Great post about the vivi nova John. I am using them as well since Bogegate and I am very pleased.
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E-man - The universe - the ultimate source of anything that any of us is, thinks, says, or does - says "thank you" through "me".
(I now voluntarily commit myself to the loony bin, before I further inflict my dangerous and heretical views on an innocent and unsuspecting public. If they have a good, strict Freudian on the payroll, I should be cured in about 50 years, max.)
That was my implication, and the inspiration for that observation comes from Woody Allen, in his great and wacky movie "Sleeper", where he's cryogenically frozen circa 1973 due to an incurable, terminal illness and is thawed out and cured 200 years later. When he wakes up and learns what year it is, and how long he's been 'asleep", he says "Two hundred years??!! ......... my therapist was a strict Freudian ... I'd almost be cured by now!!"
Classic.
You can find drive through shops in Wichita Falls, TX. They do place the drinks in a heavy duty plastic bag and staple it shut. Technically, you're not driving with an open container until you remove the staples.New Orleans. Where else would you find such a thing?
My pet peeve? I have 4 Vivi Novas in rotation. I clean/dry burn three of them at a time and reassemble everything. A day or two later, pick one of them up, load with juice, and it won't vape! Aargh!!! The thing was working just fine when I dry burned it. Why does it wait until AFTER I've loaded it with juice to stop working?
Hmmm ... with mine, sometimes the wick/coil manages to loosen up a bit when I unscrew the top, if it's not tightened firmly enough. Do you tighten them down snugly with a suitable screwdriver, or just tighten them finger-tight? Also, does that same wick/coil work fine in a different tank? Lastly, I think on a couple of occasions, it's been a post issue, 'though that's pretty rare for me.
I've also had good luck working a new wick/coil down into a filled tank, so you could try that to troubleshoot a burned-out coil - something that's never happened to me - by swapping in one that's known to be good.
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Afterthought: It might be evil, twisted gremlins at work - we're up to our asses in them in my neck of the woods.
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I'm pretty sure it's poltergeists.
Seriously, it's never anything difficult to fix. Usually the coil has loosened a little from the post. The peeve is that I can't tighten it without taking everything apart, and I've already filled it with juice! It was plenty tight when I dry burned it. Poltergiests are the only rational excuse I can come up with for it being loose in the first place.
Tweezers to carefully remove the rubber/metal top cap off the coil, then a screw driver to tighten the coil back onto the post, then tweezers to replace the cap. Done and done. Don't recommend this for changing coils unless the juice level is really low, but could work in a pinch.
medical folks who want to send you to quit smoking classes because you have an occasional cigarette and personal morality dictates you tell the truth. about that.
x-smokers who become fanatics to stamp out smoking. (I don't do it anymore and I don't want you to either)
vapers who become fanatics to stamp out smoking. (same thing I guess)
Nanny State mentality/ideology of ANY kind.
x-smokers who become fanatics to stamp out smoking. (I don't do it anymore and I don't want you to either)
vapers who become fanatics to stamp out smoking. (same thing I guess)
Nanny State mentality/ideology of ANY kind.
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Thanks John... I'm leaning towards the vivi novas for when these things die. I managed to fix them by unbraiding the wicks.... seems to lessen my dry hits to an acceptable level. I don't know if I'll like the regular or minis. I like my Zenesis for relaxing with a full tank. I may prefer a 2ml tank for out and about.
Fellow vapers that tell me I need to vape at 4 megawatts!
I may be in the minority but I am perfectly satisfied by the clouds of vapor I get from a humble eGo or mechanical bottom feeder with a 1.8 ohm attie.
Yes, I know, 6 volts with a 0.02 ohm coil will give more vapor!
I may be in the minority but I am perfectly satisfied by the clouds of vapor I get from a humble eGo or mechanical bottom feeder with a 1.8 ohm attie.
Yes, I know, 6 volts with a 0.02 ohm coil will give more vapor!
I guess one of my pet hates is what prices many vendors sell juice for. The pharma grade nic and pg/vg is dirt cheap as are the flavor concentrates. I guess it is still much cheaper than cigs, but if most only knew how much the juice mixer paid for the ingredients (which is probably even less than I do) they would throw a rage fit.
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Shot thru cyberspace with my iGun.
FWIW, I did start putting the caveat that apparently I like really warm vapor when I talk about voltages. IMO, 1.8 ohm VN heads (that actually read around 2.4) and 2.2 ohm boges taste awesome at +/- 5V with some juice. But I do have to remember to turn it down when I let others try it.
I think it's related to the cigarettes you used to smoke. The filtered things that a lot of people really liked tasted like air to me.
I'd just like to gently "push back" on that a little bit ........
