Vapor Flask V3 DNA40 Clone thread

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sando7

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PhoneGuy: I was joking about the dorm room! (I was out at the local tavern, enjoying, & tipping a few!)

A little birdie just contacted me and said the USA Warehouse was run by an Independent Agent who owns 3 B&Ms in NC. He is legitimately getting married & has shut down the USA Warehouse for a week. FC has no control over this situation and was never informed of his wedding plans prior the other night and they appear to be as frustrated as all of those affected.

It was the guy that is getting married who has offered to supply the free e-juice to those customers who were affected as his apology for inconveniencing Focal's USA Warehouse Customers and failing to inform Focal of his plans.

Thanks for the heads up Ni....!


obviously you did not believe me, now you know fer sure!
 

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obviously you did not believe me, now you know fer sure!

It wasn't that I didn't believe you! The whole situation just sounded nuts & it is! I had a few, so I joked about it a little & tried to have some fun with it.:toast:

I'm sorry if I offended you. Not my intention!:oops:
 
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I still like the dorm usa warehouse theory.... Now that's been ruined!!! LOL :D

yea i woulda liked the dorm warehouse Keg party alot better :D

Yea hearing the whole story was kind of a letdown because I had convinced myself he got married to gain his citizenship so he could open up a string of Focal Points across the USA!:laugh:
 
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OK... so now the question for you TC experts... since I ordered the flask, I'm going to try TC on the ChiNA40 and see how I like it. I'm sure I'll end up with a DNA40 before its over, but let's take it one step at a time...and I have time before my flask arrive's, so what do I want wire wise?

I know Ni200, I've read a lot about 26g, I usually order from LightningVapes and he only stocks 28g, 30g and 32g - I'm sure its annealed not tempered, and as I understand it I either want tempered or 26g - so either one is not available from LV.... so again I ask for a little advise from you guys. ;)
 

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been using grade#1 30ga TI Exclusively on my DNA40's, i just double or triple the wire and spin it in my drill then wrap my coils.......both my dna40's seem to like the .22 to .26 range and the coils last forever and no coming loose or jumping resistance.....i use rayon (cellu) between 370 & 380F; chuckin vapor.
if your interested scroll down about 3/4 of the page and look for this "25' roll - 30ga - Grade 1 CP Titanium".....i think there is a 2 roll min, i bought 6
https://theringlord.com/cart/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=123&cat=Titanium+Wire

i tried NI and did not like it a bit, just to much dang trouble, just my :2c:
 

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been using grade#1 30ga TI Exclusively on my DNA40's, i just double or triple the wire and spin it in my drill then wrap my coils.......both my dna40's seem to like the .22 to .26 range and the coils last forever and no coming loose or jumping resistance.....i use rayon (cellu) between 370 & 380F; chuckin vapor.
if your interested scroll down about 3/4 of the page and look for this "25' roll - 30ga - Grade 1 CP Titanium".....i think there is a 2 roll min, i bought 6
https://theringlord.com/cart/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=123&cat=Titanium+Wire

i tried NI and did not like it a bit, just to much dang trouble, just my :2c:

25' roll - 30ga - Grade 1 CP Titanium - W-JSTI30

That one?
 

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Wow, Focal are horrible. Seriously. I will never order from them again. 1st round fail was back in early feb, at least got re-funded for that one...
for some dumb ... reason i figured USA warehouse, I see they got their .... together.. went for the the wadeia. oops.. fooled me twice. points finger back at self.
-CF
 
Just passing along what was chirped in my ear by another ECF Member who was also affected by the situation, got the info from Doris & went so far as to send me a transcript of the Skype chat.

Doris was definitely upset because she had just DHL Shipped the inventory to cover all the USA orders the other day & was trying to confirm shipments were in progress when she found out about the nuptials & the week long shutdown. She was not pleased from what I read.

Glad I went with China shipping when I ordered my Silver Waidea on the 6th although it sounds like those who ordered from USA warehouse before April 7 were not affected.

Mine has Not shipped yet from USA, and I ordered on the 5th so the "although it sounds like those who ordered from USA warehouse before April 7 were not affected." is not holding up, at least in my case...I just Cut and pasted this status of order from Focals web site, not to stressed about it though, as I received my China order of the same flask, ordered last month, yesterday...
Order Information
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Created on 4/5/2015 2:56:12 AM

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Wow, Focal are horrible. Seriously. I will never order from them again. 1st round fail was back in early feb, at least got re-funded for that one...
for some dumb ... reason i figured USA warehouse, I see they got their .... together.. went for the the wadeia. oops.. fooled me twice. points finger back at self.
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I was never a Focal fan myself ever since I ordered (2) Orchid V4 attys last August & they only shipped 1 because the warehouse guy screwed up. Eleven straightened it out though & shipped another without question. I never ordered from them again until the Flask(s) recently & That was only because I got ...... at some communication issues with 3FVape.
 

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Mine has Not shipped yet from USA, and I ordered on the 5th so the "although it sounds like those who ordered from USA warehouse before April 7 were not affected." is not holding up, at least in my case...I just Cut and pasted this status of order from Focals web site, not to stressed about it though, as I received my China order of the same flask, ordered last month, yesterday...

Sorry to hear yours did not ship. I know the Silver ones have been much more popular on these than the black & they are always running out of them first. (which is how I ended up with the black one first).

So what do you think of the Silver one you just got now that the center pin is not adjustable?
 
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OK... so now the question for you TC experts... since I ordered the flask, I'm going to try TC on the ChiNA40 and see how I like it. I'm sure I'll end up with a DNA40 before its over, but let's take it one step at a time...and I have time before my flask arrive's, so what do I want wire wise?

I know Ni200, I've read a lot about 26g, I usually order from LightningVapes and he only stocks 28g, 30g and 32g - I'm sure its annealed not tempered, and as I understand it I either want tempered or 26g - so either one is not available from LV.... so again I ask for a little advise from you guys. ;)

http://www.stealthvape.co.uk/wire

http://www.temcoindustrialpower.com/search.html?search_bar=1&t1=26+Gauge+ni200&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
 
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26 gauge Ni200 is a mistake. Don't go near it. Just walk away.

You'll need a coil that looks something like this |||||||||||||| at a minimum if you use that with a DNA40/ChiNA40. Might get by with one that looks like this ||||||| if you use an SX350J since it has a 0.05 ohm limit instead of 0.10.

28ga and even 30ga annealed isn't really that hard to work with. It's just not.
 

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so after the one month wait for my weidea flask i e-mailed 3f that either I get an update on the status of my flask since shipping hasn't changed since 3/19 or I'll file a dispute on paypal the next few days. I don't care what happened to my packet all I know is that I have recieved packets sent from FT 2-3 weeks back which were ordered later than the flask. considering that Bloke got his flask shipped in 8 days I think it's right to assume that something went wrong. I'll update on their reaction on my email.

Took 26 days for mine to get from China to Australia from 3fvape, I had pretty much given up on it as shipping had not updated for 3 weeks before it turned up and that was with the extra express shipping option. FT e-packets are usually at my door within 7 days, no later than 10 from Shenzen.

I think 3FVape takes the money for the extra shipping then puts it on the slow plane anyway, That is the only way to explain why it is taking so long for a lot of peoples packages to arrive when compared with other companies that have the same shipping options, ie, Fasttech.
 
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