I like the plexi based atty holder.
You just need a card-file type catalog system so you (and others
) can find what they are looking forRayon wick, better flow, flavor, saturation and Nic Hit!
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I like the plexi based atty holder.
You just need a card-file type catalog system so you (and others
) can find what they are looking for
You may be just a tad too late, AMD, but it's never too late to start, and knowing you, you'll engrave ID's on each atty as well.
I love it... another happy customer. And oh by the way I have come to believe that almost anything is better than "Silica".
Amen brother! I'll never forget the day I trimmed a silica wick under a bright light and I saw all those tiny fibers floating in the air! The thought that I had been inhaling those scared the hell out of me.
I went right to the store and bought cotton, then one day I stumbled across this thread and God Bless Jeremy, I've never looked back. 
Amen brother! I'll never forget the day I trimmed a silica wick under a bright light and I saw all those tiny fibers floating in the air! The thought that I had been inhaling those scared the hell out of me.
SlickWilly,
I wasn't going to mention the glass shards that behave in the lungs much like asbestos but now that you have brought it up the last time I trimmed some EKOWOOL I didn't notice it in the air but it was all over my work surface and I also decided that was the last for me.
PS - it is hard as heck to clean up the tiny little fibers of a table top and once in your lungs well I think that is a forever thing.
FWIW, torching hell out of silica-type wicking (except those having cotton inside) before cutting it reduces the silica 'fallout' to a great degree. Not saying to keep using silica, just sayin'.
ETA, when I was growing up I worked after school and every summer from age 8 until 19 in out family's small "auto salvage"/repair shop. I cannot begin to count all the times that while doing the brakes or clutch on a vehicle, compressed air was used to blow out the dust from the hubs/backing plates and bellhousings. Back then brake shoes and clutch plates were made with asbestos. Thankfully I didn't (so far, anyway) succumb to breathing all this crap in.
ETA, when I was growing up I worked after school and every summer from age 8 until 19 in out family's small "auto salvage"/repair shop. I cannot begin to count all the times that while doing the brakes or clutch on a vehicle, compressed air was used to blow out the dust from the hubs/backing plates and bellhousings. Back then brake shoes and clutch plates were made with asbestos. Thankfully I didn't (so far, anyway) succumb to breathing all this crap in.
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AMD, do you buy your liquids in 5 gallon buckets? I ask because I just filled three Fogger 4.1s and a Big Fogger and that would be a 30ml bottle of most liquids. I DIY and use 60ml bottles so no big deal, but with your collection you need a gas pump style fill station!
Its funny you day that trucker, really does buy his juice in 5gal. Buckets.
FWIW, torching hell out of silica-type wicking (except those having cotton inside) before cutting it reduces the silica 'fallout' to a great degree. Not saying to keep using silica, just sayin'.
ETA, when I was growing up I worked after school and every summer from age 8 until 19 in out family's small "auto salvage"/repair shop. I cannot begin to count all the times that while doing the brakes or clutch on a vehicle, compressed air was used to blow out the dust from the hubs/backing plates and bellhousings. Back then brake shoes and clutch plates were made with asbestos. Thankfully I didn't (so far, anyway) succumb to breathing all this crap in.
Cobalt,
I was looking up what they made cig filters out of and discovered that in the sixties and seventies some were actually made out of asbestos. I may be wrong about the dates but I am old enough that if they ever used asbestos between the 1950 - 1970 or whenever they discovered that junk could kill I was there puffing away. And when I was in the Navy Air they used asbestos brakes on the aircraft of which we had to blow out and wipe down ever day.
By the way I noticed that "Ready X-Wick" which comes pre-heat-treated to be the least offensive about putting out as much as EcoWool does but if you nip/trim near the very end it does just about as much as EcoWool.
Actually I worried more about getting the stuff in my eyes. I figured if you ever got a sliver buried in your eye the Doctor would play H*** finding it much less getting it out.
Asbestos in cig filters wouldn't surprise me but I think (don't know, though) that by the time I was smoking cigs that the filters were made from synthetics. I remember there being activated charcoal in some of them and I seem to recall there being something called "micronite" or something similar used in filters. All that leads me to believe the cig pushers had come to realize people weren't too happy w/whatever the status quo was before then.
I wish I could remember when the article said the stopped using asbestos but I can't ... thing that goes along with my age also.
And I remember the microlite I think that was Kents.
I don't know what they use now but have you ever put the wrong end in your moth fired up the filter. The acrid smell is unbelievable and the taste is worse than any dry hit I have ever had. Whatever it is it can't be good for you.
By the way when I was looking up what they used I could find a lot of stuff from the past but whatever they use now seems to be a closely guarded secret - wonder why?
Activated charcoal was Taryeton. There was a pellet sandwiched between two "normal" filters, whatever they were made of.
I was going to order that drill press, found it for $20 less and with free shipping, and a drill press vice today but I got a notification about suspicious activity on the card I use for internet purchases. Now I have to wait for a new card to show up. BoA seems to be right on top of card security.
Too bad they don't pay that good of attention to keeping your act.number and passwords safe...
Well hold on now...we don't know what kind of seedy, criminal run, darknet sites he drops his cash at
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haha AMD. That looks like an atty factory.Good idea. Maybe I should start keeping the log too. Or it maybe too late... LOL
I like the plexi based atty holder.
You just need a card-file type catalog system so you (and others
No, he's gonna have to put magnetic stickers on them so he can scan them with a gun, like a the supermarket.
No, he's gonna have to put magnetic stickers on them so he can scan them with a gun, like a the supermarket.
Careful... you might give him ideas about anodizing bar codes on them
Too bad you could do that with a stamp using Machinist's Blue Dye. Then you could change them when needed.
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