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I have many problems. First time using rbas. I've got some good 1.4 microish coils happening, good vapor, moderate flavor. It got better when I did better coils. I'm using as little boiled cotton as I think is ok. Most juices are ok. Mbvs, isn't :( they all Taste like a slight hint of the juice flavor and then sweet cotton taste. Same build, same ohms, different rm2 and REO, different juice and it tastes great. So stone mentioned it may be the sweetener?

I was finally able to get one on ya stone ;)
I should have named him Monster Lol.his name is Java.
I don't think that was me...it might be something in the MBV juice, though. OTOH, it could be your palate, it could be coil position in the airflow, it could be the cotton itself...it could be a lot of things :D

Ooops...Java is cute :D
 

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I don't think that was me...it might be something in the MBV juice, though. OTOH, it could be your palate, it could be coil position in the airflow, it could be the cotton itself...it could be a lot of things :D

Ooops...Java is cute :D

Hm. I think it was you. Lol its something, and imma figure it out and be a reoqueen!
 

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Why is Mt. Baker's unflavored nicotine solution so expensive? I wanted to go to them for their big bottle of 18mg juice but when I got to their site I realized it was 30 bucks. I got the same amount for 13 dollars else-ware. Anyone else notice this? I've never had MtBaker juice but I hear if you order the right flavors, some of them are really great. I've strayed away from them as of late but I wouldn't mind giving them a shot. But the unflavored nic base was a bit pricey compared to other sites.

I first tried DIY with an MBV big bottle of unflavored. No regrets.
I knew it was more expensive than getting seperate PG/VG/nic but it was easy.
Good for a first try to see if I could do it.
I did it.
Now I have about 2 liters of 100mg & 60mg nic, 1/2 gallon of PG, a quart+ of VG & 70+ flavors.

MBV unflavored - one stop shopping style. you want it we got it.
 

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Got my first order from MBV today. Wow, I'm impressed with how delicious the first 2 I've tried are. I got 3 flavors plus a free sample, and they all smell delicious. I'm gonna try to let them steep like recommended but I had to at least sample them first.

The one thing I'm not too happy about it the sample bottle they sent me. The flavor is great, but the blend is all PG and the throat hit is way too intense for me. It also has a fair amount of nicotine and lately all the juices I've been vaping have been nicotine free, so I even got lightheaded when trying it. :(

For future orders, is it possible to request samples that don't have nicotine and have more VG if thats all you can handle vaping?
 

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Got my first order from MBV today. Wow, I'm impressed with how delicious the first 2 I've tried are. I got 3 flavors plus a free sample, and they all smell delicious. I'm gonna try to let them steep like recommended but I had to at least sample them first.

The one thing I'm not too happy about it the sample bottle they sent me. The flavor is great, but the blend is all PG and the throat hit is way too intense for me. It also has a fair amount of nicotine and lately all the juices I've been vaping have been nicotine free, so I even got lightheaded when trying it. :(


For future orders, is it possible to request samples that don't have nicotine and have more VG if thats all you can handle vaping?
Yup! You can request almost anything ,:)
 

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Loved all the dog pics btw, even though it made me miss my goofy boys. First service dog I had from age 4-15, he was rescued by the service dog agency and was the smartest, gentlest, most amazing dog I've ever known.

Second service dog was from 17-29, and was almost the polar opposite... massive, exuberant, would forget to finish pooping if he saw a butterfly, but smart enough to open a door if I had fallen behind it, and saved me from being attacked on my college campus. (It was pitch black, I was heading from a party back to my dorm - dry campus, so no inebriation involved - and he heard footsteps behind me and planted himself behind my back wheels, growling and practically foaming at the mouth. We'd only been together about a month, so I wasn't sure if there was actually some danger or if he was just spooked, but I decided to hall :censored: back to the dorm anyway. We got two locked steel doors between us, I toweled the sweat off him and got him calmed down, and we went to bed. Woke up to newspapers saying that a known mugger with a knife had been caught on campus about three feet from where I'd been standing when my furry partner started going nuts. They caught the guy because campus security heard my normally sweet doofus snarling and growling and decided to go check things out.)

