Yes I still Smoke Cigarettes and I am addicted to the smoking habit - support and chat thread.

[Thayamax]

Good morning everyone! I'm finally home from work and catching up with everyone. It's been a busy night around here. I see we have some new night owls.

Shari, congratulations on six months cig free. I knew you could do it and I'm so proud of you! You get the crazy bananas.

 

[Thayamax]

Yakone, cherry is known to be a hard flavor to do well. It usually tastes like cough syrup. Perhaps you could mix a little with tobacco, chocolate or vanilla to improve the taste. A little goes a long way.

Shari, I'm glad you had a great time at your vape meet. I'd like to find one around here I could go to. Wouldn't it be great if we could all meet one day? It would require a lot of planning and travel, but it would be so cool.

Jman, I'd really hate to see vaping lumped in with smoking and regarded as the same thing. It's like we traded one stigma for another in the eyes of non-smokers. Can't win for losing sometimes.

 

[DoloresB]

Hello there ShariR. Thank you for your encouraging words. Yes it's absolutely psychological, I know. I have been smoking a very long time. That cig is my best friend. I am enjoying my vaping experience so far. However, I am vaping nicotine free. It's illegal here. I haven't quite figured that out yet. I think this is part of the reason I can't quite let go. I need that 'fix' still. I've always liked to linger after a meal too.That one is always the best. Where I am at the moment though, no one smokes and I need to linger out side. I detest that, unless it's Summer. It's freezing here right now. What I've noticed about non-smokers is that they do not linger after a meal. They jump up and they're looking for their next fix. What ever it may be. Thanks for dropping by and saying Hi ShariR

Hello, Yakone, and welcome to the thread

No, nicotine is NOT illegal in this country, you just have to look a little for it. Try these vendors to get nic eliquid:

Gentlemen's Reserve (in BC--this vendor carries some Tasty Vapor juices)
East Coast Vape (in New Brunswick--this vendor carries some Hangsen juices)
Rainbow Vapor (in Ontario--these ladies make their own blends)

Also check out http://whatdoesthelawsay.ca/ for the scoop on what's going on in Canada these days.

Hope this helps some.

 

[Topdogie01]

Ack, good morning posts and im not in bed yet, good morning everyone, good night, ill see yall after noon.

The light... it burns... im NOT a morning person.

 

[twgbonehead]

Hello thayamax. Thank you for the welcome! I seem to be sticking around these areas the most. I was wondering just that! How do I keep track of the people I am meeting? How do I find them again without writing them down. The simplest tips rock sometimes. I'll do that now.
Until next time...thanks for dropping by. Cheers!

Yakone,

I look at the "New Posts" frequently, and click on threads that look interesting.

Remember that if you post to a thread, or "like" a post, you can then find the thread in "Likes Given" or posts, and you can get to specific people's profiles from there as well. (and stalk them!)

 

[twgbonehead]

Shari,

Put a fan (or fans) blowing across the floor to dry them out. That should stop the floor from warping any further.

One piece vs. 2 pieces shouldn't really make a difference as long as the job is done correctly. Did the pipe burst from freezing, or corrosion? (If the flux isn't cleaned off after soldering, or too much was used inside that will cause the joints to corrode).

That's one of the reasons (besides cost) they're starting to use plastic pipes a lot more nowadays.....

Who cares?

Could have used him the other night.

The insurance adjuster is supposed to come out and look over the damage this Tuesday afternoon. We are leaving some of the mess and not cutting out ceilings and walls so that the damage is very visable. The insurance co asked DH this morning to keep the pipe that burst so the adjuster can see it. It was a fairly long span of copper pipe and the original plumber who installed it did not use one piece of pipe but two pieces and joined them. That is where it burst. We have the pipe. The new plumber used one long span of pipe (about 6-8ft or so).

What is your take Lox? Should it be one piece or 2. We have no clue what is the right way for it to be done or if it even matters. My gut thought is that one piece would give less possible weak areas to leak. Am I right about this? Anyone know? The kitchen island is more damaged than I thought and the hardwood is starting to buckle up over quite a big area. I thought we mopped up the water pretty quick but guess not quick enough.

 

[Karen N Daytona]

I went to the local vape meet tonight in Nashville. Had a ball. It was their 1 year anniversary and my 6 month anniversary so there was quite a crowd. Lots of people walking around with mechs and cartotanks and kayfuns. I met two other ECF members that I run into on other threads and we put our ECF names on our nametags and we found each other. So fun to meet people you talk to here.

