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I saw where the FBI was investigating the Pennsylvania E Cig taxes....Like anything will come of that...We all know damn well these regs were bought and paid for....Until those accepting bribes are jailed this will continue....
January 2010 I hooked up some deal e ohh that came in a package very similar to a Marlboro Red package...Crappy old cheap POS and likely very similar to the E Cigs with current FDA approval...I saw potential and got to digging and came upon Cig Not and Totally Wicked....Pretty soon I had a 5 bay charger with those little batteries that would light up on the end....juice came from England....Eco Pure if I'm not mistaken...Then I had to search the Dirty South for a pryamid tea bag....I found them and continued on down the trail...Now the FDA thinks their gonna stop me.....Watch and see.....
Sam's has a 5 star rated whole bean Pablo something or other 2.5 lbs for around 10 bucks...Couple other choices for around the same price...BB&B has the Capresso grinder I was looking at in stock locally....I'll likely get free from my duties today and hit World Famous FayetteNamn tomorrow.....I need some other stuff from Sam's anyway....Still up in the air over a Macbook Air.....Windows or Google laptop....Gotta say the Mac Air has some features I really like....Mainly kicking Avast too the curb....
Dug into cold brew recipes....General rule of thumb....1 lb. of beans too 1 gallon of water....So 1/2 too 1/2 in my case....Now with 1/2 lb. of grind in the 1/2 gallon jar there's gonna be less than 1/2 gallon of water.....So I figure a little less grind might actually do....Steep from 12 ~24 hours but bitterness may be an issue the longer you steep.....I'm thinking a little less than 1/2 lb. of grind with all the water I can get in there and steeped on the counter for @ 12 hours or so....Info also says to store cold brew as concentrate and dilute when you drink it....Stays good for something like 2 weeks concentrated and 2~3 days diluted....Only problem I see is a jittery Dee.....I've had issue with Columbian product in the past...just sayin'
January 2010 I hooked up some deal e ohh that came in a package very similar to a Marlboro Red package...Crappy old cheap POS and likely very similar to the E Cigs with current FDA approval...I saw potential and got to digging and came upon Cig Not and Totally Wicked....Pretty soon I had a 5 bay charger with those little batteries that would light up on the end....juice came from England....Eco Pure if I'm not mistaken...Then I had to search the Dirty South for a pryamid tea bag....I found them and continued on down the trail...Now the FDA thinks their gonna stop me.....Watch and see.....
Sam's has a 5 star rated whole bean Pablo something or other 2.5 lbs for around 10 bucks...Couple other choices for around the same price...BB&B has the Capresso grinder I was looking at in stock locally....I'll likely get free from my duties today and hit World Famous FayetteNamn tomorrow.....I need some other stuff from Sam's anyway....Still up in the air over a Macbook Air.....Windows or Google laptop....Gotta say the Mac Air has some features I really like....Mainly kicking Avast too the curb....
Dug into cold brew recipes....General rule of thumb....1 lb. of beans too 1 gallon of water....So 1/2 too 1/2 in my case....Now with 1/2 lb. of grind in the 1/2 gallon jar there's gonna be less than 1/2 gallon of water.....So I figure a little less grind might actually do....Steep from 12 ~24 hours but bitterness may be an issue the longer you steep.....I'm thinking a little less than 1/2 lb. of grind with all the water I can get in there and steeped on the counter for @ 12 hours or so....Info also says to store cold brew as concentrate and dilute when you drink it....Stays good for something like 2 weeks concentrated and 2~3 days diluted....Only problem I see is a jittery Dee.....I've had issue with Columbian product in the past...just sayin'
The cold brew reading you did is consistent with what I do. I'll read up on a topic a lot, then distill it to a pretty simple set of things that I do, with a little variation being totally fine.
1. My little mason jars, that I store roasted beans in, are 9 ounce size. I'll pour 2/3 of a jar into the grinder, then do a coarse grind (On the Capresso Infinity, 1 step coarser than the middle of the Coarse region).
2. Ground coffee goes into a pitcher that's really 36oz. Fill with water
3. Cover the pitcher, let it sit 12 hours in the kitchen. +/- an hour so two isn't going to hurt anything. If I'll be really busy, put the covered pitcher in the fridge, and in there let it steep 24 hours.
4. Strain the steeped liquid. I use a french press (yeah, fru-fru, but this one's also able to be microwaved to make hot french press coffee
), so just push the press part down, but cheesecloth/hemp/... are all fine.
