Mexican. Live in a hole in the wall of a town in Mexico. About to retire from my 40 year work as "office despot" of a small Volkswagen dealership. vaping for just about three weeks and loving it.
I'm a lifelong pipe smoker, habit that I inherited from my father during my college years then we could smoke even in the classrooms and teachers did the same! I quit cigarrettes 37 years ago and never gone back to them; matter of fact, I hate them. My pipe smoking is quite moderate (some three or four pipes a week) and I don't inhale so at age 67 it doesn't worry me much.
Discovered vaping looking to help a dear friend kick the cigarrette habit, something that she has tried to do repeatedly but can't because of her heavy nic addiction. I bumped into a vaping kiosk in a mall and asked about the gadgets. The owner instructed my for nearly half an hour and I came from there with an eGo MT3 for me and an egig for my friend, plus an array of liquid samples. I figured that I might as well heed my missus griping about the house smelling like a cantina ashtray the next morning and just vape when I crave for a bowl of Latakia blend.
My friend is now a week with the ecig and I'm looking to our weekly dinner this Friday with her and her husband to find out how she's doing. I guess she'll be on the market for a mod soon.
BTW, being a pipe smoker, just got me a pipe lookalike mechanical mod that has a Vivinova tank. Somehow, as a greenfoot on this I burned my first coil the first day and I've been trying to repair the burnt head with uncertain results.
The repair is pretty straightforward; I made a cotton coil out of cotton crochet thread my wife had laying around the house but the wire for the coil is eluding me. I used steel wire pulled from a tie wire of the kind that comes with electric and electronic cords when new.
My problem is that I'm getting too low a resistance. I tried more turns around the wick but, either the coil touches the walls of the atty head tube, creating a short, or the Ω value comes around 1.0. The supplied heads are 2.8 Ω but as the voltage of the 18350 batt is a nominal 3.7, by Ohm's law I figure 1.7 Ω would be about right.
I'm stuck here; none of the vendors in Mexico carry rebuilding materials and I dread going to a foreign vendor and end up paying $5 for some meters of coil wire and $24 for postage!
Sorry for the long winded intro, happy vaping folks and good riddance of T-cigarrettes!
Jorge.
I'm a lifelong pipe smoker, habit that I inherited from my father during my college years then we could smoke even in the classrooms and teachers did the same! I quit cigarrettes 37 years ago and never gone back to them; matter of fact, I hate them. My pipe smoking is quite moderate (some three or four pipes a week) and I don't inhale so at age 67 it doesn't worry me much.
Discovered vaping looking to help a dear friend kick the cigarrette habit, something that she has tried to do repeatedly but can't because of her heavy nic addiction. I bumped into a vaping kiosk in a mall and asked about the gadgets. The owner instructed my for nearly half an hour and I came from there with an eGo MT3 for me and an egig for my friend, plus an array of liquid samples. I figured that I might as well heed my missus griping about the house smelling like a cantina ashtray the next morning and just vape when I crave for a bowl of Latakia blend.
My friend is now a week with the ecig and I'm looking to our weekly dinner this Friday with her and her husband to find out how she's doing. I guess she'll be on the market for a mod soon.
BTW, being a pipe smoker, just got me a pipe lookalike mechanical mod that has a Vivinova tank. Somehow, as a greenfoot on this I burned my first coil the first day and I've been trying to repair the burnt head with uncertain results.
The repair is pretty straightforward; I made a cotton coil out of cotton crochet thread my wife had laying around the house but the wire for the coil is eluding me. I used steel wire pulled from a tie wire of the kind that comes with electric and electronic cords when new.
My problem is that I'm getting too low a resistance. I tried more turns around the wick but, either the coil touches the walls of the atty head tube, creating a short, or the Ω value comes around 1.0. The supplied heads are 2.8 Ω but as the voltage of the 18350 batt is a nominal 3.7, by Ohm's law I figure 1.7 Ω would be about right.
I'm stuck here; none of the vendors in Mexico carry rebuilding materials and I dread going to a foreign vendor and end up paying $5 for some meters of coil wire and $24 for postage!
Sorry for the long winded intro, happy vaping folks and good riddance of T-cigarrettes!
Jorge.