LDS taught me how to build a coil for my evod and protank. I arrived armed with my reading glasses AND a lighted magnifying glass that hangs like a necklace. That was the beginning and ending of my evod coil building career. Never again. Everything is way, way too tiny. My fingernails were too long to manipulate the tiny pieces easily and I could not wrap the coil freehand, I did have to use a drill bit. The coil was wrapped with 30ga 7 or 8 wraps and the Peaches & Cream yarn used as a wick. The thing read out at over 3ohms. It fired on my Spinner, I would not put it on my Provari. Lost flavor shortly after and removed flavor wicks. Tried it on Provari to read ohms. No go, was unreadable. So scratch that up to I will buy the coils.

I traded some juice with him and he gave me an RBA dripper clone. Looks like a beehive. He did not know what it was (possible Octopus clone) but thought he got it from Fasttech. The deck and posts look similar to the kayfun with the screws and all and it is bigger than the evod heads so I will practice on it. I need to figure out what gauge wire to get my hands on. I will use cotton balls as wicks. I want to be around 1.8 to 2.2 ohms. Give myself wiggle room.

Lots of fun. Got to talk to several people that are on ECF but not real active. People who watch Pbusardo and Grimmgreen an Todd. Saw a couple of VTRs and a couple of other provari users. Met one of the ladies that I talk to on the Provari threads. So a real good night.

I missed that its your 6 month anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Anniversary and congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you know what you get? Bananas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Claudia P]

How cool was that. For the cotton balls buy Walgreen's organic cotton balls, the others are bleached and leave residual taste if you don't boil them first. For micro coils use 28g Kanthal wire.
Now with this said I have not wrapped a coil yet and changed my first one last night. The guy who sent me the jig he made also sent two micro coils he had made and I used one of those. On your ProVari put the head without the tank on it and press the button 13 times, Ao will show up on the screen and then the Ohms of the coil. You can reliably use this to measure the resistance of your coils. Don't give up on making coils so easily, no one gets it right the first time. Rather than a regular lighted magnifying glass most use a head band thingy, I wish I knew what to call it, I have one for my craft stuff and it has different lenses that change out easily, it's great. To even wick I had to give up on the squared off nails and go back to rounded, I have long nails too.

At the last semi local meet of Scenic City Vapers there were nearly 400 people, yikes, and the next one they expect more and have had to get a ballroom to be able to hold everyone. PBusardo himself is going to be there, it would be fun to go but I won't be able to, it is unlikely that I will ever get to one.

I went to the local vape meet tonight in Nashville. Had a ball. It was their 1 year anniversary and my 6 month anniversary so there was quite a crowd. Lots of people walking around with mechs and cartotanks and kayfuns. I met two other ECF members that I run into on other threads and we put our ECF names on our nametags and we found each other. So fun to meet people you talk to here.

LDS taught me how to build a coil for my evod and protank. I arrived armed with my reading glasses AND a lighted magnifying glass that hangs like a necklace. That was the beginning and ending of my evod coil building career. Never again. Everything is way, way too tiny. My fingernails were too long to manipulate the tiny pieces easily and I could not wrap the coil freehand, I did have to use a drill bit. The coil was wrapped with 30ga 7 or 8 wraps and the Peaches & Cream yarn used as a wick. The thing read out at over 3ohms. It fired on my Spinner, I would not put it on my Provari. Lost flavor shortly after and removed flavor wicks. Tried it on Provari to read ohms. No go, was unreadable. So scratch that up to I will buy the coils.

I traded some juice with him and he gave me an RBA dripper clone. Looks like a beehive. He did not know what it was (possible Octopus clone) but thought he got it from Fasttech. The deck and posts look similar to the kayfun with the screws and all and it is bigger than the evod heads so I will practice on it. I need to figure out what gauge wire to get my hands on. I will use cotton balls as wicks. I want to be around 1.8 to 2.2 ohms. Give myself wiggle room.

Lots of fun. Got to talk to several people that are on ECF but not real active. People who watch Pbusardo and Grimmgreen an Todd. Saw a couple of VTRs and a couple of other provari users. Met one of the ladies that I talk to on the Provari threads. So a real good night.

 

[aikanae1]

Wouldn't it be great if we could all meet one day? It would require a lot of planning and travel, but it would be so cool.

What an idea!
I don't thnk the world would be the same after that.

