Ugh, guess I have to order online now... recommendations?

[GoodNews!]

So after praying that the local vendor I've been counting on would open up tomorrow, found out there will be more delays, something about a gas pipe or some nonsense. This place has been delaying for months, I'm not sure if they'll ever open.

So really narrowing down the features of an RDA that I'll probably need, it's come to this:

1. I'd like a pretty shallow juice basin, not an RDA with a deep half-inch type bowl, as I really want to get the coil pretty close to the basin as I don't want to create a huge vertical height that the juice has to travel. I really want to soak that sucker.

2. I do want a little lip of juice catch though, I will be taking the thing apart constantly.

3. I either need the thumb screws or an RDA that comes with a screwdriver. I don't want to take any chances at buying a seperate screwdriver and it not fitting.

4. I've recently been told that the screws were you wrap a wire around are much harder for a newbie to get to work, so I do want the holes in the posts.

5. To save a lot of money (probably $20) I want to shop at an online vendor that sells everything I need - I plan on trying probably two gauges of wire, whichever type of silica is strong enough to keep form in an RDA, and Ecowool (if you don't have to boil it.)

6. An RDA that has some type of airflow that, right out the box, can generally work as far as taste is concerned - I have plenty of 0mg VG juices if that'll help prevent such a throat hit, but flavor is something I have to get.

7. No air hole in the bottom!

8. A website that also has some tool for sale that I could generally use to wrap my coils around.

9. Under $25!!!

10. *Optional* Adjusteable airflow.

However, finding all of this is like finding a needle in a haystack - where one RDA has a feature I like, it also has one that I think will present problems, and where one vendor has Kanthal, they're out of stock when it comes to Ecowool or silica.

Do you guys have any recommedations or websites that really might have what I'm looking for? Hoping to at least place my order by tomorrow, I am so tired of this horrible luck that seems to kill every attempt at vaping I have.

 

[Funk Dracula]

Quickest "all from one place" list I could think of, under $25. http://www.kidneypuncher.com/

 

[FearTX]

GotVapes is another option. A good point to add for newbies building on posts with holes in them. It is a lot easier to shear your wire that runs through the post with the screw on those as opposed to wrapping it around the screw. I started with an IGO-S then went to the IGO-W. I do not think you are going to find a vendor that sells the screwdriver as well. #1 and #2 phillips work on the IGO series.



I poke fun at you here and there, thought I would be helpful this time

I actually think you would be better served with buying a bigger spool of 30 gauge Kanthal from ebay or Amazon along with the Silica. There is a vendor on those sites "Lightning Vapes" their silica is good stuff as well as the wire. You can find 10 ft specials on silica from them in the various sizes that come with "Bonus Kanthal"

Your total costs would still be ~25$

I remembered 101vape this morning as well. The stock the little colored RDAs, I have not used them but some people do. They also stock silica, ekowool and kanthal in varieties of sizes. Relatively fast shipping as well.

 

[GoodNews!]

Thanks for all the referrences, I'll be checking them out.

When you say that the posts with the holes shear the wire, does that mean the posts where you wrap the wire around the screw presents less problems?

 

[GoodNews!]

OMG Kidney Puncher has PRE-BOILED ORGANIC COTTON! !!! !!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!

Just to ask, if I'm trying to keep a high-ohm with a micro coil (at least above 1.8ohms, that's the lowest my batteries could take, but preferrably even much higher), which gauge would be best for me to use? Some say the thinnest gauge is crappy for microcoil sturdiness. Also, with silica, generally which diameter is best for a microcoil, and is there literally anything "around the house" I could use to wrap a microcoil around - toothpick, q-tip, anything?

Also, any major differences between kanthol and nicchrome?

 

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* delete delete delete *

 

[Thrasher]

OMG Kidney Puncher has PRE-BOILED ORGANIC COTTON! !!! !!! !!!!!!!!! !!

yup and you get 4 cotton balls for the price of a whole bag at your local store lol

you use any object you can find to wrap a coil............

