Help! In need of sturdy and reliable APV

[VapDrak]

Hi Guys,

I will be nailed in the jungle for some months, far away from any vaping supplies!!!
So here are my questions:

What would you take with you?
Do you know any trustworthy supplier that have all the goodies that you suggest and ships Internationaly?

Please don't let me forget about all the little stuff... imagine having a nice set-up and it won't work because you miss an adapter and that in the middle of nowhere!!!

 

[ShogaNinja]

Shoga's jungle vaping survival kit: (ninja approved!)

-250ml of flavorless nicotine solution from Wizardlabs.com
-250ml of Propylene Glycol
-177ml (6oz) bottle of Glycerine aka Vegetable Glycerin from Walmart's first aid section near the pharmacy ( 2-3 if you use high VG juice)
-A bottle of distilled water or Pure Grain Alcohol for thinning VG
-3 ego c twist batteries and 2 chargers
-4 Vision Vivi Novas
-1 spool of wire (nichrome or kanthal - your choice)
-1 spool of wick (silica or ceramic - your choice)
-A flavoring kit from several vendors such as Cappella's, FlavourArt, The Perfumer's Apprentice, and finally Lorann's (which uses oils that can kill your coils so it's last on the list).
A small array of bottles, syringes, graduated cylinders, pipettes, and whatever else you feel you need to DIY.
-A voltage adapter for whatever country I would be going in.
-Possibly a solar cellphone charger that I would rig to connect to an EGO charger. I'm sure it's possible and I'd find out how. You never know if you'll have juice in the jungle.
-Some kind of water purifier
-A kukri machete. I like this one because it's the same style that jungle survivalist Mike Hunt (yes I know what his name sounds like when you say it really fast) used to conquer this earth found here: http://www.coldsteel.com/kukrimachetes.html (watch the video!) Cold Steel makes some seriously bada$$ weapons that can do amazing things and they never break or dull.
-A book on what's edible in the jungle in case anything went wrong which I would read several times.
-A netflix account to watch all the survival shows that discovery channel has ever made - before I left, after too if internet connection was guaranteed.
-A net hammock since if you get caught in the jungle it's all you really need to get off the floor since any shelter you make can be made with palm leaves to keep the water off of you.
-All my shots up to date at the doctors office.
-A mosquito net to cover me in the hammock and keep the creepy crawlies off me, which can be deadly there.
-A "metal match" to start fire which is impossible by the friction method there due to the ambient humidity. Also magnifying or glasses style parabola lens fire is impossible due to the overhead foliage blocking out the sun.

I would also check the local laws so that I could get this stuff past customs. If I could not, and it was legal to do so, then I would order it first thing once I arrived and hope that they don't take my ecig and what juice I had to roll on until I got my shipment.

Then what I would do is DIY all my juice, rewick my Vivi Novas, and keep my gear charged and then I would not have to rely on any sort of shipping whatsoever and depending on your own personal habit I could go for the better part, if not an entire, year without contact to civilization.

 

[elmattias]

I could go for the better part, if not an entire, year without contact to civilization.

for this one statement i grand you 1 million internets. i lol'd. hard.

 

[VapDrak]

Hey that's funny!!!
I'm just back from your blog!!!!
Do you have real ninja powers???
Amazing
Thanks for the advice

 

[Dougiestyle]

Solar charger for sure. I dunno about DIY in the jungle. I'd stock up on whatever nicquid you use regularly, tho. I'd take a good 18650 APV with a RBA and extra wick and wire. Don't forget a 18650 charger that will connect to your solar charger. I have a couple solar chargers with USB-out that will charge eGo batts, but don't supply enough juice to pump-up my 18650s within a reasonable timeframe.

 

[ShogaNinja]

Hey that's funny!!!
I'm just back from your blog!!!!
Do you have real ninja powers???
Amazing
Thanks for the advice

I was taught in a super secret school of space ninjas to anticipate what you want to think and then present that to you like a gift .

If you like the way I write words maybe you might want to check out what I do with music? Music to vape to:
ShogaNinja - YouTube

 

[VapDrak]

Thank's Man,

I'm a technical noob but i vow to study your instructions, Oh Master of DIY-NINJITSU!!!

