Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 2

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PapaSloth

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My tendency would be to put the drill in the vise and move the rba. This comment not approved by the safety committee, and the towel can be used to cover the wound.

Brilliant!

In a blind taste test, people could not tell whether they were vaping Genuine Sea Slug extract or Artificial Sea Slug extract.
I only vape genuine American sea slug. You never know what they put in those artificial sea slug flavors, or what their quality control process is like at the artificial sea slug manufacturing facility.
 

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Just tried to order it from there, but it's no longer available :(
The KGD site will only let you get 1 box to. I'm shore the there having a hard time keeping up with the demand of Vapers. There used to making facal pads, not wicks. I bet there weren't near as many woman using them as there are Vapers at this point!
 

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The KGD site will only let you get 1 box to. I'm shore the there having a hard time keeping up with the demand of Vapers. There used to making facal pads, not wicks. I bet there weren't near as many woman using them as there are Vapers at this point!
I think you're right. A box of facial pads that costs $12 must be a very niche product. I bet they're all shocked that there's so much mainstream demand for their product now. Those people who make the 40 pound boxes of cellucotton rayon must feel the same way. They should really figure out that they can sell 1/10 as much for half the price.
 

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Yeah, I remember you saying that a while back. I don't have access to a drill press. Will have to free hand it if I ever do it! That would be the scary part. I'd have to put it on a mod and put it in the vice. Then use the dremmel or hand drill. I was a cabinet maker, not a machinist so this is a little out of my wheel house.

At less than $40, I got one of these
http://www.amazon.com/Dremel-220-01...52177&sr=8-1&keywords=dremel+tool+drill+press

I don't have room for a regular drill press either, but this should drill out your devices ok
 

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I keep trying to clear off and clean up my work bench. I get about half way done and something comes up. When I get back to it, it's full again and I'm starting from scratch again.:facepalm:

I think my Dremmel is 15 years old. My mom got it for me for Chistmas one year and it's been through a lot but has never had a hiccup!
 
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I keep trying to clear off and clean up my work bench. I get about half way done and something comes up. When I get back to it, it's full again and I'm starting from scratch again.:facepalm:

I have to keep all my work and reloading benches cleared, junk can pile up amazingly fast if you let it, especially if you are tight on space. My man cave is split between reloading area and vape lair with one workbench being used for both and that bench gets cluttered up fast.
 

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I have several Dremels along with a Foredom Rotary but most of the time I just chuck a bit in my old jeweler's lathe.

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{drool} A Foredom with a foot switch is one of the tools I'd love to have (+ a ShopSmith)...

Couldn't help but notice that RCBS logo back there... I've got some of their dies, but haven't gotten into lead yet.

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I got my #20 percolating again! yeeeehaaaa!

Took some doing, the button is still a little sticky, so it's kinda limping right now, but it's firing. First I doused the fire button/spring with Deoxit and worked it back and forth awhile.

Then wound a new contact spring for it on a 1/8" drill bit, with 24ga solid copper wire stripped from some Cat 5e network cable. Below is what it looks like, except tighter/better. This was my first try:

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After I got it back together I was shocked because:

1) It worked
2) It is now tied with the Nemesis and Sentinel for "least voltage drop" of any of my mech mods!

Inline volt meter, without a load:

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Inline voltmeter, with 1.8Ω topper:

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And here she is, back to being a compact, convenient, cloud blowing machine:

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Yeousaaah...
 

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My Foredom has the foot switch and a couple different shafts and the lathe is foot switched as well. I have dies from just about everyone...lol...Dillion, Lee, RCBS, Hornady, etc. Goes with the territory...



Great job on the spring as well, making a part and fixing something is always very gratifying!
 

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My Foredom has the foot switch and a couple different shafts and the lathe is foot switched as well. I have dies from just about everyone...lol...Dillion, Lee, RCBS, Hornady, etc. Goes with the territory...



Great job on the spring as well, making a part and fixing something is always very gratifying!

Way too organized - quick can I ask you to delete that picture before Janet see's it and compares it to my shop. Yikes! Night and Day.
 

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My Foredom has the foot switch and a couple different shafts and the lathe is foot switched as well. I have dies from just about everyone...lol...Dillion, Lee, RCBS, Hornady, etc. Goes with the territory...



Great job on the spring as well, making a part and fixing something is always very gratifying!

tick as sits...
 

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Interesting article, thank you for posting it. Having a hard time wrapping my brain round this, "Tracking the size of the flavor industry is difficult in part because food companies may have their own flavorists. But consulting firm Leffingwell & Associates estimates the global industry at about $23.91 billion, up 19 percent from $20 billion in 2000."

 

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My Foredom has the foot switch and a couple different shafts and the lathe is foot switched as well. I have dies from just about everyone...lol...Dillion, Lee, RCBS, Hornady, etc. Goes with the territory...



Great job on the spring as well, making a part and fixing something is always very gratifying!

Yeah, well, ummm. My work bench consists of a 6'X2'cabinet out in the garage with 2X8's screwed to the top of it so your WAY out of my league. I can only wish for a finished basement to have a man cave in. My 18 year old still inhabits my future man cave!:unsure: He was a second marriage, younger woman thing. On my therd and final now!
Anyway, Great looking shop there! I have a reloading starter kit still in the box, also out in the garage.
 
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