Mount Baker Vapor Shocked Us.

Ok, let me make this brief as possible. I'm guessing my wife (non smoker or vapor') seems to have developed a sensitivity to my vaping. She seems to have nasal congestion a lot when I'm home. I'm not a cloud chaser, so I don't fill the room and tend to blow my vape away from her.

Has anyone else experienced effects of "Second Hand Vapor"?  

So I ordered a aspire nautilus full sized. And some lemon bar from mount baker vapor, so that I can have two good tanks to start back on my vaping journey after a set back so woot woot it's time to return to the pride lands for this simba .wish me luck ya'll  

I am somewhat curious why vape shops don't carry supplies to make your own e juice. I understand they make good money on their juices but for the people that do make their own, the shops are losing that sale all-together. Brew shops carry supplies to make beer and they also make good money; why then, can't vape shops do the same with juice?  

Hi, let me preface this question with an explanation beforehand, that there are two of us here Vaping. With one person, its easy to organize it all but with two, you have to keep track of whats what, which belongs to #1 person and what belongs to #2 person.
We each have several tanks and keep to our own. We tend to separate our gear.

I am on my iMac 24-7 and if not on that, I have a smart phone synched to both my iMac and a Macbook pro and I have a synched note pad file that tells me which tank has what flavour in it-generaly by which mod its on.
Thats easy for me to do because i rarely change the mods.
But as we are drawn both, to the heavily dark covered sweet ones, we also go through coils a bit faster than average.
( I just went sub ohm and am learning to make coils tomorrow)
but because at one point we had one really dark juice burn out authentic coils in less than 2 days, I began to write down the dates of new coils for the tanks so at any point i could look back and know when it had last been changed. At the risk of sounding really neurotic, I began doing that ONLY, because I was finishing up a few boxes of Aspire coils I had purchased at my local B + M store that I was sure were fakes. I wanted to make sure they were before ending my patronage there. I also had boxes I had purchased from FT and wanted to be 100% positive they were authentic, which they proved to be and this was the only way with two of us here I could keep control of which ones were which in order to watch them closely.

The problem is with my husband.
He keeps absconding with my new mods.
If I like one and buy two at once, I have to hear him rant and rave about who much money i am spending.
After that 30 minute rant, he will then finally stop long enough to Vape off of the new one and suddenly I lose my new gear as he becomes too attached to it and then suggests that maybe, this "one time' he was wrong and sends me out to buy a second mod, just like the first.

Yes, we have been together 30 years, I know him well


But in the course of this, somehow he has ended up with about 7 mods and tanks on top while i am down to 2.
I ordered a great Vamo 9 clone off of FT, heard the "rant" so ordered that one secretly without telling him....LOL
Didn't want to have to listen to him rant about it on and off for 3 weeks until it was delivered.
I made the mistake of telling him 2 days before it arrived and after looking at the photo of it, he suddenly began to talk about "his" new mod.
/sighs...I knew i should have ordered two

So I ordered another one on March 3rd but typical of FT,, its still not yet packed and sent out so I await it impatiently for a few weeks.

In the course of all of this, since he's great at absconding with mine, and he now has 7...lol.....the problem he, he cant keep track of which flavours are which and at least once a day one is thrust under me so as i can guess for him which flavour he's got.

So after all of that, I am c curious to hear what other couples, or roommates do. Or for that matter, single Vapers that have a large collection.
I just read a post in the "Over 50 Vapers swinging on a porch" or some such title, and there was a quoted post from 2012 on the first page that reminded me that i needed to figure out a way to organize all of these.
The woman had been Vaping for one year and had already amassed 30 tanks with all different flavours in them. No mention was given as to how she managed to remember which one was which.

So bearing in mind that I am willing to type lists or keep things organized that way, but the hubby isn't, how do some of you do it that aren't as fanatical about it as I am?
You cant tell me that you can just look at them for most of ours, once steeped, etc, look the same anyway.
(BTW, this organization extends to Steeping Dates/Purchase dates of each Juice)



I suspect that some might just roll their eyes and suggest I am thinking too much about it and they may be right but i am dealing with the extra problem that one of us is very organized and the other one, not at all. It adds some complications to the mix


Thank you in Advance. I apologize for the length. Years of being a Legal Assistant makes for an extremely fast typist. This took me less than 2 minutes I suspect to type. Many typing two sentences would take longer than I to type all of this out-lest anyone wish to comment upon its length and time typing  

I had to take my roomie to the hospital for a persistent problem he's been having, so, while I was waiting, I went downstairs to vape on the bench outside. A security guard spotted me and told me, "You can't smoke", so I responded, "It's not smoke; it's vapor." That's when I spotted a young lady leaving the hospital and pulling out her PV, so I asked her which B&M she gets her stuff from...we struck up a brief conversation and then parted ways.

