It's Time to Re-Mech!

[suprtrkr]

When I declared Mech Week a month or so ago, I had originally intended to follow it up with 350 week, having acquired a few very nice 350 machines, or nice machines with 350 tubes. But I never got my roundtuit polished up to rebuild all those attys with coils that won't fry or drain a 350 battery in a minute or two, so I am just going to swap out some of the ones I was using for some different tubes.

L-R these are: Copper Ragnarok by VLS wearing an Augvape Merlin; a Petri V1.5 by dotmod wearing a doge; a CuTe by... Hhhmmm... I forget. It'll come to me. Handmade in Texas out of Tellurium Copper; hits like a truck. Don't think he made more than a couple hundred of them. Wearing my old faithful Plume Veil. A Fakir's Mods FX22 wearing its true-hybrid Troy II atty; a Nanos by MMV with a Sapor; a Givo by Arra Mods with a Royal Hunter and a torched "USA Ultra Edition" by Wutang House of Mods with an Indestructible.

Vape happy, troops...

 

[moldyEjuice]

Nice looking collection!

 

[suprtrkr]

Nice looking collection!

TY

 

[moldyEjuice]

My only mech problem is that so many of them are 22 wide and most modern RDAs are 24-25. A lot of my mechs look a bit top heavy lol.

 

[suprtrkr]

My only mech problem is that so many of them are 22 wide and most modern RDAs are 24-25. A lot of my mechs look a bit top heavy lol.

Tru'dat. But there are still 22-23s out there. And, of course, all the Old Skool ones. If you're a cloud chaser, maybe this is a problem. But for flavor one is generally better off with smaller internal volume anyway.

 

[moldyEjuice]

I just need to get some bigger mechs!

 

[SteamStack]

I just need to get some bigger mechs!

The old Super T Manufactering ela is 24mm.

 

[SteamStack]

When I declared Mech Week a month or so ago, I had originally intended to follow it up with 350 week, having acquired a few very nice 350 machines, or nice machines with 350 tubes. But I never got my roundtuit polished up to rebuild all those attys with coils that won't fry or drain a 350 battery in a minute or two, so I am just going to swap out some of the ones I was using for some different tubes.

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L-R these are: Copper Ragnarok by VLS wearing an Augvape Merlin; a Petri V1.5 by dotmod wearing a Doge; a CuTe by... Hhhmmm... I forget. It'll come to me. Handmade in Texas out of Tellurium Copper; hits like a truck. Don't think he made more than a couple hundred of them. Wearing my old faithful Plume Veil. A Fakir's Mods FX22 wearing its true-hybrid Troy II atty; a Nanos by MMV with a Sapor; a Givo by Arra Mods with a Royal Hunter and a torched "USA Ultra Edition" by Wutang House of Mods with an Indestructible.

Vape happy, troops...

Nice collection! Question what coil would work best with the small 18350 batts? I ask cause I've bought 2 super t mods that are made for only 350 batteries. 1 is a 350 workhorse and the other is a simplicity.

Figuring a coil around 1.5ohms or more.

 

[suprtrkr]

Nice collection! Question what coil would work best with the small 18350 batts? I ask cause I've bought 2 super t mods that are made for only 350 batteries. 1 is a 350 workhorse and the other is a simplicity.

Figuring a coil around 1.5ohms or more.

My 350 batteries are AW button-tops, for mods liking tall batteries, rated by the manufacturer at 15C, or 12 amps. That seems very high to me, but I also think they're probably good into the 6A range. Mooch has not tested them, his chart says "estimated" 5A, and AW is not usually given to overrating. My flat tops are Keeppower Blacks, which Mooch has tested, for 6A also. (If there's anybody in the US who sells the Basen Blacks Mooch rates at 7A, I haven't found them.) Thus, I don't mind running a coil in the .7-.8Ω range for just under 6A. A 350 battery goes flat pretty quick, so one is not at the high end of the range for more than a couple puffs. Since I happen to love SS316 wire in just about everything, and I happen to think 28ga wire is about the most all-around useful gauge to have in the range I vape, that usually means something like 6-8 wraps on 3mm, depending on how tired my arm is.

Nowadays I use 350 mods because I just happen to like them, and because I have some nice ones I like to keep in the rotation. But back along I was in the car all day, every day, and found 350s just work better in cup holders; not so tall and always wanting to fall over. Usually two batteries, one in the mod and one spare, would get me through a long day. Of course-- I am still me-- I would generally carry two spare batteries instead of one, but I didn't often need the second.

 

[r77r7r]

I miss the Patina 'd mechs....