GP Series by VapourArt - Official Thread for GP Spheroid, GP PAPS, X, GP Piccolo, GP SnP and more - Part 3

[Firestorm]

Thanks to the recent release of 2.5 parts, my collection is complete

...and enough spare buttons and such to last me

Beautiful collection and case!

Spare buttons? Naw, you need a top cap for that 18500 tube. Just kidding - I have lots of lonely Paps tubes.

 

[newyork13]

Ya gotta love some of these medical "professionals." Sorry that you're getting this sort of indifference.

Another tidbit I forgot to add... I fired my nurse yesterday for not showing up yet again for our appointment that she scheduled the day before, not contacting me at all for several hours after missing it or offering any kind of apology when I finally reached her other than "well, sh_t happens"... and I fired the company that she works for. Most unprofessional and unreliable nurse I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with who also didn't do a good job when she did grace me with her presence. The company is no better. So I'll be pretty much grounded at home until I next see my Doc in December and see if we can find another.

 

[Spydro]

 

[Spydro]

Wow, shoulda read back a ways before posting >.<
Funny KGD was posted here in stock 20 hours ago and I just now got the email...
Oh well, 2 boxes on its way

I just got a bunch of RxW. If it does what it's hyped up to do, I may already have more than a lifetime supply of KGD (the only wicks I have been using lately).

 

[newyork13]

What's RxW?

I just got a bunch of RxW. If it does what it's hyped up to do, I may already have more than a lifetime supply of KGD (the only wicks I have been using lately).

 

[Spydro]

I see, your sense of independence has a toll, I am like that myself. When I fell from my hammock and I realised that I needed 5 stitches quickly to close my left brow, I decided to go to my dentist and persuade him to do it ... and he closed it perfectly, not even a scar! A hospital would be the logical step, but I hate the impersonal care even in medical cases. I am nuts I know, but I am good for this Asylum

This make sense. I can't even imagine what impossible things you've done, but the few adventures you kindly shared with us, imply many things beyond the urban way of life and I totally agree, you'll do what you have to do just when it is time for it. Last week, I did some quick repeated movements upside down and spinning, while I was hanging from the hammock, resulting to a slight damage of the muscles of the low back. A muscle strain doesn’t sound like a serious injury, but the occurring pain was so severe that I couldn't seat or stand for 3 days.
I felt like an idiot, because I underestimated my limits, thinking that I can do whatever crosses my mind, no matter what. But my body had a different opinion and it rested the case

I feel very grateful for that incident, because I was forced to observe the lulling rhythms of self healing and I sensed the mystery of the human body once again. It can heal everything, if enough time and proper care is given. I'll never understand how it does it, but inner silence is the best fuel for it.

Unexpected injuries can be bad because you naturally try to protect yourself, and the muscle pulls from that can be worse than the injury you would have received just going with it. Learned about going with the flow when I was about 5 YO and fell out of a second story window onto concrete stairs. Something inside lead me to just tuck and roll with it, and I really didn't get hurt much.

I have scars from not being as good at sewing as those trained to do it - from using stuff to do it they would never use. When in the back country you have to use what you have or can harvest. Same at home... not surgical grade but better. Many of my self medical experiences don't belong on an open forum... so I'll spare the family the gore even though it is Halloween. Lets just say that my 9 lives were used up 10 times over during the Bull of the Woods portion of my life. No car or machinery, gun or knife or other dangerous living thing, not even 5 cancers have managed to do me in..... yet.

Know all about pain too, have dealt with it all my life and most of the last decade plus 24/7/365. But MOM has been my cure for it most of my life, still works for me.

Today's incident didn't go very well, so what I did won't last long and will have to be redone soon. Have a feeling that will be the norm in my life from now on, and quite often. I've always played the cards I was dealt, so this will be no different. besides, I'm not big on dealing with any more nurses or doctors right now anyway.

 

[Spydro]

What's RxW?

RBA Supplies LLC

 

[crg31953]

I just got a bunch of RxW. If it does what it's hyped up to do, I may already have more than a lifetime supply of KGD (the only wicks I have been using lately).

Let us know how it goes, I've been tempted myself!

vape On My Friends!

From A Galaxy Far Away
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[Spydro]

Yes, but the summer passed and it is still there, unused and dismantled with a lonely Piccolo to stare at it. We can do something else. Send it back to me whenever it is convenient for you and I will send you a new one on Monday.

Thank you again my friend, but I still have to decline. I PM'd you why I don't feel it is right for me to take advantage of your generosity.

 

[Jerry J]

Thanks to the recent release of 2.5 parts, my collection is complete

...and enough spare buttons and such to last me

Darn it I missed out on this.

 

[perseas]

Source:https://archive.org/stream/waspjulydec1888unse#page/n5/mode/2up

 

[Cucco]

Source:https://archive.org/stream/waspjulydec1888unse#page/n5/mode/2up

What fun!

 

[jrs99]

BillB...answer my PM first!!
Ignore any and all others before mine!
I'm totally throwing out the "this is for my birthday in a couple weeks" card too

ETA: I love ya BillB! Guess I need to go order a couple extra 14500's

 

[Jerry J]

Darn it I missed out on this.

I made a mistake? Oops, I, for some reason thought that v2.5 switches were available. Silly me!

 

[Spydro]

Let us know how it goes, I've been tempted myself!

Vape On My Friends!