5. Stash the concentrate n the fridge, stores fine a couple weeks.
I make cold brew a couple times a week, drink it about every day. I keep topping off the fridge pitcher, do a real rinse of that one every couple weeks.
1. My little mason jars, that I store roasted beans in, are 9 ounce size. I'll pour 2/3 of a jar into the grinder, then do a coarse grind (On the Capresso Infinity, 1 step coarser than the middle of the Coarse region).
2. Ground coffee goes into a pitcher that's really 36oz. Fill with water
3. Cover the pitcher, let it sit 12 hours in the kitchen. +/- an hour so two isn't going to hurt anything. If I'll be really busy, put the covered pitcher in the fridge, and in there let it steep 24 hours.
4. Strain the steeped liquid. I use a french press (yeah, fru-fru, but this one's also able to be microwaved to make hot french press coffee
), so just push the press part down, but cheesecloth/hemp/... are all fine.5. Stash the concentrate n the fridge, stores fine a couple weeks.
I make cold brew a couple times a week, drink it about every day. I keep topping off the fridge pitcher, do a real rinse of that one every couple weeks.
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Mowed again today so that I won't have to do it for the next few days while my forearm is healing. Tomorrow is tatt day...happy early 57th birthday to me
Yeah Fran, I know, it's like a couple of months early!
Yeah Fran, I know, it's like a couple of months early!
Great info Mark !!!!!!!!! That's the grinder I've got my eye on.....Main objective at this time is finding a ding dang BB&B coupon.....I had "em....Who burned all the "junk mail" a couple days ago....yeah.....and.....I ain't got no printer.....Mom's gotta have an all day ordeal on her first visit too a cardiologist tomorrow.....Somehow I'll get by and sooner or later I'll get my hands on that coupon......
I scored a SS SDNA on the Bay....Then said fekkitt and spent my store credit on a H Cigar VT 75....I'd been eyeballing it due to that 26650 and the fact it should drain that big old battery down pretty good @17.5 watts running a KF5...The only hit I saw was the batteries didn't last much longer at high wattage vs. an 18650...I really despise anything chrome and those buttons.....Well.....they chrome....I'd also been eyeing those AWT batteries....Different little design on the positive post makes me believe some thought went into the design....Maybe or not....
Sit tight for the ink slinger !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I scored a SS SDNA on the Bay....Then said fekkitt and spent my store credit on a H Cigar VT 75....I'd been eyeballing it due to that 26650 and the fact it should drain that big old battery down pretty good @17.5 watts running a KF5...The only hit I saw was the batteries didn't last much longer at high wattage vs. an 18650...I really despise anything chrome and those buttons.....Well.....they chrome....I'd also been eyeing those AWT batteries....Different little design on the positive post makes me believe some thought went into the design....Maybe or not....
Sit tight for the ink slinger !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The vt75 does look sweet . Ordered a couple of silicone sleeves, since I'm rough on PVs. Since I've Dna'd - up, I'll rotate two new cloupor mini+ into pif stock; the DNA are super, but the mini+ has really taken a buzz-class breating and kept running.
(I picked up the extra two on holiday sales, no idea the darn things would be reliable as they have been. They're still in the original wrapping.)
Tossup on the batteries. I can get a pair of yellow awt 75/4500 for $17, or 4 lg hg2 for $18.50. I run about 30w, so either would work. Leaning towards lg since they could be used in everything else too.
. Ordered a couple of silicone sleeves, since I'm rough on PVs. Since I've Dna'd - up, I'll rotate two new cloupor mini+ into pif stock; the DNA are super, but the mini+ has really taken a buzz-class breating and kept running.(I picked up the extra two on holiday sales, no idea the darn things would be reliable as they have been. They're still in the original wrapping.)
Tossup on the batteries. I can get a pair of yellow awt 75/4500 for $17, or 4 lg hg2 for $18.50. I run about 30w, so either would work. Leaning towards lg since they could be used in everything else too.
Nothing wrong with an early Birthday girlMowed again today so that I won't have to do it for the next few days while my forearm is healing. Tomorrow is tatt day...happy early 57th birthday to me
Yeah Fran, I know, it's like a couple of months early!
I hear ya brother
After the review Goldie posted I picked up 2 pairs of the Samsung Q20?... I put a pair in my 75 and zeroed the puff count and stopped at the 1st 'weak batt' screen... 336 puffs. Trying the same thing now with the HG2's and see the difference.
