I don't understand dripping at all
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Well the word "drip tip" is a semi-misnomer. It can be used for direct dripping with an atomizer (no cartridge or cartomizer attached) But I suspect if you are pretty new to vaping...that isn't the system you are using. Think of the "drip tip" as more of a mouthpiece, really. What sort of container is your juice in? A cigarette filter looking thing...with the atomizer and polyfill all in one unit? Or do you have a system where you have a little atomizer and then a little plastic thingy you soak with juice and put into the atomizer? Or maybe you have a clear cone shaped thing you fill up with juice? A few details will help. But the basic thing is a "drip tip" should really be thought of more as a mouthpiece for comfort. "Dripping" is a subculture of the vaping world...mostly done by old-timers and "purists".
it would help if you told us exactly what you are using (or a picture)
usually "dripping" is done with an atty and a drip tip. I drip when I am on the computer because I am sitting near my stuff. I like to drip to use different flavors. it would drive me crazy to drip all the time.
and just fyi, you don't pour anything into the atty, you drip 2-4 drops. and I always take my drip tip off to drip, I don't try to drip though the drip tip hole
usually "dripping" is done with an atty and a drip tip. I drip when I am on the computer because I am sitting near my stuff. I like to drip to use different flavors. it would drive me crazy to drip all the time.
and just fyi, you don't pour anything into the atty, you drip 2-4 drops. and I always take my drip tip off to drip, I don't try to drip though the drip tip hole
That sounds like a Stardust (CE4+)
Take the tip off (mouthpiece), and just fill with juice, put the tip back on and vape.
Dripping is a completly different way to vape, and you use an atomizer instead of a carto or clearo.
C is the atomizer
They come in different colors and threading, but that's the idea. Metal tube, with a "bridge" for a cart (D). Not to be confused with a carto (cartomizer). Atty = part of a 3 piece system (battery, atty, cart). Your battery will vary of course. Could be a huge box, or eGo or whatever.
If you're saying to yourself "That doesn't look anything like what I'm using" then you're not using an atomizer. Go to a vendor and look up atomizers for your specific device to get a better picture if you wish.
Re dripping:
Dripping: a way to bypass all the juice holding gizmos that fail for one reason or another. So you take an atomizer, drip 3 drops of juice in, vape about 10 hits, drip 3, vape 10, drip 3, vape, ad nauseum. It's the least complicated way to vape. Easiest from a hardware perspective. Nothing to fill or fail (other than the coil). It's more "work" but less "fiddle". Drippers claim it has the best taste too.
Dripper: An adult e-cig user known for constantly dripping juice into a little e-cig device to get a "vape". Carries a small juice bottle around; not to be confused with a sippy-cup which is used by kids for a completely different purpose. A juice bottle to a dripper is for clogging a drip-tip or flooding an atomizer. Also works the biceps and builds hand-eye coordination. Drippers are also known for being fond of red lights while driving and for carrying napkins and tissue with them everywhere to wipe up "misses".
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C is the atomizer
They come in different colors and threading, but that's the idea. Metal tube, with a "bridge" for a cart (D). Not to be confused with a carto (cartomizer). Atty = part of a 3 piece system (battery, atty, cart). Your battery will vary of course. Could be a huge box, or eGo or whatever.
If you're saying to yourself "That doesn't look anything like what I'm using" then you're not using an atomizer. Go to a vendor and look up atomizers.
Re dripping:
Dripping: a way to bypass all the juice holding gizmos that fail for one reason or another. So you take an atomizer, drip 3 drops of juice in, vape about 10 hits, drip 3, vape 10, drip 3, vape, ad nauseum. It's the least complicated way to vape. Easiest from a hardware perspective. Nothing to fill or fail (other than the coil). It's more "work" but less "fiddle". Drippers claim it has the best taste too.
Dripper: An adult e-cig user known for constantly dripping juice into a little e-cig device to get a "vape". Carries a small juice bottle around; not to be confused with a sippy-cup which is used by kids for a completely different purpose. A juice bottle to a dripper is for clogging a drip-tip or flooding an atomizer. Also works the biceps and builds hand-eye coordination. Drippers are also known for being fond of red lights while driving and for carrying napkins and tissue with them everywhere to wipe up "misses".
I just got a neat TAJ Vivi tank system from gotvapes and I have experimented by taking off the top and dripping onto the coil/wicks. Would you consider this similar if not the same as dripping into a standard drip atty with tip attachment? or is this less of a purist dripper's method?
IDK. It's a tank! Used to hold a lot of e-juice so you don't have to drip. I suppose you can, but it's easier to get an atomizer, IMHO. I use the VN as a tank, an atomizer to drip. Not "purest" but rather... more of a design/function thing. The VN will get a bunch of juice into the center air-feed tube and leak down to the connector.
