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Which Kanthal wire should I get for building coils for my Subtank mini RBA heads? I looked on Fasttech for 0.5ohm wire and this was the closest I found, so will that do?
www.fasttech.com/products/0/10008276/2219902-authentic-kanthal-a1-resistance-wire-for

Is is worth getting some of these pre-wicked coils as well? They're 1.3ohm but maybe they'll still be OK as a backup when I don't have time to make and wick coils myself. www.fasttech.com/products/0/10008276/1761002-authentic-kanthal-pre-made-wire-and-wick-for-rba

Well it seems I wasn't imagining it when I thought the batteries in my Cloupor weren't lasting as long as they used to, after that incident with the cable heating up.

With the new batteries and a Nitecore USB charger, when the Cloupor reports the battery is flat, I put it in the charger and it shows it still has 50% capacity left!

Is there any chance there's something I can fix in the Cloupor or should I just buy a replacement?

Ah I see your point, over a week I'd be using half as much nic, so that's a good way to gradually reduce how much my body expects/relies on.
Yeah, cold turkey's no fun! When I've tried I've been lucky enough to be able to hole up by myself so I can't take it out on other people but I can't imagine trying it whilst having to be around others 

The great thing about vaping is that it allows me to satisfy my addiction to the hand to mouth action (and the visual side of the clouds) without needing to have any nicotine. When I've quit smoking in the past, although successful for some time I always ended up starting again when I got stressed but I'm fairly confident that if I manage to get down to 0mg and get the nic out of my system then the 0mg vaping will be sufficient to satisfy me even when stressed and even if I turn out to be wrong about that, I can just add some nic back into the mix and avoid any thought of needing to start smoking again (not that I can imagine ever doing so again after 2+ years vaping, although I sometimes like the smell of cigarette smoke outside, where it's diluted in the air, I find it revolting indoors now and it just reminds me of how bad it tasted).

letsavit I thought of doing that but won't the nic days just restart the whole process again. I'll obviously be using less nic overall but I don't see how it will help me get off it completely. Not that I'm desperate to at the moment, I'll see how I get on with 3mg for a bit.

Thanks Perpetua but even that confuses me! I'll just stick to making 10ml bottles and then if I ever need to add nicotine again I can refer back to the calculations done by Postmodern Smoking and not have to hurt my head 

Thanks guys, I wondered why all that pancaking should be necessary, when I didn't do any of that when I first wicked it and it worked fine. I think you're right blakey that I totally overpacked it the second time, in a misguided attempt to get it to work. I don't think I did the first time though but I obviously didn't do it right either.

Thanks phatfil and DiscoDes, between the instructions and the video I managed to get it working. It took me about three attempts to cut a strip that I could even start to get through the coil, the suggested 6mm was far too thick and even after cutting it a bit thinner I ended up having to pull half the layers away before I could roll it thin enough but I got it nice and snug and saturated the ends and puffed them up. I also dry burnt the coil before I started and that probably helped to get rid of some old burnt stuff which wasn't doing anything helpful to the taste!

Thanks for the link to the pads wooky, I'd better order some of those quickly as the single pad that came with the Subtank isn't going to last me long the amount of wastage I cause each time I have to rewick

muckyboy, I didn't even realise the disposable heads could be rebuilt. Is there a video showing how they come apart, as I didn't get anywhere just pulling on it