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Oh my. I thought smokes were bad here -- around 11 bucks a pack when I quit, now 15-ish (discount brands).
I was a pack a day smoker, which means, I haven't spent well over 20,000 bucks on cigarettes during the past 5+ years. I feel fine about my recent shiny binge
I was a pack a day smoker, which means, I haven't spent well over 20,000 bucks on cigarettes during the past 5+ years. I feel fine about my recent shiny binge
Crazy...I made a calculation a few years ago. With all my smoking money over the years, I could buy a decent house or a mega fishing boat now...
Vaping is dirt cheap. Once you start building your own coils and making your own juice, you become an enemy of the state. :?)
I vape flavourless, 4ml a day. Total annual cost to make my own juice and buy coils would about $100 if I just got on with vaping like I did with smoking and stopped getting distracted with mods, tanks and trying different flavours looking for something I might like.
My smoking habit would cost about $3800 pa.
In 9months I have spent $1100 on vaping gear, juice ingredients and freight/posts costs. In 9 months of smoking I would have spent about $2660
If I knew back when I started what I know now I couldve just bought a Kroma-Zenith kit or two, coils and nic, VG and DW and spent no more than $250 and vaped happily for over one year.
Ive built coils but have no interest in it, I have too many projects going that interest me more. I just want to bang in a premade and get going.
Probably. But to be truly incorrigible, you must have a lifetime stash of tax-free nic in your freezer.
Crazy...I made a calculation a few years ago. With all my smoking money over the years, I could buy a decent house or a mega fishing boat now...
When I quit smoking I was paying $36 a carton. My wife smoked a pack a day and I smoked almost two. About every 3 days it was another $36. We both quit about the same time. Between the two of us that was close to a new car payment.
She quit using a prescription from our doctor. I switched to vaping. My monthly vaping cost with DIY is negligible unless I develop Shiny-itus and start shopping online.
Yep when I first started smoking cigs were 55cents per pack and by the sounds of it are crazy expensive now, so I don't want to hear, " I have been vaping my drop in coils for 4 weeks and what's the best way to clean and re use them". [emoji54]
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I guess they'd respond to water in an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. followed by a long drying period. It's best to pull them apart and rebuild.
Drop in coils usually have a way to disassemble them and replace the parts. All that's in there is a coil that's usually held in by two parts of the coil body using rubber gaskets to secure the wires to the body at negative and positive points. On the old Kanger coils you'd have to pull the bottom center contact out, followed by a grey gasket that held the positive and negative wires in place. The negative coil wire was on the outside of the gasket contacting the outer body of the coil and the positive lead went on the inside of the gasket. Around the coil itself is a stuffing of cotton wrap, although some may be Rayon stuffed now.
This guy does a good job of explaining it, but it's easier to build a coil head that's designed for rebuilding.
UC destroys the wick in a drop in coil. Leaks like a sieve, breaks the fibers down maybe. The wick looks okay tho.
Yep when I first started smoking cigs were 55cents per pack and by the sounds of it are crazy expensive now, so I don't want to hear, " I have been vaping my drop in coils for 4 weeks and what's the best way to clean and re use them".
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Yeah, you'd have to take them apart and rebuild them. Cotton takes a while to dry in an enclosure. For my old Kanger heads I never tried cleaning. I just rebuilt a box full and decided that it wasn't worth my time, even though most of them vaped fine.
The wicks I removed were silica. One wrong move and they'd unwind and die. I ordered new silica rope wicking and replaced them. That didn't last long, though. I got tired of it and went to an RTA.
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The square coils were pretty easy to wick and build but none of mine had a silica wick. The new rba head was great for me but I did like having the stock coil heads to gall back on. I eventually just ordered a few spare rbas and kept a build in all of them. Ordered 3 extras for the Toptank since I pif'd all my Kanger bits and pieces.
I meant that I hear alot of stories of people who burnt their wicks or have over used them and to avoid spending another couple bucks, try washing them (drop ins)...I was being faciscous because of the cigs being 40 bucks a pack
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Now I don't feel so dang guilty havin dropped some'a that loose change on the Mem Day comp mod special, right. Just the backup mam, for the appukerlips.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Congrats on the 4 years !!
Here in israel its about 10$ for a pack of marlborro when the tax is 6.5$ . And now when the gov see to many vapers that quit smoking they want to tax all the vape eccessories and liquids !!
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