 

[NancyR]

Depending on why you will be in the jungle, keep in mind the egos have a light on them, yes its small but a light is still a light when you don't want it. Also I would forgo the flavorings and just stick to non flavored while there, as the sweetness in the flavorings will attract insects, and that is never a good thing.

If you will have a way to charge batteries I personally would stick to something like the SB, less to go wrong and easier to fix if it does.

I would also forgo the solar charger for the same reasons listed for other things on the overhead, they don't work well when they don't get sunlight. However there are handcranked chargers out. They don't relie on sun just on human power. Assuming you have a vehicle with you there is always a very simple inverter.

Cotton thread works very well for wicks on the nova, its cheap light weight and has many uses.

 

[ShogaNinja]

Thank's Man,

I'm a technical noob but i vow to study your instructions, Oh Master of DIY-NINJITSU!!!

I don't want to take away from ECF, whose community is a million times better than YouTube's community, but if you need to see something done, as opposed to reading about it, then YouTube is the place to go. There you can learn how to DIY, rebuild a Vivi Nova, build a mod, see an ecig in action before you decide to buy it... so many things. Some people learn well by reading, some by hearing, and others by seeing. In the case of DIY I think it's better to see it before you do it. Maybe I'll make a line of ninja videos on how to DIY without killing yourself with nicotine poisoning.

Oh and by the way, VapDrak, you should find a banner you like that tells people when you started vaping and click on it. It will take you to a website where you can input how much you used to smoke, when you started, how much it cost you for a pack. Then get the embed code for it and put it in your signature under your ECF profile. Under each reply you make you will notice that there is a box that says "show signature" make sure that's checked too (just once).

 

[VapDrak]

You are full of wisdom,Oh Master,I was wondering where i can get a banner...
Thanks again

 

[ShogaNinja]

Depending on why you will be in the jungle, keep in mind the egos have a light on them, yes its small but a light is still a light when you don't want it. Also I would forgo the flavorings and just stick to non flavored while there, as the sweetness in the flavorings will attract insects, and that is never a good thing.

If you will have a way to charge batteries I personally would stick to something like the SB, less to go wrong and easier to fix if it does.

I would also forgo the solar charger for the same reasons listed for other things on the overhead, they don't work well when they don't get sunlight. However there are handcranked chargers out. They don't relie on sun just on human power. Assuming you have a vehicle with you there is always a very simple inverter.

Cotton thread works very well for wicks on the nova, its cheap light weight and has many uses.

She does have a point about revealing your position with the battery light. This is ninja 101. Never reveal your position! Vape under your ninja hood!

I'm assuming that he will be living in some sort of jungle bungalow. There would be a clearing I would imagine to use the solar charger.

Cotton wick can be used but silica or ceramic wicks are non flammable. The reason why I would not suggest a flammable wick is because the Vivi Nova I suggested is a top feeder and they are known to occasionally have wicking problems and that could lead to a burnt wick - which is gross tasting. The other reason to use silica or ceramic wick is because if you can clean and dry burn your Vivi Nova every couple tankfuls of juice it will run that much better for you and you will spend less time making new coils for the thing.

What you are talking about is a dynamo. A dynamo can be made with a bicycle but that's too big to ship, and a little one would be ineffective because you'd basically have to run it for 4 hours straight to get a fully charged battery. Charging a battery fast is both bad for it's life and can be dangerous so even in a bigger dynamo like one powered by a bicycle it simply wouldn't work without storing the power into a bigger battery first like a car battery. That's another reason why solar is the way to go. It's small, and effortless.

BUT you did give me a super ninja idea. You could take one of those crank flashlights and turn it into a green personal vaporizer. Just crank it and vape! It wouldn't even be hard to do. You just bust out the LEDs and hook up the wires to posts (screws) and then run your coil through there. You don't even have to know which is positive or negative. You'd have to make a tank system out of poly tube but it could be done. It'd be like a flashlight genesis atomizer.

One more thing to the OP. Maybe you could run a USB passthrough type (regular as in not a twist since I don't think they make those yet) ego battery to the solar charger and just vape like that if you had to be mobile and away from electricity. The output of the solar charger would have to be at least 3.2 volts to get any sort of vape like that. 5v would be ideal since that's what USB output is.

