If you had $100 to spend with the knowledge that you have now...

[mare ze dotes]

I have to thank you ECF'ers. I would buy my same start up kit that was recommended. (egos and stardusts, as they were called) I have bought other stuff since then, but right now I am still vaping with my old not so pretty any more 10 month old pink joytech egos. I will be sad to see them go.

 

[VIPOD]

easy...$100 worth of unflavoured nic juice, preferably 50/50 blend.

 

[pufZeppelin]

I have to thank you ECF'ers. I would buy my same start up kit that was recommended. (egos and stardusts, as they were called) I have bought other stuff since then, but right now I am still vaping with my old not so pretty any more 10 month old pink joytech egos. I will be sad to see them go.

that's good to hear- a breath of fresh air (with some stepping outside the 100.00 rule)
or satisfied customer with what you have--Glad your happy

 

[pufZeppelin]

easy...$100 worth of unflavoured nic juice, preferably 50/50 blend.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

what are you gonna vaporize with.....?

 

[Topdogie01]

id still buy what i ahve now, look for a Evic on sale for biggest discount (got mine for 60) and a BCC (using vapeonly bcc mega but a protank would work) and some diy juice supplies. i have loranns flavorings from my candy i make (not counting all the new flavors i bought for my ecig and cant wait to try in my candies now.. grr.).

 

[K_Tech]

hello
cool, think I will give them a try

I think it's worth a shot, especially with their prices

they have a note on their site about flooding?
(I'm not aware of that in that area)

Yeah, saw someone discussing that in the general E-liquid forum, I think.

your pretty close to them (geographically) I take it...

Honestly, I'm not sure - I'd have to check the invoice, I don't recall where they're located.

thanx for the input

You are quite welcome!

 

[MikeWhy]

Tastes differ. I like a mech and just a bit over 1 ohm. For $100, I'd go with a Reomizer 2, $45. Add $20 in hardware and some scrap wood for a bottom feeder woody. Two AW IMR 18490, under $20. An Xtar XPI for $10 will get you by for under $100.

Or, scrounge some scrap aluminum or brass rod and tubes, and have a go at it on your lathe. An IGO-W, a couple of IMR batts, and yer good to go with dollars left over to pay your data plan.

 

[SuperLamer]

I wish I had classifieds access on ECF before I spent my first $100. A used mechanical mod would have been a better value for me than the knock off I went with.

 

[Barbara21]

If everything e-cig-related stuff I owned disappeared this second and I only had $100, what would I get??

Go to the local WalMart and get two rechargable e-cigs. That would probably be...what?...twenty dollars or so?? Then to my local vape store for 30mL of some clear, not-totally-disgusting ejuice. (My local store is not very good - 650 ego batteries are twenty-two dollars). Now I'm up to thirty-five dollars but this could get me through a week to ten days.

Wizard Labs - 120mL 24mg nic juice in PG ($7.50) plus three flavorings ($1.50) each comes to twelve dollars plus shipping - let's say twenty dollars total. A bottle of 180mL VG from WalMart ($3.50 plus tax). That will make 240mL of 50/50 nic juice (3 flavors, 80mL each at 10% flavoring). I'm up to a grand total of about fifty-eight dollars.

So now I have plenty of juice (heck, that'll last me three months) but my delivery system will crap out relatively fast. I'd order a bolt clone ($13.00), three vivi novas and a package of 50 2.0 ohm pre-wrapped coils from FastTech (I'm not into wrapping my own coils). That's twenty eight dollars for a total of eighty-six dollars.

Two good IMR18500 batteries and a cheap charger would be about twenty-five dollars plus shipping (let's say thirty-dollars) for a grand total of $116.00.

Next month I'd buy a good charger, another bolt clone, three more vivi novas, two more IMR18500 batteries and two kicks - that's probably close to another hundred dollars. But now I'm pretty much set on equipment for quite awhile - two kicked bolts with 6 vivi novas and plenty of coils to rebuild with. The rechargeable cigalikes I bought in the beginning are probably dead or relegated to back-up.

The third month, I'd buy more PG/VG/nicotine and flavorings. You don't save a lot on the nicotine - WizardLabs is good with their pricing that way - but you can save significantly buying PG/VG in bigger quantities. (I get PG for $20.00/gal (locally) and VG for $27.00/gal (includes shipping). That's GALLONS, not liters.)

 

[puchox]

Right now i would go for a mech/rba clone combo.

Probably from FT Kayfun Clone $22, 2 Panasonic PF $13.5, Nitecore i2 $15 with their free shipping would be $51.5.
Then 150mL($4.5 per bottle) of Hangsen from VaporBreak, 1 50mL of Usa Mix Mint and 2 50mL bottles of Red Bull, and a Nemesis clone $22 with shipping it would be around $41
And last a spool of 28 or 30 gauge kanthal from stealthvape.co.uk which has cheap shipping for rebuildable parts and i think it would hit $100 almost perfectly

 

[Credo]

Tough call...

I assume I still have my home/tools/workship...all the 'non-vaping' stuff right?

Step one for me:
Get some eLiquid ordered ASAP! A 50ml bottle of a smooth tobacco flavor would do.

I'd probably buy some form of snuff or chewing tobacco to hopefully hold me off a stinkies a couple of days.

If I could find it locally I'd go ahead and get a bottle of VG or PG...0nic is better than nothing. The gas station disposables I've tried would not last through step two...hence the snuff and something for a psychological fix at least.

Step two:
A trip to the hardware/auto supply store for Kanthol or Nichrome (which ever they have). It's only a block away...so no gas money blown there.

I'd then hit the tool shed and pick out a power supply from the buckets of them that accumulate from years of general living. From there,
I've no doubt I could cobble together an acceptable pass through type set-up with a usable/safe atomizer.

I'd hopefully have found some VG at least...puff puff.

Step three:
I'd go to the bucket of discarded cell phones/lap tops/tool batteries/etc. that has piled up over the years and pick out a few of the best liPo batteries I could find. I'd slap together a make shift mod to tide me over till I can get my hands on a proper 510 connector. I might even use one of the phones itself as a chassis for the mod (worth checking them out for the possibility). If the phone can't be a chassis...oh well...there's tons of 'junk' laying around that can.

Step four:
I'd focus on liquid supplies and see if I could bum some better modding parts from classifieds or PIF forums. People discard a lot of stuff that could be cobbled into a decent little portable mod.

I'd pick up a couple of Vivi Nova tanks. Decent vape...Easy to rebuild....and while about the same cost as a starter RBA...I just like these better at present for a variety of reasons.

With whatever money is left over after setting up with some decent Liquid making supplies...I'd start saving toward the purchase of better replacements for the make-do pass-through and mod.

And there ya have it...
Too much time on my hands...too much JUNK...and not enough MONEY.
Welcome to the 21st century in Small Town 'Merica...where it cost ya 3 times what you make to commute 2 hours to a job that'll only give ya 20 hours a week and treat you as a sub-human. It's like paying folks to be their slave!

Thank goodness plants can be almost free...and I have lots of cheap land

 

[cedric212]

Here's my list:

China:
$29 neme clone
$11 trident clone
$15 pair of 18650+cheapo charger

Ebay:
$3 25' 28awg kanthal wire

Dollar store:
$1 cottonball ($0 if use cotton from Q-tip)

Essential Depot
$12 1 qt VG

Wizard Lab
$16 120mL of 100mg/mL nic in VG
$13-14 minus shipping, whatever is leftover goes into flavoring (5-6 8mL vials)

 

[NicoHolic]

If I lost all my stuff, I'd just use my wife's stuff.