Anyone here used fasttech.

[terry w]

I still use the fishnets for straining the juices, but don't tell Terry

Sounds like you're pretty clued up with all those paints Trisha. Wasn't trying to put you off the mixing honest, just let you know what could happen, sorry if it came across the wrong way

Just start off with small sample sizes to start with 1 or 2ml at a time, once you're happy with the results then step up to larger mixes. I have notices that PG, nic solution and VG can be different from some sources and flavourings do vary wildly.

When I mix a new juice, I do a 2ml sampler first. Let it steep for a few days, taste it, then add any extras. Leave a few days and taste again. Plenty of notes all the way along. Probably best to use syringes for mixing, rather than drops. A drop of VG will be a totally different size, to a drop of nicotine solution. So, I'd recommend using a small graduated syringe, even for small batches. I have syringes from 2ml up to 20ml for different ingredients. Most sites say 20 drops is equal to 1ml, so you can use that as a baseline for calculations

I still use the fishnets for straining the juices, but don't tell Terry

I wondered why it was a bit lumpy sometimes mate Better off with the sheer, for straining

 

[trouble1000]

Well I've just won £22.

Put a bet on Brazil to win tonight with both teams scoring. I actually don't watch football, but I guy at work gave me a couple of tips. So that's another £22 holiday spending money

Right I'm off to withdraw my winnings, night all.

 

[Pictor]

I still use the fishnets for straining the juices, but don't tell Terry

Best use for them as far as I'm concerned!

Sounds like you're pretty clued up with all those paints Trisha. Wasn't trying to put you off the mixing honest, just let you know what could happen, sorry if it came across the wrong way

Hell no! (pardon that!) You never come across in the wrong way - just wanted to reassure you that I handle hazardous stuff quite a lot. (People always think painting 'stuff' is innocuous, but with oils, it isn't always).
I know you weren't trying to put me off - just looking out for my interests and ease of use ..and I absolutely appreciate it too!

Just start off with small sample sizes to start with 1 or 2ml at a time, once you're happy with the results then step up to larger mixes. I have notices that PG, nic solution and VG can be different from some sources and flavourings do vary wildly.

When I mix a new juice, I do a 2ml sampler first. Let it steep for a few days, taste it, then add any extras. Leave a few days and taste again. Plenty of notes all the way along. Probably best to use syringes for mixing, rather than drops. A drop of VG will be a totally different size, to a drop of nicotine solution. So, I'd recommend using a small graduated syringe, even for small batches. I have syringes from 2ml up to 20ml for different ingredients. Most sites say 20 drops is equal to 1ml, so you can use that as a baseline for calculations

Uuh ..now it's starting to look a bit complicated ..Terry just worked out roughly 17drops of nicotine per 10ml. (I was going to put 17 drops in a small plastic lid or similar and draw it up into a small syringe to see how much that is) ...perhaps I should make 10ml bottles of VG/nicotine and add a ml of that to a tiny bit of concentrate?

I not only want to be able to try some of the concentrates, I want to test out my theory that another suppliers VG may not be working out as well for me as CV's.
I do still know that some flavours don't work well for me, but I'm gradually recognising which, and it's mostly certain fruits.

 

[Pictor]

Better off with the sheer, for straining

You know an alarming amount about stockings for a bloke!

 

[terry w]

You know an alarming amount about stockings for a bloke!

Ian taught me everything trish I know what you are getting at about mixing the juices though, so i would just go ahead and try 9 ml of vg, 1 ml of nic, or 17 drops and add your flavouring. no massive loss if it doesn`t work out. or just half everything too 5 ml.

 

[turnippits]

never heard of sheer Terry is that some kind of attey, have you tried this new wick as well Terry as I have never heard of it or seen it before. good to see the under the bed club is still thriving, haven't needed a visit myself for a while though. as trish will state I have been a good little boy lately

 

[terry w]

never heard of sheer Terry is that some kind of attey, have you tried this new wick as well Terry as I have never heard of it or seen it before. good to see the under the bed club is still thriving, haven't needed a visit myself for a while though. as trish will state I have been a good little boy lately

Mmmm sheer tights or stockings. You must have lived a sheltered life ron Still waiting for the rayon from Ian mate, supposed to be fantastic for wicking.

