Do you stock up "just in case"?
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I always stock up especially during Xmas season where the supply shortens really fast!
Started vaping Sept 7, 2015, and I've purchased more than 2,500ml, 5 tanks, 2 box mods, and I live in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The city of Chicago is preparing to pass a tax that will add a 25% tax on all E-Liquids and associated equipment, raising the cost of a bottle of E-Liquid an average of $5.00. I try and visit more than 3 vape shops per week, and I travel as far as 35 miles away, scouring for good E-Liquids. I should be making my own E-Liquids by January, 2016, if all goes as planned. There will be some flavors that I am unable to manufacture at home due to cost or lack of skill, but I'll be using recipes from this site.
Some of my collection:
I started vaping on September 10 of this year and my wife followed less than 2 weeks after. We've already amassed quite a collection of e-liquids and I am up to three mods and 5 tanks. A couple of weeks ago, I bought a Russian 91% and, after watching a few instructional videos, learned how to build my own coils. I like the tank so much, I bought another one on a really good deal ($27...and yes, it's authentic). I actually like this tank so much (the flavor is out of this world), my other tanks have been collecting dust ever since I got it.
I have 300 ml made. A gallon of VG 1/3 gallon of PG
And have enough extra stuff to turn that VG and PG into ejuice. I have two tanks another Kayfun as a spare. Plenty of Kanthal cotton wick and an RDA in my bug out bag with 200 feet Kanthal.
I don't trust the extremists in the Govt as far as I can throw an elephant.
Kayfuns and the 91% has great flavor. I use a Kayfun Lite Plus with Bell cap. Second best tank I have used. The little Goblin Mini has the Kayfun beat and even better than a few RDAs.
The flavor the Russian produces is absolutely phenomenal. I also bought a Mirandus RDA that I'll build this weekend for my drip needs. I only paid $40 for it (they normally go for around $100) at Craft Vapery. Seemed like one of those too good to pass up deals!
I have found in NY Kayfun Lite Plus; the flavor is better with a bell cap because less height from coil to your mouth. I even use an ultrashort drip tip that is only 17 mm from base to tip or 1/2 inch above the drip tip.
I still believe height is a flavor killer
I may have to look for a bell cap for my Russian. I'm definitely a flavor chaser and your recommendation got me really interested!
I am also contemplating building up a bigger cache with goodies, since I am well stocked now and planning for the future is always a good idea.
This is so funny thread and make me 
how someone thinking of stock for 5, 10, 20 years. But it is actually prove that how cheap to vape and quit analog.
how someone thinking of stock for 5, 10, 20 years. But it is actually prove that how cheap to vape and quit analog.
This is so funny thread and make me
Preppers are all the rage!
I just started DIY and put a 1 liter bottle of 100mg concentrate in the freezer for that purpose. $100 more would put two more liters in the freezer. I hate doing that but it's likely to happen. That would be enough nic for 10-11 years. Ridiculous.
I went to rda's exclusively so I wouldn't need replacement coil heads or exotic, breakable parts. I decided to pass on mech mods. I've only got one TC mod at the moment so there are a couple more on the road map.
The important thing is the nic. A $50 liter of 100mg nic makes enough liquid to replace $9,000 worth of cigarettes (cartonn a week for 3 years). Rda's from fasttech are dirt cheap and I can buy replacement orings in bulk. If I get jittery I'll pick up a few handfulls. Finally, how are they going to restrict power supplies or any hardware that contains no nicotine or can be used with liquids that contain no nicotine?
"smoking is dead, vaping IS the future"
I went to rda's exclusively so I wouldn't need replacement coil heads or exotic, breakable parts. I decided to pass on mech mods. I've only got one TC mod at the moment so there are a couple more on the road map.
The important thing is the nic. A $50 liter of 100mg nic makes enough liquid to replace $9,000 worth of cigarettes (cartonn a week for 3 years). Rda's from fasttech are dirt cheap and I can buy replacement orings in bulk. If I get jittery I'll pick up a few handfulls. Finally, how are they going to restrict power supplies or any hardware that contains no nicotine or can be used with liquids that contain no nicotine?
"smoking is dead, vaping IS the future"
Does the 91% have a bottom fill screw? If so the Bell cap would be a snap. All you need is the Bell cap, base, barrel, and Nano chimney.
I Love my Goblin Mini and Kayfun Nano with Bell cap.
I Love my Goblin Mini and Kayfun Nano with Bell cap.
I went RTAs. Two Kayfun Nano's, a Goblin Mini and a Rogue RDA. Two hundred feet 26 gauge Kanthal, and fixings for ejuice.
I rebuilt my sub tank mini for a few months but the day I got my first rda was the last day I used a tank. Rda's have some advantages that come to the fore when there is a solution to burnt hits (temp control). Fasttech will sell me 50 m of titanium wire for about $8 which should last for years now that I only have to rebuild once a week or less because my DIY liquid doesn't foul coils like my premix did.
I wish all vapers would put a liter of nic in the freezer, even if they don't mix, so we are harder to politically bully and manipulate..
I wouldn't say I stock up "just in case", I normally stock up on things I don't want to run out of. My folks grew up during the other depression, so it sort of caught on with me.
There are two things I am worried about. PG, VG, flavorings, wick, wire, glassware, and batteries are all used widely in other areas, so I am comfortable assuming they're not going anywhere, at least not right now.
First and foremost is nicotine. All it would take is a stroke of a pen to make access to it near to impossible for a consumer to purchase it. Tax the poop out of it (I remember when RYO tobacco went from $17/lb to $50/lb overnight), make it only available to properly licensed labs, or just simply outlaw consumer purchases of nicotine other than regulated NRT devices. Solution? Stock up on nic.
Second is devices. Again, there are a lot of ways that legislation could affect our ability to purchase new atomizers in the future. I don't really see a solution to this outright, but I have a handful of devices that I particularly enjoy that I buy spart parts for - tanks, insulators, and o-rings, mostly.
I probably won't be able to completely future-proof my vaping, but if they outlawed it tomorrow, I think it would be in our best interests to try and be somewhat self-sufficient.
There are two things I am worried about. PG, VG, flavorings, wick, wire, glassware, and batteries are all used widely in other areas, so I am comfortable assuming they're not going anywhere, at least not right now.
First and foremost is nicotine. All it would take is a stroke of a pen to make access to it near to impossible for a consumer to purchase it. Tax the poop out of it (I remember when RYO tobacco went from $17/lb to $50/lb overnight), make it only available to properly licensed labs, or just simply outlaw consumer purchases of nicotine other than regulated NRT devices. Solution? Stock up on nic.
Second is devices. Again, there are a lot of ways that legislation could affect our ability to purchase new atomizers in the future. I don't really see a solution to this outright, but I have a handful of devices that I particularly enjoy that I buy spart parts for - tanks, insulators, and o-rings, mostly.
I probably won't be able to completely future-proof my vaping, but if they outlawed it tomorrow, I think it would be in our best interests to try and be somewhat self-sufficient.
The 91% does have a bottom fill. Looks like I may be getting the bell cap in the near future!
Yes, I've stockpiled as well. I have just under 2L nic in my freezer, 3Gal VG and 1Gal PG in my basement (cool and dark place) and three mech mods, in case any of my regulated ones bites the dust. I am less worried about wire, and I have a brand new pack of Shiseido cotton pads as well as a bag of cotton balls (and I'll hit up my hairdresser for cellucotton, if I ever want to wick with that ) Also have about 200 bottles of flavorings
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