What's the biggest mistake you made as a newbie vaper

[Mark in Florida]

I'm hoping that people will read this and learn a lot if there are enough contributors. So to get the ball rolling, I call this first one "Yes, I was once a dangerous idiot!"

When I was ready to graduate from my EVOD, I purchased a kayfun and a Cronus clone. I built the most beautiful coil you have ever seen. Wicked it with cotton. I was thinking "Man, this is so easy! I'm a freakin' super hero!". Put everything together and as I was about to screw the atty onto my mod, I looked at the center pin, which was a philips screw. I had read about adjustable center pins and it did look kind of recessed a bit, Sooooo. Yep. Adjusted it out about half a turn, put it all together and it got hot like a stick of dynamite! As I was racing to unscrew the mod before it blew up it scared me and was almost enough to turn me off of vaping. When I got it all apart again (after the smoke cleared...) I could see that the positive block on the deck had rotated around, touched the negative and pie-yow, direct short.

I learned that just because they happened to use a screw as the pin on a 510 connection, it doesn't mean you should touch it or look at it too much!

Next..!

 

[Jan Graskewicz]

Spilling juice on my hand and rubbing my eyes.


Thank you for sharing with me.

 

[eyerhere]

After carefully filling my mt3 rather tan keeping it upside down and screwing on the base I fipped it over and started to screw onto the base.
Yea felt stupid. A couple ml does not seem like much untill you have spread it all over yourself.

 

[The Torch]

Squirted juice in my eye to check why it wasn't coming out of the bottle

 

[chef78]

Opened the wrong end of my Nautilus mini when explaining how to fill the tank to my brother when it was already filled , and spilled it all over my self. Lol

 

[Silence]

bought a Blu.

 

[roosterado]

Buying 3 automatic batteries before buying a manual battery when I was new to Vaping- --before moving to VV or Twists/Spinners

 

[ElConquistador]

The first time I tried to fill my brand new CE5 clearomizer, I studied it very carefully trying to figure out where to put the juice. I finally determined that the little hole in the positive pin was the most likely place to stick the needle tip into. So, I stuck the needle into the pin and squeezed away. Finally, it occurred to me that maybe the mouthpiece unscrewed.

I was sitting in my car doing this, it made a bit of a mess.

 

[Atrus]

I got a telescopic mod as my first mod. Didn't realize until a whole month after I got it that I wasn't tightening it enough when i would change batteries so i would get insane voltage drop through the mod and i though it was a bad product hahaha. SMH OPERATOR ERROR

 

[samturdo]

bought a Blu.

yep, me too.

 

[roxynoodle]

I got an Aerotank mini. I thought I had it assembled right but there was this extra SS tube in the box. I kept trying to figure out where it went. Finally figured out you use either the glass or the SS but not both.

 

[v1k1ng1001]

1. Avoiding rebuildables: rebuildables are hassle but not as much of a hassle as troubleshooting junky stock tanks/coils.

2. Budget Juices: wasted more $$ on crap juices that sit in a drawer. Would have been cheaper to just buy what I wanted in the first place. I'm sure in a year I'll be posting that avoiding DIY was one of my biggest mistakes. Sigh.

3. Avoiding mech mods: a $20 mech clone can provide an awesome vape.

 

[Grimwald]

I bought 20 bottles of the first juice I liked. Two months later I hated it. A year later I still had a shoebox full of all of those juices I used to like. I gave them to my son-in-law...never liked him much either.

 

[da_kimster]

Spilling juice on my hand and rubbing my eyes.


Thank you for sharing with me.

AH HA HA HA HA HA........ yeah, me 2. For 2 days I couldn't figure out what in the heck was wrong with my eyes!! ROFLMFAO. Thanks for tellin it like it is!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[GeorgeF]

bought a Blu.

and so did I

 

[FlamingoTutu]

In all honesty, not finding ECF sooner. Trying to research on the web, I kept running into ECF links but when I clicked on them it would bring up a wall of stickiest, banner ads for things that looked like pipe bombs, dire warnings (DIY sub forum), yellow calls to action and people speaking a language I didn’t understand. I wanted to quit smoking, not learn a foreign language and acquire a new skill set, so kept away. Life got a lot easier and happier once I gave ECF a try, learned a foreign language (okay, still working on that) and acquired a new skill set. Long live ECF.

 

[beckdg]

The vamo isn't cost effective, reliable or sturdy. And the finish rubs off within a week or two if you don't get the (more expensive) SS version.

 

[emily n portland]

Today was a pretty dumb day, and I've been at this awhile.

I'm a juice hoarder.
Sunday I decided to take inventory and got everything in one place, which included getting 10 or so bottles out of my work bag. I made them all pretty and organized and figured out which faves I needed to order more of.

On a disorganized Monday I ran out the door with seconds to catch my bus.
With a near embarrassingly large stock pile of juice fully accounted for...I left the house for an 11 hour work day with approximately a 1/2 ml in the reo bottle.

I bought a blu on lunch.


Lesson learned, backups for the backups are great...but you gotta have 'em on you

Lesson two, the juice and gear I've been hoarding are soooo worth it

 

[dchemist]

Made my first coil for my Kayfun and it came out perfect. I was so proud of myself I decided to show my co-workers the next day by making a second one. The problem was, the second time I didn't screw the locking ring on my Nemesis. After some sparks, a puff of smoke, the smell of burnt skin, and a hurt pride; my co-workers assumptions were confirmed...I am a .....!

 

[defdock]

learned that i could rewick a protank head with cotton... - didnt realize i should of juiced up the coil beforehand... lots of choking on acrid burnt sheep hair...