 

[Pictor]

Ian taught me everything trish I know what you are getting at about mixing the juices though, so i would just go ahead and try 9 ml of vg, 1 ml of nic, or 17 drops and add your flavouring. no massive loss if it doesn`t work out. or just half everything too 5 ml.

Is 1ml 17 drops (roughly) ?

...I hate tinkering around with anything to be honest, but if I can nail whatever components are causing me to virtually suffocate now and then, it'll be worth it to stay away from cigarettes! So I'll soldier on!
I'll order some VG and nicotine from CV's! ...then see how I get on with it! I may need to pick brains some more though!

Last week I got a private prescription for Ventolin. I don't even have to use it fully inhaled to relieve the closed airways! A quick puff an inch from my mouth and quickly inhaled does the trick (the lower dose I can use the better when needed). I've only used it once so far, but it makes the whole thing less alarming if I know I can deal with it.
(Last thing I wanted to do was ask my GP for it ..less they hear about problems the better!)

I've been using zero nicotine GVC tonight! ..only because this afternoon I just had to try the GCD I got from Spiritus in 18mg! Couldn't wait for the zero to arrive from Nicoticket to dilute it with!

 

[terry w]

Is 1ml 17 drops (roughly) ?

...I hate tinkering around with anything to be honest, but if I can nail whatever components are causing me to virtually suffocate now and then, it'll be worth it to stay away from cigarettes! So I'll soldier on!
I'll order some VG and nicotine from CV's! ...then see how I get on with it! I may need to pick brains some more though!

Last week I got a private prescription for Ventolin. I don't even have to use it fully inhaled to relieve the closed airways! A quick puff an inch from my mouth and quickly inhaled does the trick (the lower dose I can use the better when needed). I've only used it once so far, but it makes the whole thing less alarming if I know I can deal with it.
(Last thing I wanted to do was ask my GP for it ..less they hear about problems the better!)

I've been using zero nicotine GVC tonight! ..only because this afternoon I just had to try the GVC I got from Spiritus in 18mg! Couldn't wait for the zero to arrive from Nicoticket to dilute it with!

I am the same trish and just wanna use straight from the bottle, They do say 1 ml is equal to 20 drops yes, but like your good self i am pretty hopeless at working stuff like that out, The calculator says 17 drops of 72 mg nic will give you the strength you require though.

It`s quite sad that you are having these problems, nothing is ever straight forward is it !

 

[turnippits]

we are so lucky terry that none of it affects us I cannot imagine the faff trying to find something suitable I am so glad I can vape anything and my tastebuds are returning since I had a very strong vindaloo I can taste my vape again I think the kayfun helps as well

 

[Pictor]

I am the same trish and just wanna use straight from the bottle, They do say 1 ml is equal to 20 drops yes, but like your good self i am pretty hopeless at working stuff like that out, The calculator says 17 drops of 72 mg nic will give you the strength you require though.

It`s quite sad that you are having these problems, nothing is ever straight forward is it !

OK thanks. I'll err on the side of caution and assume 17 drops to 1ml! I'll check it with a small syringe though to see if it is around 1ml!
Shame not everything suits everyone straight from the bottle! Never mind, we aren't all made equal so that figures!

It is a shame I get these problems - seems everything I do has a degree of problem attached. Can't even manage to stop smoking without some difficulty cropping up! Still, if anyone had told me even last Christmas that I'd do it, I'd never have believed it and likely wouldn't even have tried if I'd thought about it first.
Anyway, there's people with bigger problems I'm sure ...I'll just keep plodding on and hope it all works out!

I'm lucky to have people like yourself and Ian to help with these things!

I read this earlier by Clark (Nicoticket):
As the regulations are presently drafted, zero nic is currently classified as a tobacco product. I don't think that will hold up in court though. If worst comes to worst, we'll continue to sell "doublers" (IE, finished liquid with additional flavor load to compensate for the fact that end users will need to add their own nicotine). Now, the real question is - why does the FDA feel like it's safer for the vaping community to add their own unflavored nicotine base as opposed to having someone like me (with experience and practice) do it for you? No idea.

Interesting what he says about flavour and added nicotine.

