What the...?! 2 years? How could this be?!?

[PhreakySTS9]

Alright folks, so today is my exact two year vaping anniversary! Wow how the time has flown by! And it just so happens to land the day before VaperCon so I figured it was only right that I made this thread. So, obviously vaping has changed tremendously since I began in Oct, 2010. Let's take in some nostalgia. I want to reminisce here. Let's take a look at how crazily different things are these days, i'll kick it off.

* Debating on whether you could get the best wicking performance by filling your cartridges with tea bags or with the blue foam
* Debating on which kind of tea bag itself would work best
* Having to trim down your carts because the ends of them were touching the bridge of the atomizer and melting, giving you a horribly disgusting burnt plastic vape
* VV meant you could choose between 3.7v, 6v or 7.4v ROFL
* When drip tips were a new idea and I saw a video of a guy who looked like he was --- close to having his head explode from awesomeness

What else you guys got? I'd love to hear em!

 

[Mustang73064]

Congrats on your two years.

 

[pericat]

I got nothin'. But congrats! Wow, what a lot of changes. Tea bags? Seriously? With or without tea?

 

[CommaHolly]

HAPPY VAPEAVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ummmmmmmmmmmmm in 3 months,,,,,,,,,,

ummmmmmmmmmmmm,,,,,,,,,yeah, got nothing, but congrats, and I have no idea what you're talking about,,,,,blue foam or tea bags???

 

[drsocal]

Happy anniversary!

 

[VapDrak]

Congrats

I remember the tea-bag times... we could consider them as the first rebuildables

 

[Cookster]

Wasn't it the Lipton Pyramid Tea Bag? Remember the spike coming out on the Tankomizers? The Power Flush?

 

[moishesmom]

Congrats to you, that's GREAT!

 

[PhreakySTS9]

Wasn't it the Lipton Pyramid Tea Bag? Remember the spike coming out on the Tankomizers? The Power Flush?

Yes, infact, it was the Lipton tea bags. Actually I just saw the guy that apparently invented this method post a comment on a pbusardo video. That comment was really the inspiration for this thread haha.

 

[Susaz]

Very few saw the filler idea of the Lipton bags... I remember refilling KR808D cartos drop by drop and spinning, long before the condom method appeared. I did have the first Silver Bullet that broke down and I was too far to send it back for repairs...

Keep on vaping! Don't do as I did, running out of money and going back to smoking! Happy anniversary!!!

 

[PhreakySTS9]

Oh it'll never happen. I have a well paying job so that even if I were forced to quit I would just switch to gum before I would ever touch another cig. Thanks everybody! See you at VaperCon!!!

 

[drsocal]

Well you know what they say..."time flies when you're having fun!"

 

[DC2]

I remember when Kristin, our beloved CASAA Vice-President, was recommending Buf-Puf pads as cartridge filler.


And who could forget these classics...
--The Straw Mod
--The Zero Filler Mod
--The Syringe Mod
--The Taryn Spin
--The Condom Method
--Bonuts

 

[fourthrok]

Gee...I still use the Condom Fill for my 510 XL cartomizers that I use with my 3.7 Gripper! What? No one else does??

And what the (MODERATED) is "blue foam"????

 

[jimrug1]

Gee...I still use the Condom Fill for my 510 XL cartomizers that I use with my 3.7 Gripper!

STILL?? I just learned the condom method a few weeks ago. And here I thought I was versed on the latest techniques. Classic huh? Someone please fill me in on how to mod/fill the XL cartos.

BTW a big congrats Phreaky!! 2 years smoke free? That is unbelievable.... I will be happy if I reach 6 months ...

 

[jimrug1]

I remember when Kristin, our beloved CASAA Vice-President, was recommending Buf-Puf pads as cartridge filler.


And who could forget these classics...
--The Straw Mod
--The Zero Filler Mod
--The Syringe Mod
--The Taryn Spin
--The Condom Method
--Bonuts

Are you serious? I have not heard of any of these. The entire list sounds more like they should be chapters in Kamasutra ..;-)~

 

[SuziesMom]

It's been just about 2 years for me too. I remember trying to figure out what the heck blue foam was too- actually never found out, but I think it was maybe aquarium filter stuff?

Oh the syringe mods, and the multiple generations of really craptastic CE's, needing to syringe fill some other sort of prototype clearo, and it was only available as an 808 fitting so I had to have an adaptor for it. So many models to have come and gone- and I bought a lot of them. Then the Vivi's came on the scene. I took a break from ECF for a while, and all of a sudden the newbie suggestion completely changed.

Didn't the Provari also cost something like $300 originally or am I remembering incorrectly? Seems like when I bought our first REO's I didn't even consider the Provari because it was about twice as expensive.

 

[DC2]

Sorry, although some of the things I mentioned are still currently practiced, they are classic to me.

But only because of how old they are, not because they are now obsolete.
In other words, I remember when they came on the scene.

 

[SuziesMom]

Janty Sticks!!! Man they were cool. Still waiting for DH to build me one.

 

[Pappy]

Alright folks, so today is my exact two year vaping anniversary!

That calls for dancing bananas!!