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  1. Chip H.

    Deeming Regulations have been released!!!!

    Know this is a bit off topic, but had to respond... As an asthma sufferer taking a similar medication with the same warnings, this is a gross misunderstanding. The issue with this class of drugs is that they suppress the inflammation normally associated with asthma. The flip side is that if...
  2. Chip H.

    Official ProVari Radius Thread - Part 2

    I hate to derail the ProVape society banter, but... I officially became one of the ProVarinati on Christmas when I got to finally open my black Radius I'd ordered back on Black Friday. With about 6 weeks of use figured I'd give the impressions from the POV of a previous ProVari agnostic...
  3. Chip H.

    Official ProVari Radius Thread

    Holidays are playing havoc with vape mail. Finally received my Radius yesterday (note to self: get daughter to wrap it this weekend else I'll cave at some point just to take a peek). Priority shipping took 3 days in this case, but got a nicotine order that's not budged since the 8th coming from...
  4. Chip H.

    Official ProVari Radius Thread

    Pulled the trigger on a Black Radius back on Black Friday but been "working" my .... off since then to get caught up with ever growing thread (stopped reading somewhere around page 380 back in October) before posting anything. Now, just as I get within sight of the finishing line (page 661)...
  5. Chip H.

    New Youde RTA the Bellus

    That's the only thing I can think of for why some are experiencing leaking. I must have added juice to this thing over a dozen times already, rewicked once, and I have yet to have a drop leak, but I am using 70% VG juice. Only juice I'm getting outside the device is from coil spittle building up...
  6. Chip H.

    Official ProVari Radius Thread

    Hi all, have been reading through this thread for days now to get caught up lol (the hamster would be right at home in my mini zoo :lol:) Waiting for some real world testing info to come in. The Radius, assuming the real world info is acceptable, will be my first Provari around Christmas time...
  7. Chip H.

    New Youde RTA the Bellus

    That would be because I wasn't paying attention and set the album to private when I created it, whoops, should be viewable now :oops:
  8. Chip H.

    New Youde RTA the Bellus

    Tip: 2 minute fix to the AFC ring: I put a single piece of normal frosted scotch tape inside the ring between the air hole rings on only one side and trimmed off excess with a utility blade. Completely invisible fix that made the friction perfect for me :thumbs:
  9. Chip H.

    New Youde RTA the Bellus

    Leaking, like in most tanks, is going to come down to wicking issues on your end, or a missing O-ring. If you're not missing an O-ring somewhere, it's wicking. You want a fat tail that extends to, but not (much) beyond, that first line on the deck. Do that and it's not going to leak. Bellus...
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    Bellus deck and wicking

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  12. Chip H.

    New Youde RTA the Bellus

    Got my 101Vape order today and quickly tore into it. I am coming from the Lemo 2 as my daily beast of choice. Originally was going to upgrade to the Aromamizer, but passed based on the quirks with the airflow, and when I saw the Bellus announcement I couldn't pre-order fast enough. This is my...
  13. Chip H.

    If today vaping is...

    Scenario B is simple: Quit. I'd already quit cigarettes (along with cigars, pipes, and dip) for over a decade when I started vaping over because I was a new father and refused to let something as stupid as tobacco risk leaving my kids without a father. Also, as someone who's been asthmatic since...
  14. Chip H.

    New Youde RTA the Bellus

    Sounds like it needs wicked like the Lemo 2, which has been my daily workhorse for a while now. I can count on one hand after an imaginary chainsaw mishap the times it's leaked on me in spite of still seeing people complaining about it leaking, and all I needed to do was watch a single Youtube...
  15. Chip H.

    Your Opinions On Provari?

    Absolutely. With the continuing and rapid advancements in chipsets, what is a killer set of features today will be surpassed long, long before the lifespan of a Provari is up. For those who are perfectly happy with an intentionally constrained set of vaping parameters, the Provaris or Reos...
  16. Chip H.

    Best starting kit...

    Yep, that's what I started with after doing too much internet research and never regretted it even though the Nautilus now sits unused*, but that's because I learned what *I* needed/wanted from vaping with it and upgraded accordingly. It's simple, leak proof, and provides decent flavor and...
  17. Chip H.

    Setup suggestions.

    No, and, myself, I would stay far away such any juice claiming to be organic without knowing precisely why it's allegedly "organic". While it's easy enough to find organically sourced VG, that's about where the functional practicality of organic juice ends. PG is not organic, and it's doubtful...
  18. Chip H.

    Coil & Wick After 60ml

    Don't know if unflavored is the whole picture so much as "properly" flavored. Using commercial juices, yeah, there's a lot of crap in some of those that probably shouldn't be in juices if for no other reason than what they do to wicks and coils. For example, once I tried Vape Wild's Strawberry...
  19. Chip H.

    how much and often do you vape?

    DIYing has its own "trap" lol. I was vaping around 5-8 ml/day when I was buying commercially mixed juices, which wasn't *too* bad, but still more expensive than I liked, so started DIYing. Cost per ml went from ~$0.60/ml down to about ~$0.03/ml. The trap: once I no longer felt financially...
  20. Chip H.

    Another B&M rant

    This is related to how my one local vape shop loses my sales routinely. They do have a great taster setup, multiple iStick 40s, large supply of disposable drip tips, and a rack of Nautilus tanks with every juice they have in stock, so they swap the tank, you insert your personal tester drip...