 

[terry w]

OK thanks. I'll err on the side of caution and assume 17 drops to 1ml! I'll check it with a small syringe though to see if it is around 1ml!
Shame not everything suits everyone straight from the bottle! Never mind, we aren't all made equal so that figures!

It is a shame I get these problems - seems everything I do has a degree of problem attached. Can't even manage to stop smoking without some difficulty cropping up! Still, if anyone had told me even last Christmas that I'd do it, I'd never have believed it and likely wouldn't even have tried if I'd thought about it first.
Anyway, there's people with bigger problems I'm sure ...I'll just keep plodding on and hope it all works out!

I'm lucky to have people like yourself and Ian to help with these things!

I read this earlier by Clark (Nicoticket):
As the regulations are presently drafted, zero nic is currently classified as a tobacco product. I don't think that will hold up in court though. If worst comes to worst, we'll continue to sell "doublers" (IE, finished liquid with additional flavor load to compensate for the fact that end users will need to add their own nicotine). Now, the real question is - why does the FDA feel like it's safer for the vaping community to add their own unflavored nicotine base as opposed to having someone like me (with experience and practice) do it for you? No idea.

Interesting what he says about flavour and added nicotine.

Yes i was going to suggest that trish, because not all of the droppers are equal on bottles of e-juice so that makes sense. As for clark`s statement, i dunno, like everyone else we just don`t know what`s going to happen with these stupid regs. BUT, like i have always said "where there is a will there is a way" we won`t be beat by the bureaucrats, we can`t let that happen.

 

[e-pipeman]

We certainly won't. Watch out for the antz here lately. For some reason they've sprung up with plausible sounding posts (often essays) with anti-vaping stuff tucked away in the waffle. They hope that we can't see it, seemingly.

We all want to vape! This is a pro-vaping forum, and when people turn up with anti-vaping tricks (think of the kiddies/our right to clean air) we should be all over them like a rash. Report the post, please.

Go forum! Yay! We have to help keep it clean to keep it mean.

 

[terry w]

We certainly won't. Watch out for the antz here lately. For some reason they've sprung up with plausible sounding posts (often essays) with anti-vaping stuff tucked away in the waffle. They hope that we can't see it, seemingly.

We all want to vape! This is a pro-vaping forum, and when people turn up with anti-vaping tricks (think of the kiddies/our right to clean air) we should be all over them like a rash. Report the post, please.

Go forum! Yay! We have to help keep it clean to keep it mean.

Will certainly be keeping my eyes wide open for the sublimible crap mate, and i will let you guess what response they will get from me/us on here. FU&K Em.

 

[Pictor]

Yes i was going to suggest that trish, because not all of the droppers are equal on bottles of e-juice so that makes sense. As for clark`s statement, i dunno, like everyone else we just don`t know what`s going to happen with these stupid regs. BUT, like i have always said "where there is a will there is a way" we won`t be beat by the bureaucrats, we can`t let that happen.

I'll be careful with the nicotine when I get some
At least companies like Nicoticket have a sort of plan for such an eventuality. This is one of the reasons I'd like to get lower before too long. I'm pretty sure that if I can get down to .3mg and then perhaps 2 and 1, then I can get to zero. I'll still want to carry on though because I'm thinking that the very act of having something to use in the same way as a cigarette is one of the major factors in e-cigs succeeding where patches and gum don't.
I used around 3ml of GVC ZERO tonight and was quite happy with it. True I'd used some 18mg earlier in the day, but it was only around 1ml. If I get more zero, I may be more inclined to reduce the nicotine.

We certainly won't. Watch out for the antz here lately. For some reason they've sprung up with plausible sounding posts (often essays) with anti-vaping stuff tucked away in the waffle. They hope that we can't see it, seemingly.

We all want to vape! This is a pro-vaping forum, and when people turn up with anti-vaping tricks (think of the kiddies/our right to clean air) we should be all over them like a rash. Report the post, please.

Go forum! Yay! We have to help keep it clean to keep it mean.

Can't say I've seen any of those - are they on our UK forum section? ...not that I want to read them ...I'd get cross and I'm not wanting to stress myself!
The very thought that any government could even consider restricting and controlling it makes me so annoyed. To see that there are already bans in place in some areas is ridiculous.
They nag and bully people to stop smoking for years, and when there is finally something available that actually works, they want to control and restrict it!

