Evolv-ing Thread

[Rossum]

I must say I don't live in town but out in the country and our town has a population of 2000.

2000? That's a metropolis! The town up the road from where I am has a population of 16.

And none of the the women look anything like the ones we enjoy here for morning coffee.

Sounds like you're not looking hard enough or in the right places.

Anyway, I was curious about those of you who buys basket type paper coffee filters. Do you use the cheap kind or do you buy the more expensive ones?

I prefer the better ones.

 

[SlickWilly]

Ran across a bad lipo, brand new, thought I'd share what I found. I noticed this lipo had a bulge, a ridge on one side, when I ran my finger across it, it felt like there was a wire that had gotten sealed inside. At the time I didn't think it was really bad, I planned on making a parallel pack out of it, took the blue heat shrink wrapper off, unsoldered each cell, for some reason, I decided to check the voltage of each individual cell, what I found was the cell with the ridge was flat, zero voltage, but when by accident I touched the probe of my meter from the neg post of the dead cell to the poss post of the cell next to it I got 2.48 volts, how can that be?? I unwrapped the cells the rest of the way and separated them. They were really stuck hard together, that shouldn't be... When they finally separated that's when I discovered the corrosion between the cells, the plastic insulating coating on the cells had been eaten away and were fused together, voltage was leaking from one cell to the other through the foil wrapper. I salvaged the one undamaged cell, I'll use it to make a 4s pack with another 3s pack. I'm glad I found this before I put it in a mod and charged it, who knows what would have happen... I'm glad something made me check the voltage of each cell, if I hadn't I probably wouldn't have caught it. My new rule, if a lipo doesn't look right, when in doubt, toss it out.

 

[BillW50]

Sounds like you're not looking hard enough or in the right places.

Yeah you are probably right. Once a month I'll leave at the crack of dawn and pick up some supplies in town. Probably all of the gorgeous women are still in bed yet.

Ran across a bad lipo, brand new, thought I'd share what I found.

To be honest, I would have disposed those cells myself. My face is worth more than trying to save a few bucks. And does it have a manufacture's name on it? If so, I believe I would stay away from them.

 

[BillW50]

Geez... I've been vaping one particular juice for over 3 years now. It is rare for me to stick to one particular juice for so long. It probably accounts up to about half of all the juice I vape. And I just placed an order for another 720ml more of it, which I do every 3 months. I dunno why, but this time I started thinking about this. That's...

• 8ml per day
• 240ml per month
• 2880ml per year (0.76 Gallon)

 

[dwcraig1]

I've got 10 of these arriving on Saturday for $1 each including shipping.

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[BillW50]

I've got 10 of these arriving on Saturday for $1 each including shipping.

Oh man! I should hire you to do my vape shopping. I must be bad at it since I just spent $300 in the last 3 days to keep me going for the next few months.

 

[mikepetro]

 

[BillW50]

Man! I found a great motivator to start rebuilding all of my attys this morning. One guy posted a pic of his coil after 6 months of use (he figures he put about 2L of juice through it). I was going to post the pic, but I didn't want to gross anybody out and ruin the taste of that cup of coffee in your hand. But it looked like he pulled that coil out of the tar pits.

 

[awsum140]

I just mixed liquids yesterday, a total of 540ml. Of that 240ml was for the Mrs. and 300ml was for me, that represents a month of consumption for each of us. I had been tracking everything in a spreadsheet but that hard drive, an EVO SSD, crapped out with no warning so I lost my "historic" record dating back to when I started mixing. Anyhow, if memory serves me, that puts the total I've mixed up around 30 liters, call it eight gallons. I've started a new spreadsheet and also built a machine just to run backups of everything else.

Incidentally, gotta love Calvin Klein!

 

[cigatron]

Incidentally, gotta love Calvin Klein!

True. Better yet, no Calvin Klein

 

[dwcraig1]

I mix 500 ml at a time except for those special occasions. At 12 mg I estimate it costs me about $36 per liter.
For sure it can be done even cheaper.

 

[BillW50]

I just mixed liquids yesterday, a total of 540ml. Of that 240ml was for the Mrs. and 300ml was for me, that represents a month of consumption for each of us. I had been tracking everything in a spreadsheet but that hard drive, an EVO SSD, crapped out with no warning so I lost my "historic" record dating back to when I started mixing. Anyhow, if memory serves me, that puts the total I've mixed up around 30 liters, call it eight gallons. I've started a new spreadsheet and also built a machine just to run backups of everything else.

I always thought about mixing my own juice. But what always stopped me was I figured I'd collect 500 different flavors and not one I liked. So what do you figure DIY about 540ml of juice roughly costs? 540ml of the juice I mentioned above costs me 75 bucks (on sale). Another one I like from a different place costs 135 bucks for 540ml (that one is never on sale). Interesting enough, they also taste great mixed together too.

One of my all time favorite juice was from Sweet-Vapes and it was called Nutty Coffee. I still have like 5ml of it left. But on 8/8/2016 without any warning, they closed their lab. I should sent what I have left to a lab to see if they could figure out the flavorings they used. It was expensive too, 50 bucks per 120ml (and never on sale).

 

[dwcraig1]

Peanut Brittle:
7% TPA Peanut butter
7% TPA RY4 Double
3.5% TPA cotton Candy
1% TPA Acetyl Pyrazine
This I have been using for more than two years, I stray but come right back.....creature of habit I guess.

 

[dwcraig1]

Is this trade war/ tariff stuff I read about in the news messing with my China deliveries?

 

[awsum140]

It costs less than $2.00 per 60ml bottle to DIY my stuff. Keep in mind I buy PG ad VG in "cubes" of four gallons each and the nicotine level is now down at 4mg, which I also buy in bulk or on sale, which both make it a lot less expensive.

Do you mean "TFA" rather than "TPA", dw? I use TFA peanut butter in one of my liquids and nowhere near 7%, that stuff is kind of strong to me, anyway. The same with Captain Black...

2.5% PGA tobacco absolute
2.5% TFA caramel cappuccino
2.5% TFA chocolate
2.5% ethyl maltol
2.5% SM Virginia fire cured
1.25% TFA peanut butter
.5% SM Captain Black
5% distilled water

 

[YePsTeR]

What is the purpose of distilled water again?

 

[BillW50]

What is the purpose of distilled water again?

I know it thins down thick juice. And it doesn't take much either.

 

[stylemessiah]

What is the purpose of distilled water again?

Usually to thin out VG, i use it in winter in high VG mixes to assist wicking

In other news, vaping unflavoured, it costs me $0.72 per week to vape, and thats high because of the shipping for nic to get here....poor smokers are now paying $38 per pack here, imagine that as a pack a day smoker....

 

[CMD-Ky]

I use it with VG as a substitute for PG. I read in the DIY forum way back that DW reduces the viscosity of VG 4x what the same volume of PG would do. So if I want 100 ML of a 60/40 VG/PG viscosity the I use 10ML of water and 90ML of VG.
Hope I wrote that clearly, chemistry is not even a second language for me.

What is the purpose of distilled water again?

I know it thins down thick juice. And it doesn't take much either.