Tootle Puffers, Part Three! (The Sequel of the Redux)

[Alter]

I actually never thought about what the plastic drip tips are made of or drip tips at all until the other day it came up somewhere and I calipered most of the tips to see their inside diameter and was quite surprised that wide bore aren't really wide bore.

Here's what I posted in another thread:
I just finished calipering ID of a bunch of driptips..
Kanger subtank mini stock wide bore is 4mm inside dia
TFV4 tip thats got 2 layers is 5mm
Merlin is 5.9mm, I don't like that one at all.
I also measured a bunch of random tips mostly stainless and the rainbow metal and most were 3.9 and 4.0mm. I did come across a older swivel plastic tip that was 4.2mm. Those long curved tips were 3.2mm. A couple of the plastic vase type were 4.2mm. A glass vase was 4.5mm but the opening at the top was 2.9mm. Generally speaking since I'm able to vape nasty low coils with a 4.0mm subtank tip, thinking it was wide bore in which it isn't there should be no problems using other tips...I never thought of measuring ID if driptips until just now.

edit...I should add that except for the stock tips that came with the atty I got all my driptips from fasttech.

 

[Krisma]

I follow her Katness...

Mine are all inventoried in a spreadsheet

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Thats scary. Have you got a pivot table to split them by size, material, Vol and coil links

 

[RainSong]

It's an exciting Friday night at my house... I need to come up with a way to organize all my flavors, I've outgrown the tray I had them in. Which means I have to reorganize the whole two shelves I've taken over in my hall closet. So much vape gear, so little room.


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[Alter]

Now that I'm dwelling into other wire types. I have to begin to think, something I've been avoiding throughout my vape journey. I'm glad I bought several different color subtank orings way back they are coming into play now. The blue I have SS build. Red is nickle and black is kanthal. Both my merlins have SS so its easy but same with the TFV I use a steel color tip for SS and rainbow for kanthal. I know you can vape SS in power mode but using TC its a much better vape.

 

[Bea-FL]

 

[FranC]

Good morning,Bea

 

[Skold]

Hello everyone & yet again I'm ten pages behind

 

[beckdg]

you can't clean drip tips in alcohol??

https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/index.php?threads/551399/

Tapatyped

 

[Droz]

Hey there fellow Tootlers,

I have a build question (for those builders out there) - I accidentally bought a Cthulhu MTL RTA today (you know how it is - go in for a spool of 26ga SS316L wires, leave with _waaaaaaaaaaay_ more that you thought you'd leave with).

I thought I could replace my Goblin v3 on my Pico, but the Cthulhu is too wide to fit without a heatsink on it, but that's an entirely different story (whoops!)

Anyway, without thinking too much, I put in the biggest restrictor and threw in a 3mm .7 ohm 26+32ga Kanthal Clapton build (4 wraps?) to give it a go.

Now, more wraps would've been too tough to fit in the Cthulhu, and I get a decent vape, but I'd like to drop the Watts down. I get a great vape at 40W, but it smashes both the juice and the battery at this rate - not very MTLish of me, I know. So, I guess I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to even use Claptons MTL style? I imagine I'd have to get something like 28+32 to push up the ohms, but... Is it possible to get to under 20w and still have a tasty vape with Claptons? I read on the Siren thread that someone used a 26+32 and gets a great vape at about 16w, but I really don't believe them at all (I know it's slightly juice dependant, but I think I'm pushing 2.5x more power than them to get *great* flavour).

2. If you guys have used this atty, which restrictor do you use?

 

[beckdg]

Just the plastic ones


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why?

drip tips are made of different types of plastic. Does anyone know the type of plasctic specifically? Acrylic? POM? PEI? Resin?

If you tag or quote me, I will eventually respond if necessary. No need to try to figure out what I mean.

Well... as long as I'm clear enough when I respond.

See my last post.

Tapatyped

 

[Plettschner]

Don't use alcohol on acrylic (PMMA, Perspex) or polycarbonate (PC)

Delrin (POM) is ok with alcohol, but not bleach.

