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Nanny22

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Sorry I didn't answer this sooner, Nanny, but I'm always way behind on this thread!

I got Kringle's Kurse, and it's quite good. I got it partly because I like peppermint, and partly so I can add it to chocolate and coffee juices that don't have much flavor.

Kathi17, now that I am reading your response, I remember you posting that you chose Kringles Kurse. Sorry, I am probably the oldest person here, so forgive my memory! I got Kringle's as a freebie when I ordered some Halo equipment a while back and I kept it for exactly the same purpose as you. I haven't used it yet, though, so thanks for reminding me! (There's that memory thing, AGAIN!). Where am i?
 

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Huh? Explain this Jonathan. Or should I check out a YouTube? I'm not a big rda/rba guy. I'm not mechanically inclined whatsoever and I have no patience for rebuilding and whatnot. What's this all about? INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW! heh
RBA on a reo has a hole in the center post all the way through to allow liquid to flow in. Below that is a piece of tubing that leads to a bottle of juice, housed inside the reo itself. Theres a small hole on the door of the reo in front of juice bottle to allow your finger access to squeeze the bottle. then juice squirts up into the rda or premade you have attached. I'm using a vapage carto on mine right now because I broke my rda. Anyways, if you use and rda like the a7, and make up your own premade silica wicks w coils, all you have to do to change coils is unscrew, replace, screw back down. It seriously takes 30 seconds. I take a day every month or so and make myself up wick/coils for an hour or two, then I keep them in a little plastic meory card case. Then I have a few months worth made up. If I use my gennies, I have to build directly on the deck. And the heat from the coil on a genny will cause your juice to oxidize and taste off around halfway through a tank... Wasteful.
 

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My Ahlusions vape mail came in today.
StarDust
Cantal Berry Ice ( no ice or menthol)
sample of Luna Fortuna

I was worried the sample would not come after reading some of the posts this week but it was in my order. (*;*).
Now to wait on the steep. I hope I will like Luna Fortuna as I had bad experience with coconut flavors early on in my vape journey.
But I figure if anyone can do coconut well Ahlusion can.
I was hoping my TPR would come in so I could taste Angel Sauce before the FOW sale goes off. If I like it I would love to score
another bottle at their FOW price.



Let me know what you think-I am scared to get mine out now
 

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I wish I knew of one, we go kayaking, and I love swimming. I was looking at that LVT waterproof one, but apparently it isn't really waterproof. (Someone on another thread I'm on did an experiment with his, and it leaks and dies).
Try a kamry, they are mechs. True mechs have no wires or circuit boards. So if you drop it in a mud puddle, it doesnt break.
 

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My Ahlusions vape mail came in today.
StarDust
Cantal Berry Ice ( no ice or menthol)
sample of Luna Fortuna

I was worried the sample would not come after reading some of the posts this week but it was in my order. (*;*).
Now to wait on the steep. I hope I will like Luna Fortuna as I had bad experience with coconut flavors early on in my vape journey.
But I figure if anyone can do coconut well Ahlusion can.
I was hoping my TPR would come in so I could taste Angel Sauce before the FOW sale goes off. If I like it I would love to score
another bottle at their FOW price.
If you like the sound of it, go ahead and order a big bottle, I promise you will love it:)
 

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Nanny that is a good idea to note who recommends flavors which fit your profile. I hadn't thought of that.

LOL, I only kept notes on the flavors that interested me -- selfish, I know, so probably wouldn't help anyone else. And yep, I did try to write down who recommended a particular juice, so when I discovered someone with similar tastes in juice I could pretty much trust that a good review would mean I would most likely appreciate that flavor, too. I wasn't kidding when I said I get obsessed and jump in with both feet. If I get truly interested in something I go all in! Once I get this vaping thing figured out, I will be on to obsessing about something else! The desire to learn all about something just takes over and I can't help it. So yeah, I take notes, I figured everyone did! Sorry such a long answer!
 

