PDIB's Making MODs!
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OH . .. . . wait! Lookie here! I'm makin' another one for you just as fast as I can.
It's lookin' sweet too!
(almost makes me wish I knew how to operate a camera)
So how do we get on this famous waitlist? PM to pdib, or is posting presently the procedure (got carried away with the alliteration, forgive me).
i'd PM him, were it me.
(although an alliterative affliction always antagonizes an astute answerer)
(although an alliterative affliction always antagonizes an astute answerer)
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it'll be a good fallback. I mean, if the .45Ω Mundy's I'm sending doesn't work out.
You know, it's funny, I was just realizing that I had inadvertently made my way to a setup that would really please a smoker. SubΩ Mundy's coil, 1.4mm air hole . .. . . . I find myself taking strong, 2-3 second pulls, inhaling, and it feels like . . . . .. . youknowwhat. Anyway, if I were just getting off the stinker-poodles, this is what I'd want.
(definitely including a little monkey poo in the package too)
You know, it's funny, I was just realizing that I had inadvertently made my way to a setup that would really please a smoker. SubΩ Mundy's coil, 1.4mm air hole . .. . . . I find myself taking strong, 2-3 second pulls, inhaling, and it feels like . . . . .. . youknowwhat. Anyway, if I were just getting off the stinker-poodles, this is what I'd want.
(definitely including a little monkey poo in the package too)
This past weekend, we were at a vape meet. I won the CASSA gift basket. Included within was an Ego starter kit. I would be most willing to make that available to anyone. THIS
was also included in the basket, but it is not out for loaners yet. *g*
You bring up a valid point. I wasn't thinking about someone whom is not an obsessive tinkerer like I am. Something as simple as an Ego twist and a good clearo will do the job as far as the nicotine delivery and is much simpler to start with.
BTW Glass, Have you tried Koh Gen Do cotton? Makes installing in the coil simpler and you don't have to boil it. It's the closest thing to plug and play cotton wick I have found and a few have mentioned another similar brand.
Hey, mysterious "MFarley"! (hmmmmm . . . . name sounds a bit familiar, however certain things should not be discussed. Bonus points for whomever figures it out; but don't let the cat out of the bag) Thanks for dropping by! Yeah, I did suggest that "MFarley" bring up this topic in my thread. And I'm glad I did; becaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuse, I just realized something. . . . . . . I have a REO that I'm not using right now.
I've got one of Pdib's old REO's. Don't worry about borrowing it from him, JUST BUY IT. Go watch super_x's vids (he just posted up a new one, a REO review), and he's got many other vids also. Watch all of those!
definitely must hook MFarley up with the super_X_drifter video library! They should put up a stickie of that nature over there, methinks.
If I was new, just starting out again, I'd say the easiest and most efficient starter setup would be a REO with a std 510 atomizer. RM2 and some youtube time to shortly follow. I tinker quite a bit and do like building coils but it was very frustrating at first. What got me off the stinkies was a Volcano Inferno, the little carto-tank version with way too strong (for me at the time) 36mg grape juice. Besides making a mess with juice while learning how to fill a carto-tank 
it was super simple and easy to use. I then got an IGO-L and a cheap mech mod and I hated it, couldn't get it to work right at all for at least 10 or so attempts. Finally got that working right and I was blown away by the flavor. Dripping however I could not stand, was too much of a hassle and was messy. The next big step was getting the reo mini and RM2, it changed everything. It just worked great with some silica and 32g kanthal. I bought a 510 atty as a backup with my hesitance for the RM2 RBA and I'm glad I did. I used that 510 atty quite a bit when I was having RBA troubles.
So my suggestion would be to get a reo mini/grand, std 510 atty, and an RM2. Use the 510 atty to get used to the whole vapin deal and at the same time learn how to build coils on the RM2.
And I dont know about anyone else, but if someone handed me a .5 ohm rba when I was startin out, I'd choke on it and think you were nuts.
Had a PAD smoker buddy try my reo mini, RM2 with a .7ohm coil, Boba's 12mg and he couldn't handle it. Said it tasted awesome but it was too intense of a "smoke" he said. I'm thinkin somewhere around 1ohm would be a better starting point for a first timer IMO.
it was super simple and easy to use. I then got an IGO-L and a cheap mech mod and I hated it, couldn't get it to work right at all for at least 10 or so attempts. Finally got that working right and I was blown away by the flavor. Dripping however I could not stand, was too much of a hassle and was messy. The next big step was getting the reo mini and RM2, it changed everything. It just worked great with some silica and 32g kanthal. I bought a 510 atty as a backup with my hesitance for the RM2 RBA and I'm glad I did. I used that 510 atty quite a bit when I was having RBA troubles. So my suggestion would be to get a reo mini/grand, std 510 atty, and an RM2. Use the 510 atty to get used to the whole vapin deal and at the same time learn how to build coils on the RM2.
