Anybody else do a "cheat"/facepalm?

[Jaylah]

Every once in a while, for some reason unknown to me (maybe because, as a friend once said, it didn't matter what color my hair was...I was blonde), I decide that I just have to have an analog.

Light it up and, two drags later, realize (again) that those things taste like shredded camel manure. And why am I doing that when I could have the taste of white chocolate, raspberry and almond in my mouth? Put it out, flush the stinky .... down the toilet, then walk through the house with my can of Febreeze held high.

And a few weeks later, I get this idea in my head that I just have to have an analog.

Light it up and, two drags later, realize (again) that those things taste like shredded camel manure. And why am I doing that when I could have the taste of white chocolate, raspberry and almond in my mouth? Put it out, flush the stinky .... down the toilet, then walk through the house with my can of Febreeze held high.

And a few weeks later...


(Now if I could just manage to get a coil to last me more than a day. I still have no freakin' idea what I'm doing wrong. But at $1.50 each (including shipping), a coil is still a darned sight less expensive than my 2pack per day habit.)

 

[joesquid]

LOL!!! Can't say I've done that but am curious how many more times you'll try it. Welcome to ECF!

 

[Bunnykiller]

what kind of juice and how much of it are you going thru a day to make your coils last only 1 day??

 

[rc3po]

I used to smoke an analog every now & then just to remind myself how bad they suck, but I didn't have a craving for one. I haven't had an analog in over 2 months. Don't sweat it if you have one every now & then.
Also, I would advise moving away from the tanks that use heads.

 

[Jaylah]

Well, it depends.

As to what kind... there's B&M store here that makes their own. They use straight VG and then blend their own flavors.

If you're kind of asking how dark it is, none of my three favorite flavors is all that dark.

Based on the fact that I buy it in 30ml bottles, I'm guessing I'm going through about 1ml per day.

Edited to add: The gal at my B&M shop tells people that a coil should last the full 30ml. That concept just blows my mind. One coil per month??

 

[jaxgator]

Also, I would advise moving away from the tanks that use heads.

This.

I was using Nautilus tanks for a while and although they were pretty damn good when they worked, Aspire's QC was pretty bad when it came to replacement coils. Got tired of spending right around $2.50 a pop for what might be a dud and last less than a day.

Grabbed some Kayfun 3.1 clones and started building my own coils. Got some 28g Kanthal from Amazon for around $7 and a bag of organic cotton balls from Walgreens for a couple bucks and I have enough to make a couple hundred coils. Not only that but I can build them to suit my vaping experience. Plus, I find it a rather fun hobby. YMMV.

 

[Jaylah]

Yeah, I get the "you need to do rebuildables" here all the time. But, as I keep saying, I'm not looking to make vaping into another hobby. If I have to spend $1.50 for a coil every day, that's still less than the $11.50 I was burning up per day in analogs.

I can't even be arsed to do dry-burns. As far as I'm concerned, when one stops working, I just put in a new one. But I'm still trying to figure out how that gal at the B&M gets a coil to last a month.

 

[Lurch]

First, welcome! And congratulations on making the switch to vaping!

Wow! One coil per day! Something is definitely wrong! Even with 100%VG juice a coil should last you a lot longer than that! I use a 30PG/70VG mix, go through probably 6-10ml per day and a coil will last me a week to ten days!

What tank are you using? What battery are you using and at what voltage?

 

[Jaylah]

Itazte vv and Smoktech Pyrex Aro II

Anywhere from 3.8 to 4.5, depending on the juice.

 

[jaxgator]

If popping in new coils keeps you off the analogs, more power to ya. Whatever works for you is what's best.

Now, concerning the urges to light up an analog every now and then and finding that it is really isn't what you want, do you have two tanks? If so, what I did was take that extra tank and put a high percentage of nicotine in it. Vape on a lower nicotine tank and then when I got the urge to light up, simply grab that higher percentage tank and vape away until the urge subsided.

Best of luck to you in whatever you do to kick.

 

[rc3po]

Yeah, I get the "you need to do rebuildables" here all the time. But, as I keep saying, I'm not looking to make vaping into another hobby. If I have to spend $1.50 for a coil every day, that's still less than the $11.50 I was burning up per day in analogs.

