..I saw this forum. I've been vaping for almost a year now not knowing anything outside of ego twists and those njoy things at the gas station.
I've been an on off analog smoker for 8 years now and only smoked to pass time, like at work, or if i'm trying to think, or was just really bored. I'm not gonna lie, I just thought the smoke was cool and I would just do "tricks" with it. I was an ignorant teenager once and not really took anything else into consideration. It was bad enough that i had asthma as a child. But oh well, I figured back then that i was only blowing smoke and not doing deep inhales.
Fast forward to recent years, I started to look into really quitting, and finding an alternative to cure my boredom during downtime at work since mobile phone games and podcasts can only go so far and also having to wash my hands constantly because I can't stand cigarette smell on my clothing and for the now obvious health reasons. lol
I've been vaping on an ego twist ever since, stock clearos, and constantly having to replace them because they're not durable enough for me apparently. The clear part always ends up skewed or the drip tip thread gets pulled out, flooding, and all of that mess. Couple months back I wouldn't have even known of these terms.
I only learned of the online presence and active community of ECF after having visited a new B&M to purchase juice. That was my only on real reason on going there until I thought of asking, the clerk, about the issues that I've been dealing with my old clearos. He then recommended the Kanger Protank-II but wanted to make sure i had a mod that supported it. It was like crickets.. I didn't know what he was asking. Being that my other hobby is automotive tuning, In my head I was picturing car mods/modifications (suspension/forced induction/ rebuilding motors???). Until the clerk mentioned the most common starter kit, the ego twist. Finally understanding what he was talking about, I nodded sheepishly and ended up talking about mods and all of that. After that enlightening experience at the B&M, I went to the google machine and started looking up mod reviews.. whadya know. ECF immediately popped up. haha
I went to perusing the threads and slowly started soaking everything in. Like a newly wicked coil getting all that juice. My mind was blown. A couple of days lurking, and I've already learned so much.. from ohm's law.. to sub-ohm.. batteries.. rewicking with cotton.. silica.. kanthal.. damn.. I already ordered some rewicking supplies and now looking into modding some U-Cans and some battery holders from Radioshack.
Since I'm mostly in front of a computer at work, you could say I have the luxury of browsing forums during down time. So i registered. Not even a couple of hours of registering, I got banned for having multiple identities.. I doubted myself for a sec since I have a habbit of registering user names on forums/social platforms in advance that I may end up using. Keep the social media identity consistent and stuff. After re-registering.. getting banned again.. submitting a ticket.. I eventually got a hold of Neil on the ECF page on Facebook. Told him what was going on.. and he fixed it right away. Here I am. Awesome. I can click on the "like" button on posts since there's not much i can contribute yet since I'm still learning. Funny thing is, I try to avoid electrical related issues with my cars and almost all the time just send it over to a real mechanic.. but after having read stuff on ECF.. voltage.. resistance.. wattage don't seem too foreign to me now. haha
Please excuse the cruddy photos of my current setup.
The photo that has everything lined up.. is when i started learning how to clean my Protank.
Kinda went trigger happy on the dry firing.. and ended up singeing my wick.
Figured that since I didn't have any supplies to rewick.. I'd give cotton a shot.. and reusing my coil. It was a challenge but doable. No photos of that endeavor though.
Retained 1.8 Ohms while getting a ton more vapor and flavor.
TL;DR
Hi, I'm new,still learning, and a new member of CASAA. Happy world Vape day!
-Cheers
I've been an on off analog smoker for 8 years now and only smoked to pass time, like at work, or if i'm trying to think, or was just really bored. I'm not gonna lie, I just thought the smoke was cool and I would just do "tricks" with it. I was an ignorant teenager once and not really took anything else into consideration. It was bad enough that i had asthma as a child. But oh well, I figured back then that i was only blowing smoke and not doing deep inhales.
Fast forward to recent years, I started to look into really quitting, and finding an alternative to cure my boredom during downtime at work since mobile phone games and podcasts can only go so far and also having to wash my hands constantly because I can't stand cigarette smell on my clothing and for the now obvious health reasons. lol
I've been vaping on an ego twist ever since, stock clearos, and constantly having to replace them because they're not durable enough for me apparently. The clear part always ends up skewed or the drip tip thread gets pulled out, flooding, and all of that mess. Couple months back I wouldn't have even known of these terms.
I only learned of the online presence and active community of ECF after having visited a new B&M to purchase juice. That was my only on real reason on going there until I thought of asking, the clerk, about the issues that I've been dealing with my old clearos. He then recommended the Kanger Protank-II but wanted to make sure i had a mod that supported it. It was like crickets.. I didn't know what he was asking. Being that my other hobby is automotive tuning, In my head I was picturing car mods/modifications (suspension/forced induction/ rebuilding motors???). Until the clerk mentioned the most common starter kit, the ego twist. Finally understanding what he was talking about, I nodded sheepishly and ended up talking about mods and all of that. After that enlightening experience at the B&M, I went to the google machine and started looking up mod reviews.. whadya know. ECF immediately popped up. haha
I went to perusing the threads and slowly started soaking everything in. Like a newly wicked coil getting all that juice. My mind was blown. A couple of days lurking, and I've already learned so much.. from ohm's law.. to sub-ohm.. batteries.. rewicking with cotton.. silica.. kanthal.. damn.. I already ordered some rewicking supplies and now looking into modding some U-Cans and some battery holders from Radioshack.
Since I'm mostly in front of a computer at work, you could say I have the luxury of browsing forums during down time. So i registered. Not even a couple of hours of registering, I got banned for having multiple identities.. I doubted myself for a sec since I have a habbit of registering user names on forums/social platforms in advance that I may end up using. Keep the social media identity consistent and stuff. After re-registering.. getting banned again.. submitting a ticket.. I eventually got a hold of Neil on the ECF page on Facebook. Told him what was going on.. and he fixed it right away. Here I am. Awesome. I can click on the "like" button on posts since there's not much i can contribute yet since I'm still learning. Funny thing is, I try to avoid electrical related issues with my cars and almost all the time just send it over to a real mechanic.. but after having read stuff on ECF.. voltage.. resistance.. wattage don't seem too foreign to me now. haha
Please excuse the cruddy photos of my current setup.
The photo that has everything lined up.. is when i started learning how to clean my Protank.
Kinda went trigger happy on the dry firing.. and ended up singeing my wick.
Figured that since I didn't have any supplies to rewick.. I'd give cotton a shot.. and reusing my coil. It was a challenge but doable. No photos of that endeavor though.
Retained 1.8 Ohms while getting a ton more vapor and flavor.
TL;DR
Hi, I'm new,still learning, and a new member of CASAA. Happy world Vape day!
-Cheers
Welcome to the forum. May your vape be strong.
