Actually, and sorry JeremyR, it was no one in this thread or even in this forum that got me started using rayon. The folks at my local b&m did. And they knew nothing about
ecf until I signed into my account here about a month ago.
Lynn, truth be told, most (if not all) of the great innovations and inventions in vaping started on ECF and other vaping forums all over the world. B&Ms and/or big Chinese manufacturers learn from our talented modders and the word goes out. Everything you buy from Chinese manufacturers (and in you B&M store) nowadays was invented on this forum (and similar forums in Germany, Greece, Russia, England, etc.) by vapers who were not satisfied with the hardware they were using. Trust me. Carto tanks, fillerless clearomizers, APVs, RBAs, RDAs, variable voltage and variable wattage batteries, and now the DNA 40 with temperature limitation.
No, we didn't know much, but we asked questions, we contacted people who did know--our resident chemists and materials engineers and electricians. Our modders are extremely clever. Many commercial juice makers started here, as fellow ECF rank and file DIY enthusiasts. And we enlisted real experts, like our favorite cardiologist Dr. Farsalinos, who's conducting all kinds of fascinating studies of eliquids, high temperature vaping, for example.
This thread alone led to many changes in the "industry." Many of the participants (including my dear friend Tibs and yours truly) were invited to be beta testers for several carto manufacturers.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...8-4081-etc-filler-type-cartos.html#post300790
The industry continues to develop through our feedback. Feedback from vapers, reviewers, vendors, bloggers...
And if you don't believe me, behold the first carto tank/clearomizer, invented by my dear friend br5495.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...zer-technical-discussion-196.html#post1992661
That was another epic thread, BTW--so many great things were invented by those guys and subsequently manufactured in China.
So, again, big thank you to our modders and inventors, including
@JeremyR.
Sorry, didn't mean to be preachy, but it's worth repeating...