PDIB's Making MODs!

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e30ernest

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OOOH....OOOH!! I forgot about show n tell...:D

Some stuff I got during my vacay in the Philippines:

Zenith V2, assortment of AFC rings, and matching 2-piece drip tip
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Qoppa Dominator Tool-less rda
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Post has a spring instead of setscrew. All you gotta do is press and insert your wire.
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Gold Cyclone w/ matching Vicious Ant drip tip
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Custom dual 18650 (parallel mode) made from Philippine Kamagong wood. I think it's called Iron wood in some countries.
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....more to follow

Nice haul! How much (in Philippine Pesos) did the Zenith and gold Cyclone cost you? Got photos of the Zenith deck?

I'm dropping by Vicious Ant's office next week to get a bottom-fed Cyclone. They are made here but it's funny no one sells bottom-fed versions of the Cyclone. I'll have to pick one up directly from their office. I'm still asking them if they could drill an extra feed hole (like Supe's Cyclone) to aid draining. Hopefully they do it.
 

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Yes sir. It was dropping my ohms to under .5 that forced me to lower my nic. Sub ohming is the key. With safety of course!

15mg all day long here and been that way for a while, but running 1.3-1.5 ohms and only 10-12 watts using R91 and a KFL+. Sometimes, late in the evening I'll drip some 6 in an Igo-L.

Yes, I'm a BF virgin -- I keep looking at REOs but have never seen one in stock that spoke to me and said "buy me". Sorry, I digress.

I suspect there's a relationship between the amount of power being put into an atty and the amount of nic the body can get from each hit?

Am I the odd one out? I started at 24mg over a year ago and have only gone down to 18mg even with sub-ohm. For me, sub-ohm just means lest time on the fire button to get the same satisfying vape. I do use a range of .9 to 1.4 ish in my Kayfuns, but that, for me, is their sweet spot.

Sorry, a bit slow catching up, what with my two new mechs arriving within a week of each other. GUS Lord and OliveR Dibi have kept me in a dense fog.
 

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Way off topic but here it be:
Do to the fact that my signature banner counts only days I missed the fact that I hit the two year mark a couple of weeks ago.
Never would I go back to stinky's, haven't had not even one drag on one since I started vaping.

Happy vaperversary late!

My story was a bit of a miss then a hit. I bought a mall kioske ecig of some unknown brand back in '08 or '09. I gave it a good try, but could not quit with it. It DID save me during those long hours behind airport security gates, though.

Then somebody let me try an ego looking thing in 2012. I was floored. So I bought my first decent cig-alike and pretty much quit that day. I tried a cigarette few days later just to see, but yuck. I still had exactly one cigarette left in my last pack and though, "May as well smoke it and be done with it." I didn't even make it half way before butting it out.

Even though I didn't need another hobby, I'm am enjoying it. Soooo much happier now!
 

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T-cad, I did a little looking into the galvanic corrosion business before pairing the aluminum and copper. Couldn't find any reason why it would be an issue without seawater involved. The only thing I could find was where Canadian Electrical Utilities had to bolt them together in a special fashion because they expand and contract at different rates.

. . .. and I did send you extra copper. I told you that was the only shape I had. :p

My house built with aluminum wiring before the newer standards (creep included for free). Somebody installed security lights with copper wire connected directly to the aluminum wires with plain wire nuts. Then later added a garage door opener to that same circuit. A few years after I moved in, the garage door opener got too weak to lift the door or even illuminate the bulb. It wasn't getting any where near 120 VAC. That's when I found the bad connection - corroded and even burnt insulation around the wire nuts. There are better ways, but I installed a junction box and used special AlCu wire nuts as a cheap fix.

Sure, I live on a sort of peninsula, but no direct sea water up in the attic.

I don't know how long that installation was in place and I'm not arguing that 4 VDC would have the same results. Just sayin'
 

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I think we are out to Oct. He's currently building group 3 and I know he's got a list up to group 10, 10 mods per group, 3 to 4 weeks to make per group.

He's up to 13 at least. I ordered a second one and he said run 13 for that one. My first should hit right at my 1 year anniversary in august and number 2 around Xmas if I'm figuring right.

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I'm on the list! Run #13 - December. :(

Ahh well, I waited that long for a Chi-You (wasn't worth it). I'm very excited, but will probably forget I'm even on the list by the time my slot rolls around. :2cool:

Hang around here more Yeti- you won't forget. Trust me


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My house built with aluminum wiring before the newer standards (creep included for free). Somebody installed security lights with copper wire connected directly to the aluminum wires with plain wire nuts. Then later added a garage door opener to that same circuit. A few years after I moved in, the garage door opener got too weak to lift the door or even illuminate the bulb. It wasn't getting any where near 120 VAC. That's when I found the bad connection - corroded and even burnt insulation around the wire nuts. There are better ways, but I installed a junction box and used special AlCu wire nuts as a cheap fix.

Sure, I live on a sort of peninsula, but no direct sea water up in the attic.

I don't know how long that installation was in place and I'm not arguing that 4 VDC would have the same results. Just sayin'

That is more than likely due to expansion and deformation. Oxidation can be quickened by heat. I have seen many cases and each one could be attributed to heat build up causing a loose connection. Each time wire heats up it expands and deforms. Each time it cools the connection gets a very tiny bit looser unless it is designed with this expansion in mind or happen chance it works out that way. Being a little bit looser the next time creates a tiny bit more heat which causes a tiny bit more expansion and the loop continues. At some tipping point the heat is enough that it becomes a thermal runaway situation. (More heat equals more resistance which becomes more heat etc.) Same thing does happen with copper, but it happens less often since aluminum has a higher rate of thermal expansion and deforms easier.
 

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Welcome to DIBIVILLE!!!! Congratulations, you've made a wise choice :toast:

I'm on the list! Run #13 - December. :(

Ahh well, I waited that long for a Chi-You (wasn't worth it). I'm very excited, but will probably forget I'm even on the list by the time my slot rolls around. :2cool:
 
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