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You mean the gold one? That's a Valley Vapes Triple V Pyrex tank. I got 3 caps for it, gold anodized alum, purple anodized aluminum, and stainless steel (only the gold is showing, last 2 caps aren't showing in the pix). It's my biggest carto tank, and holds 7ml of juice. I just put the stainless on my black Provari...it's a bit wider, so the Provari looks like the black Twist with a ProTank2 on it proportionately. They look cute together
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You mean the gold one? That's a Valley Vapes Triple V Pyrex tank. I got 3 caps for it, gold anodized alum, purple anodized aluminum, and stainless steel (only the gold is showing, last 2 caps aren't showing in the pix). It's my biggest carto tank, and holds 7ml of juice. I just put the stainless on my black Provari...it's a bit wider, so the Provari looks like the black Twist with a ProTank2 on it proportionately. They look cute together
That was gonna be my next question, but you beat me to it. It looks pretty wide, maybe 25mm. Nice looking tank.
Not a passivator, if it's a fluid and it goes downhole, that's my doing.
sometimes I wish it was so, but then I'd still have to deal with people's s**t... it's a pain being out here most days. 17 hours on location, drive home, see the wife for 5 minutes before she goes to work and I go to bed, wake up and repeat. At least they pay me well...
My mini with red led is a brushed stainless steel... not satin! I am still so new to this, I still get terms confused
Here's my current collection, with open and unopened tanks (and more stuff coming). I only have 2 Provari:
Verrrrrry nice! I see you've been busy!
So we have a plumber and a tin-knocker (well, I am a reformed tin-knocker) in this thread...
Preloader, aren't you a pipe-fitter?
Ahhhhh, you were a wind-fitter.
I do prefer the term Steamfitter. A "pipefitter" tends to refer to someone who bought his union book. Steamfitter designates that he/or she completed 5 years of UA apprenticeship training. I'm quite proud of my training, and furthermore, have become a training instructor just this last semester.
We don't necessarily frown on guys that bought their union card, but for the amount income we make, we prefer to have fully trained and certified brothers representing us.
I'm usually anti-bandwagon, but holy hell I'm loving Boba's Bounty. It's weird, I have other juices that are tastier, but the Bounty is just a staple as far as an ADV that doesn't wear out it's welcome.
I can switch around between 10 flavors at home depending on my vappetite, but it would be a chore to haul 10 tanks with me when I leave the house. Enter Boba. I can take a full tank of it and not have choice separation anxiety away from the house.
I have already ordered some Gorilla Juice, hearing how it may even be a better fit for me, but I don't plan to ever run out of Boba's now.
I can switch around between 10 flavors at home depending on my vappetite, but it would be a chore to haul 10 tanks with me when I leave the house. Enter Boba. I can take a full tank of it and not have choice separation anxiety away from the house.
I have already ordered some Gorilla Juice, hearing how it may even be a better fit for me, but I don't plan to ever run out of Boba's now.
'Choice seperation' - love that phrase. I went on vacation last month and was trying to figure out which flavors to bring. Finally just gave up and threw them all into a grocery bag so I wouldn't have to pre-decide.
Ahhhhh, you were a wind-fitter.
I do prefer the term Steamfitter. A "pipefitter" tends to refer to someone who bought his union book. Steamfitter designates that he/or she completed 5 years of UA apprenticeship training. I'm quite proud of my training, and furthermore, have become a training instructor just this last semester.
We don't necessarily frown on guys that bought their union card, but for the amount income we make, we prefer to have fully trained and certified brothers representing us.
VA is a right to work state, so I know nothing of your union ways. Not that there's anything wrong with a union, we just have very few here, and I always earned a better wage negotiating directly with my employer.
I will make sure all of my future references are Steamfitter, however.
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Thanks.
Yeah in a right to work state, you won't see many unions. I am pretty well versed in Construction and Labor Union History and am very passionate about it being a positive thing for the working class. I can't speak on other unions and some of the mess they've created.
As far as right to work states, in a nutshell, to me it means it gives the employer the right to decide what benefits and wages (usually minimum) as well as conditions (no time and a half on weekends or holidays) to offer their employees, and that capitalism will sort the rest out. As far as the hard working middle class, well, sorry about their luck. If they don't like it they don't have to work here.
