I have quite a stash of old school goodies myself. Most of it still works too. I don't like too much of the new stuff, personally. Rebuildable cartomizers are really hard to find these days. I'm not sure how "common" they were back then. Seems like the rda's took the market pretty quick and people forgot about cartomizers.
Yeeeah, I've been vaping a looong time. Started in 2007 before vaping was even a word yet.
My first device was a
DSE901. <--- POS
My most valuable items should be considered "museum-worthy". Have 6 unopened boxes of the original Joyetech 510 atomizers. These were the holy grail back in the day. Each one cost $10-$15 a piece (just 1 atomizer). A box of 5 was like $50. Insane right?
There were 2 critically important inventions made at that time that made vaping what it is today. One was the Janty (
Joyetech brand) 510 atomizer. I can't even find a picture of the original Janty in Google images. The other was created by modders and that invention was the fire-button.
Dunno if you've ever heard of the Lavatube, but I still have one in a sealed box. That was a massive co-op here. Can't remember how many rounds I ran with those? Two or three if I remember right (?). Here's the
only image that I could find of it, which is actually a still image from a YT video review dated in 2011.
There really needs to be a museum for vaping, how cool would that be?