I can't even be arsed to do dry-burns. As far as I'm concerned, when one stops working, I just put in a new one. But I'm still trying to figure out how that gal at the B&M gets a coil to last a month.

Because you can clean them and reuse the coils in rebuildable tanks. I use about 3 ml a day at about 18 mg.

 

[Jaylah]

do you have two tanks?

Actually I have three. I'm a very lazy vaper and I don't like switching flavors and having that "hybrid in the middle" taste when I switch.

So I have one tank with a sort of minty flavor. One with a really yummy Orange Strawberry Ice. And my yummy white chocolate, raspberry and almond.

I like the Orange Strawberry Ice one best, but I seem to get vapers-tongue really bad with that one. Drinking water, brushing my teeth, etc., doesn't seem to help. All I can do is switch to another flavor for a while. Then I can taste the orange-strawberry again.

They're all 18mg, which is the highest nic my store sells.

 

[Wow1420]

I've been reading some people say that using higher temperature (higher voltage/lower ohms) makes coils last longer. I haven't compared this, because I like my wattage just fine the way it is.

I know I can easily run 30 ml or more of my simple menthol mix through a coil without trouble. Most of my clear fruity flavors would go 15 to 20ml perhaps. I've also had sweet bakery flavors that would gunk a coil in one tank. It's a good thing I like fruit and menthol best.

 

[Jaylah]

Got some 28g Kanthal from Amazon for around $7 and a bag of organic cotton balls from Walgreens for a couple bucks and I have enough to make a couple hundred coils.

Okay, and then when you factor in the cost of your time it takes to build a coil, can you honestly build a coil for less than $1.50?

If so, how much less?

And if you actually enjoy making coils, that's fine. But what if you would rather have a root-canal without any anesthesia than sit around making coils?

 

[Jaylah]

I've also had sweet bakery flavors that would gunk a coil in one tank. It's a good thing I like fruit and menthol best.

Yeah, when I first started vaping, I bought a 5ml bottle of "dark choclate mint" just to try. And it looked like a liquid Hersey bar. Talk about gunking up a coil in no time. I don't think I even made it through a full tank of that. The rest of that bottle went in the trash. Sure, the first couple of hits tasted like pure heaven. But burned chocolate mint is not a particular favorite of mine, and that's what it started tasting like very soon.

And now that you mention it, I don't think I have to change the coil in the minty one quite as often as the other two.

 

[DeliciousClouds]

Okay, and then when you factor in the cost of your time it takes to build a coil, can you honestly build a coil for less than $1.50?

If so, how much less?

And if you actually enjoy making coils, that's fine. But what if you would rather have a root-canal without any anesthesia than sit around making coils?

I don't know about you, but I don't measure my free time in money. For an experienced builder it takes only a few minutes to make one. A ball of cotton costs next to nothing and a single kanthal roll will probably last you months, if not years.

10 cents per coil? If not less.

By the way, if you're not into rebuilding, at least clean them. In most cases that's what the coil needs when people complain about them not lasting.

 

[LisaR]

Okay, and then when you factor in the cost of your time it takes to build a coil, can you honestly build a coil for less than $1.50?

If so, how much less?

And if you actually enjoy making coils, that's fine. But what if you would rather have a root-canal without any anesthesia than sit around making coils?

I'm with you on that. I have enough hobbies. I've fiddled around with my coil heads, taken them apart, dry-burned, and re-wicked them. I can do it, it's just not worth the trouble (to me, that is).

 

[Jaylah]

I don't know about you, but I don't measure my free time in money.

I don't either, for things I enjoy doing. Futzing with coils is not one of them.

 

[DeliciousClouds]

I don't either, for things I enjoy doing. Futzing with coils is not one of them.

Fair enough. But you simply won't escape having to maintain your coils if you want them to last. The alternative to that is using refillable carto e-cigs. Or carto's in a carto-tank. It's not a bad alternative, really. And certainly the most maintenance-free.

 

[Wow1420]

I'm with you on that. I have enough hobbies. I've fiddled around with my coil heads, taken them apart, dry-burned, and re-wicked them. I can do it, it's just not worth the trouble (to me, that is).

I don't enjoy re-building/re-wicking either. But since they work better when re-wicked with cotton or rayon, it's worth the trouble to me.