Miss them both like crazy. Dogs are the best.

Oh, and congrats on the vapeversaries!
Dog's do not sweat. You bound man?
 

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Dog's do not sweat. You bound man?

You're right. I wasn't paying much attention to semantics at the time - he was soaking wet, and it wasn't raining, and I was slightly freaked out, so I forgot that little fact in the heat of the moment. Thinking back on it, it was probably *foam*... he was a golden, but he foamed like a St Bernard. We were running at a pretty good clip for the last half of the journey, which would explain why he was covered in it.

Gah, I hate that term. I know other people who use it, and I'll happily call *them* wheelchair-bound if that's what they want, but for me, no. As for answering your question... it depends on one's definition, I suppose. I have cerebral palsy and rheumatoid arthritis, so I can walk about ten feet and stand for about two minutes at a time. I gimp around my house on foot, but anywhere else I use a chair. Manual, usually - played about six sports till the RA set in - but that plus a torn rotator cuff means a power chair is more practical for long distances these days. Still prefer a manual when at all possible though... harder to trick out a power chair. At least I got the :censored: limiter off the :censored: thing. Limiter ffs. I'm plenty slow when I'm doing the bipedal thing, I don't need a limiter on my wheels too.

Then again, that attitude is probably how I crashed my racing chair at 28mph, but oh well. :D
 

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I got Peach Rings, Jamaican Rum, Toasted Marshmallow and Bavarian Creme. I'm new to ordering online so I didn't really know what to expect.
Let's see...I tried Peach Rings and let it steep for a couple of weeks. It mellowed some, but it was a flavor I didn't care for so it might be good for you after the 2 weeks if you like it. The Bavarian Creme will definitely need to steep. I haven't tried Jamaican Rum, but it sounds like it is a strong flavor and might not need a long steep at all...a couple of days of caps off and constant shaking might do the trick. I haven't had Toasted Marshmallow either, but IIRC that one needs about a week's steep from what others on the thread have posted. I'm sure some others will chime in now that you've posted the flavors involved. Good luck with them :)
 

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You're right. I wasn't paying much attention to semantics at the time - he was soaking wet, and it wasn't raining, and I was slightly freaked out, so I forgot that little fact in the heat of the moment. Thinking back on it, it was probably *foam*... he was a golden, but he foamed like a St Bernard. We were running at a pretty good clip for the last half of the journey, which would explain why he was covered in it.

Gah, I hate that term. I know other people who use it, and I'll happily call *them* wheelchair-bound if that's what they want, but for me, no. As for answering your question... it depends on one's definition, I suppose. I have cerebral palsy and rheumatoid arthritis, so I can walk about ten feet and stand for about two minutes at a time. I gimp around my house on foot, but anywhere else I use a chair. Manual, usually - played about six sports till the RA set in - but that plus a torn rotator cuff means a power chair is more practical for long distances these days. Still prefer a manual when at all possible though... harder to trick out a power chair. At least I got the :censored: limiter off the :censored: thing. Limiter ffs. I'm plenty slow when I'm doing the bipedal thing, I don't need a limiter on my wheels too.

Then again, that attitude is probably how I crashed my racing chair at 28mph, but oh well. :D
Way to make me feel like mud. I digress though...I'm about to walk my dog at 2:19 am...In spirit of you...text is cheap, so please do not take it the wrong way.

I'd say sorry, but I can tell you'd rather have me buck up than ride the pitty train. Thank you so much for sharing...I thought I had it bad.

Damn man, thank you so much...Brother Seanchai.
 
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Computers, since everyone's sharing. One of dad's brothers was in IT from very early on, so he gifted me a Commodore 128/64 when they were the latest and greatest thing. I used that till I was about 10 - pretty heavily, since I can't write by hand. I had to pack a typewriter to and from class (try carrying one of those on your lap all day!)

