Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part Three

[bigbells]

As previously reported I made some one-flavor-joose yesterday using The Flavor Apprentice Apricot flavoring.

After using the joose for about 24 hours, I'm giving my highest endorsement to the flavor. To my taste buds it is an absolutely true and delicious apricot flavor. I cannot detect any off-note whatsoever.

I used 8% of the flavoring. That probably wouldn't have been enough for me a year ago, but my sense of taste has apparently sharpened in recent months and I find that I use significantly lower percentages than I used to use.

 

[Debadoo]

Thanks uman!

And Deb, they are T3S (bottom coil).

It was uman that asked.

As previously reported I made some one-flavor-joose yesterday using The Flavor Apprentice Apricot flavoring.

After using the joose for about 24 hours, I'm giving my highest endorsement to the flavor. To my taste buds it is an absolutely true and delicious apricot flavor. I cannot detect any off-note whatsoever.

I used 8% of the flavoring. That probably wouldn't have been enough for me a year ago, but my sense of taste has apparently sharpened in recent months and I find that I use significantly lower percentages than I used to use.

kewl!!

 

[Ken_A]

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This Blackberry was pretty good yesterday morning, but by early evening was getting tired of it already. When it runs out this morning, think I'll flush it out with a 1/2 tank of unflavored and move on to something else. ...

Try making two juices and switch between throughout the day. It means more than one atomizer device, but it beats going off of a flavor too.

I keep saying this, but I have ~got~ to get up a flavor order.... I'm just dreading it like the plague... I'd rather be beat with a knotty stick than shop for flavors that I might or might not even like.

Take a look at the DIY threads, see if there are ones that sound good, and buy those flavors. Less chance of having a flavor around you don't like.

 

[garyoa1]

Yeah, lissen to Ken! I have like 6 juices in rotation. Which is why my ADV has been my ADV for over a year now.

 

[clnire]

It was uman that asked.

Oops sure was! Sorry and thank you!

 

[3mg Meniere]

So, BigBells, is that your avatar, or you really?

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Still grading, but I have to get everything finished and file the final grades this weekend. Then, next week is a little lighter (ha), and by the end of the month/beginning of next month, I'll find out if I got hired for a permanent full-time position or not (I made it to the final round and have two 1 hour interviews with the Dean of Instruction and Campus Presidents next Tuesday). To be honest, if there was something between Adjunct Instructor and Full-time Instructor, that would be perfect, but my choices seem to be too much or too little. Isn't that always the way?

If they don't hire you, they are idiots. Who wouldn't hire a highly intelligent, sophisticated, dedicated sloth?



Fair warning sloth, we'll be up in your neck of the woods in a month. Tried to catch you earlier today when I saw you were in but then the internet went down for several hours. You didn't have anything to do with that did you?

 

[bigbells]

So, BigBells, is that your avatar, or you really?

I really am that good-lookin'! Took the picture this morning.

 

[MattB101]

Pretty interesting video from Busardo put up on some of the clone factories number 4 in the series short comparitively.

He keeps talking about how bad the conditions are. I've seen worse machine shops here in Hampton. I don't think it was all that bad. What he called shacks out behind the factory look just like the automobile machine shop up at the mom and pop auto parts store up the street. They actually do some of the best machine work in town. Most of the late model race teams go there for machine work.

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!

 

[MattB101]

Yer reeelly tuff to work with! LOL

I'm talkin about sockets that have an allen wrench in them with a set screw. I have a set of 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2".

Me too. Was going to post a pick but too lazy to get off the couch right now.

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!

 

[MattB101]

I swear I'm not being deliberately obtuse. Sockets with set screws? Some of my ratchets and nut-driver handles have spring-loaded ball-bearings to hold the sockets in place but I've never seen any sockets that have set screws.

6-sided Allen key? Are there Allen keys with a different number of sides?

The socket itself has a set screw holding the Allen head wrench in.

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!

 

[MattB101]

We're not arguing, we're debating!

Yeh, what he said!

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!

 

[Kenna]

My camo water cup and iStick 30 with ST Mini:

Great picture! Those go together so well! Vaping & hydration, camo & snakeskins!

 

[Kenna]

My current cost of ingredients for DIM (Do It Myself) joose is 2.5 to 2.8 CENTS per milliliter, less than $3.00 per 100ml batch.

In reality, I'm often using up various quantities of nic base, flavoring, PG and VG for which I paid higher prices than the prices on which the above cost-per-ml statement is based, but when those older ingredients are finally used up (or paid forward), every joose I make will have an ingredient cost of less than 3.0 cents/ml.

My current expenditures on vaping qualify me for the "$1-per-day" club, but in the 766 days since I replaced smoking with vaping I guesstimate that I've spent somewhere between $3000 and $4000 on vaping purchases, or $4 to $5 per day. My cigarette costs during that time, presuming that I'd still be alive (not a safe presumption at all), would have been over $9000.

I'm way ahead healthwise, with benefits that money couldn't have bought. The financial savings are just a delightful bonus.

Love the new avi! Waving!

 

[Iffy]

Debating requires a judge!

As any married couple knows, winning an argument is a matter of 'my needs vs. your wants'... or visa versa...

BTW, I'll volunteer to be da judge...

Just so I don't have to debate a judge (aka mod), I still luv my Nautili!

 

[clnire]

Here come da judge, here come da judge.

 

[MattB101]

hangy down part... hehehe... weminz... hehe

I don't see why you couldn't cut off the hangy down part and use it that way, if the Allen key is small enough to fit into one of the 4 chucks on the "swively handle" thingy you linked.

hehehe

p.s. I cut off the hangy down part of an Allen key once, and made an egg-shaped "bulb" on one end with JB Weld... makes it a lot easier to take off the barrel of a 10/22.

You can actually buy Allen her wrenches with the hanger down part. You can also buy them with a "t" handle that helps you grip them. I personally like the t handle variety. Have both a metric and SAE set. Also have a set of each with a ball end on the, so you can use them without going straight into the fastener. He he'd screws are much better in my eyes that even Phillips head screws but, if your going to use her head screws you have to buy good ones otherwise they strip rather easily.

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!

 

[MattB101]

I reckon that MIGHT work. I say might, rather than will, because it's going to be pretty durn difficult to saw off the Allen key above the elbow without boogering that end of the now straight hexagonal shaft. Regardless of whether you stick that end in the pin vise, or use that end as the working end, the boogering might cause problems.

Boogering is of course a HIGHLY technical term, but I'm agonna assume you catch the drift.

Bells, The technical term is "booger up", boogering is something else all together.

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!

 

[MattB101]

Allen wrench sockets have a short (one or two inch) allen stuck in it and held in by a set screw. I believe, reason being that the allen is case hardened steel and the socket itself isn't. Just not practical to mold a one piece allen/socket. The set screw isn't really meant so you can replace the allen, just more feasible to do it that way. They're quite handy when you get into heavier machinery.

They do have one piece Allen sockets used in impact wrenches.

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!

 

[MattB101]

you were talkin my language til you got to that part. lol



elbow.........that's a good way to say it. I was thinkin a bolt cutter or sumpthin. But actually thought i'd pm Russ, the guy who does the videos where I saw this set up and see how he did it. But he mighta just bought some that were already straight. Not sure. Boogerin I understand! lol

Bolt cutters won't cut it, literally, your talking case hardened steel. Very hard (at least if you have a good set). They also make Allen drivers with screwdriver style handles. Amazon carries all of the various types. Harbor Freight also carries a lot of them and won't break the bank. Speciality tools can get quite expensive.

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. I can't wait for summertime!