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One more
The Vape Kitchen Very Strawberry:
Originally I gave this flavor a ding because I thought it was called Fresh Strawberry. Well now that I looked at the label again, I can't exactly ding it for that.

This liquid tastes very strawberry indeed. Flavor is medium to bold but it doesn't have that tongue burning sweetness, while still being sweet. It tastes like those hard strawberry candies filled with jelly. (I tried to embed a picture of them because I think everyone would recognize the wrapper which looks like a strawberry, but I couldn't quite figure it out.)

Very Strawberry likes lower voltage and it doesn't give off much vapor - though to be fair I'm not using the best equipment. Anyway, this is good for someone who likes a simple straightforward flavor. On its own it is a bit one-note for me but I can easily imagine adding this to a vanilla, cake, or custard flavor to make good use of it and I suspect that is exactly what I will do.

In case anyone wonders: I'm not affiliated with TVK but I was their first non wholesale customer and they sent me TONS of samples in addition to my order. I've kept up good communication with them and so they've paid me in kind with more and more samples when I order. I have a few more of their flavors left to post. I also have quite a few other vendor juices to get through, but a lot of other vendor liquid requires steeping so I can't review the other brands as quickly as I would like. Patience may be a virtue, but it isn't one of mine!
 

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My Ahlusions vape mail came in today.
StarDust
Cantal Berry Ice ( no ice or menthol)
sample of Luna Fortuna

I was worried the sample would not come after reading some of the posts this week but it was in my order. (*;*).
Now to wait on the steep. I hope I will like Luna Fortuna as I had bad experience with coconut flavors early on in my vape journey.
But I figure if anyone can do coconut well Ahlusion can.
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how do you know it's coconut? the description just says a fruit blend-it's really vague
 

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Try a kamry, they are mechs. True mechs have no wires or circuit boards. So if you drop it in a mud puddle, it doesnt break.

I thought about a Kamry and one of those really big dual coil cartos. The whole rig wouldn't even cost $20 and should be pretty durable.


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If you like the sound of it, go ahead and order a big bottle, I promise you will love it:)

Ditto for me. I've always wished someone would do a higher end like the MBV one but then I found out this has raspberry in it so I'm scared lol. I've has horrible luck with raspberry.


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If it's all the same to you guys, I think I'm just gonna stick with this thread and this thread only on ECF.

Not trying to stir anything up and it's probably just me, but on the main juice discussion forum, it's a little like Groundhog Day (the movie). Same 5-10 companies constantly discussed. Same thread topics begun by noobs over and over. Same flavor discussions. Same everything. Feels like the Twilight Zone. Bring up a new company and there's crickets. Bring up MBV and the whole place goes nuts.

For those that don't know, I also post semi-often on Calivapers ejuice discussion forum. Threads aren't nearly as numerous as here and you don't have to live in CA to participate (duh) but the focus is more geared to the top-shelf crowd and discussion on smaller, batch-driven manufacturers. Hope to see a few of you guys pop over to say hi or participate. It's a bit more mellow with fewer inane questions.
Is the site down? I tried and got a 502 error.... Also, way to tell it dan, lol. Wish I could like on this comment multiple times.
 

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I thought about a Kamry and one of those really big dual coil cartos. The whole rig wouldn't even cost $20 and should be pretty durable. With an extra battery should be good all day the carto holds 4ml


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Nanny that is a good idea to note who recommends flavors which fit your profile. I hadn't thought of that.
Thanks! I was originally hoping to find a "swap buddy" -- someone to share and trade with, or even just garner ideas from. Then I discovered I am a juice HOARDER and convinced myself that anything I didn't like right NOW I might like later after it steeped or to use as a mixer and I better HANG ON TO IT ALL - and then, of course, all the while BUY MORE!
 

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I thought about a Kamry and one of those really big dual coil cartos. The whole rig wouldn't even cost $20 and should be pretty durable.


