Hello All!
I have been a long time lurker and boy, is there some good info here! I wanted to stop in and say hello to everyone! How about some info on the frikkin' new guy?
I have been in and out of the vaping thing for, wow, about 8 or 9 years. I first ran across the idea on the innerwebs when I saw something about the NJoy. I ordered and got a bunch of extra batteries and found out about the fluids used (because the stock juice sucked!) in vaping to mix my own back then. Only trouble was, getting a nic solution online was impossible, so all my mixes were nic free and that was a terrible thing for a 2 pack-a-day smoker. I then got cool and got a manual battery setup (Joyetech I think). Still, no nic = total suck. Went back to analogs and drug out the ecig once in a while for years.
Recently, and I mean, like last year, I thought I would look into it again because my wife and I desperately needed to quit smoking because of the extra cost on health insurance and regular pee tests (because I work at a hospital
). The extra $100 bucks every payperiod was ridiculous. Anyhoo, I started looking into something better than the turds I had and oh man, had the vape products blown up into a monster! I spent HOURS looking at a whole crapload of sites to find a couple of setups, and that, needless to say was overwhelming. I was simply amazed at how much stuff there was out there now.
Long story short, started back on a Storm clearomizer setup with those stick batteries that like to catch fire and now have moved on to Kanger ProTank 2s with a pipe mod. I bought a Tesla variable wattage battery last week and am now in weekly meetings for being a gear ...... I have parts and batteries and tanks and crap everywhere! I created a monster! I have a mad scientist lab for mixing juice and the whole nine yards.
Oh yeah, thick clouds kick ...! I don't care what anyone says. I like the visual feedback and it makes me feel like I am smoking like a freight train!
Anyway, I like tinkering and rebuilding stuff so now I am looking into making pipe mods out of exotic woods and such. I just have to find out where to get parts to build what I want. It has been an enjoyable experience even though I almost gave up again trying to sort through all the crap products and the wife and I have been analog free (dropped them completely, no tapering) since the week before Thanksgiving even while being around my family that smokes like a bunch of em-effers! Now finishing up my nic solution and am down to mixing at 4mg per ml just to get rid of the nic. Will continue vaping nic free just because it has become a helluva pastime!
Sorry for the long post, but wanted to say hi and give some background. Will be talking to you guys in the DIY sections and all that!
I have been a long time lurker and boy, is there some good info here! I wanted to stop in and say hello to everyone! How about some info on the frikkin' new guy?
I have been in and out of the vaping thing for, wow, about 8 or 9 years. I first ran across the idea on the innerwebs when I saw something about the NJoy. I ordered and got a bunch of extra batteries and found out about the fluids used (because the stock juice sucked!) in vaping to mix my own back then. Only trouble was, getting a nic solution online was impossible, so all my mixes were nic free and that was a terrible thing for a 2 pack-a-day smoker. I then got cool and got a manual battery setup (Joyetech I think). Still, no nic = total suck. Went back to analogs and drug out the ecig once in a while for years.
Recently, and I mean, like last year, I thought I would look into it again because my wife and I desperately needed to quit smoking because of the extra cost on health insurance and regular pee tests (because I work at a hospital
). The extra $100 bucks every payperiod was ridiculous. Anyhoo, I started looking into something better than the turds I had and oh man, had the vape products blown up into a monster! I spent HOURS looking at a whole crapload of sites to find a couple of setups, and that, needless to say was overwhelming. I was simply amazed at how much stuff there was out there now.Long story short, started back on a Storm clearomizer setup with those stick batteries that like to catch fire and now have moved on to Kanger ProTank 2s with a pipe mod. I bought a Tesla variable wattage battery last week and am now in weekly meetings for being a gear ...... I have parts and batteries and tanks and crap everywhere! I created a monster! I have a mad scientist lab for mixing juice and the whole nine yards.
Oh yeah, thick clouds kick ...! I don't care what anyone says. I like the visual feedback and it makes me feel like I am smoking like a freight train!
Anyway, I like tinkering and rebuilding stuff so now I am looking into making pipe mods out of exotic woods and such. I just have to find out where to get parts to build what I want. It has been an enjoyable experience even though I almost gave up again trying to sort through all the crap products and the wife and I have been analog free (dropped them completely, no tapering) since the week before Thanksgiving even while being around my family that smokes like a bunch of em-effers! Now finishing up my nic solution and am down to mixing at 4mg per ml just to get rid of the nic. Will continue vaping nic free just because it has become a helluva pastime!
Sorry for the long post, but wanted to say hi and give some background. Will be talking to you guys in the DIY sections and all that!
Thanks for sharing your background. Man, you had a long journey to get here. I'm glad it eventually worked out to the point where you could ditch the analogs completely. Good luck with the pipe mods, and be sure to post some pics when you get one made. I love seeing people's custom mods. Keep vaping & enjoy!
