Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux
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I called him last Thursday and he said it was going to ship out on Friday. It was a really friendly and long conversation too, felt like I knew the guy for years.
Yeah, friendly guy, loves to talk NETs ! Call again, he doesn't seem to be the most organized guy in the world. Sometimes i feel guilty that in the hour i just spent talking to him, he could've shipped a few orders !
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Woah, woah woah. I didn't even notice this; does this mean the VTC5's I currently have have now become rare?
Well, this is awkward. Now I don't know whether to get more batteries because I might need these for a different device later, or what...
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Yeah, or the good 'ol car battery mod. Remember, connect the clamps to your mech properly and in the correct order.
I don't use the car battery mod, so I couldn't tell you what the best coil setup for it would be. I've heard 32 coils at 32Ω works well, but that fault tolerance....
...don't know, it might not fire....it would actually likely catch on fire, so don't do that.
Wait....
I've heard that the lightsaber mod (doesn't boomer already have one of those?) is much more effective and energy efficient.
You just have to make sure to get enough sleep, and let the force flow through you.
Sorry, I broke your link, Mike. (sorry for double-posting, as well)
That site is flagging Heartbleed vulnerability left and right.
I wouldn't type anything secure or that you wouldn't want exposed on that website.
It took me to a main page; Heartbleed-vulnerable, was redirected to a second page; also Heartbleed-vulnerable.
First page, just looks like an invalid security certificate, until you click "ignore certificates".
https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#www.altadisusa.com
This is where the redirect leads:
https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#www.montecristosocialclub.com
Alternate URL:
https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#montecristosocialclub.com
Foxbleed 0.1 was used to find these results automatically.
All you have to do is enter a birthday to verify your age. If you're good at math it shouldn't be an issue.
LOL, true that.
I worked in enough retail that having to look over and double check what year it was that I could sell tobacco/alcohol to became rather annoying after my age gradually increased. I started having to look at what year it was and then subtract that, after a while.
The "Shellshock" bug is a lot worse than Heartbleed, at any rate.
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, now it's denying me access because it thinks I'm outside the U.S.Hey, wait a second. That means our international NETizens won't be able to see it!
...update: ok, it finally decided to notice I was in the U.S. and allowed me access to the website.
Still, an international IP block?
That doesn't make any sense for folks who want to browse and learn about different types of cigars.
aside: the Montecristo Epic looks good.
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Nomad from www.ethervapes.com
The Juice: Site description- "Nomad is a sweet but very rich and slightly nutty blend of Turkish tobaccos with some Virginias added to sweeten it up. While not a straight Turkish blend due to the Virginias added in the blend it still has a wonderful toasted flavor from the Oriental tobaccos that make for a wonderful Non-Aromatic blend and one of my personal favorites from our collection."
The Hardware: Mechanical mod topped by an IGO-S with 1ohm micro coil of 28ga Kanthal, wicked with CelluCotton rayon..
Ratings are from 1-5 depending on where a juice falls in an attributes spectrum. Only the last rating, "overall", is based on 5 being the best. (For sweetness 1 equals very dry and 5 equals very sweet. For tobacco impact 1 equals very mild tobacco and 5 equals very aggressive and/or complex.)
Sweetness: 2.5. With no added flavors, Nomad has the level of sweetness expected from a non-aromatic Turkish and Virginia blend. While Turkish tobaccos are fairly dry, Virginia tobacco contains more sugars giving a nice balance. Sometimes I get a dry blast when vaping this, but more often the nice, natural sweetness is present.
Tobacco Impact: 3. Pure tobacco flavor, just a touch on the mild side. A little grassy with a slight leafy bite on a slow exhale. Turkish adds a note I don't know how to describe, but it's a little heady. I don't get a nutty flavor note that's in the description, but toasty is noticed.
Vapability: 4. Easy to grab for, and flavor holds up well during long vaping sessions. No odd or off notes present. Excellent for a background vape when wanting tobacco that isn't demanding. Being filtered down to a 2.5 micron level with vacuum filtration allows long sessions before gunk starts to hinder the flavor.
Flavor Accuracy: 4.5. Easily recognized as a Turkish blend. Can be enjoyed as a mild, non-aromatic pipe, or even better as a quality cig vape. The camel in the picture on the site says it all.
