Intro, thanks, really-I'm-not-lurking

[Jacci]

Hello all, and my what a lovely forum you have here. Not only a wonderful resource for information and inspiration from many points of view, but also a surprisingly upbeat and healthy community - congratulations and heartfelt thanks to those who write and maintain.

I've been lurking the past few days, spending hours at a time reading old topics (some of the modders are amazing!) and felt it would be polite to introduce myself. I'm a web developer, currently with free time for reading whilst the computers finish calculations. I found the site after much fruitless searching for unbiased information about...personal vaporizers...online.

After much reading I decided I'd try the 510 first, with supplies for trying at homemade juice. With luck I'll have it soon. I'm quite interested in creating the perfect vaporizer, which in the real world probably ends up meaning modding. The 510 sounds like it's small, but there's certainly a lot of info out there and I've small hands and practice with such things...and smoke the equivalent of pixie sticks when I do smoke.

I think that covers it - thanks again to those who make this forum what it is. If anyone has ideas on what might be pleasant to someone who enjoys smoking but doesn't care about nicotine and prefers something very very light please feel free to chime in - for all my reading I haven't gotten any closer to an answer on that one. More PG/VG and less flavour?

 

[beckah54]

Jacci, welcome to the forum.

I don't know if you checked out the DIY forum yet but there is a ton of information there about making your own e-liquid. DIY e-liquid - e-cigarette-forum.com • The place for electronic cigarette reviews, news and chat

We can always use more modders to perfect this tool that we use to get off tobacco.

 

[oldtechno]

Jacci;

Far as I know this forum as all known information about e-cigs on it somewhere.

So you got the 510...good start!

If you've got the money, I'd advise something like getting the 'Little Chuck'. I don't have one--but I've been eyeballing them for a week. The 510 has one well known limit--batteries that run down quickly, the Little Chuck suppose to take care of that problem.

Making your own juice--beats me, I guy mine.

'Cutting' your own juice I know something about. I buy 24mg cappuccino from Cignot.com. I get their mix juice also. I take a 15ml bottle of their cappuccino and pour it into 15ml of their mix juice and it comes out to 12mg of nicotine instead of 24mg.

You do loose 'some' flavor doing it this way...but it sure is cheaper on me.

Finally, don't forget to 'line your cartridge' up. It's real important.

Simply put;

Pull the cartridge off the Atomizer. Look down in the atomizer, you see two little white insulators that look like this { : }.
Now look at the bottome of your cartridge, notice the shape of it? It looks like this { 0 }

What you've got to do is put this : inside of this 0 (a dot at the top, the other dot at the bottom.

 

[jj2]

Nicotine free about a month after taking up vaping. What I use is a lot of VG and a little PG with flavoring. Mainly because I use McCormick's cinammon extract that has PG & alcohol in it. I use enough to just get a mild taste because since the taste buds came back alive, it doesn't take much to satisfy.
I like VG because it does make it a bit sweeter and I love the vapor.

 

[Jacci]

Sorry it's taken so long to reply...pesky 'real world'. Thank you all very much - I now have yet more delicious reading for when the computers are all too busy for anything else.

@beckah54: Thanks for the link. It's exciting to be in a new industry with plenty of opportunity for the 'consumers' to move it forward, but it'd sure be nice to already have the perfect device, no?

@oldtechno: you're right about this forum having most every opinion and stat on e-cigs available! I'll check out the Little Chuck more thoroughly - I've been wondering about extending an e-cig and (it's battery life) lengthwise rather than widthwise...like the pen style, but thinner and longer. Mmm...cappuccino sounds lovely, mayhaps that'll be the coffee flavour I get. Must. Have. Thanks again - advice from actual people instead of marketing posing as advice! Amazing. To think I almost passed this forum up, thinking it yet another business/marketing site like everything else Google was turning up.

@jj2: that sounds about like what I was imagining for myself, very good to know I've got some ideas that might pan out. Thanks!