That's hillarious.
BTW: you can buy anything online. Drug.com (or Drugstore.com) has a standing $5 off first order. Walgreens is online. Geesh, even Walmart has most of their stock online only anymore. Nobody stocks anything anymore.
Still smoking support and chat thread
- Thread starter loxmythe
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
That's hillarious.
BTW: you can buy anything online. Drug.com (or Drugstore.com) has a standing $5 off first order. Walgreens is online. Geesh, even Walmart has most of their stock online only anymore. Nobody stocks anything anymore.
I'm liking mine too. I got the same color as yours, and a blue one.
Oh, and evod/protank heads don't work in them. They do for a little bit but soon after you get nothing out of them.
Are you implying I'm going to need to learn how to rebuild them?
What did you do?
No, I just didn't buy any extra heads with mine, so when I needed to change it out I used my evod heads and they didn't work.
I am having trouble getting started on the rebuilding. I can not seem to get my hands to work with small pieces of things. But I am determined. I did try to rebuild an evod head twice, once at the vape meet and then again at home to fix the mess I made the first time. I find them too tiny and they are so cheap that the aggravation for me to take them apart and struggle to put all those little pieces back together is not worth it for me. I would rather spend a dollar each and then be done with it.
The Igo-L I have is a bit larger, but still pretty small. But I think I will be able to train my hands and fingers to work on it. A friend made me a 2.2ohm coil with a cotton wick and the taste is amazing, better than my 510 attys that I drip into. And I can put 15 to 20 drops in it at a time. An ocean of juice!!!
So I am going to buy a roll of 30ga kanthal and find some sterile or organic cotton and get one of those Gizmo jigs and keep at it until I get it right. So what if it takes me a couple of months to make a good coil. In the long run it will be worth it. Just have to make up your mind that you are going to give it a go.
The Igo-L I have is a bit larger, but still pretty small. But I think I will be able to train my hands and fingers to work on it. A friend made me a 2.2ohm coil with a cotton wick and the taste is amazing, better than my 510 attys that I drip into. And I can put 15 to 20 drops in it at a time. An ocean of juice!!!
So I am going to buy a roll of 30ga kanthal and find some sterile or organic cotton and get one of those Gizmo jigs and keep at it until I get it right. So what if it takes me a couple of months to make a good coil. In the long run it will be worth it. Just have to make up your mind that you are going to give it a go.
I just picked up a few spinners in a group buy and some of the people picking up Aspire heads were talking about how there are some short lived heads in the packs and how you can not vape over a certain voltage or you start getting really burnt/dry hits on them. It seems like most juice delivery devices have their quirks and problems.
I hate buying something that has a high failure rate or very short lifespan. That is the main reason I am so determined to learn how to build coils. If there is a high failure rate at least I know who to blame: me. Plus, in the long run I think it will be a good thing to be more self sufficient and not be a slave to having to buy new heads and then new toppers. Especially since they keep changing stuff so quickly. It can get expensive.
I hate buying something that has a high failure rate or very short lifespan. That is the main reason I am so determined to learn how to build coils. If there is a high failure rate at least I know who to blame: me. Plus, in the long run I think it will be a good thing to be more self sufficient and not be a slave to having to buy new heads and then new toppers. Especially since they keep changing stuff so quickly. It can get expensive.
Im not sure what the size of my town is. Too many people moving here from Chicago because the cost of living is lower and cheap bus / train tickets to go to Chicago.
I can't find hardly anything in stores I want. My grocery store has almost every kind of Medicine you could need EXCEPT adult low dose /"baby" asprin. The one thing I need for my child that isnt a specialty order. So I talked to management, they now carry 4 flavors of it and they fly off the shelves because alot of people around here are on asprin regimes. Night shift manager keeps a box of each in his office for me so I will never run out
. If I ever become rich enough. . Im buying my own private island. Installing high speed Internet and getting a helicopter and private plane. Friends welcome to visit/vacation. And a shipping dock for supplies coming in.
Top, as long as it's warm on your island I am SO there! We have another ice/snow/mess heading our way. Our town is right on the fringe where they can't decide if we'll get 1/2 inch or a whole inch, so joyous. When is spring coming?
Still not doing well, smoked yesterday morning, thought about it all day. It's like being on a diet. Once you cheat it's over. Me and my bright ideas. . .but I'm still on the wagon, just left the store and the thought didn't even occur to me to buy a pack. Once I buy a pack I'll consider myself officially off the wagon again. This time around is about the 8th attempt to quit, still not the longest I've stayed quit. Once past a year I'll probably be more comfortable, if I can just exercise a little self control.