Overall: 3.5. Ethervapes has a quality NET with Nomad. It's a great option for those new to NETs and worth checking out for fans of cig-style vapes or Turkish blends. It can be faulted for lacking the complexity or uniqueness required for seasoned NET vapers. Pleasant, well made, and enjoyable, but not a personal reorder.
The Juice: Site description- "Nomad is a sweet but very rich and slightly nutty blend of Turkish tobaccos with some Virginias added to sweeten it up. While not a straight Turkish blend due to the Virginias added in the blend it still has a wonderful toasted flavor from the Oriental tobaccos that make for a wonderful Non-Aromatic blend and one of my personal favorites from our collection."
The Hardware: Mechanical mod topped by an IGO-S with 1ohm micro coil of 28ga Kanthal, wicked with CelluCotton rayon..
Ratings are from 1-5 depending on where a juice falls in an attributes spectrum. Only the last rating, "overall", is based on 5 being the best. (For sweetness 1 equals very dry and 5 equals very sweet. For tobacco impact 1 equals very mild tobacco and 5 equals very aggressive and/or complex.)
Sweetness: 2.5. With no added flavors, Nomad has the level of sweetness expected from a non-aromatic Turkish and Virginia blend. While Turkish tobaccos are fairly dry, Virginia tobacco contains more sugars giving a nice balance. Sometimes I get a dry blast when vaping this, but more often the nice, natural sweetness is present.
Tobacco Impact: 3. Pure tobacco flavor, just a touch on the mild side. A little grassy with a slight leafy bite on a slow exhale. Turkish adds a note I don't know how to describe, but it's a little heady. I don't get a nutty flavor note that's in the description, but toasty is noticed.
Vapability: 4. Easy to grab for, and flavor holds up well during long vaping sessions. No odd or off notes present. Excellent for a background vape when wanting tobacco that isn't demanding. Being filtered down to a 2.5 micron level with vacuum filtration allows long sessions before gunk starts to hinder the flavor.
Flavor Accuracy: 4.5. Easily recognized as a Turkish blend. Can be enjoyed as a mild, non-aromatic pipe, or even better as a quality cig vape. The camel in the picture on the site says it all.
Overall: 3.5. Ethervapes has a quality NET with Nomad. It's a great option for those new to NETs and worth checking out for fans of cig-style vapes or Turkish blends. It can be faulted for lacking the complexity or uniqueness required for seasoned NET vapers. Pleasant, well made, and enjoyable, but not a personal reorder.
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Yeah I still have a couple and some octowicks. Busted one out a few weeks ago to mute the flavor on ... ::shudder:: ... Hound Dog
I have the dripper full of Johni's Louisiana Red, an Aspire nauti full of Bill's Magnum Opus, and a spheroid loaded with Boomer's Mississippi River at a late night at office...
life could be much worse
life could be much worse
Get the powdered form. It works out much cheaper and you can dilute to your preferences.
I find that if I am just drinking water the taste diminishes in my vaping. Conversely, any beverage with flavor such as coffee, soda, juice enhances flavour.
But one cannot drink too much coffee, soda or juice for that matter, for sensible health and weight management.
So my choices are usually sports drinks in powdered form mixed to a lesser ratio than the pre-packaged form and iced tea (warm tea in winter).
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I never used the powered form AnthonyB. Good info, I'll have to try that.
TIP: If a person ever suffered from leg cramps/Charlie Horse, drinking an electrolyte drink during the day helps prevent that in some cases.
Excellent suggestion Anthony! I will do that. I prefer a little flavor to my water, even filtered water and I agree a little flavor enhances the flavor of my vape. But just a touch of flavor.
When this man praises a tobacco, we all need to take heed.
....and find a way of procuring some to vape ASAP.
I know we've got Paris' contender with Poilu; looks like Johni nailed the Louisville.
You know, it may be the actual tobacco used in Louisville. I'd never considered that.
Now that's just going to echo throughout everyone's minds when they go to sleep.
I just hope that it doesn't get stuck and jumbled when we try to visualize "Meerschaum."
Also, AnthonyB, did you clean your magma out really well when you received it?
I used hot water and lava soap to clean mine out, followed by dish soap to dislodge any remaining nasties.
Threads and screws were cleaned using an old (clean) toothbrush; isopropanol might work well in removing any grime, but I don't know how the base (the white plasticy thing) will react to it. Staying safe, using vinegar then dish soap for most of my RBA cleaning.
Nope. I know I am supposed to clean a new atomizer out but I didn't. It was 9.30pm when I came home from work the night I got it.