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[Claudia P]

The gal with MS is making micro coils for PT heads by the dozens, using DI's jig. She has terrible vertigo with her MS and a lot of trouble holding her eyes still. I figure if she can do it so can it.

It sounds like a great evening! I'm glad you had fun and got to meet people from ECF.

I don't know if I could do the little coils and get them into a protank head. I do think with the right RBA and the right RDA I could rebuild. it would have to be a larger surface area to work within

if not, honestly, I can use CE4's or better. I like the cheapo drippers, I like anything to vape with! LOL

 

[Claudia P]

Hi and welcome.

I'm rushing off to try to get a Photoshop problem sorted out with my art teacher, I'm in the middle of a class and way behind so I will be scarce for a few days.

I gotcha! Thanks alisa1970. I'm starting to catching on

 

[Claudia P]

Shari everyone uses a drill bit or needle or jig or something to make micro coils.

Karen, you would have laughed at/with me. I was a rocking old lady. I had my reading glasses on and a magnifying glass with an led light on it. I had several of the rebuilder young guys ask me where I got it; they wanted one! It was a gift so I have no idea.

Those evod/protank heads are very tiny. Once you take it apart you have a whole little pile of stuff not much larger than glitter. And I am going to have to cut off my fingernails. Oh, the unjustness of it all! My fingers had a hard time manipulating such tiny parts. The nails would not matter. I need something with a larger deck and not such tiny pieces. But I think I can do it. I have to use a drill bit. I can not wrap freehand at all.

 

[Claudia P]

One of the guys I know uses this and loves it for making coils.

actually I bought this for the future of my building, not ready yet can't afford the rest of what I need.

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[Claudia P]

The one I got from DI is made from a plastic picture hanger from Walmart and a tattoo needle. DI happens to be a tattoo artist and a very talented one at that.

Claudia got her hands on one of the ones you are talking about. I figured this would be good enough. I got it pretty cheap so I didn't mind trying it, I had seen a youtube with a woman using it to make coils for vaping. Once I can afford the rest of the supplies I will will buy them and learn.

next month, I have to get at least 3-4 clearos, mine are getting older and since the are plastic they will start to show signs of wear and tear, I already cracked three this month. I keep the parts that could come in handy but so far I have more bases than clearos. I keep them in a bead box so they don't get lost. I do buy one clearo a month from fasttech so I am never without. it ships free so for $2.50 or less I feel like I got a gift! LOL Next month I will spend about $8-$10 and get some CE4+ or CE4S which allow for replacement heads, I want to see if that's worth doing, how long they last.

 

[loxmythe]

Shari you always want to use a minimum amount of joints when running copper pipe however a "properly" soldered lap joint should be as strong as the pipe anyway. Since they stopped using tin/lead solder in the 80's the newer solders are quite strong and reliable. If the joint was done right odds are if it wasn't there the pipe would have burst or split anyway. Did you save the piece with the break? Insurance company may want to see it
If your worried it may happen again consider replacing it with pex
http://www.pexinfo.com/

 

[Claudia P]

Shari everyone's first coil is a failure, most moreso than yours. The overall length of the wire in the finished coil along with the gauge of it is what determines the Ohms, also most good micros are in the 1.3 to 1.8 range from what I gather, the one I put on my Trident last night reads at 1.4 and is great. Of course it's great it's one DI made and all I did was install it. LOL The more wraps the higher the ohms and the longer it takes the coil to heat up, with dual coils you need to use finer wire and more wraps and each coil needs to be double the resistance you want for the finished dual coil setup.

Congratulations on 6 months.

Now I really need to clone myself so I can keep up with all of this and get my classwork done. LOL

I don't know anyone who does a freehand wrap around the wick, they all use a drill bit or large gauge needle or toothpick or jig of some kind. Freehand wraps around wicks are more with higher gauge(thinner) wire, micros with 28 to 30 gauge.

Thank you Aik. I can not believe I have made it without one cigarette this long either. And the not smoking has not been bothering me lately. I thought for sure with the pipe bursting that I would be climbing the walls. Nope. Did not even enter my mind to have a cigarette. Amazing. I tend to think about smoking now when others talk of it, or when I see someone in a movie smoking but it passes quickly.

I have also been lowering my nicotine level down from the 24mg. 18mg is pretty comfortable for me but when I try to vape for more than a day at 12mg I find myself chain vaping and looking for my 24mg juices. But I am moving in the right direction and I have all the time in the world.

