I don’t know if it’s my age, laziness, or my journey along Vape Road that’s done it, but I have to say I’ve got simpler this year since my return to the UK.
How so?
Well when I first started vaping, in my enthusiasm for this “Magic Bullet” which had enabled me to stop smoking yet not experience cravings, I did quite a bit of experimenting both with kit ( such as boutique mods, squonk boxes, RDAs etc ) but even more so with the mechanics of producing neat micro coils and “perfect” wicks … but actually found that I was really quite happy with a Nautilus Mini Tank loaded with 16 -18 strength liquid fired by an iStick 30w. And there things remained for several years until the winter just gone.
Having written off three atomisers in Spain and ending up reliant on an old style Vivi Nova for three weeks I again began to look for bomb proof backups so revisited Squonking and Dripping.
On the Squonking side I dug out my Terminator El Cheapo Mech and my Little Origen RBA, coiling and wicking it oh so carefully, and my efforts were rewarded with instant success. So much so that on a recent trip to the Scottish Islands that and some spare batteries and liquid was all that I took along.
Bearing in mind this Forum’s sage advice about backups, after that I acquired a Mark 1 Pico Squeeze outfit and liked it so much that I ordered a pack of 20 spare bottles for it from fasttech which cost buttons and actually arrived very quickly.
Thinking about how I’d arrive off a plane though, gasping for a vape and once through Immigration and Passport Control would struggle to open a child proof bottle of liquid while undoing a bottom filled attie, reassembling the thing and firing it up while trundling a case and making sure my documents were safely stored, with but two hands to work with when I could have done with four. I looked for an easier solution, decided a good Dripper would be the answer for a quick easy hit and bought a solid heavyweight outfit, viz a vaping Outlaws Enforcer … and from the outset was amazed at the increase in favour and vape production this thing produced, with even a 1 Ohm coil, over a tank.
After seeking advice here about wicking, but having been impressed, much to my surprise, with how the Vivi Nova’s silica wick had performed, I decided to try it with such a braided silica wick made from three strands of 1mm thread ( having had three daughters I had long ago learned how to braid! ) Success again - so much so that in the house this has become my “go to” outfit this last couple of weeks.
In the passing, using silica and a very small Allen Key for stiffening while winding the coil, I found the easiest thing to make was a spaced coil rather than an immaculate micro coil, and again at 1 Ohm it has done the job and worked a treat.
Yup definitely got older and simpler!
How so?
Well when I first started vaping, in my enthusiasm for this “Magic Bullet” which had enabled me to stop smoking yet not experience cravings, I did quite a bit of experimenting both with kit ( such as boutique mods, squonk boxes, RDAs etc ) but even more so with the mechanics of producing neat micro coils and “perfect” wicks … but actually found that I was really quite happy with a Nautilus Mini Tank loaded with 16 -18 strength liquid fired by an iStick 30w. And there things remained for several years until the winter just gone.
Having written off three atomisers in Spain and ending up reliant on an old style Vivi Nova for three weeks I again began to look for bomb proof backups so revisited Squonking and Dripping.
On the Squonking side I dug out my Terminator El Cheapo Mech and my Little Origen RBA, coiling and wicking it oh so carefully, and my efforts were rewarded with instant success. So much so that on a recent trip to the Scottish Islands that and some spare batteries and liquid was all that I took along.
Bearing in mind this Forum’s sage advice about backups, after that I acquired a Mark 1 Pico Squeeze outfit and liked it so much that I ordered a pack of 20 spare bottles for it from fasttech which cost buttons and actually arrived very quickly.
Thinking about how I’d arrive off a plane though, gasping for a vape and once through Immigration and Passport Control would struggle to open a child proof bottle of liquid while undoing a bottom filled attie, reassembling the thing and firing it up while trundling a case and making sure my documents were safely stored, with but two hands to work with when I could have done with four. I looked for an easier solution, decided a good Dripper would be the answer for a quick easy hit and bought a solid heavyweight outfit, viz a vaping Outlaws Enforcer … and from the outset was amazed at the increase in favour and vape production this thing produced, with even a 1 Ohm coil, over a tank.
After seeking advice here about wicking, but having been impressed, much to my surprise, with how the Vivi Nova’s silica wick had performed, I decided to try it with such a braided silica wick made from three strands of 1mm thread ( having had three daughters I had long ago learned how to braid! ) Success again - so much so that in the house this has become my “go to” outfit this last couple of weeks.
In the passing, using silica and a very small Allen Key for stiffening while winding the coil, I found the easiest thing to make was a spaced coil rather than an immaculate micro coil, and again at 1 Ohm it has done the job and worked a treat.
Yup definitely got older and simpler!
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