From A Galaxy Far Away
Using Tapatalk Pro

First thoughts... There are threads about this wick that share all the ins and outs of what's been tried with it. IOW thousands of posts to weed through. I have only spot read some of them so far, but they are suggested reading and I will get through more of them eventually. The first lesson learned is to not start trying builds with RxW at 3AM when you and your eyes are tired. Following one person's suggestion on his favorite form size for 3mm wick turned out to be an effort in futility. There was simply no way I could "screw" the 3mm wick into that coil. The optimum is suppose to be with a 2.5mm form for 3mm wick... so what I should have started with. Anyway, it was late, I was tired so instead I just spiral wrapped some 3mm with a needle through it for support and called it good for the wee's this morning. IOW, not even close to a proper build for this wick that ended up being right at 1.0 ohm with 28ga Kanthal. Didn't matter, the results were very eye opening. I put the stubby 3/8" long coil/wick in a Vicious Ant Cyclone modded for BF, replacing a .59 ohm micro/KDG build I was doing Amaretto joose in. But the joose picked for the trial run was GVC even though it usually prefers a 1.5-1.8 ohm build for best flavor for me. Even with the lower ohm spiral build the results were a massive improvement in vapor and huge improvement in flavor over my normal micro/KGD builds for it. The only down side was it takes longer than KGD for the RxW to get fully loaded up with VG heavy joose... the up side of that is it holds way more juice than a KGD wick. With a squonker that can drown the wick with joose then pull the excess back out it's not that big of a deal to fully load the wick - good for 4-5 of my long lung hits with massive rich vapor for a 1 ohm coil. It would probably take longer in something like a Heron or Spheroid to reload RxW though... so the possibility of dry hits would be greater if chain vaped. Since the RxW itself can be renewed to new by torching, that stubby little 3/8" piece of it can last for months in this topper same as the coil itself can with a little maintenance. Makes the $8 a foot price of admission for this wick not even a factor. Just happens they had a 25% off sale for the wick last night, but I didn't know about it until this morning. The "TRICKorTREAT" code was still working this morning though. I didn't bother, the foot long pieces of 2mm and 3mm I have would wick every topper I currently use with plenty left over for down the road to rewick them again and again. I plan to try it in one of my Herons, it will take a longer piece but if it works as well in them it's money well spent. Time will tell, but I can see already that RxW will be serious competition with my favored KGD.

 

[jrs99]

I made a mistake? Oops, I, for some reason thought that v2.5 switches were available. Silly me!

Haha no! The only way to get any more 2.5 switches is used. I woulda definately bought a couple more if they had been. I meant the spare parts kits with just the button itself and other parts.
I've been gathering my 4 switches over a period of months.

Keep an eye out on the classifieds. Twice now I've managed to grab a full 2.5 Paps for around $100.

 

[Cucco]

RBA Supplies LLC

Another wicking material? Please say it isn't so!

 

[crg31953]

First thoughts... There are threads about this wick that share all the ins and outs of what's been tried with it. IOW thousands of posts to weed through. I have only spot read some of them so far, but they are suggested reading and I will get through more of them eventually. The first lesson learned is to not start trying builds with RxW at 3AM when you and your eyes are tired. Following one person's suggestion on his favorite form size for 3mm wick turned out to be an effort in futility. There was simply no way I could "screw" the 3mm wick into that coil. The optimum is suppose to be with a 2.5mm form for 3mm wick... so what I should have started with. Anyway, it was late, I was tired so instead I just spiral wrapped some 3mm with a needle through it for support and called it good for the wee's this morning. IOW, not even close to a proper build for this wick that ended up being right at 1.0 ohm with 28ga Kanthal. Didn't matter, the results were very eye opening. I put the stubby 3/8" long coil/wick in a Vicious Ant Cyclone modded for BF, replacing a .59 ohm micro/KDG build I was doing Amaretto joose in. But the joose picked for the trial run was GVC even though it usually prefers a 1.5-1.8 ohm build for best flavor for me. Even with the lower ohm spiral build the results were a massive improvement in vapor and huge improvement in flavor over my normal micro/KGD builds for it. The only down side was it takes longer than KGD for the RxW to get fully loaded up with VG heavy joose... the up side of that is it holds way more juice than a KGD wick. With a squonker that can drown the wick with joose then pull the excess back out it's not that big of a deal to fully load the wick - good for 4-5 of my long lung hits with massive rich vapor for a 1 ohm coil. It would probably take longer in something like a Heron or Spheroid to reload RxW though... so the possibility of dry hits would be greater if chain vaped. Since the RxW itself can be renewed to new by torching, that stubby little 3/8" piece of it can last for months in this topper same as the coil itself can with a little maintenance. Makes the $8 a foot price of admission for this wick not even a factor. Just happens they had a 25% off sale for the wick last night, but I didn't know about it until this morning. The "TRICKorTREAT" code was still working this morning though. I didn't bother, the foot long pieces of 2mm and 3mm I have would wick every topper I currently use with plenty left over for down the road to rewick them again and again. I plan to try it in one of my Herons, it will take a longer piece but if it works as well in them it's money well spent. Time will tell, but I can see already that RxW will be serious competition with my favored KGD.

I actually bought 2 feet of each a couple of weeks ago, I just haven't had time to play with it.

As you said, I'm very curious as to how it would work in the Heron or Spheroid.

Vape On My Friends!

 

[Spydro]

Another wicking material? Please say it isn't so!

Hey gal pal.

The hype suggests it will be the last "new" wicking you'll ever need. Still too early to tell for me for sure... I have lots of toppers so lots of varied builds and lots of jooses to try it with. But it has been an impressive day today using it in the bf's.

 

[darksparkle13]

I am fine and I hope you and all here are well too!

24 hours per day, what you can do? It should be 36 hours at least. I saw your comment yesterday and just now I was able to respond, time is a funny thing

I am have been busy myself at work, and working three hours after I get off from the time in the office!

But we do what we must!