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You will hate cartos, I promise. Juice wastin flavor mutin, 20% doa waste of time, lol. I dunno what to tell you about a topper, thats a personal thing really. Any of them will let water in, but itll only ruin the juice if that happens. Cartos are a pita though, thats a promise.
 

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You will hate cartos, I promise. Juice wastin flavor mutin, 20% doa waste of time, lol. I dunno what to tell you about a topper, thats a personal thing really. Any of them will let water in, but itll only ruin the juice if that happens. Cartos are a pita though, thats a promise.

Well idk then all but one of my tanks are glass


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Thanks! I was originally hoping to find a "swap buddy" -- someone to share and trade with, or even just garner ideas from. Then I discovered I am a juice HOARDER and convinced myself that anything I didn't like right NOW I might like later after it steeped or to use as a mixer and I better HANG ON TO IT ALL - and then, of course, all the while BUY MORE!

You're not a hoarder malinda, those are people who cant get rid of anything. A person who has tons of one type of thing to me would be more of a collector, or prepper. When I went from cigs to vaping, it seemed too good to be true at first. After the first couple weeks, it made me feel just as good as a cig wouldve, just as relaxed. I felt like I should feel guilty about it or something.. Seems like we all look for reasons to feel guilty about our vaping habits sometimes. The reality is though that it's saving your life and keeping us all with our families longer. Most of us spend less on gear and juice than half of what we did on slow death in a red paper box... Just think of it that way when you start to feel guilty and you'll realize that you shouldnt feel guilty a bit:)
 

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Well idk then all but one of my tanks are glass


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i had good luck w/ all my glass tanks, never broke one. Most have a cage or shroud around the glass. Aga t2 was nice, easy to build for a genny. Dont you use a kfl? I had thought from seein pics that they're sturdy lookin, but have no experience with them. Kamry's are worth every penny though. I had much better luck w my protank1 than I did w any carto tanks.
 

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I'm just now getting into building (bought 15 prebuilts for my Sophia and Dripper Pro cuz I'm a total noob/scared at building) and wonder if anyone prefers the taste of silica wick over cotton?
I've read over & over again about the "WOW" factor of cotton wicks, but I get a funky taste. I used organic cotton or SnC cotton yarn I boiled in distilled water...still kinda funky or diff, I can't describe it.
I prefer the flavor of cotton (boiled multiple times) over anything I've tried but I can't use it. It was giving me horrible chest pains and headaches. I didn't put two and two together until Demitri did a video on it. He was experiencing the same exact thing. I thought I was getting sick but it would happen on and off, with no other symptoms. Once I stopped using anything with cotton (I rebuilt my protank heads with cotton), the symptoms went away. It just sucks because cotton wicked the best in my protank. Silica gives me flooding issues and I don't like the taste. It's diluted IMO. However, I found a method of using silica that pretty much turns it into a cotton-like consistency and that works ok.
*edit* and I got the itchiness in the throat too... some dryness as well... but the main concern was the chest pain
 
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Ditto for me. I've always wished someone would do a higher end like the MBV one but then I found out this has raspberry in it so I'm scared lol. I've has horrible luck with raspberry.


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Its excellent. I think mbv version has raspberry element too, cant remember now:) Angel sauce is so balanced and good, you'll love it. If I had to say one flavor was dominant in the mix, it'd be lime.
 

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My Ahlusions vape mail came in today.
StarDust
Cantal Berry Ice ( no ice or menthol)
sample of Luna Fortuna

I was worried the sample would not come after reading some of the posts this week but it was in my order. (*;*).
Now to wait on the steep. I hope I will like Luna Fortuna as I had bad experience with coconut flavors early on in my vape journey.
But I figure if anyone can do coconut well Ahlusion can.
I was hoping my TPR would come in so I could taste Angel Sauce before the FOW sale goes off. If I like it I would love to score
another bottle at their FOW price.

waiting to hear about your AHL especially Stardust-don't hear much about that one-make sure you review
 
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