some people are a bit pro, and use things like a small ultrasonic cleaner (the things you use to clean jewellery & eye glasses) to speed up the process, basically cramming a fortnight's standing into an evening, but I'm too simple-things-for-simple-folk for that, so I just leave fresh juice to stand for a while, and make do with shop-bought stuff for a week or so before I crack open freshly-made juices.


There's a bum-load of info on this forum about steeping if you're interested, but I dunno, for me there was so much to take in when I first started that I didn't really look into it until I was more used to the simple fact I was getting off the fags, you know?

Those clearos look for all the world like re-skinned Evods, just without a centre-post and a ridged plinth where the atty head screws in.. :/
(Going by the one on the right, but the pink one on the left looks like there is a centre-post present)



Hmm, gives me an idea.... [/looks at un-loved Evod on desk, considers snapping off the centre post & welding a dual coil atty.. Evod backs slowly away from the mad person...]

+1.
My regular vape is my Mini Protank (a similar BCC in form & function) but I do like those T3S's, they're light, cheap & convenient.

I keep a spare, unused one in shrinkwrap on me at most times when I'm out & about in my emergency stash, and I tend to switch to the T3S when I'm at the pub in case of falling over & breaking the glass MPT.. (not that I ever fall over when drinking you understand, it's all rumours.. )

I've certainly had my experience of them gurgling, but it's nearly always down to not giving the thing a good clean (just a once-over with some tissue) between each top-up with juice.
The Protank behaves exactly the same way if I'm lazy & don't give it a wipe up between refills as well.

Some will say a manky, gunkish taste is the giveaway, others a burnt taste; For me personally (and this is just my personal experience), I didn't really notice a taste difference when my heads (in a Mini Protank but the exact same head) needed changing, it was more a general degradation in performance - The battery needed to be fired for longer to get a decent vape, I was going from pressing the button for 2-3 secs to 6-8 secs, sometimes even triggering the 10-sec auto cutoff feature in the battery before I got a decent vape from it.

As with almost in everything in life, your mileage may vary, but for me I got an easy month & a half out of my first mini Protank head (the ones that came with the device), and that was not "easy going" vaping, but replacing smoking completely.

I know right?
When I started (god listen to me now, sound like my own grandad ) all this talk bandied around sounded like some arcane language that I'd never break into, but honestly it all makes sense soon mate.

Some people have weird & wonderful methods for steeping, personally when I get a new juice, I put a few drops into a tank, chuff on it, and if it tastes nice, great.
If it tastes harsh, it goes into a drawer for a couple weeks minimum, and 9 times outa 10 when I come back to it, it's great. Simples.


End of the day the ecig is just a little metal heater on the top of a stick (battery), and is no more complex than it looks.
In your normal life you operate complex machinery like cars, trucks, computers, so vaping is a breeze (pardon the pun) by comparison.

You'll be fine mate, you have my full confidence! 

+1 - I mix & match all the time.
Right now I'm vaping a mix of Hangsen blueberry, Hangsen coconut & JooseJuice pineapple with a single drop of Dekang RY4 for edge..

It's... different but not in a bad way.