 

[SammyGirl]

If you want a banner, just either find one that you like and click on it, it will take you to the website to build yours Then copy the links and paste in your account settings Good luck

 

[NancyR]

I know what the vivi nova is, being as that is the only delivery system I use, and if 10 minutes every 2 weeks is too much time spent on recoiling, then how much time do you spend doing the rest, I don't clean them I toss and recoil no cleaning the wick no dry burn, takes me about 3 minutes per coil after I take the unit apart and rinse out the parts.

 

[VapDrak]

It's getting interesting,
Let me tell you about my current situation:
I'm already in the jungle (somewhere near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border... Ninja 101
My supplies are down to 2 old 501 batteries 3 ego batteries all of them pretty fake 1 phony stardust and 3 bogus-boge cartomizers that will work only on my 501 about 75ml of juices (not the freshest ones).All of this was bought locally, in the capital not the jungle, but I really don't think anything is near to legitt.
So I have some goodies coming from the States, just a few to see if there are problems: They got here
Well they are still in some post office but it's a matter of days!
So now i'm ready to make an substancial order

 

[VapDrak]

I forgott,
I do have access to electricity most of the time and Internet as you see!!! Not strong enough for youtube though, it's a pretty weak satellite sistem.. but hey i got on ECF and I'm happy (also can i order the vaping goodies,YEY

 

[ShogaNinja]

I know what the vivi nova is, being as that is the only delivery system I use, and if 10 minutes every 2 weeks is too much time spent on recoiling, then how much time do you spend doing the rest, I don't clean them I toss and recoil no cleaning the wick no dry burn, takes me about 3 minutes per coil after I take the unit apart and rinse out the parts.

No need to get excited. You should be able to go at least a month on a non-flammable wick easy. You don't have to change it every month if you dry burn, you just might want to, you know, cuz you can. Heck I have stardusts (the non rebuildable kind ) that are 3 months old that are still vaping strong. They use non-flammable wicks. With a flammable wick you can't dry burn and that's the main factor in keeping your coils clean and making your stuff last longer. Neither one of us is wrong here, it's 2 different ways that lead to the same location.

But yes, I had heard that you can use cotton candle wicks in a pinch and that's always awesome to know in the jungle. It's also nice because you can get it at a local craft store whereas the wicks I speak of are pretty much internet only. I guess you could always weave a wick out of spider silk too if you get too deep into the jungle lol Heck if you have the nic fluid you can just dab some on your skin lol and you don't need to vape at all if it comes down to it in survival mode.

 

[ShogaNinja]

It's getting interesting,
Let me tell you about my current situation:
I'm already in the jungle (somewhere near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border... Ninja 101
My supplies are down to 2 old 501 batteries 3 ego batteries all of them pretty fake 1 phony stardust and 3 bogus-boge cartomizers that will work only on my 501 about 75ml of juices (not the freshest ones).All of this was bought locally, in the capital not the jungle, but I really don't think anything is near to legitt.
So I have some goodies coming from the States, just a few to see if there are problems: They got here
Well they are still in some post office but it's a matter of days!
So now i'm ready to make an substancial order

I see you learned the first rule well, my jungle ninja.
Why is it that you are getting all of this knockoff phony stuff? How does that happen? Are there shysters in the jungle ripping you off lol?

P.S. What company are you ordering from in the U.S.?

 

[VapDrak]

There are only two or three sellers in the capital, so there is no big compitition!!!
If I told you about the prices you would tremble dear ninja:
Bogus-Boges 15 US $
Phony Stardusts 25 $
Fake Ego Battery 25 $
Ego T starter kit 145$
No Garanty no refunds ( one stardust worked for one charge and died)

So DIY looks pretty apealing

 

[VapDrak]

Competion I meant, sorry
I ordered from discount vapers and it worked great!!!
Time from the states to ecuadorian customs was shorter then customs- adress in the capital.
I think tomorrow will be the day, from there it's one day flight and two hours from the air field 9not port) to secret jungle location

 

[NancyR]

I don't bother even with the candle wicks, I use cotton crochet thread. Using those I have enough wire and thread to rewick my nova for almost a year for less than $10, so why should I worry about making one wick last a month when it is cheap and easy to redo them as needed? Also the cotton doesn't give the same wicking problems you described with the others.