What's your best newb/like mistake?

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Faylool

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Mine was the T3 clearo thing except my mistake was buying a5 pack because I thought they were a newer version of T2 which of course filled from the top. I tried to undo the top to fill with ejuice and I tried and and tried saying what the .....? And cursing my inadequacies always fumbling and hating engineers never quite making anything all the way right so on and so forth. Once I figured it out and tried it I didn't like it. Was oing to transfer juce and did the spill it thing. The worst part is I had 4 more! I still have one I haven't donated just in case. Everytime I run into it in the box of stuff it's in I kind of study it and shake my head. Haven't bought a plastic clearo since and that was before Christmas last year

The really worst one was learning to dry burn my hh357 expensive atty. it kept producing a lot vaper. I kept at it. Finally I stacked two 18350s in my Vamo saying " this ought make short work it!" Changed to volts and upped them and kept on trying until I popped it. It hung in there an amazingly long time considering
 
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StacyInOkla

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Was told when my cheap stardust got hard to vape I needed to clean the wick. When the time came I pulled the wick out with a pair of tweezers, along with the coil :facepalm: As soon as I saw the wires I knew I had :censored: up. Luckily I had bought another one earlier that day. It ended up being a blessing in disguise cause right after I put the new top on I found ECF, started getting iClear 16s, and Pro Tanks :D
 

Barbara21

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I've been trying to mix some tobacco and fruit flavors...seems I like the sweet ones.

Got my little empty 5ml bottle, mixed my coumarin and red licorice, capped that sucker and shook it for all it was worth. Too bad I never put the little dropper tip back on the bottle... :facepalm: Did the same thing with the next mix. :facepalm: :facepalm:

I can understand once. But twice in a row!! LOL!!
 

jow350

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My noob mistake(s), first spending almost $75 on NJoy crap at the gas station, then following that up with buying three Ego-T Twist 650mAh batteries for $40 each at the local B&M Store, along with a few clearomizers at around $15 each, and fluid for $14 per 10ml bottle. Lesson learned, but I don't regret it as it started me along the right path.. That was almost 5 month ago and the day I bought the Egos was the last day I smoked an analog.
 

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Thinking/insisting that it had to look like a cig and taste like a cig or it wouldn't work for me. When i first joined ECF it was months before i realized that e-cig alikes was a mistake for me.

I was a slow learner but now i know the truth after over a year of vaping.The truth is if you don't try something how will you find out your true preferences :)

Now when i look at this vid someone made on youtube i can laugh at myself and say been there done that :D

 
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First day at work with a T3. Was on break, reading a book, and wanted to change flavors. Still reading, unscrewed t3 from battery... but actually unscrewed tank from base. Full tanks worth of juice all over a library book.

Been there, done that, got the stained t-shirt(s).

I "filled" an evod tank without taking the head off. And another time I had a tiny bit left of a really good juice (man, I was looking so forward to it, too) and didn't tilt the tank just right and squeezed most of it down the center post and on to my shirt.

I have a lot of stained shirts.
 

Abbell

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First day at work with a T3. Was on break, reading a book, and wanted to change flavors. Still reading, unscrewed t3 from battery... but actually unscrewed tank from base. Full tanks worth of juice all over a library book.

Dumped a Kanger Pro that way at work... twice. Damn employees kept distracting me and the next thing I know my favorite juice was all over the desk.
 

Myrany

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Still a noob. I figured out that squeezing a bottle of vg harder doesn't make it drip faster, it pops the drip tip off and dumps the bottle everywhere.

I had to do that three times before the lesson finally sunk in.

Sent from my microwave oven.

I did a similar one.

Trying to empty what was left of a syringe of my 50/50 DIY Strawberry back into the bottle I managed to shoot the tiny Syringe needle off the end of the syringe and INTO the bottle. TWICE!
 
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