So. THIS is what vaping should feel like!!
I've just completed two weeks of analog-free vaping, and have gotten three more people on the vaping bandwagon. BUT: I've also been enduring some crummy vaping experiences in the past week, e.g., almost no vapor coming through, lots of harsh, dry, burnt taste, dripping constantly (and evidently wreaking havoc on my 510 auto bat that now likes to turn on at its own mystical whim -- thankfully I also got a manual bat!), juice dripping out all over the place, juice in the mouth, yadda yadda...
...and here I was, still proselytizing because even with all this, I found that I
still preferred vaping to smoking.
I tried a straw mod before, with horrid success. Ahem. Now I see why. I was doing it wrong. Extremely wrong. In fact, I seem to have gotten quite a LOT wrong, vis a vis putting filler in carts.
Then I happened upon this little gem of a thread this evening, and read all 20+ pages of posts. And I feebly tried out the mod as pictured in the handy-dandy diagram, using what I have on hand: coffee stirrers and white fluval (not like scrubby pads, but like layers of poly batting).
And a whole new world opened up. Better than my first vape off of a fresh atty and professionally pre-packed cart. C-L-O-U-D-S of vapor, over and over. Cool, easy draws, instead of harsh, dry, burnt eccch. I finally tasted the vapor of my juice instead of tasting scorched polyfil as I now believe is what I had been getting all this time.
So word to N00bs like me: do
not stuff your entire cart full of polyfill / Fluval / wool / whatever filler you use, and
then try to force in all of 3-4 drops (most it would hold the way I was doing it...and pretty much all of that just sat in the filler, unvapable). Instead, fill the cart with juice, pop in the straw / stirrers, and plug it up at the end.
I feel like such a dork for doing it so very wrong! Bah! I was beginning to wonder how I could have enjoyed vaping so very much in the first several days, followed with a whole lot of FAIL after that.
So thank you, Kristin, and all who have contributed here for opening my eyes. Tomorrow I'll pop out and pick up a Buf-Puf (I used to use those long ago for face cleansing; didn't know they were still around!) and some straws to more closely follow the success y'all have been enjoying.
And now a question: remember that video that VaporHead4Life posted on 11/09/09 (see page #9), adoringly referred to as the Blair Witch Project video?
The multi-bat charger shown in that video caught my eye. Since I got myself vaping, I have also gotten my husband on the vaping trail, and now we have four 510 bats here to charge. A nice multi-port charger like the one shown in that video would be very handy. Anyone know where to find such an animal? I haven't come across it yet in the many hardware sites I've visited thus far.
Did I thank you for this thread enough yet? I don't think so. THANK. YOU.