It does seem to me that there are a fair amount of "free market" forces at work in the admittedly still-relatively-young joooose market that at least kinda tend to keep most vendors from charging whatever they feel like for joooose, and that it's gotta be at least a minor pain in the ... to perform all of the steps involved in getting x amount of joooose out the door, and into the hands of Joe or Josephine Vaper, and that if anyone could "clean up" by charging significantly less that $15 - 25 an ounce for "the good stuff", that they'd probably be doing it. That said, it does remain a possiblity that prices are "artificially" high right now because the industry is relatively young, and that prices will indeed be coming down in the future as the whole thing "shakes out", and vaping is far more widely engaged in than it is at the present time.
It's interesting to me that I still get gawks and stares and "what the hell is that"s regarding the Twist/Nova that lives around my neck on a lanyard, which says loud and clear to me that this whole deal has a LONG way to go, and that there's a pretty good chance that with increased volume, and probably far more vendors, will come generally lower prices; but in the meantime, my hat is off to anyone who can "command" and get $20+ an ounce for some of the "boutique" joooses out there from places like High Brow, Nite Lite, and others.
To me, one of the best bargains in the "vaposphere" remains Tasty Vapor, where you can get a 4 oz. "Doubler" of zero-nic flavored joose for $16.25, and a 1 oz. bottle of 48 mg joose of the same flavor for $15.50 (same price, regardless of nic strength (?!)), and end up with 5 oz. of approximately 10 mg joose for about $6.35 an ounce. Add in the "fact" that I think Geoff's Blend is practically "to die for", and their Kretek Clove is really, really good, along with almost everything else (YMMV, of course), and that they are great people to deal with (I've talked with Chris [GREAT guy] a bunch of times, and if you ask him really, really nicely [not that he's cranky or anything, because nothing could be farther from reality, but he's a homo sapiens, not a robot], he might just make for you, if he has the time and energy, something special like the "Leftist Latte" he makes from fresh-ground beans that he gets from Gimme Coffee in New York (NYC and "Upstate" NY)), and that their shipments go out like clockwork, with top-notch communication every step of the way (order received, order being mixed, order shipped) ...... and they get five stars, "two Twists up", a "strong buy signal", and raves from me. Give them a try; I think you'll be as pleased as I am. (And no, there's nothing in this for me, except the sheer enjoyment of giving praise when and where it is so richly deserved).
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From my experience, as long as you hit exactly 88 mph at the precise moment your coil is energized by lightning striking the clock tower , thereby generating the 4 (4 to 4.2 will get the job done) megawatts...... your vape will be stellar!
from my experience, as long as you hit exactly 88 mph at the precise moment your coil is energized by lightning striking the clock tower , thereby generating the 4 (4 to 4.2 will get the job done) megawatts...... Your vape will be stellar!
marty!!!!!
"Think, McFly, think!"
"You're a slacker, McFly! You're a slacker, your father was a slacker, and your kids will be slackers, and you'll always be a slacker!"
"Chuck?! It's your cousin, Marvin Berry! I think I've found your new sound!!"
"Marty, it's your kids! They're all screwed up! You've got to come with me to the future!"
"I am your density."
"Why is everything "heavy"? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational constant in the future??!"
"Save the clock tower!"
"How could you loan me a car that has a blind spot??!!"
"You might not like this ... but your kids are gonna love it!"
Maybe the best scene in "Back to the Future":
Back to the Future (5/10) Movie CLIP - I'm From the Future (1985) HD - YouTube
"Do you know what this means???!!!! It means this thing doesn't work at all!!!! LMAO
What a great movie ... I encourage everyone to rent it and watch it again, even if you've already seen it twice. Or three times.
Also: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, We Were Soldiers, Sergeant York, Twelve O'Clock High, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Vertigo, Citizen Kane, Ben-Hur, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Midnight in Paris, The Artist, Hugo, Milk, Charlie Wilson's War, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Good Will Hunting, Adaptation, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Network, Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Kingpin, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack (yes, Caddyshack), Animal House, Out of Africa, Sophie's Choice, The Piano, The Pianist, Inglouroius Basterds [sic], The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Midway, The Longest Day, M*A*S*H, Tora Tora Tora, West Side Story, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (yes, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure), The Searchers, Never on Sunday, Zorba the Greek, Midnight Cowboy, The Wrestler, Million Dollar baby, Gran Torino, Diner, Apollo 13, A Hard Day's Night, Mystic River, Lonesome Dove, Dr. Strangelove, Being John Malkovich, Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, Woodstock, A Clockwork Orange, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Inception, Blade Runner, The Life of Brian, Lost in Translation, The Big Chill, American History X, Rounders, Rain Man, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2, Dog Day Afternoon, Straw Dogs, Reservoir Dogs, anything with dogs in it .................................
And every movie that ever one the Oscar for Best Picture. (How bad can it be, after all?)
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Vaping Pet Peeve: Having to change coils on my Vivi Nova once a month.
(And yes, I'm losing it. What about it??)
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From my experience, as long as you hit exactly 88 mph at the precise moment your coil is energized by lightning striking the clock tower , thereby generating the 4 (4 to 4.2 will get the job done) megawatts...... your vape will be stellar!
That's jigawatts not megawatts...off by a factor of at least 10 or more.
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