Will certainly be keeping my eyes wide open for the sublimible crap mate, and i will let you guess what response they will get from me/us on here. FU&K Em.

I've just been to a broadband forum, and in the chat section saw a thread on e-cigs (someone had seen them on sale in a shop amongst the sweets at the front of the counter) I did state that they are illegal to under 18's as he was wondering about that.
But further into the thread, a doctor had told someone who has quit using e-cigs that they are likely dangerous and he shouldn't keep spreading lies and giving false information to people.
So, I added my own 2 pennorth. No fabrication, no unnecessary embellishment, just the plain honest truth: they work, and if they do cause any problems, they certainly aren't killing people in the way cigarettes do!
To back it up I mentioned my email conversations with Prof. West of UCL and his positive research and comments recently, plus the positive report by the Royal College of Physicians! For good measure I added that my own doctor was delighted by the fact I'd stopped smoking, and by the method I'm using!
Knowing her though, she'll snipe back at me big time. At one time, she'd cause my BP to rise and I'd feel miserable - now I'll either ignore her or tell her I wasn't talking to her but to the forum in general!
Cost me an hours work, but it needed saying.

 

[Bobw1951]

I see they are selling wood tips as well now, but they look a bit cheap and nasty to me.

Did you not look at those ones that I bought from Ed's Wood on FB or are you not on FB

 

[Bobw1951]

You know an alarming amount about stockings for a bloke!

It's amazing how many blokes actually wear them, especially those in outside jobs, they're very good for keeping the legs warm in winter

 

[turnippits]

$33.05 Skull Head 18650 Mechanical Mod - brass / chromed + gold plated at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping have you seen this Terry hope the link works not nery good at this sort of thing

 

[Pictor]

Aye, true! ...but not fishnet or sheer!

....and by the way - the 'eagle' has landed. Many thanks - very nice!

 

[terry w]

I'll be careful with the nicotine when I get some
At least companies like Nicoticket have a sort of plan for such an eventuality. This is one of the reasons I'd like to get lower before too long. I'm pretty sure that if I can get down to .3mg and then perhaps 2 and 1, then I can get to zero. I'll still want to carry on though because I'm thinking that the very act of having something to use in the same way as a cigarette is one of the major factors in e-cigs succeeding where patches and gum don't.
I used around 3ml of GVC ZERO tonight and was quite happy with it. True I'd used some 18mg earlier in the day, but it was only around 1ml. If I get more zero, I may be more inclined to reduce the nicotine.


Can't say I've seen any of those - are they on our UK forum section? ...not that I want to read them ...I'd get cross and I'm not wanting to stress myself!
The very thought that any government could even consider restricting and controlling it makes me so annoyed. To see that there are already bans in place in some areas is ridiculous.
They nag and bully people to stop smoking for years, and when there is finally something available that actually works, they want to control and restrict it!

I've just been to a broadband forum, and in the chat section saw a thread on e-cigs (someone had seen them on sale in a shop amongst the sweets at the front of the counter) I did state that they are illegal to under 18's as he was wondering about that.
But further into the thread, a doctor had told someone who has quit using e-cigs that they are likely dangerous and he shouldn't keep spreading lies and giving false information to people.
So, I added my own 2 pennorth. No fabrication, no unnecessary embellishment, just the plain honest truth: they work, and if they do cause any problems, they certainly aren't killing people in the way cigarettes do!
To back it up I mentioned my email conversations with Prof. West of UCL and his positive research and comments recently, plus the positive report by the Royal College of Physicians! For good measure I added that my own doctor was delighted by the fact I'd stopped smoking, and by the method I'm using!
Knowing her though, she'll snipe back at me big time. At one time, she'd cause my BP to rise and I'd feel miserable - now I'll either ignore her or tell her I wasn't talking to her but to the forum in general!
Cost me an hours work, but it needed saying.

Well done trish, keep the interfering sods in their place.

Did you not look at those ones that I bought from Ed's Wood on FB or are you not on FB

Yes i saw them bob, just not really interested in them though if i`m honest.

$33.05 Skull Head 18650 Mechanical Mod - brass / chromed + gold plated at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping have you seen this Terry hope the link works not nery good at this sort of thing

Not too keen on that ron, it`s sort of too much in your face if you know what i mean.