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Are you sure? The red one is at 2pm, just after lunch, and is perfect for day trippers.

The world’s biggest vape raffle has gotten so humoungously huge that this year we’re splitting it into two! THE BIG RAFFLE² is on Saturday and it's going to be a knockout!

In the red corner: The Red Raffle – this plucky newcomer enters the ring at 2pm.

In the blue corner: The Blue Raffle – this heavywieght bruiser takes on allcomers at 5.30pm

Raffle tickets are £2 each and are limited to a maximum of 5 per person for each bought. Keep an eye on the Raffle Prize page as our punch bag of prizes swells.

I was in and I was out in less than an hour, but BIG thanks to Julie for being the super organiser (Vape-Mama), Jessica for trading badges and building bridges and Niamh just for for the craic. It was just a pub, but it was a good venue (I hope I am forgiven for rearranging the the furniture, that's what I do) and it was certainly a lot busier upstairs than down, so I hope we've won over the landlord for next time.

This a thread for AAEC members with spare room in their cars or those looking for a lift.

Driving to Vapefest? Don’t go it alone – take a co-pilot onboard to help with the navigation and fill in the harmonies as you sing along with your motorway mix tape…

If you really can’t make it to Vapefest by public transport then this thread is for you; whether you're a driver with seats to spare or a passenger angling for a lift...

Origen v2
easy build, well designed, generous juice well, good performance.

I have had many RDAs in my time, but I find most of them unacceptably leaky. I tend to carry my vaping gear in my pockets and nothing pisses me off more than the discovery of a sticky juice spot on my clothes.

The only RDA that I can trust not to do so is the Origen. My favourite is the Origen v2. I have an Origen v3 which has more airflow options but I'm not so keen on the design - pocket fluff and dirt and general debris gets stuck in those wafer thin slots around the top.

I have a Derringer which is a cute little thing, but I find the juice well crowded and small. It's too leak prone to carry in your pocket with any kind of confidence so I really only use it at home, atop a suitably diminutive 18350 mod. I do occasionally take it out to vape meets, but really I'm just showing off!

I recently inherited a Fogatti Switchblade which is fine and gorgeous thing, but it has, what I consider to be, something of a design flaw; the top cap fits inside the base rather than over it which makes it hard to arrange your wicking material – it tends to get snagged and interfere with the seal. The other thing is the admirable and innovative deck compels me to make fierce three coil builds that fog out a room in a single draw. I know a lot of people like that sort of thing but I'm a discrete vaper – I don't like to draw too much attention to myself on the top deck of the bus or obscuring the screen at my local multiplex...

I bought a power supply from them that was DOA. They asked me to post it back. I can't remember how much it was – £7-£10 I think - but they asked me to photograph and email the receipt, they then refunded my account. I thought that it was crazy as the power supply itself was only £12!

Another time I'd ordered some hybrid adapters but they sent the wrong thread gauge. They only cost £1.21 and FT sent me the correct item straight away and told me I could keep the others. I subsequently unknowingly bought a mod with the same gauge, so it was a happy ending.

These are the only times I've had a problem with FT and in each case they acted honourably and did the right thing. If you can penetrate the sometimes surreal tone and abstract spelling of their auto translated emails you'll find their cutomer service is pretty good.