Tootle Puffers, Redux (The Sequel)

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Krisma

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:pervy: I must be getting old ;) The child plumber that came out to take photos and check the soggy mess that was inside was so cute and sweet dealing with grubby, grumpy old people. Have a temp fix in place and should be all fixed on the weekend.
 

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:pervy: I must be getting old ;) The child plumber that came out to take photos and check the soggy mess that was inside was so cute and sweet dealing with grubby, grumpy old people. Have a temp fix in place and should be all fixed on the weekend.

Thats why I love being where I am at. My hot water heater went out around a year ago. All I had to do was go to Lowes, buy a new one, pick up some pipe because I went with a much larger one and brought it home and installed it. Didnt have to worry about any codes or ordinances or paying a plumber. Just did what needed to be done!
 

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Oddly enuf, and I DO find it odd...... I had an Aerotank and did not care for it. The CEROTANK seems to be a near twin, yet I love it.
I like all of my kanger tanks but only with my own rebuilt coils. Haven't tried any of the kanger coils after the original singles so they may be better - the cero is great with the aspire bvc which is good as at the moment I really can't be bothered with building my own :)
 

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Thats why I love being where I am at. My hot water heater went out around a year ago. All I had to do was go to Lowes, buy a new one, pick up some pipe because I went with a much larger one and brought it home and installed it. Didnt have to worry about any codes or ordinances or paying a plumber. Just did what needed to be done!

Agree.. I just replaced mine last month. Went to Lowes and put it in. Just for laughs I asked how much it would cost to install thru Lowes.
Here's the breakdown on that:
Water Heater: $499
Install: $289
Expansion Tank (required by County on new installs): $150
New pan and alarm (also new manditory requirement) $125
Since it's installed in the garage you must have a step down lip or some BS like that. If not another $275 to put one in.

Like you said chopdoc. Buy it,install it, and not worry about codes!!!
 

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@Katdarling i found the best site for matching coils was discount vapers. They have show great information and a couple of charts. I was impressed

http://www.discountvapers.com/coil-heads/

One of our all-time favorite places, XX. And owned by a person whom I've often credited with my ultimate success in vaping. Honest truth is that I'm not 100% certain I'd have made it without the never-ending assistance he offered, back when I needed him/help the most (Dec 2011 through...).

I'll always be a fan, and my entire family still shops there, as often as possible. So yeah, two BIG THUMBS UP for DV (and family)! :thumbs:
 

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I like all of my kanger tanks but only with my own rebuilt coils. Haven't tried any of the kanger coils after the original singles so they may be better - the cero is great with the aspire bvc which is good as at the moment I really can't be bothered with building my own :)

The dual were a catastrophe, IMHO, trial and error from Kanger, losing parts of the wick into the liquid until the third? version was built to keep the wick better. And now they have a single coil back with SOCC and a vertical variety (VOCC). But I think all this was nothing else than trying to sell something that looked like a new thing but made with the least effort and cost. And one can vape any of the Kanger tanks, small or large, old or new, with the single coils, with an extra second silicon cap on them to fill the place designed for the longer dual coils. I have tons of single coils in the drawer, for regulated times and times when I am too lazy to build my own coil for the Sophia.

(but to tell the truth, I am almost never too lazy to build a coil for the Sophia .... :hubba: )

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cero, never heard of it ... have to look it up.
 

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Agree.. I just replaced mine last month. Went to Lowes and put it in. Just for laughs I asked how much it would cost to install thru Lowes.
Here's the breakdown on that:
Water Heater: $499
Install: $289
Expansion Tank (required by County on new installs): $150
New pan and alarm (also new manditory requirement) $125
Since it's installed in the garage you must have a step down lip or some BS like that. If not another $275 to put one in.

Like you said chopdoc. Buy it,install it, and not worry about codes!!!
Our problem is that they won't sell you standard electric water heaters. They have to be environmentally friendly, solar, heat pump or bottled gas. We are not setup for any of the options. It's ok though I think we can skirt the regs because of where we are. :(
 

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One of our all-time favorite places, XX. And owned by a person whom I've often credited with my ultimate success in vaping. Honest truth is that I'm not 100% certain I'd have made it without the never-ending assistance he offered, back when I needed him/help the most (Dec 2011 through...).

I'll always be a fan, and my entire family still shops there, as often as possible. So yeah, two BIG THUMBS UP for DV (and family)! :thumbs:

They are always at the top of my favourite US bookmarks. :thumbs:
 

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Our problem is that they won't sell you standard electric water heaters. They have to be environmentally friendly, solar, heat pump or bottled gas. We are not setup for any of the options. It's ok though I think we can skirt the regs because of where we are. :(

Ah yes good old Government Regulation! Where they know what's best for you!:-x
Environmentally Friendly code word for "Let's Tax the Hell out of this"!!

