Looking out the window this morning, with heavy snow forecast for the rest of the week I’ll not be going anywhere, so I thought I’d revisit squonking.
By January 2016, 4 months into vaping and armed with an iStick and Nauti Mini, I knew Vaping had got me off of a 50 year smoking habit and that I wasn’t going back to tobacco.
Avidly reading through everything I could find to increase my knowledge on ECF, I came across a thread entitled maybe, “The Vaper’s Progress,” and it said something like,” the real outdoor types meanwhile will be heading off into the wilderness with rugged mechanical squonkers.”
Arthritis hadn’t struck, I was still mountain biking and hillwalking in the Spanish Mountains, and so I was intrigued.
Squonking wasn’t mainstream then; devices tended to be semi lethal like the Terminator/Smokeless Owl Combo, rare like the REOS, or handmade in craft workshops. BF atomisers either had to be converted from Drippers, or sourced from exotic suppliers and the cost was commensurate, but I put out the money and got one mod hand turned from a solid block of metal from the USA, a wooden one from Eastern Europe and two Origen Little BF Atomisers from France.
Neither mod lasted long - that Spring in Spain was the hottest for 70 years, the battery swelled up and got stuck inside the metal mod and a leak jammed the wooden firing button in the other.
Kanger brought out its affordable Drip Box but I ignored it as my first venture into squonking had been such an expensive failure … until this year’s January Sales when I picked up a couple for £10.00 each.
I don’t think I’ll ever be a full time squonker but these Drip Boxes with a single 0.9 Ohm coil running across the well between the posts are nice for a change.