The Darwin From Evolv!!!
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Sorry to hear that Sobero, but my tanks work very well, if not the best on my Darwin and I have a pretty good collection of Mods. Well don't let it go to waste, put it up for sell or I'll take it off your hands if the price is right,haha. ( Do I need 3 Darwins)? Maybe not, if that Red comes out though that will be a game changer.
vapta, lol i ordered this one and a different style too, i happened to hop on about 5 mins after they were posted, i get lucky like that sometimes, lol
Heh - no kidding. I was refreshing every 15 minutes, caught the site down, caught it come back up, and then dawdled trying to decide on a few small things and before I knew it, 5 minutes later it removed it from my cart because they were out of stock
AH well - the blue and copper ones are pretty sweet looking. Just wish my Darwin would get out of the sorting facility it's been stuck in for THREE days, so I can put one on it.
Edit: Woohoo, checked this morning and they had the black hex #1 in stock again
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Happy and healthy Significant Religious Holiday to all of you. Like many, I too will be busier than usual the next few days. Thanks to all of you for good advice and good company, to Drew for pushing this great gadget, and Ski for for fast-track DIY info.
As far as bored vaping with Darwin? I knew when I started vaping that many devices have a lot of 'fiddle factor' to get it right. Many get into collecting mods, nothing wrong with that at all. I didn't have time for another major hobby, I wanted to quit smoking. After major research, it was clear that Darwin was right for me, and it still is. I will have a second one, after the holidaze, for sure.
As far as bored vaping with Darwin? I knew when I started vaping that many devices have a lot of 'fiddle factor' to get it right. Many get into collecting mods, nothing wrong with that at all. I didn't have time for another major hobby, I wanted to quit smoking. After major research, it was clear that Darwin was right for me, and it still is. I will have a second one, after the holidaze, for sure.
I recently got a REO mini, and am totally loving the bottom-feeder setup. That's what this looks like to me, but I don't know.. Links please..
(kinda feel stoopid for not knowing what that thing is)
Drew's going to have a special colored Darwin release for the people who participate in the thread, right? JK (sort of).
Ok. I'm gonna come clean. Will remortgage the house for a colored Darwin. They are just fantastic looking. Do we know if these will be available any time soon?
Ok. I'm gonna come clean. Will remortgage the house for a colored Darwin. They are just fantastic looking. Do we know if these will be available any time soon?
hey rusty, dont feel stoopid, we are all friendly here, i at one time, too looked at the darwin not knowing what the heck it was, anyways, i have kinda made mine into a bit of a gadget. the darwin itself is just the bluish black with the screen and that brass armi have one of the COV dual coil attys on it which is a little longer than normal attys, i put the drip shield over that anc the last dohicky on there is a vapemate. kinda makes it into a feeder, squeeze the bottle and juice drips down into the atty from the top. just a lazy way of dripping but it works pretty good...now i just reread your post and think your basically asking about the vapemate...now i feel stoopid! haha im gonna leave this here incase anyone else wonders rusty, im gonna pm you
I recently got a REO mini, and am totally loving the bottom-feeder setup. That's what this looks like to me, but I don't know.. Links please..
(kinda feel stoopid for not knowing what that thing is)
Ahh... Vapemate! Google did its usual good job and flipped me over to Super-T, so the mystery is solved! Thanks!
Understood - it's not a bottom-feeder, but it seems "close enough". Maybe my Darwin will get to reclaim some face-time with me from the REO..
Understood - it's not a bottom-feeder, but it seems "close enough". Maybe my Darwin will get to reclaim some face-time with me from the REO..
Huff, you don't have to go to the extremes of a second mortgage. If you want one that bad, just buy a reguilar one, and consider it disposable. Take it all apart, and send the case to be anodized any color your want, then hope you can get it all back together again correctly (there's not much spare room in there). Consider it disposable, because you will have greatly invalidated your warranty, but it's still cheaper than a second mortgage....