And I dont know about anyone else, but if someone handed me a .5 ohm rba when I was startin out, I'd choke on it and think you were nuts.
Had a PAD smoker buddy try my reo mini, RM2 with a .7ohm coil, Boba's 12mg and he couldn't handle it. Said it tasted awesome but it was too intense of a "smoke" he said. I'm thinkin somewhere around 1ohm would be a better starting point for a first timer IMO.
I usually reccommend the mvp to people starting out. No need for the special charger and battery life. One less thing to worry with. I spent more time fiddling with clearos, gurgling, getting a mouthful of juice. It was a real PIA. Now, I would tell everyone to just drop $200 on a reo and your experience will be so much better, but thats a tough sell when you dont know if you'll stick with it. But if Farley can start on one, he's got a better chance of succeeding. IMO
I hate waste, it's not about the money. Clearos are by far the fastest and easiest way to quit. You get it, you take the top off, fill it with juice, screw it on the MVP2, and you are vaping. The MVP2 comes with either 2 iclear 16s or 1 iclear 30. I got 2 iclear 16s. Installed the first one wrong and had to toss it (did not wait for the juice to 'sit', so burnt the cotton around the first coil head out). If I didn't have a 2nd one in hand ready to go, I may never have quit. It was that touch and go, with frustration that high.
My FIRST ecigs were actually Bloogs... I spent $150 on the Ultimate Kit plus a whole bunch of extras. But they weren't enough for me to quit. They WERE enough for me to get interested in E-cigs... getting a better one, thus the MVP2.
There's a big difference between price and convenience, if I could burn out a no brainer plastic iclear my first try, how does someone who doesn't even know how an ecig works going to start with a RBA coil? How much vapor SHOULD come out of it? What SHOULD it taste like? You have no point of reference whatsoever yet.
And if out of the gate it was wrong, combine that with your desire for smokes and you aren't going to quit. It took nothing for me to give up on quitting aids except a moment's frustration. I went through perscription Chantix, Nicotrol, Acupuncture, Hypnosis, Gums, Patches, Lozenges. All of which ended up in the garbage when they left me with cravings for 2 days.
And you aren't going to tell me that building a coil is easier than popping a piece of gum in my mouth, but that gum didn't work, so I didn't quit. The only comparable with a RBA to the gum to get to that point is 5 fully set up RBA already loaded with juice that the only thing I had to do was charge the battery.
And that's what the iclear 16 is.... a $2 refillable plastic clearomizer that will let you vape a whole week without changing the head. At the end of that week, you will have given up on the idea or love it. But it was as complex as pouring juice into a container.
Playing with RBA kept me quit, but I had to get myself to the point of knowing that it could work first by actually quitting. My point isn't to dissuade anyone from their good intentions of sending things to help anyone. But to recognize that your very advanced things may be something he can look forward to, but quitting smoking may take something with less effort to use.
When you wake up in the morning, and the FIRST THING you want before water, pissing or brushing your teeth is a cig... you aren't going to be trying to remember what you have to do when you get a dry hit.
I think physically walking into a vape shop, telling them you want a MVP2 Kit w/ an iclear 16, and maybe trying out some juice would be the #1 best way to start quitting. If there's no local vape shop, #2 is buying it online. The MVP2 is no where near as great a mod as any we have, but its the baby's waterproof Timex vs the Rolex, when you are only learning to tell time and don't know if you need a watch.
After a week, and the confidence to believe this WILL work, you can get a REO or Dibi or whatever else. But the poster said he hadn't quit yet, and the confusion has already started for him.
With all the help all of you are giving;
Now I have to Quit.
Thanks again everyone.
Now I have to Quit.
Thanks again everyone.
Last week, Xtreme101 generously sent me some Koh Gen Do, as well as some Shisheido facial cotton to try. I say to try, but he sent me months worth
. I haven't tried it yet tho... (but I will). Part of the reason is that I make teeny nanocoils for my RBA, and so my cotton is balled up UNDER the coil, with no room inside the coil for anything, because I literally make my coils on the head of a pin. I need to make bigger coils to try it, but none of my coils have needed replacing yet ... but I'm very sure I will love it because you guys talk about it so much!!
Please do. You owe it to yourself and the friends and family who love you.
OK, so I don't have a 510 atomizer to send. That is certainly a good suggestion. I'm sending the RM2 and the 1.7Ω carto. Also, I've coiled up some 26g Kanthal at .6-.7Ω and some 28g at 1.0Ω. I think everybody who smokes and takes a pull off a vaporizer coughs. A smoker's lungs don't take well to steam. If M. has an intensity issue, he can just throw the carto on there and start in easy. The last thing I want to do, tho, is send him something that doesn't satisfy.
I started a colleague with a provari and an aspire nautilus. 40 years smoking and he threw them out and hasn't turned back
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