This is costing me a fortune!

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jfdibutton

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My girlfriend decided she wanted to a step up from her 510 battery and wanted an ego. I laid it out for her and talked her out of it. Now she will be receiving a proveri mini in the mail instead.

As I am sure you are already aware, she will NOT regret that decision. Wish you had been around when I bought all my other stuff.
 

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It could, if you start rebuilding them. I use 100% cotton (3 bucks at walmart) + 32AWG kanthal (10 bucks shipped on ebay for 100ft), both price i quoted would get you an amount that's probably more than you would EVER need.

I hope I made my final hardware purchase. My Vivi Nova just came today!!! I love it!!!! The thing about starting off with something good but could be better, you really appreciate the better! I'm in heaven! With vapor clouds all around me....
 

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I know I spent a .... load in the past month.... 4 mods and enough juice and DIY supplies to last me over a year. Also got a load of IMR batteries dirt cheap from OEM contacts (I also rebuild laptop computer batteries locally) so I am set up as one can be.

As I told my shark of a fiancée (its her job lol) its cheaper than my firearm collection and stockpile of ammunition....
 

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It could, if you start rebuilding them. I use 100% cotton (3 bucks at walmart) + 32AWG kanthal (10 bucks shipped on ebay for 100ft), both price i quoted would get you an amount that's probably more than you would EVER need.

You've got my attention.

I've been hearing for some time about rebuildables. Quite honestly, I'm lazy and thought it would be too much trouble.

But, $13 for more than I'll probably ever need? That perked me right up!

I'm off to explore the possibilities.
 

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It could, if you start rebuilding them. I use 100% cotton (3 bucks at walmart) + 32AWG kanthal (10 bucks shipped on ebay for 100ft), both price i quoted would get you an amount that's probably more than you would EVER need.

Agreed. I bought 100 yards of cotton candle wick for 20.00..and 250 feet of wire for 15.00 off ebay..should last a while. :)
 

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You've got my attention.

I've been hearing for some time about rebuildables. Quite honestly, I'm lazy and thought it would be too much trouble.

But, $13 for more than I'll probably ever need? That perked me right up!

I'm off to explore the possibilities.

Plenty of videos around about rebuilding Vivi Novas. Just for comparison, I use roughly 2 inches of kanthal each for each vivi nova coil. 100 feet = 1200 inches = roughly 600 vivi nova coil/heads to rebuild. and the cotton yarn ball? I'm thinking I'd run out of kanthal first before I run out of cotton yarn. You'd probably crack the tank on the Vivi Novas before you'd use up the kanthal/cotton supply.
 

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I started out small and am growing my collection as my savings from smokes grows.. At first it's expensive, batteries, different *omizers etc..
Once you find the equipment you like and get some good juices that you like you'll start to save.
I'm going to reach a break even point this weekend.. so to add to my collection I'm going to grab another Clearomizer and juice (I'll be able to have 3 good tasting juice in rotation then)
 

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Ha sounds like me I started with a free ego C passthrough battery and a clearomizer and 2 bottles of liquid. Now I have 3 ego batteries,5 clearomizers and 14 bottles of eliquid! I keep different flavors in 3 of the clearomizers and rotate them. Im thinking I should be good for awhile. Anyone agree? Day 16 woo hoo :) Have a great day fellow Vapers
 

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That's how much I got for 13 bucks.

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That's how much I use for each rebuild. I put that wick/coil combo in Vivi Novas and Phoenix clones. Snip the edges to size to get more strands instead of the thicker wick method. Maybe I did underestimate how much kanthal I use. I was being wasteful and cut myself a 4inch length, so a roll of kanthal would last probably 300 rebuilds. That means, you can rebuild this almost every day for a year off 1 roll of kanthal. I still say, the plastic tank is gonna crack before I run out.
 
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