I provided links to these popular threads when I wrote my Why Provari? blog.Yeah, I've seen several threads unlinked or broken lately. Maybe after Oliver is finally done they'll work.
What, did you Bookmark some of our battles lol?
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I provided links to these popular threads when I wrote my Why Provari? blog.Yeah, I've seen several threads unlinked or broken lately. Maybe after Oliver is finally done they'll work.
What, did you Bookmark some of our battles lol?
You'll have to forgive me for not ever having read that blogI provided links to these popular threads when I wrote my Why Provari? blog.
Shame on you! And I bet you were a Provarinati.You'll have to forgive me for not ever having read that blog
I must agree. I joined ECF in 2012 when I first began to vape, and because of the wealth of information on this site I was able to make informed decisions on better gear and learned a lot of tips which greatly improved my vaping experience.
Innitially, I thought that my vaporizer had to "look like a cigarette". Well, after about a month's use of cigalikes I had quickly grown frustrated with the very poor battery time and poor e-liquid capacity. I literally had to have a few cigalikes available to last the day.
I had done a lot of reading on ECF and decided to go with a much larger battery device (a Silver Bullet, a mechanical mod with an 18650 battery which would last all day) and a cartotank (3 ml tank housing a cartomizer which would last all day). My first gamechanger.
Back in the day...
I never smoked tobacco flavors, always a menthol. However, knowing that e-liquid flavors were conjured from food flavoring agents convinced me that trying to find a tobacco flavor would probably be next to impossible. I don't know any foods that taste like a burning cigarette. Burning tobacco leaves and smoke is not something that I'd like to eat or vape.I thought my first setup had to taste like a cigarette, and I chased that round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I gave it up!
I probably dropped a few hundred on flavors, nic and base liquids trying to clone Johnson Creek's Red Oak Domestic and by the time I got close enough to it, I'd moved on from tobacco flavors.
That advice was likely a comparison between a Provari and a Vamo. Chinese made mods at that time were made from cheap materials and questionable manufacturing. If it broke, you simply had to buy another. And according to ECF, many of those did break. To some folks, that was acceptable.I still have two of my three Vamo's. I remember you (and at least one other) telling me to buy three of those so I'd have one that might last.
The V1 is the one that died. The V3 and V5 are still going. The V7 is still available now and it does 40 Watts.
I also remember you (and at least two others) telling me not to stack two 18350's in the Vamo, and I did it anyway and lived to tell about it (nothing bad happened--the Vamo is designed for it).
Yeah, I was desperate to leave my egos behind but I couldn't bring myself to buy the MVP. Waited until the Istick20 came out.Said to myself, "I'll never vape one of those big boxy things everyone is using."...LOL!
Provape made the Provari with top of the line materials and its manufacturing was top notch. It was built to last, and even if it did break the company would fix it. Not so with the Vamo or other Chinese mods.
For myself and many others, buying a Provari once made more sense than having to buy many mods in succession. You had 2 of 3 Vamos survive; better than average odds.
And that just goes to prove that there is no perfect setup that is perfect for every individual. If I had it to do over, I'd make the same decision, too. The Provari was right for me, and the Vamo was right for you.I knew and understood all that and went with Vamo anyway. I'd make the same decision today. Those things did their jobs, saved me money and still provide satisfaction.
Heh. I still have some pyramid teabags in my vape boxOnly equipment to be had was at the mall...
Chinese e-liquid..
then there were tea bags...
oooh and boge gate...
Ha, I grabbed 20 when they were going for $1 per box and still have 19. Still have some black ones, ressurectors, and IKEN's.I still have a carton of boge cartos... well I guess it would be a case, a case of 10 boxes of 5 - just in case of an apocalypse.. lol
Yep. What's cool is that no matter what we ended up with, we all found something that made us say, "hey, this tastes good! I can do this."And that just goes to prove that there is no perfect setup that is perfect for every individual. If I had it to do over, I'd make the same decision, too. The Provari was right for me, and the Vamo was right for you.
I'm pretty certain that we have both since moved on to a different setup that seems perfect for us.
I still have 2 boxes of 10 each of the go go cartomizers. I also have 10 of the go go replaceable battery mods. Discount Vapers had them marked down to $10.00 each when they started going out of style lots of years ago. Hubby loved them at the time so suggested I go ahead and stock up on them Sure wish he would make the switch but sadly for now he is back to smoking At least I have something to fall back on if everything else quits working. I really should fill up one of the cartos and see if they are still as good as I remember them being.IMO, better back then.
I had a Go Go set up, proprietary threading, 1300mah & 3a of raw power attached to a go go cartomizer / go-cart that held 3 ml of liquid.
Battery lasted a full day, carto's were extremely efficient with liquid consumption, carto lasted 100+mls and had the perfect heat & airy draw, enormous cloudz, flavor was better than anything since. Every bit as good as any rda.
I still have 2 batteries & 2 carto's I'm saving for my 10 anniversary of quitting the smokes.
Gonna fill a carto & vape my face off.
Cigeasy & Nhaler were the only distributors Im aware of.
this site says "the voice of vaping since 2007" so i was wondering if any veterans here can tell me how vaping was 10 years ago and how its changed over the years?