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  1. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Chinook, I'm amazed that you were able to filter solvent from macerated ASO through a 0.2 micron syringe filter. Last year, I bought a pack of 25mm diameter 0.22 micron syringe filter disks, but I couldn't get a drop of my extract solvent to go through, no matter how much force I applied...
  2. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    All I've had is the original ITC RY4, which was a good, solid "B" rated Custom RY4. I figured that the original might be the same as or similar to what ITC now offers as their "Silver RY4," but that's purely a guess. ITC may have reformulated their original recipe for their new RY4 offerings...
  3. billherbst

    Vapers Tek E-Liquid and EU Nicotine now on ECF

    Best deal going without question. Not that your regular nic isn't a good deal---it is---but sixty simoleons for a liter of your gamey nic is a heck of a bargain. If I were stranded on a desert island, either VT regular or VT gamey would make me a very happy Robinson Crusoe, assuming I had about...
  4. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    LOL, Jerms. I'll go with that. Yeah, the tobacco is yummy but rather small font. Actually, when I wrote my post, that's what I said first---LARGE FONT caramel and small font tobacco, but then I changed it. That'll teach me not to re-write my posts (no, it won't...). Looks like you're the...
  5. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    I don't recall whether or not CWW has been called a TINO by anyone here on the thread. That's just how it feels to me---basically a nice caramel with a little tobacco sprinkled in for seasoning. Other people may not experience it that way, of course, but for me, the semi-dry caramel is...
  6. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Dusty, What you're missing is how wonderful a juice CWW is. LOL. Yeah, it's definitely a TINO, but it's a terrific TINO. How you feel about CWW is the same as most of us have felt at one time or another about some retail juice that seemingly everyone else raved about. No big thing. Just means...
  7. billherbst

    Vapers Tek E-Liquid and EU Nicotine now on ECF

    Hi Kevin, I want to report on an ongoing test comparison I'm running on four liquid nics: Vaperstek "regular," Vaperstek "gamey," WizardLabs regular, and HeartlandVapes. I've mixed up small bottles of pure, unflavored VG using each of the four nics at 12mg/ml concentration. Every so often I...
  8. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Change the numbers slightly---you'll be 64 on Tuesday while I'll be 65 in November, you smoked for 50 years compared to my 43, you quit smoking two years ago versus four years ago for me---and I might have written your post. Your philosophy and pragmatic attitude dovetails very nicely with my...
  9. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    Daniel, Don't worry, someone already has. The only purchases for which I use my debit card are from online ecig vendors---the card itself never leaves my house---and yet my debit card has been hacked online three times in the past two years. I never find out which vendor was victimized by...
  10. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Below is a link to a short but illuminating article about flavorings for retail tobacco and how they are applied. It may not answer your question entirely, but it'll take you down the road in that direction: Casings and Top Dressings
  11. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    Specs: The 10ml bottle of Vaperstek RY-K that was sent to me for free by Kevin, the owner of Vaperstek, contains a peach-colored liquid at 12mg nic in a 60PG/40VG base. Scent of the liquid is mild and pleasing, but my nose can’t pick out any particular elements of the smell. (This is not...
  12. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Pat, My initial reaction to the sample bottle of juice I mixed using the Rocky Patel Autumn 2008 cigar extract right after filtering was lukewarm at best, but two months of steeping have worked wonders. I won't use the hyperbolic term "miraculous," but it's darned close. Now I regard ithe RP...
  13. billherbst

    Cold maceration of tobacco

    That's what I assumed from the design of the Aeropress. The 5-micron poly felt seems ideal for the French Press method or hand-pump vacuum lab setup, although it should work equally well for gravity filtering, just more slowly.
  14. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    I haven't vaped anything from Johnson Creek or Nude Nic.
  15. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    The thread has opened up a lot and spread out to include many different topics since the old days of Part One, where most discussion was focused solely on retail NETs---favorites, duds, new juices, vendors, which NETs we liked and which we didn't. That may always be close to the heart of the...
  16. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    I feel the same way you do, papa---I love macerated natural tobacco extracts more than any other method---but my palate is clearly not the same as FlyBoy's.
  17. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    You wrote that you liked VCV tobaccos for awhile, and VCV uses their own in-house produced Tobacco Absolute (TA). By contrast, N-E-T.com and MyVapeJuice both use macerated natural tobacco extracts, as do many other NET vendors, including GeJ, MOV, QnJ, and VapingWatch (RBFS), and HoL in Europe...
  18. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    I performed a little informal head-to-head-to-head comparison test today on three different set-ups: a Magma clone RDA built with a 1.0-ohm 26-gauge Kanthal single horizontal microcoil wicked with KGD cotton and powered by a Kicked Origin mech mod set to 10 watts a bottom-fed YK-1 Mini...
  19. billherbst

    Regular Atty Drippers (A Dying Breed?)

    I go back and forth with this issue. In my experience, the rebuildables vary widely, based on design, coil/wick builds, and juices used. There seems to be little consistency in what makes a particular rebuildable atty work well, so it's not as simple as learning how build a good micro-coil or...
  20. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    My new 1:1 Magma clone RDA arrived today from slowtech. I don't need to wax enthralled at length about how amazing it is. Suffice it to say that the Magma is everything y'all have been saying: terrific design, quality construction, easy to coil, and the deep well makes it almost a tank rather...
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