 

[Funk Dracula]

It's a pain in the balls to thread silica into a micro coil. It doesn't wick too well in such a small diameter as well. Here's a revised micro coil shopping list under $25;

No need to boil the cotton. Did you boil your cigarette butts before you smoked a cigarette? That's a lifetime supply of wicks for 3 bucks.

The blunt tip 16g luer lock needle is to wrap your coil around within micro coil specs. 10-12 wraps of 30g will get you above 1.8Ω probably for sure.

Follow the general guidelines in this video;

 

[GoodNews!]

I can't believe I'm actually getting excited about this!

I have a huge list of junk from Got Vapes and Kidney Puncher, and I now have the money to throw around with a new job, and I'm not taking any chances at failing.

I'm ordering:

- 2 gauges of needles
- 2 different diameters of silica
- 2 different types of Ecowool,
- 2 or 3 different Kanthal gauges,
- 2 or 3 RDA's (One's actually see-through, some sort of plastic-glass mess, and IMO that would sure cut down on the chances of metallic dust, one is the regular metal version [as a back-up, one of them I GARUNDARNTEE will have a screw missing or something], and I think the third will be one with a big old adjustable air-flow hole).
- A bag of the pre-boiled cotton
- An Ohm/Volt checker
- A simple lighter-powered torch.
- Pincher tool.


And if my GotVapes Alpha Reviewer membership comes through:

- A pack of their new Fluxomizers
- 5 different 10ml juices
- The Sax Tank

Surprisingly enough, I think that's all going to come out to around $60-$70, if that much, with the things I picked. Not too shabby. Other than the metallic dust probably being in the RDA's, I hope to Jesus that I can get something to work right.

I'm sort of buying the trial versions of each wire and material though. With the trial versions pretty much coming in 3 feet for each thing, I figure I'll have enough to experiment with and see what I like. When I narrow it down, I'll buy much more. In all honest truth, I'm more scared of things like the metallic dust in the RDA's not being cleaned out easy, stuff like that.

See, still to this day, I'm wondering why the Cisco atty, while it worked, worked so clean and well. I'm sure the constant state of "being soaked in juice" probably helped, but I'm wondering why the silica wouldn't wick as well in an RDA. The coil being lifted above the juice I'm sure is a set-back that probably makes a huge difference, but if I happened to get a great flavor that I would be satisfied with for life, from the Cisco (which I also believe may have been micro-coiled - the coil in sure looked like one, and at 3.5ohms, yeah, the coil was LONG, it pretty much took up the whole wick from what I could see) I'm sure hoping that I can at least replicate that vape.

But I'm trying everything, so if this doesn't do the trick, I don't know what will. In my heart, I'm also hoping that the Fluxomizers may somehow work great, wouldn't that be something.

P.S. When I say "micro-coil" I don't nessicarily mean that it "has" to be the diameter of a microcoil, it can be a nanocoil, it can be a big old supercoil, it can be a loose-as-a-goose Lindsay Lohan coil, I don't care - whatever may work the best for general wicking is what I hope to do. I'm just doing touching coils to avoid hotspots and to give the coil more of an "heating from the inside out" temperature physic. With the silica, would it be wiser to actually do something more like a nano coil, something bigger in diameter?

 

[Thrasher]

lol you sure are one panicky paranoid cat, how many different phobias do you currently have?

except for some machining oil and maybe a few flakes of milled metal once in a while on some clones I cant say I have ever seen metal dust on anything, but you are supposed to clean things when you receive them.

The coil being lifted above the juice I'm sure is a set-back that probably makes a huge difference

the other way around, the coil doesnt work submerged and is the reason prebuilt drippers only hold 3-4 drops, the trick is keeping the wick wet not submerging the coils in juice, 10's of 1000's of people do this every day. dont try to overthink this too and try to avoid doing what already is known to work.

a properly built wick and coil will draw juice just fine if you build it correctly.

I see you fell for the GV "apha" BS lol GV loves renaming things so you cant search and compare them with other vendors, many of the alpha products have come and gone at other vendors (the apollo tank failed miserably over a year ago and their "taj" tank - lol this is the failed vivi rebuildable) and i always felt it is the way they trick people into moving old stock.