Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 2

[Ken_A]

I bought a few of these airflow controllers. I use them to protect my mod pin from the screw in the bottom of my kfl+. I hate scoring my power pin. These have a floating center pin and also catch leaking juice keeping it off your battery. If a tank leaks you can remove it and run it under water to clean. They also will meet up with pins that like to turtle up the 510 connection. They look a little wonkey but for 3 bucks cure allot of issues. They work great on kanger pro tanks 1-2
Ecig Tank Airflow Controller

I have one of those controllers. It's darned hard to adjust! Any tips?

I just noticed, it's 90 days for me today! WooHoo!

 

[AndriaD]

Ok, gotcha. My juice is mostly PG so I better keep using the flavor wick. Already boiled a couple of qtips so that's taken care of, but I agree, after 39 yrs inhaling cigarette tar, don't think anything in mostly-sterile cotton is going to do me much damage. But I guess the flavor might be affected if there was any flavor to begin with, in the cotton itself...

THX!!!!!
Andria

 

[AndriaD]

I'm not sure, but I think you're referring to a rebuild video? You wouldn't use a torch to do a dry burn on the coil, but you would use one when you rebuild a coil.

After you remove the chimney, remove the wick that sits in that groove, and then you'll see the coil itself with a wick runnng through it. You would then screw the atty, minus the chimney, back into the bottom of your clearo, screw that onto your battery, and hit your power button in short pulses until your coil stops smoking and glows evenly. Then unscrew the clearo bottom back off the battery, unscrew the atty from the clearo bottom, rinse it good, place a clean flavor wick in the groove on top of the coil, replace chimney and the plastic grommet that goes on the chimney post and you're good to go.

Ok that sounds pretty much like what he did in the video, so GREAT!!! One thing -- after I burn the coils and take it back off, then re-rinse, do I need to let it dry for a while before using it?

Andria

 

[Legolas]

I have one of those controllers. It's darned hard to adjust! Any tips?

Yes I do. Screw the top part almost all the way down. Then attach it to your battery. Add your topper on till it makes connection. Take a vape. If your getting too much air screw the top of the air controller up towards topper,. Retest with a vape and retry till it's where you want your air flow. There will be a gap between the topper and the top of air flow controller.

 

[3mg Meniere]

What's the denture tablet method?

Wait until you have enough to do it as a batch, and if you have enough for spares. Remove the chimneys from BCC's, set aside. Remove the plastic thing at the top of top coils, set aside. Rinse the coils several times. Put enough water on them to cover. Using cheap non-flavored denture tablets, drop one in. Let it sit overnight. Rinse several times. Dry. You probably will only need to burn to test, they should be clean enough for no smoke. Rinse and dry again, if you want. Put them away to-re-use.

 

[Kim B.]

Ok that sounds pretty much like what he did in the video, so GREAT!!! One thing -- after I burn the coils and take it back off, then re-rinse, do I need to let it dry for a while before using it?

Andria

If you don't need it right away, let it dry, if you do need it right away, you can use it wet but don't inhale the first few hits off of it, just blow 'em out, they may be harsh while it's still wet at first.

 

[Myrany]

I'm not sure, but I think you're referring to a rebuild video? You wouldn't use a torch to do a dry burn on the coil, but you would use one when you rebuild a coil.

After you remove the chimney, remove the wick that sits in that groove, and then you'll see the coil itself with a wick runnng through it. You would then screw the atty, minus the chimney, back into the bottom of your clearo, screw that onto your battery, and hit your power button in short pulses until your coil stops smoking and glows evenly. Then unscrew the clearo bottom back off the battery, unscrew the atty from the clearo bottom, rinse it good, place a clean flavor wick in the groove on top of the coil, replace chimney and the plastic grommet that goes on the chimney post and you're good to go.

You left off 2 steps.

After you dry burn the coil LET IT COOL before you take it off the base. Then rinse it in clean water to get the burnt ash off it.

Then pick up with the instructions as given by KB

Those coils are tiny AND hot when first dry burned. It is really easy to burn your fingers if you do not let them cool. Also if the coil was really gunked up there may well be ash from the burnt off gunk left behind to make things taste nasty. Better to rinse it off.

 

[AndriaD]

I just noticed, it's 90 days for me today! WooHoo!

Congratulations!!!! I know you must be proud of that!!! Heck I'm proud to death of a week, but 90 days... that is awesome!!!

I wasn't ignoring you, just freaking out as usual, about diddling with my coils... Think I got it now, so I can proceed with cleaning that thing this afternoon, once the cotton is dried out enough.

Thx guys!!! And congrats patches!!!

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

You left off 2 steps.

After you dry burn the coil LET IT COOL before you take it off the base. Then rinse it in clean water to get the burnt ash off it.

Then pick up with the instructions as given by KB

Those coils are tiny AND hot when first dry burned. It is really easy to burn your fingers if you do not let them cool. Also if the coil was really gunked up there may well be ash from the burnt off gunk left behind to make things taste nasty. Better to rinse it off.

Ok, yeah, the guy in the video burnt his fingers, so I figured that out!

Kim -- I do have a spare here, so I can just let it dry before I try to use it -- thanks!!!!

Andria

 

[Doughboy67]

10 pages since yesterday!!! Took me forever to read it all!! I pulled the trigger and bought an Ehpro Kayfun Lite!!! I also got an ohm meter to check coils and some 30 gauge Kanthal. I'm sure I'll be back with questions!!!!