You see some reviewers, tube fanbois and non-Darwinians ..... about the look of it, but I actually prefer it just as it is. I am a 'function over form' kinduva guy, and I like it. It doesn't roll away when you lay it down. The lightly visible milling machine marks say to me "I used to be a solid block of metal". The no-frills, vaguely industrial look tell me "I make vapor for you. That's all I do, and I do it well". See Note ***
Other colors would be cool as a variation for me. The gun-metal gray may not match your high-dollar suit, but I am not a fashionista, and don't have any high-dollar suits.
There is a huge fashion thing going on in the guitar industry, of fake, "road-worn" brand new guitars. They sand off areas of paint on brand new guitars so that it looks like your hands have worn the paint off. They cut phony check-marks in the paint with a razor blade to make it look like a 40-year old finish. That is bogus. Honest road wear is cool. It shows you have been with your instrument enough that YOU have left your marks on it, not just paid extra so that it looks like you play a lot.
My Darwin has a couple of shiny corners, where it was dropped on concrete, didn't hurt it a bit. It's honest road wear, I don't mind.
Note*** My Darwin does not really talk to me, nor do I answer.
You see some reviewers, tube fanbois and non-Darwinians ..... about the look of it, but I actually prefer it just as it is. I am a 'function over form' kinduva guy, and I like it. It doesn't roll away when you lay it down. The lightly visible milling machine marks say to me "I used to be a solid block of metal". The no-frills, vaguely industrial look tell me "I make vapor for you. That's all I do, and I do it well". See Note ***
Other colors would be cool as a variation for me. The gun-metal gray may not match your high-dollar suit, but I am not a fashionista, and don't have any high-dollar suits.
There is a huge fashion thing going on in the guitar industry, of fake, "road-worn" brand new guitars. They sand off areas of paint on brand new guitars so that it looks like your hands have worn the paint off. They cut phony check-marks in the paint with a razor blade to make it look like a 40-year old finish. That is bogus. Honest road wear is cool. It shows you have been with your instrument enough that YOU have left your marks on it, not just paid extra so that it looks like you play a lot.
My Darwin has a couple of shiny corners, where it was dropped on concrete, didn't hurt it a bit. It's honest road wear, I don't mind.
Note*** My Darwin does not really talk to me, nor do I answer.
I'm not looking into anything too deeply just admiring something beautiful - love my darwin so much would like to bring home another some day. I've got no problems with mods that are well used and retro and have some now. Guess I'm geeky and fascinated with all things Darwin. The house isn't going anywhere either ( I think) - I'm just being dramatic.
Thanks ime!!! Man i was going to refrain from ordering anything over the holidays. Well that was short lived. Hex shields on the way!!! Happy holidays.
I use a tank w/ my cartos - are you topping off and making sure they're saturated?
yea they are filled as much as they can be, i can get a couple good hits when they are a little flooded and slightly gurgly but once that goes away that just dont taste right, i might just be tasting the poly since ive been using attys dirrect dripping for a couple months but id be surprised
The cartos dull the flavor for me too. Some, like bobas or gj, are horrible in a carto - really dilutes the taste and th imho.
For whatever it may be worth, I vaped tobacco and tobacco menthol juices exclusively for over a year. During that time, I tried pretty much every atty and carto on the market (thru about 5/11). I never liked any bacco or bacco-menthol in any carto. To me, those juices were best in attys - which is very subjective to individual preferences (but my preferred has always been the Joye 302 = 801 style). I had many different juices and rotated thru different ones regularly (including BB and GJ). All seemed way better (to my taste) in attys.
Last May, I switched to fruit and sweeter juices and find these are best (again, to my taste) in carto's - my preferred Boge 801 (can see at Nhaler) aka JCA302 at Boge. Many others I know who vape fruit flavors seem to also prefer cartos *and the same Boge 302 as well.