???????? eh, math. Answer = 6. Roger who and "that" what? and who was that post a reply to? If you practice more you should be completely incomprehensible in, say, another month.
It's only partly twisted now.
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???????? eh, math. Answer = 6. Roger who and "that" what? and who was that post a reply to? If you practice more you should be completely incomprehensible in, say, another month.
Please excuse the giddiness. I'm as happy as an antelope with night vision goggles.
Dripping is awesome for when you want to vape a bit of sometaste, but not so much a tankfull. Chain-vaper that I am...I do like to drip at home when I can bring the box o' bottles out and set up "chem lab" in the livingroom. I've nowhere near the coordination required to do this at a red light, so just sit in awe of the pros that can!! 
I've nowhere near the coordination required to do this at a red light, so just sit in awe of the pros that can!! 
I also drip into the coils of my vivi tanks on occasion. It works great and floods less than a regular 510 atty.
But I also enjoy my REO bottom feeder with 510 atomizers, which is another way to drip that we wont get into
To the original poster: You have a tank system. It sounds like a top coiled clearomizer.
YES you CAN drip directly into that hole that you try to avoid when filling. (not too much!)
Yup! thats basically what its like to drip into a regular atomizer, except, its not a regular atomizer. Its a clearomizer.
But I also enjoy my REO bottom feeder with 510 atomizers, which is another way to drip that we wont get into
To the original poster: You have a tank system. It sounds like a top coiled clearomizer.
YES you CAN drip directly into that hole that you try to avoid when filling. (not too much!)
Yup! thats basically what its like to drip into a regular atomizer, except, its not a regular atomizer. Its a clearomizer.
lol.
I dripped for two years. Seriously. Still do sometimes.
I also had cartos for driving. CE3's were the best for me. I hate "filler taste" and could taste that filler stuff in everything that had it (or so I imagined. PTB mods back in the day were OK.) So I dripped! I've upgraded my CE3's to a Vivi Nova tank, but it's a similar top-coil design with wicks.
Anyway, when dripping into an atty I got good enough that I could tell by feel roughly how many drops went in and could even drip in the dark most of the time if I wanted to. lol. Like anything else, it just takes practice.
I dripped for two years. Seriously. Still do sometimes.
I also had cartos for driving. CE3's were the best for me. I hate "filler taste" and could taste that filler stuff in everything that had it (or so I imagined. PTB mods back in the day were OK.) So I dripped! I've upgraded my CE3's to a Vivi Nova tank, but it's a similar top-coil design with wicks.
Anyway, when dripping into an atty I got good enough that I could tell by feel roughly how many drops went in and could even drip in the dark most of the time if I wanted to. lol. Like anything else, it just takes practice.
3.5+ years for me as a dripper. =)
Like AttyPops, I hate the taste of filler material. I dislike the sometimes hits -- sometimes non-hits from clearos. Even when clearos work *properly* I feel like I'm being ripped off of flavor and TH, mostly because I AM. LOL
Back in the day, when all we had were attys, the routine to break them in was exactly as AttyPops described earlier in the thread. It didn't take long to realize that the *break-in* method would work flawlessly ALL the time... thus, dripping.
I'm really not understanding the plethora of posts regarding dripping as being some mysterious methodology. It's a simple process if one gives it half a shot. I can drip while driving, while walking and in a dark room. I've even dripped while riding a bike.
After a short while, one can taste when he/she needs a re-drip even before the inhale, thus never getting a burnt taste.
Dripping is NOT work. It's NOT this horrible/tedious process. I look at it as being akin to lighting a cigarette with a Bic lighter. As smokers, did we complain about that? <g>
Like AttyPops, I hate the taste of filler material. I dislike the sometimes hits -- sometimes non-hits from clearos. Even when clearos work *properly* I feel like I'm being ripped off of flavor and TH, mostly because I AM. LOL
Back in the day, when all we had were attys, the routine to break them in was exactly as AttyPops described earlier in the thread. It didn't take long to realize that the *break-in* method would work flawlessly ALL the time... thus, dripping.
I'm really not understanding the plethora of posts regarding dripping as being some mysterious methodology. It's a simple process if one gives it half a shot. I can drip while driving, while walking and in a dark room. I've even dripped while riding a bike.
After a short while, one can taste when he/she needs a re-drip even before the inhale, thus never getting a burnt taste.
Dripping is NOT work. It's NOT this horrible/tedious process. I look at it as being akin to lighting a cigarette with a Bic lighter. As smokers, did we complain about that? <g>
I was a hard core dripper and I still consider myself a dripper, I just dont use 510 atomizers anymore. I drip directly onto coils but.. not inside a 510 atomizer. I love my REO for those though. Been using it for the past 3 days non stop actually. I agree, atomizers taste far better than using a clearo, or a carto, or anything other than a nice fresh new or newly cleaned atty!!
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