Sorry to early in the morning for a PC Rant... Back to my coffee!! :D
 

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    Thats why I love being where I am at. My hot water heater went out around a year ago. All I had to do was go to Lowes, buy a new one, pick up some pipe because I went with a much larger one and brought it home and installed it. Didnt have to worry about any codes or ordinances or paying a plumber. Just did what needed to be done!

    Did the same, disposing of the old one took longer than installing the new one.
     

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    Did the same, disposing of the old one took longer than installing the new one.

    Funny thing with that. I called WastePro to see if I put this out for regular collection or if they had some other recycle thing they do. They said to put it at the curb and in 1-3 days they would send someone to pick it up. Well needless to say I put it at the curb and within 3 hours it was gone!! The local scrappers took it. WastePro came 3 days later for nothing! LOL
     

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    That truly chaps my hind quarters for exactly the same reason you listed. B&M's employ these young kids who are clueless about such mundane things as battery safety and personal vaping experience. All they care is to sell the high end stuff that eats a ton of juice and BTW, they can sell you the juice too. One B&M told me once that tanks are just a passing fad and for Gods sake dont ever mention DIY in a vape shop. I got dagger eyes from a lady behind the counter from that and even got to hear her rant of how unsafe mixing your own juice is. She was absolutely clueless about what she was spewing but that sure didnt stop her tirade :D

    There is still some vape shops out there that are there to help people on their vaping journey but those are becoming few and far between.

    ROFL!!! :lol: This maybe explains to me why my nearest B&M seems so happy to see me leave, if I stop in to buy a driptip. After I make my selection, and they invite me to sit at the bar and try some of their (high VG) ejuice; I say no thanks, your ejuice has too much VG for me; they respond, well it's all that way nowadays. I just smile and say, that's exactly why I make my own. Man, it's like dropping a dead fish on the dinner table, fins and all. :D :D :D :lol:

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    DavidOck

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    Proud tootle puffer here. I'm rocking a kayfun 3.1 clone(1.4Ω), with a sx350 box that I made in a kit(7.5W). because it is one of the rare (so i'v seen, could be wrong) mods that has "true" step down.
    Anyway I'm getting pretty annoyed with the local shops here. They are putting cloud chasing units into the hands of newbies who just wanted an "upgrade". I just ran into a new vapor that is still on the fence, about liking vaping. She went to a local shop to upgrade her ego setup. The shop had her buy an Istick(40?) and an atlantis tank, with a 0.5Ω coil and she hates the thing. She doesn't understand why she needs 25watts, which is making her battery die halfway throgh the day, and why if she uses a tighter draw she gets the gurgles and spit back because she flooded her tank. I tried to educate her, but there was a lot to cover. But I digress, what I'm truly annoyed about, is that these brick and mortar shops are starting to do less education of their products, and are turning more into just a "retail shop" that don't know enough about the products that they are selling, and are pushing the more expensive products into peoples hands, just to turn a profit! This is what is killing the vape industry that we know and love!

    Sounds like she just needs a higher Ω in that topper (or different topper?), along with the subsequent lower power setting. The Istick is fine :)

    Yeah, they seem to have lost sight of what should be the goal - to become EX-smokers, not weather fronts.... and also to have forgotten that a KISS approach will be more likely to generate repeat business from the now happy ex-smoker AND new business from her/his friends...
     

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    DavidOck, i told her that exact thing, i was even telling her some different toppers to check out. she then mentions that she might get a rebuildable. so i was starting to explain the very basics of rebuildable. since this was at work, someone asked me a question(work related), i answer it, turn back to the woman i was explaining this stuff to, and low and behold! she was off bumming a smoke from someone! SMH...
     

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    OT Computer stuff guys, but there seems to be some MCSE types in here...

    Boss want's to play with SharePoint 2013. :facepalm:

    So I have a Server 2013 Trial and a copy of SharePoint 2013 Trial that I pulled down from Microsoft. The first time I set it up there were nothing but errors everywhere. So it's been wiped and I am reloading Server 2013 again for a fresh start.

    Will SharePoint run on a Standalone with no Domain functionality? I am not interested in any type or Farm installation, just something to set up for him to play click the web page and share a document etc... The novelty for him will wear off quickly so I just need to get it up and running easily.

    Any tips or guides to make this process less painful?

    Many Thanks!
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