Not advocating my preferred cartos and attys, just offering the info in case anyone is trying different gear and may not yet have found these to try. My point is merely that you might try different juices in different gear. Of course with Darwin, it is easy to experiment at different watts levels too and taste some juices differently at different watts levels (as some of the flavors respond differently at various heat levels).
Hope something here is somehow helpful.
Happy Holidays!
And Happy
Last May, I switched to fruit and sweeter juices and find these are best (again, to my taste) in carto's - my preferred Boge 801 (can see at Nhaler) aka JCA302 at Boge. Many others I know who vape fruit flavors seem to also prefer cartos *and the same Boge 302 as well.
Not advocating my preferred cartos and attys, just offering the info in case anyone is trying different gear and may not yet have found these to try. My point is merely that you might try different juices in different gear. Of course with Darwin, it is easy to experiment at different watts levels too and taste some juices differently at different watts levels (as some of the flavors respond differently at various heat levels).
Hope something here is somehow helpful.
Happy Holidays!
And Happy
I'm totally with you on the "honest" road wear thing. My brother has bought at least one guitar like that (I can't keep up with how many he has anymore) and even relic-ed one himself, but I frankly don't see the point. If you didn't wear it from use you're just posing. I have a satin finished 12 string that I've had since about '97 that's aging very nicely and sporting quite a few dings and scuffs, the finish is rubbed to shiny in a few places, and it's 100X more beautiful than any factory-worn axe. Those dings are like tattoos, they tell its life story. Unfortunately it's needing some structural repairs (top is starting to separate from the bracing), a costly repair considering I only paid $350 for the guitar originally, though I just can't bring myself to replace it altogether
My Darwin has yet to acquire any real road wear, but when it does it'll just make it more "mine" in the only way that really matters
I couldn't have said that better. Honestly, I couldn't have said that nearly as well, either, but who's counting?
But really you nailed it on the head. The Darwin is really beautiful in its own way. Maybe it was because I was in the military, but I love the rugged almost army look. It was built to function as the best PV created to date, without any regard to how close it would resemble a breathalyzer in stock photos
I've dropped it truck loads of times, and I've used it as a hammer on two separate occasions. It's a workhorse. Even I was turned off with the look before I ordered it, I thought I would hate it. Then my package came, and I picked it up for the first time, and fell head over heels in love.
EDIT: I finally have visible wear on my Darwin. I've carried it in my pocket with other metal things daily (keys, etc) and finally got a small scratch on the LCD screen. Other than that, nothing.
For whatever it may be worth, I vaped tobacco and tobacco menthol juices exclusively for over a year. During that time, I tried pretty much every atty and carto on the market (thru about 5/11). I never liked any bacco or bacco-menthol in any carto. To me, those juices were best in attys - which is very subjective to individual preferences (but my preferred has always been the Joye 302 = 801 style). I had many different juices and rotated thru different ones regularly (including BB and GJ). All seemed way better (to my taste) in attys.
Last May, I switched to fruit and sweeter juices and find these are best (again, to my taste) in carto's - my preferred Boge 801 (can see at Nhaler) aka JCA302 at Boge. Many others I know who vape fruit flavors seem to also prefer cartos *and the same Boge 302 as well.
Not advocating my preferred cartos and attys, just offering the info in case anyone is trying different gear and may not yet have found these to try. My point is merely that you might try different juices in different gear. Of course with Darwin, it is easy to experiment at different watts levels too and taste some juices differently at different watts levels (as some of the flavors respond differently at various heat levels).
Hope something here is somehow helpful.
Happy Holidays!
And Happy
i feel the same way, sweet type falvors i have always put in a carto of some sort, and bacco flavors i have to drip or use a bottom feeder with an atty, sweeter flavors i have always used in a carto. i havnt used 808s so i cant comment on that ive always used 510 stuff either way, totally agree with the tobaccos in attys sweets in cartos
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