Hope you're all doing well! I'm hanging in there and reading a lot, just not posting much. Try to do better in future, but for today, no apologies. See you later.
Still not doing well, smoked yesterday morning, thought about it all day. It's like being on a diet. Once you cheat it's over. Me and my bright ideas. . .but I'm still on the wagon, just left the store and the thought didn't even occur to me to buy a pack. Once I buy a pack I'll consider myself officially off the wagon again. This time around is about the 8th attempt to quit, still not the longest I've stayed quit. Once past a year I'll probably be more comfortable, if I can just exercise a little self control.
Hope you're all doing well! I'm hanging in there and reading a lot, just not posting much. Try to do better in future, but for today, no apologies. See you later.
Wish I would have read this part closely the first time ... sigh, I spent several minutes trying as hard as I could to see the paperclip and wire-- I mean how could I not see it? That pic is huge! Then I finally gave up and decided that I REALLY need to set up an appointment with an eye Dr.
Then because I'm stubborn (and because I refuse to admit that my vision is getting as bad as I think it might be getting)I tried to see the paperclip again.
At least this time I saw the above message!
I was saying to myself "Is the paperclip INSIDE the wick somehow?"
LOL! I just had the exact same experience with aspirin. Up and down the "pain relief" aisle, a thousand different types, but no aspirin.
Was on the bottom shelf in the facing aisle, next to the rubbing alcohol (right below the leeches and lycopodium powder).
BTW, does anyone else just use plain old cotton balls for their wicks (rather than hunting down the elusive "organic cotton")?
Seems to work just fine for me. Also, I've heard that cotton gauze makes a great wick, but can't figure out how you would get it inside the coil (unless you rolled up the gauze and wrapped around it?)
FQ,
This may not be the right approach for you, but for me I find it much less stressful to come at it with a "no guilt" approach. Sometimes I smoke. Most of the time I vape instead.
I will be doing this for a while before I even try to get of the butts completely. Even if I never shake the curse totally, I can still be proud of how much better off I am than I was. I was a VERY compulsive smoker and couldn't last an hour without a .... before; now I can go a day or more (occasionally) and that, for me is incredible progress.
Willie was just a-visitin'. From this thread:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ikes-do-you-have-how-many-have-you-given.html
I went and added my numbers.
It was my mindset while I was in the process of quitting. However, now that it's been over 6 months without smoking, I've cheated a few times and now I'm ......! Mostly at my own weakness. But I'm not giving in just yet!!
Shari from what I've heard 28g is better for a larger atty like the Igo-L and you don't need as many wraps to get the ohms you want while 30 g is better for ProTank, Evod, T3s etc. heads. Also I'm pretty sure most people are ordering that coil jig from Amazon.
That coil your friend made you should last a while and it's good practice to rewick it gets your hands into the mode of the whole thing. Rewick and dry burn the coil every time you rewick, my wicks are lasting a couple of days at most. The coil could last quite a while, possibly a month or more.
That coil your friend made you should last a while and it's good practice to rewick it gets your hands into the mode of the whole thing. Rewick and dry burn the coil every time you rewick, my wicks are lasting a couple of days at most. The coil could last quite a while, possibly a month or more.
Good Morning!
This is one of those big-coffee-cup kind of days!
I'll have 2, I'll even help you carry them!
Most who use regular cotton balls boil it first because it has bleach and other chemical whitening residue in it, the reason for organic is that there are no chemical whiteners used and you don't have to boil first, same with sterile.
I don't have a clue on the gauze.
I don't have a clue on the gauze.
Use that anger to your advantage. Let it remind you that you will not become enslaved again.
Support Our Troops!!!
<><
I'm an "s pen aholic" Noteate
I keep thinking the same thing. I save all my burnt out heads in labeled little ziplock bags too. Between DIY juice, and DIY coils, there would be more money for cool mods!
The only cotton I have experience with is cheesecloth. It's woven like gauze but really loose, so you can pick it apart rather easily. Boil first, pull strings apart, spin together to make a wick, and go. It's like $3 for a couple yards, it's available at the grocery store, and it tastes pretty darn good after the 1st few hits. Don't try to dry burn it though!
I actually prefer the taste of cotton, but the silica wick is so cheap I bought a huge amount of it when I bought my kanthal, so depending how much time I have, I alternate between the two.
SHARI keep practicing winding coils by hand, it gets easier and there is some muscle memory involved. I have faith you'll figure this out! I quit using the screw/drillbit, never tried a jig. I'm not going to win any awards with my coils, but I don't care, they vape just fine and haven't blown anything up yet, so it's all good.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
