Last night I had an experience in Death, Destruction, Resurrection and Revelations
Sounds religious doesn’t it? It isn’t. The only system I have ever vaped with has been the eGo-Tank
I had one of my Tank attys go bad a few days ago. Was barely getting warm, getting almost nothing out of it, only a slight burnt taste, no vapor at all, I did my cleaning routine, adjusted the wick, and still nothing out of it.
I finally had an atty die.
Before tossing it, I decided I would pull it apart… but had no dental tool with an L on the end of it, all I had was a long curvy one that proved useless in getting the puncture device plat out. Not being a very patent man, I decided not to head for the store for a proper tool, but to try something foolish, I do have a pair of small needle nose pliers. I wondered if I could grab the tip of the puncture devise and pull it out that way.
Needless to say I ended up messing up the puncture device pretty badly doing it that way. Within moments of having it out I accidently pulled the wick out of it, and in the next second was accosted by a cat jumping into my lap and in the process of sorting things out… lost the wick.
So instead of a re-building, I figured this was going to be an autopsy. Set aside the damaged puncture device and plate and looked at the atty, as I suspected it was just a coil of nicrome ( or other similar material ) around a ceramic core surrounded by a ceramic cup which was surrounded by a steel mesh looking material.
I hooked up the battery and got little out of it, I poured a little vodka into it and swirled it around a bit and a piece of junk came off the atty. Found a pipe cleaner, folded the tip back on itself and didped that in vodka and very gently started brushing the nicrome coil with vodka.
Pretty soon I had an end of it that was glowing orange under fire. A little more vodka and a little more brushing and I had an atty that was getting hot again, I could get it glowing orange from end to end ( I probably could have gotten it white hot but I didn’t want to burn out the wire which I know can happen as in High Power Rocketry that is exactly what we do lighting ammonium perchlorate ( solid high power rocket propellant .
So.. now I have a working tank atomizer with no puncture devise or plate…. Hmmmmmm
Now dripping I hear is what a lot of people do… I was never interested as it seemed a royal pain to have to pull out a bottle, drip into the atty for a pull on the e-cig. ( realize that I had zero experience with it ) but…. Here I was with a working exposed atty that I could at least try it.
Dropped 3 drips into the atty, and put the end of the cone to my mouth and took a slow normal draw.
Woah… LOTS of vapor… too much…. Have to pull less when I try that again.
Put 3 more drops in and flooded the atomizer….. ( hmmm perhaps it is not drip and pull… maybe you can get more than one pull when you drip ) slowly unflooded it, and vaped it dry. Tried 2 drops this time, and got like 4-5 good hits ( interesting to note that hit 1 was very good, hit 2 - 4 were fantastic and hit 5-6 was getting lighter but still good, hit 7 was getting even lighter and starting to taste a little burnt ) Hit 8 was obviously the end of it.. mostly just heated air that was burnt tasting.
The first several hits where some of the best and most consistent hits I have ever had from my e-cig, however sucking on that cone felt odd… looked in my kit of spare junk from my e-cigs and found a black false cartridge with no fill in it that came with one of my attys…. Air pulled through it easily.
Dropped in 2 drops and put the blank cartridge in the end of it… looked and felt, and vaped great!
Now I understand why people drip,
There is zero chance of your e-cig leaking because it has no large amount of juice in it, in fact, I can put in a couple or 3 drops and get in my car, take a hit, take another 3 or 4 min later and it is still good. ( did that this morning on the way to work ) and kept working for 5-6 hits all the way to work.
This probably wont be the only way I vape… I still like the tank in some circumstances with a good Atty ( the hits on my wife’s Tank atty are nearly as good as dripping ) I am going to try attys and Cartridges’ ( have a LR mega type B atty and pack of cartages in the mail now ) and will try cartomizers at some point as well.
But after last night… I am probably going to go get a couple 510 LR atty and a drip tip, it is the best and most consistent tasting and vapor production vaping I have done yet.
So drippers are not crazy, I don’t have to feel like I am humoring a very nice and helpful but insane person anymore.
( I should add that at work today, I only have the broken atomizer and fake cartrage, today I am just dripping )
Bottom line.. yeah it is more of a hassle, but 2 drops ( at least in how mine is set up ) is about the same as having a cigarette, and less hassle than pulling out a smoke, finding a lighter, lighting it, crushing out the .... etc. And the vapor production, the taste, and feel of it is as good as the very best hits from the tank ( and not all hits from the tank system are that good ) and more consistent, and predictable.
Noob here, been vaping for over 2 weeks now on my eGo-T. I thought that I already had THE device to satisfy my needs until this morning when I was getting nothing but dry, flavor-less vapes. That's when I decided to give dripping a try. So I found a local shop and decided to go with a 901 LR atty. Put a few drops of juice (Gorilla juice from AVE) and took my first hit.... All I could say is DANG! Tons of warm vapor, killer TH, and best of all - FLAVOR. I was totally missing out on this dripping thing. If you're a noob and haven't tried dripping yet I suggest you give it a shot!
