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Vaping Mail Show 'N' Tell: What did the Postman bring you today?

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tygertyger

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I go to a music festival of sorts of every year, it's North Country Fair, more of a convenient excuse to do everything you shouldn't be doing, if you know what I mean. But anyways, they're is always some really talented glassworkers there (lol), I should bring some drip tips and see if he can make glass versions.

Yes, you should.... and you should also tell him that you know a vaper in the Fraser Valley who would be delighted to test out a few of said tips and provide feedback and reviews..... well.... just sayin' ;)
 

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Ok, so I shouldn't have.... but in the words of my father: "I did it and I'm glad and I'd do it again."

I grabbed a couple of those new ViVi STV thingies with the nice metal jacket with windows.... technically it's not vapemail 'cos it's just ordered, but it's "pending vapemail".... wanted to share it here, 'cos I got the deal of the century. Right here in Canada! And cheaper than HealthCabin....

So for those of you who love the ViVis, check out mapleleafvapes[dot]com... they have the "STV" Vivis for $6.99. Add two heads like you'd get in the boxed kits for $3 and you just saved $1 and a month over healthcabin. You can actually add 3 extra heads on the order form for a total of four counting the one already in the ViVi. You're welcome ;)
 

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Twisting the wire is essentially making a dual coil so it also has half resistance of a normal non-twisted wire. Not sure about any advantages other than more wraps with less resistance

I'd assume it puts greater strain on the battery as well



Why do people have to push their devices and batteries beyond the limits they were designed to handle? I'm not talking about modifying your pv's here I talking about creating a situation where you are flirting with catastrophic failure. When Mike Morgan aka Zen~ actually builds a "current limiting switch spring" into his mods so that if you're going to vape at below 1.2 O it will burn out there are reasons for that.

Reason 1. To protect himself so that his product liability insurance protects him and his business; and,
Reason 2. To protect us the users....... sometimes I wonder why?

That's all this community needs is a news story about a catastrophic failure in a mod where somebody ends up in a clinic with a battery burn. It doesn't matter that it was an extreme set up; those technical details which are lost to even 95% of the vaping community would be completely ignored by the general population. Think we have problems dealing with junk science and all the lies the politicians use against us .... ....
 

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That's all this community needs is a news story about a catastrophic failure in a mod where somebody ends up in a clinic with a battery burn. It doesn't matter that it was an extreme set up; those technical details which are lost to even 95% of the vaping community would be completely ignored by the general population. Think we have problems dealing with junk science and all the lies the politicians use against us .... ....

There was already that *one* "exploding e-cigarette" story that's been floating around for .. what a year now ? Even though, from what I can tell it was because of a short in a custom mod, all the general population hears again and again is that an e-cigarette exploded. 1 out of a million(s)+ and the negative news story just won't die.

Google search for: "Florida e-cigarette explodes" ; https://www.google.ca/search?q=florida+e-cigarette+explodes
 
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so technically this is not vape mail, but i received it late Friday night and i was talking time to set it up (no it is not a mac....yeah i know not everyone can me perfect :p)

And yes there is dual PBusardo's going on

on the left is the work horse. I received it 2012 for well work. It has taken a serious beating such as four hard system fails, dropped, slapped, slept on, water damaged, and i think about 356 hard drive formats -- still has all original parts, and the batter still gives me four hours use.

On the right: It is my new toy santa brought me, windows 7 ultimate and running fast and happy ;)

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I go to a music festival of sorts of every year, it's North Country Fair, more of a convenient excuse to do everything you shouldn't be doing, if you know what I mean. But anyways, they're is always some really talented glassworkers there (lol), I should bring some drip tips and see if he can make glass versions.

I'm glad you posted that Jables. I've been drooling over glass tips for close to a year, and the light bulb finally lit up. There's a few glass blowers in this area, so I'll be going to visit them to see what they can come up with.
 

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so technically this is not vape mail, but i received it late Friday night and i was talking time to set it up (no it is not a mac....yeah i know not everyone can me perfect :p)

And yes there is dual PBusardo's going on

on the left is the work horse. I received it 2012 for well work. It has taken a serious beating such as four hard system fails, dropped, slapped, slept on, water damaged, and i think about 356 hard drive formats -- still has all original parts, and the batter still gives me four hours use.

On the right: It is my new toy santa brought me, windows 7 ultimate and running fast and happy ;)

Photo0287.jpg

Stereo..........8 track
 

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Not vapemail, but at tonights meet Sol and I got a phoenix XL, a Vision Eternity and a Vivi rebuildable tank annnnd won another Phoenix XL via raffle (\o/). So far the Eternity is working out dandy as a dripper out of box, haven't tried the cartridge dealy (not sure if we will tbh....cartridge meh). No opinion on the rebuildable tank yet.
 
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Twisting the wire is essentially making a dual coil so it also has half resistance of a normal non-twisted wire. Not sure about any advantages other than more wraps with less resistance

I'd assume it puts greater strain on the battery as well



I've tried the twisted wire. Had no issues, but then again, I wrapped more coils to make up for the drop in resistance. I wouldn't say it was truly a dual coil, since the wire was in contact with itself in many spots, but it was easier to establish a good evenly-burning coil. It was just too much of a bugger to keep doing it consistently. Generally I'll twist up some wire only after I've spent three hours trying to get a single-wire coil firing properly and failing. I find they gunk up a lot quicker too.

Protip: Run your twisted wire through some heat after you twist it. Gets rid of some of the work-hardening and makes it much easier to get it to stay put.

Protip 2: Run your twisted coil on a Provari if you have one. It'll pitch a fit if it detects overcurrent conditions. Otherwise, I'd try a thicker wire or trying to finesse a 32 gauge coil into working order, if you have the patience.
 
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I've tried the twisted wire. Had no issues, but then again, I wrapped more coils to make up for the drop in resistance. I wouldn't say it was truly a dual coil, since the wire was in contact with itself in many spots, but it was easier to establish a good evenly-burning coil. It was just too much of a bugger to keep doing it consistently. Generally I'll twist up some wire only after I've spent three hours trying to get a single-wire coil firing properly and failing. I find they gunk up a lot quicker too.


Mike check out Zen~'s coil wrapping video (earlier in this thread). If I can do you will be an instant pro wrapper
 

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Mike check out Zen~'s coil wrapping video (earlier in this thread). If I can do you will be an instant pro wrapper

I don't think I'd watched that one before, but I've seen a similar one where he was demonstrating the technique at a picnic or something. I don't think I've had an issue with a coil since. At least, not one that isn't solvable with a few judicious pokes and prods, at any rate.

Back on topic, I've got an order of Pluid coming my way at some point. :D
 
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