With little time to spare before bed I ripped that shiny gleamy jewel out of the wrapper, affixed the included silica wick and coil onto it and started vaping. Mr instanty gratificationy over here wanted to try this dripper with as little fuss as possible before bed.
Of course, I checked there were no hot spots.
It is quite possible the metallic taste it from a lack of cleaning it first. Before I rig up a decent wick and coil I will give it a clean according to how you cleaned yours.
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Haha yes, it's what will further be referred to as a C-LoAA.
A bit ago it was brought up that sometimes O#1 was an amber color when received and other times a dark motor oil color. Mine came dark as motor oil, hence moO#1. I like that acronym mainly because it's udderly ridiculous (cow pun).
I ran that through google translator. Nothing came up. We are going to need an internal translator in here.
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Buddy, you ai'nt seen nothing yet of the potential of the Magma. Make some time and build it right.
Probably machine oil.
I've heard more rumors than I can confirm about that stuff, but I have experienced some pretty poor threading in the past (the Plume Veil....ugh...could there seriously be more different types of screws in one package?) that no amount of extra machine oil added in/on by the manufacturer could ever hope to fix.
Yeah, the dish soap and vinegar works fine; you might not even need the vinegar but it can't hurt things.
What's great about the Magma is that I can get the coils glowing and rinse off under a faucet to kinda 'quench' off the residual carbon buildup (after letting off the button but before you stick the coil into running water)- seems to be working great so far. Resistance has creeped up from 1.5-1.6Ω. Showed 1.7Ω before dry-burn/quench, but to be fair I had ran like 6 or 8 fills of juice through it before having to do so.
Some may like to change wicks after less fills (I'm running a lot of Blackberry Burley through this thing) but until performance drops notably, I just leave it alone. Seems like the "nested wick" style results in less flavor than draping the wick down straight into the chamber with little to no "nesting" or overlapping occurring in the center of the well.
Since wick acts as a filter, it isn't really surprising that changing what the wick leading from the well wicks from (be it more wick or the well itself) changes the character of the juice by the time it reaches the coils.
Alternatively, it could just be me and all entirely in my own head.
In regards to why the magma works so well, I think it's probably so stupid simple that we'd be surprised. It may also be the same reason I sometimes get condensation on the walls of the top of the magma. I think....it's that the design is so simple. Two airflow holes, and when closed up air is pulled directly over the coils and vapor concentrates into that 'dome' (which doesn't really appear to be too 'domed' from the outside) and has to go straight up. There's nowhere else for the vapor to go, no extra airflow to deal with or places for vapor to condense...except straight up.
...I kinda look at it like a KFL with two airholes/spots for coils, because I would put a coil on a KFL in the same exact position- right off of the deck.
With the Magma, I could open up and inspect what was going on. Felt like using just the chimney of the KFL, smaller profile and better airflow arrangement; easier wicking design overall with less room for error. Everything was going good; filled up; vaping Poilu, switching over to Blackberry Burley...
...So this leaking I was experiencing with the MAPP KFL begins after a random fill, same process as usual, maybe a few more drops of juice (same issue I had with the KFL clone) and I crack open the Magma and the problem was, with the KGD cotton, the wicking was occurring so rapidly that it was actually wicking into the airflow hole from the gap between the coil/wick and airflow hole and leading me to become confused each time it happened.
That answered my questions pretty quickly as to why my KFL liked to leak on me, and at least with the Magma, I was able to see the problem as it occurred rather than rebuild and hope it didn't do it again. I did perform an experiment the other week where I took the Magma out with me (I am utterly burnt out on rewicking EVODs for the time being):
No problems or leaks except when I filled it up, (and I couldn't carry it in my pocket like I would normally carry a PV, wasn't about to march in the doc's office with a VAMO-510->EGO->Magma combo {taking Dusty's 'Olympic Torch' comment to the extreme!}...I guess I probably wouldn't go in the bank with it, either...maybe I could tell people it's my 'sonic screwdriver' and get away with it.
) but I need to work on my draw consistency to reduce this condensation. I'm thinking that has something to do with why there's condensate sometimes, but other times none whatsoever.
BTW, where did you get your Magma? I got the Fasttech special. Someone else pointed out another domestic (U.S.) cheap Magma, but I think I forgot which page that was I bookmarked. I'm going to have a lot of fun looking for "Magma" on this forum (I've already tried it in the search results...my...mind).
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