Ultem (PEI) is also alcohol ok.

Not 100% on resin, because there are different types of resins... most (epoxies) are ok with alcohol.


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[52anddone]

I need one too! I've been on this site for 4 months and have 38 tanks. [emoji15]


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Alot of us should take a trip to "Beverly Hills" and find one, "Beverly Hills" has any kind of therapist one would want (or so I've heard anyway).

 

[440BB]

I just got a bag of 50 of those from FT. I got the black. Love them for driving. Only problem I have is they fall out a lot. A slight sideways nudge and off they come. Like just carrying a mod around in my pocket is enough. Then I have to fish around in the bottom of my pocket, where they pick up a bunch of fluff and whatever else was floating around down there. Also have to fight the temptation to chew on them between hits.

Now I leave a small bag of them in the truck, and another bag at work.

A while back Kidney Puncher used to sell a large variety of basic tips for a dollar each. I got a bunch of them, A variety of SS and brass and Delrin tips in different shapes.

The only classy ones I bought were a couple of real stone tips that Virgin Vape used to sell. They are great looking tips, but both of them cracked around the part that goes in the hole on the tank. One I dropped the mod, the other one just cracked while I was vaping with it. I glued them back together but I'm nervous with them now. I keep them in a box on my desk and take them out once in a while.

You are right about those silicone tips - in my day with it yesterday I had to fish it out of my pocket more than once. The pliable texture that gives them great mouth feel is also their Achilles heel. Delrin still wins in my rough and tumble vaping style.

 

[sorrynomore]

If people are feeling inadequate with respect to drip tips (I know I am), here's my measly collection

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You've got more than I have and I've been vaping since 2014. I've only purchased 5 drip tips.

 

[52anddone]

How about a diamond ring?

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Now those would make some really good air flow rings, IF, you knock out all those silly diamonds around the middle first Shawn, ya know, then ya could have a really nice looking vape topper. Just a thought.

 

[52anddone]

It's only because of deeming regs. If you told me I couldn't get fabric in a years time, I'd be stocking up on that!


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Yup, sure it is. You just keep telling you're self that, as you kick you're feet up and lay down with an ice pack on you're head sweetie, keep repeating that to you're self and close you're eyes now, everything will be better when you wake up dear.

 

[LynnNC]

It's only because of deeming regs. If you told me I couldn't get fabric in a years time, I'd be stocking up on that!


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What??? You mean I'd have to buy more fabric to go with the 20 XL totes of fabric that I already have??? I do know where I'd put it!

 

[52anddone]

Hello everyone & yet again I'm ten pages behind

Yup, seems to be a recurring theme for me since I came back here.

 

[ToolmanTexas]

Yep! When I first started vaping I was a dyed in the wool TPer. Go over 8W's? Never! But the longer I vaped, the more I changed. Low watts and tight draws didn't satisfy me anymore. Then I tried a Crown tank with an RBA coil(wide open air) on an SX Mini M class(at 35W's) and I knew that I'd never go back.

My journey went the other way, I strayed from the beloved KFL and went over to Crowns, TFV4, FreeMax Starre, Serpent, etc. and spent several months there. But found it wasn't for me and came back to MTL land

And quickly began collecting all the classic RTAs, authentic and clone, as they were very inexpensive now!
I now know exactly what to look for in an RTA to come close to my MTL style and its exciting to see a swing back in that direction with many manufacturers.

And the innovation has been so fast and furious that all types and styles of vaping can be accommodated today that could not have been thought about even 2 years ago. The level of engineering and quality of the iCare Solo is an example. We would have fallen over thunderstruck 3 years ago to get a device of that quality for a measly $15!

 

[52anddone]

Anyway, without thinking too much, I put in the biggest restrictor and threw in a 3mm .7 ohm 26+32ga Kanthal Clapton build (4 wraps?) to give it a go.

Wow, aren't we all Fancy Smancy. The next thing you're gonna say is that you wear socks with you're shoes. It's gett'in a little too high brow in here for me.