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An oldie but a goody. Always gets me laughing like a drain.

Now, feel free to call me a numbskull but the advice given to a friend of mine doesn't sound right, to me.
She had been dithering about trying vaping instead of the cigs and, probably unwisely, stopped on the spur of the moment, at a certain b&m ecig store to buy some gear and start vaping. Well, £100 lighter and armed with a VTR, 1x 18650 battery, 1 x single bay usb charger and 30ml of 1% nic juice, off she went. Read into the price what you will, vendors can charge what they want and if someone is willing to pay then so be it.

My main concern is not that, but it's that she was told to buy a specific charger and told to only charge the battery from a laptop. To enforce this, she was also shown photographs of burned out wall chargers/adapters and told that this could likely happen if she used anything else besides the laptop. I only found out because she called me asking how long the battery would take to charge, as hers had been charging for ages but charger wouldn't turn green.
Possible crap charger aside, I was under the impression and also from what I've read, that charging from a PC and, especially a lappy, was a no-no. Best is to have a high enough output usb wall socket adapter with the correct, regulated cable for the device/battery, no?

Do you think this is uninformed, erroneous advice to give or is it erring on the side of caution, thinking that perhaps, if something did go wrong, the lappy would fizzle out rather than the battery explode or burn?
As I said, please correct me if I'm wrong but it just sounded rather bizarre information to give a new vaper.

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Now, this is a long shot. Has anyone tried the ROK Classic Tobacco juice? Reason I ask is that, strangely, it is my favourite tobacco flavour and I'm trying to find something similar that isn't as pricey. To me it tastes like a sweet/caramel/toffee tobacco and I've tried to self replicate it but not really getting it right. The closest I've tried is Griz's Caramel Tabac but that's a bit too harsh for me. The ROK tobacco has, for me, a nice sweet note and is very thick for a 70/30 pg/vg blend. Maybe it has extra ingredients to thicken and sweeten it like that, I don't know, I'm not that adept at mixology yet.

The problem is that the ROK juice only comes in 10ml bottles and at a fiver each, gets pricey when ordering 30ml or more, so no incentive to buy larger quantities. Delivery charge is also towards the upper end, so not great when ordering small amounts.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for a sweet/caramel/toffee type tobacco juice, I'd be very grateful. Thanks.

One exception.....Manabush. I do have a stash of it and it holds a special place on my taste-buds.

You could also try using syringes with a blunt needle to transfer juice from bottle to tank. Just pop off the tip of the juice bottle for easy access and away you go. I use them when I get thick juices that come in stubby-nosed bottles and afterwards just rinse them out with warm water. They are also handy for measuring out the same exact amount of juice every time.

Thanks for the heads-up, will give it a go. I'm the same, I like to mix a bit with tobacco's and coffee's but find some are really overpowering and either too sweet or have too much of a burnt sugar edge to them. It's quite bizarre actually, the smell of freshly made caramel ejuice makes me want to heave and I can smell it on everything but after a week or two steeping, it mellows considerably and then I can't get enough.

Next time you go, take a print out of this.