I am disappointed that my first attempt at coil building was a complete failure. But that is to be expected I guess. Plus, I do not care what anybody says, and evod or protank head for a first attempt is crazy. That stuff is so tiny. The actuall wrapping of the coil and stick cotton through it is not bad. It is the taking apart something that small and keeping track of all the tiny pieces. And the knowing what to use and what to do.

What gauge wire and why. Standard low # coil or micro coil and why. What to use/do to get a 2 ohm coil. My hands are not steady enough to do a free hand wrap around the wick. I need a needle or drill bit for stabilization. I need to know the why of stuff just not how to do the steps.

I personally do not think it is worth the time and frustration to do those heads. They are cheap enough to replace. The Russian and Kayfun or an Igo-L I think will be worth it. I hope. I am still pretty happy with my 510 attys and have enough of them to last me a while. But have to try to learn to be self sufficient in case of laws and regulations in the near future.

I am quite proud of myself and I do feel like this is a major accomplishment. So thank you.

 

[aikanae1]

Karen - You may want to consider these clearos. Lots of positive reviews coming in on other threads $6.07 KWX5 Electronic Cigarette Round Mouth Atomizer (2.0mL) - 2.4

I'm still looking for something a bit bigger for 20mm mods (Provari). Hypertank is ok, not in love with protank or puritank.

 

[Karen N Daytona]

I hope you all have a fantastic day!

 

[aikanae1]

Can't you use premade coils? I've run into conversations about ppl using FT coils and those are 50-100 for $3 or $5. Insanely cheap. All they do is install???

Yup. I know nuthing bout this.

Shari everyone's first coil is a failure, most moreso than yours. The overall length of the wire in the finished coil along with the gauge of it is what determines the Ohms, also most good micros are in the 1.3 to 1.8 range from what I gather, the one I put on my Trident last night reads at 1.4 and is great. Of course it's great it's one DI made and all I did was install it. LOL The more wraps the higher the ohms and the longer it takes the coil to heat up, with dual coils you need to use finer wire and more wraps and each coil needs to be double the resistance you want for the finished dual coil setup.

Congratulations on 6 months.

Now I really need to clone myself so I can keep up with all of this and get my classwork done. LOL

I don't know anyone who does a freehand wrap around the wick, they all use a drill bit or large gauge needle or toothpick or jig of some kind. Freehand wraps around wicks are more with higher gauge(thinner) wire, micros with 28 to 30 gauge.

 

[Uncle]

love ya UNCLE!!!!!!!!!

Right now till my case is decided, I will have Blue Cross HMO under Obama Care, after that either Medicare since I have been waiting over 3 years or Medicaid, I also think it will depend on my monthly SSD. If I am "lucky"to get what I am supposed to get, over $1200 per month, I am not entitled to Medicaid at all. If I am not lucky to get the $1200 than I am. I guess "lucky" is subjective, I have no idea which way it will go.

thanks for all the info I am sure at some point I will need this!

THANKS

However - To be honest, while "You" are mainly one of the people I was thinking about when I posted this information, especially since you're a resident of Florida and hopefully going to get some assistance finally, I was also posting the information for a few other people to take a look at to check what their state offers . . .

AND - More importantly, I wanted to let Everyone (without specifying any one person - including "You") know about what is available to get the assistance they need in acquiring their/others medical-care & prescriptions too . . .

Well, like Uncle said, it can be a challenge to get medical care for breathing with Medicaid. I can understand a private room vs. a ward, but not tiered medical care. Ppl need to breathe! Medicaid is rock bottom care.

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Oh - I So AGREE With "You" (and so many other post too) . . .

A "Challenge" and "Difficulty" to get any medical care today is an understatement, even if the Government recognizes that "You" are "disabled" . . .

However, at least it is something . . .

AND - As someone whose "disability" is more then just "Breathing" problems - like Diabetes, etc. (The list is long & just TMI) and being on the bare minimum disability benefits (which just got an increase of $11.00 a month this year, but lost that and more in other benefits - totaling $51.00 - because of the increase So - "Living" on way less then $1,000.00 a month, but at least still living - THANKS to some "Friends" too) . . . EVEN with the grief of having to FIGHT to get the medications I NEED sometimes . . . I am thankful for what health-care I can get even if it is through "Medicaid" . . . Hey - To be very blunt, I never really had any medical insurance (except for 3 years) - nor regular medical care, unless I paid out of pocket . . . Always had to rely on "Free" Clinics or Emergency Rooms for health care most of "My" Life . . . Just Sayin' . . .