With the atty sometimes located on the bowl portion of the pipes, how does it get the charge from the batteries? Is there a piece of metal that drops down from the battery top to a connecting pin to the atty?

What Legolas said. The mod has a 510 connector like any ego. The Silencer plugs into that and then the atty plugs into the Silencer.

Hmm.. I guess I could put it in the kitchen cabinet, hadn't really thought of that; I just put it here with the rest of my vaping junk -- of course I'll have to warn the other half, he's the "dishwasher unloader," and I wouldn't want him to accidentally knock it over!

I put mine in a sock drawer.

I agree, about the DIY'ing. I probably should just order some of MFS Virginia flavor and mix my own; I've already got the PG, and I could get some VG for just about as little as I paid for the PG, probably less since the Virginia flavor in their "PG Blends" is only 15% Vg, and 85% PG -- I wouldn't need 16oz of VG! And I'm starting to zero in on what exactly comprises this flavor, a bit of apple, a trace of cinnamon, and that mild, smooth tobacco. Yeah, that might go on my next order from them. I've even already got a 50mL cylinder, and 6 30mL glass bottles, so other than the flavor itself and a little VG, I'm about set for it.

I looked at Mt Baker Vapors, but didn't see anything that just grabbed me and screamed BUY ME NOW... heh

However I *am* getting interested in getting one of those dripper things; when I'm tasting new juices as I was today, it's a pain in the .... to have to fill the tank with enough so it won't gurgle, then empty, wash, and dry, before I can try another flavor. A dripper would really fix that! "Hey, honey... guess what I need to buy next..."


Andria

I had the same thought and just ordered one of these for trying flavors: RDA - Rebuildable Dripping Atomizer with pre-installed coil | You have found your way to the home of the best Electronic Cigarette

For $8 I thought it would be perfect and it's reusable.

<-has been fighting with a sinus infection in all its cold sweat shivering glory. I am not awake for long in one shot.

Hope you feel better Myrany!!!

I just noticed, it's 90 days for me today! WooHoo!

Way to go patches!!!

 

[Kim B.]

You left off 2 steps.

After you dry burn the coil LET IT COOL before you take it off the base. Then rinse it in clean water to get the burnt ash off it.

Then pick up with the instructions as given by KB

Those coils are tiny AND hot when first dry burned. It is really easy to burn your fingers if you do not let them cool. Also if the coil was really
gunked up there may well be ash from the burnt off gunk left behind to make things taste nasty. Better to rinse it off.

I did tell her to rinse it, but you're right about letting it cool Myr, I forgot about that because I always use a little pair of jeweler's pliers to unscrew it, my nails are too long to try to unscrew it by hand. Good point.

 

[ncpatches]

Amen to that! I thought I hit the "everything vape related" jackpot when I first discovered good 'ol Pete and I rebuilt my first coil by watching GrimmGreen's how to video.

Love me some GrimmGreen! He cracks me up!

Congratulations!!!! I know you must be proud of that!!! Heck I'm proud to death of a week, but 90 days... that is awesome!!!

I wasn't ignoring you, just freaking out as usual, about diddling with my coils... Think I got it now, so I can proceed with cleaning that thing this afternoon, once the cotton is dried out enough.

Thx guys!!! And congrats patches!!!

Andria

You're 'diddling with your coils?' Sure hope nobody is watching!

 

[AndriaD]

Love me some GrimmGreen! He cracks me up!



You're 'diddling with your coils?' Sure hope nobody is watching!

Just the whole forum!!!

Andria

 

[Dominique Hoogduin]

Ok that's good to know... I just realized... you're exactly 1 wk ahead of me on the smoke-free... and I think I saw someone else's around here that's exactly one week ahead of you... we're just quitting in droves, eh? No wonder BT is going so nuts!!!

Andria

Yup and still loving every day of vaping :0 Just got a shocker when seeing my bank account.. paypal needs a couple of days before they snatch money of it.. Well at least i got enough gear now.. a MVP , Erolls + enough atomizers + clearos with replacements head. But only need juice now for the coming months . Gotta get some rebuilding gear and it will be cheap sailings

Now all i need is a local b&m where i can try out a good assortment of juicy's.. (only 1 in my city that i know off.. and thats sad for a top 5 major city over here . Buying juice based of a website description and other ppl's tastebuds kinda sucks

 

[AndriaD]

And just so you guys know... when I got my first PC, in 1989, I was *just* like this about every bing, ding, and "bad command or filename"... Now I simply could not LIVE without a PC!!


Andria

 

[Dominique Hoogduin]

And just so you guys know... when I got my first PC, in 1989, I was *just* like this about every bing, ding, and "bad command or filename"... Now I simply could not LIVE without a PC!!


Andria

hmm same here when i got my first one.. but back then before the internet.. not much help 0_0

 

[AndriaD]

OHH... just thought of another question that occurred to me while watching the video... when you do the dry burning, you need to first make sure the vv is set to its lowest level, right?

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

hmm same here when i got my first one.. but back then before the internet.. not much help 0_0

No, I was burning up the phone lines, from Michigan to Georgia to my computer-nerd dad, back when long distance still existed! Times sure have changed since then!!

Andria

 

[Kim B.]

OHH... just thought of another question that occurred to me while watching the video... when you do the dry burning, you need to first make sure the vv is set to its lowest level, right?

Andria

I'm not sure if it's necessary but I always do.

 

[Storm52]

Andria, you "pulse" the button. Hold it until the coils glow red and release and repeat. You can blow out any dried burnt stuff between pulse (lighting up) the coil.