At around ten or eleven, I finally got the school system to provide me with a Mac laptop (one of the first models available iirc). We couldn't afford to buy one, and I was getting crushed under the weight of having to redo a lot of my schoolwork at home to neaten it up. Math doesn't work too well on a typewriter. Anyway, the school was sure I'd break it and acted like they'd given me the Hope Diamond (despite the fact that the entire staff was allowed to sign the laptops in and out for frivolities, and broke and lost them regularly), so in order not to screw things up for disabled students who might come after me, I guarded that thing with my life. Due to me being a paranoid wreck over it for three years - but not putting a scratch on it - disabled students in our state now have a formal process available to request technology aids when they can't physically write. One little mark on the world, I suppose.

I begged my parents for an upgrade to the Commodore for years, but they were convinced it "worked fine," so that was a no go. When I graduated high school, I put all my graduation money toward the best computer I could afford... nothing special, very average specs for the time and a 10G hard drive (that'd last me about half a week before I filled it up these days!)... that's when I could finally get online. Still have the Commodore here somewhere... my first taste of freedom, being able to put my thoughts on paper.

The first thing I ever typed on it was a retelling of a Norse creation myth the teacher had told us at school. (I was going to a school my dad still calls "tree hugging hippie school" at the time, and our "Person of the Week" was Odin. The next week it was Alan Trammell because the Tigers had won the Series. :D)

I suppose my choice of what to type out first was probably just coincidence, but looking back on it, it feels preternaturally creepy... not a letter, not standard mess-with-the-keyboard kid stuff, but a story. Never stopped crafting them.
 

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Way to make me feel like mud. I digress though...I'm about to walk my dog at 2:19 am...In spirit of you...text is cheap, so please do not take it the wrong way.

I'd say sorry, but I can tell you'd rather have me buck up than ride the pitty train. Thank you so much for sharing...I thought I had it bad.

Damn man, thank you so much...Brother Seanchai.

It's all good, dude. Give your dog a hug for me.
 

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Yeah... So why is MBV stressing everyone over this? I really don't quite follow how they handled this. This makes the entire e-cig industry look bad when you are so unsure of your own product that you take it down after one flawed study is produced.

My understanding is that James grew MBV from an idea to 40 full time employees in a mater of 5 or 6 years. Perhaps he is also wise enough to know that when FDA regulations come along those who werepro active as in covered thier asses will be in a better position to become certified and given the official stamp of aproval.
 

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Go us! My car still smells like smoke when I turn the heat on.. Not Badbut I still smell it. I'm so glad I never smoked in my house. When I rented an apartment I smoked there, I realized my Pomeranian reeked like smoke. It made me really sad, so I never smoked in my house.

Grab yourself a can of Ozium spray and carefully (of the plastic vents) spray some in the vents. Also make sure (if your car has it) to change the air filter. Finally you can also buy a little tub of Ozium Gel. (I keep it in my door-drink-holder) to help get rid of any odors.
 

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My first computer was an 8088 with a whopping 10mb HD and at that time the fastest modem speed was 2400bps and was a DOS 3.0 based system and the only windows version that was out at that time was v3.0, I ran a BBS off that thing until they came out the the 486's.

Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem (moved up to 2400 baud as soon as they came out). I learned to program on it, and, uhh.. other stuff too. 5 1/4 floppy drive. It was also a great gaming platform back in the day. Most of my friends had Apples, TRS 80's, and one or two had Amiga's (spoiled kids). I, uhh, eventually ha... I mean... Joined an early version of AOL called Quantum Link and we also had a thriving BBS community as well.

Looked Something Like this:

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Modem (cost me $300.00 when 2400 first came out. Yeouch. Before that I paid $180.00 for a 1200 modem when THEY first came out. The 300 baud modem had been out for a while and was only $20.00 when I got my computer)

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Quantum Link

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I was also big into MMORPG's for a decade or so, but never WoW (hated that game). Ultima Online, Everquest, I tried The Old Republic for about a year after not playing MMORPG's for several years just because I am a huge Star Wars fan (the first 50 levels are fantastic, after that, not so much). Now I don't play games much. I have a console and haven't played a game on it in probably 6 months.
 

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