I'm interested in what difference you see in the batts, Wharf. I run the HG2's in everything I have, no complaints, but I haven't compared them to any other batts.
Sitting still for the ink is not too hard, the itching that will commence in a day or 3 as it heals will drive me batty! A&D ointment for the first few days, then good old coconut oil will keep the tatt happy. My not so smart phone has a crappy camera so I'll get James to take a couple and email them to me. He takes pics of each client for his portfolio anyway.
Sitting still for the ink is not too hard, the itching that will commence in a day or 3 as it heals will drive me batty! A&D ointment for the first few days, then good old coconut oil will keep the tatt happy. My not so smart phone has a crappy camera so I'll get James to take a couple and email them to me. He takes pics of each client for his portfolio anyway.
I hear ya brother
After the review Goldie posted I picked up 2 pairs of the Samsung Q20?... I put a pair in my 75 and zeroed the puff count and stopped at the 1st 'weak batt' screen... 336 puffs. Trying the same thing now with the HG2's and see the difference.
I Think? you may have to run the new batteries through 2 cycles before comparing. Not 100% sure. Mooch is the battery man in the vaping world though. He actually does this stuff in his professional life. I guess that is why most people follow him when it comes to batteries / electronics. I too will be interested to know how you make out.
If anyone else is interested in the Hcigar, Ecig City dropped the price permanently down to $49.99. I have been buying from them for awhile with good results.
HCigar VT 75 | 75w Temperature Control Mod
Good luck with the Tatt, Bov. Happy early birthday too.
Good morning all.
Good luck to your mom at the cardiologist today, LD.
Happy tatt day to you, Bov.
Good luck to your mom at the cardiologist today, LD.
Happy tatt day to you, Bov.
Hey all. I just realized it was 6 years ago some day this month for me too. I bought a 4081 for way too much money and then while researching found the ego. Jumped to that until this group in a previous forumlife got me to go to VV/VW with the Vamo. Fell in love with the 18650's for sure. Then not all that long ago finally woke up to TC on the IPV4. I'm always behind the times by a few generations of hardware, but I don't mind. I'd rather not be constantly looking at the new gear and thinking I have to have it, that just isn't me.
Thanks everyone for the help, I really do appreciate it.
Thanks everyone for the help, I really do appreciate it.
I having been watching this store. They had the smaller Nano version marked down to $74.99. Out of stock ATM, got myself on notification list. Hope they are resolving the battery door issue.
ETA: The batt. door issue is fine threads crossing not the flip up deal mentioned in this vid.
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Congrats, Oly and all of the other 2010ers in this thread
I know that some of you will remember(?) Redneck500. He lived up in LD's neck of the woods. Also a 2010er. Anyway, I have stayed in touch with him all of these years. He quit his job in security and moves around a good bit. I help him to stay supplied in vape gear while he is out there. I thought that some of you may enjoy seeing what Josh is up to these days. He is on this Youtube video telling folks about his new lifestyle. You will notice that he waves his mod around a bit. I told him that he should have talked about vaping just a bit lol
I know that some of you will remember(?) Redneck500. He lived up in LD's neck of the woods. Also a 2010er. Anyway, I have stayed in touch with him all of these years. He quit his job in security and moves around a good bit. I help him to stay supplied in vape gear while he is out there. I thought that some of you may enjoy seeing what Josh is up to these days. He is on this Youtube video telling folks about his new lifestyle. You will notice that he waves his mod around a bit. I told him that he should have talked about vaping just a bit lol
That's a way better price on the H Cigar than at E Cig....Tis what it is...I'm good!! Good to hear Redneck is doing well....
Got a slew of coupons for the BB&B.....It's almost grinder time....Everything went well at the cardiologist's office....Gave Mom some chemical stress test....I was hoping they had chemical to share but they didn't offer...I got the truck inspected....got a tag....paid the insurance....payed the house payment....Hell my legs are sore....Got back to the Doc's and still spent 3 hours sitting on a picnic bench outside...Big old no smoking sign stapled to the bench.....I put that bench in a cloud of vapor....
Got a slew of coupons for the BB&B.....It's almost grinder time....Everything went well at the cardiologist's office....Gave Mom some chemical stress test....I was hoping they had chemical to share but they didn't offer...I got the truck inspected....got a tag....paid the insurance....payed the house payment....Hell my legs are sore....Got back to the Doc's and still spent 3 hours sitting on a picnic bench outside...Big old no smoking sign stapled to the bench.....I put that bench in a cloud of vapor....
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