Some of that stance isn't horrible in theory, but that was not how our country was founded, and takes all the power out of the working man's hands. Not good.
I digress, otherwise I'll type til my fingers bleed and make a few enemies along the way. I love my job, I love my brothers, and I love making $800 for 8 hours of hard work on any given Sunday. (paid for by satisfied customers' private money, btw)
Yeah in a right to work state, you won't see many unions. I am pretty well versed in Construction and Labor Union History and am very passionate about it being a positive thing for the working class. I can't speak on other unions and some of the mess they've created.
As far as right to work states, in a nutshell, to me it means it gives the employer the right to decide what benefits and wages (usually minimum) as well as conditions (no time and a half on weekends or holidays) to offer their employees, and that capitalism will sort the rest out. As far as the hard working middle class, well, sorry about their luck. If they don't like it they don't have to work here.
Some of that stance isn't horrible in theory, but that was not how our country was founded, and takes all the power out of the working man's hands. Not good.
I digress, otherwise I'll type til my fingers bleed and make a few enemies along the way. I love my job, I love my brothers, and I love making $800 for 8 hours of hard work on any given Sunday. (paid for by satisfied customers' private money, btw)
I understand your perception of right to work. I started working as a residential sheet metal helper in 1989. I failed out of college and needed a job, so that one paid 8 dollars an hour and I took it. I worked scraping by for the next few years and got back into school at nights. It was rough but I made it through. When I graduated in 1994 I took a job with a commercial mechanical contractor (making 13 bucks or so an hour I think). So I was always good at math and geometry, which is particularly useful when trying to maximize friction loss of a duct transition. I had little difficulty climbing to the top of the heap in a crew and becoming a foreman, then a superintendent. I was told when I was rewarded with a wage of 18 dollars an hour, "you will never make much more than this as a tradesman". There is some truth to what you say. This "wage ceiling" is what got me out of sheet metal work and into test and balance work, which suits me better. So you make some enemies with what you say, but I am not one of them. I do take exception to two things you said...
I was a member of that class. I would actually classify myself as lower than middle class in my early work career.
I now make an obscene amount of money as a commissioning agent and almost never touch a tool (except to build a coil). The power was always in my hands. Nobody can take it from you or me but ourselves. Once you believe that, you can truly do just about anything.
I'm am highly addicted to AVEs Gorilla Juice..didn't think I'd like it at first. But after a few days, many vapes it just WHAM hit me and there was no turning back. I'm the reverse of you, thinking about getting BB with my next GJ order. If I don't care for BB as much, I can maybe just mix them.
If it was only two out of all that was spouted out. I didn't do so bad.
Conditions are more important to me as the heart of the matter, than wages and benefits, although benefits come in at second.
The no-strike stuff scares me. As workers, the only power in your position at a company is to withhold work. Don't show up for a week. You get fired. Organize 50 or more of your co-workers that want the same standards as you and threaten to collectively stop working. Suddenly you are in a position to bargain. That's power in the hands of the worker.
In my union we bargain our contract with the companies. They pay us an hourly package and our conditions requested., and we as a membership vote on how to divvy it out. We pay a large amount into our own benefits which are great, and our retirement, which when combined with 401 is damn decent.
Now, if the companies don't like the offer they can decline, and we WILL strike. They will then hire non-union workers for a 3rd of the cost , that don't have the craft skills that we pass down and train for and the quality suffers. The contractors know that saving 2/3rd will actually cost them more in injuries and poor quality than just contracting with us.
We walk a fine line of trying to not ask for too much so we don't tip that symbiosis in favor of non-union. It's a beautiful organism and has worked well for hundreds of years.
We are a family oriented brotherhood, so conditions make sure we are well compensated for our time away from our families over 8 hours, on weekends and holidays if they so need us.
I had vaped Boba's for a very long while but had never tried Gorilla Juice until a few months ago. Now for me, my first grab is GJ over Boba's, it is just that good. If I have less than 100ml of each I get anxious, they are that good. With each time I vape these I get subtle changes in flavor, I just savor and don't question.
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