A few hours later, I had to take the very same roomie back to the hospital, this time to the ER--again! It was so busy it took him 3 hours to be called in and another 4 to be released. Meanwhile, when I stepped outside for a vape, I spotted another vaper in the wild: an EMT puffing on a Blu cigalike. He saw my MVP and commented, "Ooh, a vaporizer!" He told me he was thinking about upgrading to a mod. I suggested he did so.

 

Greetings, while looking through my photo archive I found images that help show my beginning steps in vaping. I need to point out that during the work day I use losenges that I get from Costco so only smoked in the mornings before work and the afternoons after work.

Here's the first one taken July 6th 2015:


In March/April of 2015 the other half started complaining about my cigarette smoke. She had a eye issue that she found was sensitive to the smoke when returning from visiting her daughter. (she would get used to it but would complain when he first got back)

Looking to solve the problem possibly with Vaping, I picked up a Blue kit and some extra cartridges from (of all places Costco). It was not all that expensive and the batteries (or cartridges) did not last very long or put out much vapor. They did have a "coffee" flavor I did like. I continued smoking.

Next time she left for a few days with her daughter I dropped by a local vape shop and for ~$75-100 (I forget) they set me up with a iTaste CLK!, Aspire K1 (and Maxi) and 15ml of 18mg Strawberry juice. While it took 3 days to get used to the charging/refilling/exc of the setup I quit smoking with this setup. The 1.5ml tank and mere 800mah battery were the main limitations as well as "glassomizers" really did not put out much vapor.

With in a few days I'd upgrade the tank to a Nautilus mini and shortly afterwards I'd get Full sized Nautilus tanks and the Blue tube mod shown in the center. While this mod was a good match to the Nautilus tank, I grew tired of swapping 18350's so bought the other two tube mods to the right. One could take ether 2x18350's stacked or a 18650 and the Vamo v10 on the right could take a stacked set of 18350's.

By July of that year I had given up on "drop in coil" tanks (the store bought juice I was using was killing them in as little as a few days) and had decided to take the plunge into RTA's and into temperature controlled vaping.


At the time the two leaders in TC vaping was DNA and Yihi. I bought a SXMini ($200) and three different popular (at the time) tanks: Atlantis, SubtankMini and Lemo2. Two of the three could be used with factory coils or a RBA head, the Lemo2 had the unique feature of top fill. (I still use a Lemo2 today!)

Back in those days if you wanted to TC, you were going to do it with Ni200 wire. I decided I liked the 28AWG. A few weeks later I had added two more mods:


By this point in my vaping journey I was developing a few habits: I was 'marrying' a flavor with a tank, a tank with a mod and all battery charging was being done via USB port. I just cycled complete setups on two USB charge cords I had. Others liked complaining about the SXMini's battery door but I had no issue with it as I'd only used it once.

Sometime that summer (or was it fall?) I got tired of paying the outlandish juice prices and decided to make my own. Granted for YEARS I simply made 7mg or 18mg unflavored 100% VG juice but the cost savings allowed me to get dozens of different tanks and mods to play with and try out.

By April 2016 I took this image:


TC vaping had evolved from from Ni200 wire to Ti to NiFe48 and SS. Early TC mods only supported Ni200 (and some Ti) and newer ones supported SS. Mods I've bought had to have a user programmable TCR value. I've been exclusively using NiFe48 for years.

Finally by about 2019 I decided to get into vaping flavors. Knowing that RDA's or Squankers give the best flavor, I outfitted myself (Bullcity flavors) with a bunch of squankers and now have the option of vaping flavors. (many of my squankers are in my profile image)

NOTE: only one mod in the images I've shown is dead and no longer able to be in service.

These days I have mods scattered all over the house but in/for 5 main areas: morning coffee, home office, watching tv, night stand and to take with me in the car/truck.

Thats my story and journey - happy vaping!


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It all started as I was bored one day and decided to drop by the local vape shop and see what they had for sell. Silly me I bought a "pod mod" to see what all the fuss with the devices was about.

Enter the mod on the far left. A "pod mod". I don't recall what it cost me but it was small and light and not very expensive and the sales person claimed "it won't leak" so I figured - what the heck, I'll get it and make up some 'salts' juice and try it out.

While it was fairly easy to fill and the sales person was right, it did not leak. It did suffer from a number of 'issues'. Namely dismal output, battery life and juice capacity. Did I mention that the "flap" to get at the microUSB connection for charging was challenging? While I tried to make use of it while I enjoyed my morning coffee after a few weeks of ether running out of juice or battery at just the wrong time I started looking else where. However now that I had 30ml of 50mg juice mixed up I though I'd 'upgrade' my "salts dispenser".

Move to the setup in the middle, a Nautilus mini clone (with aftermarket RBA) and a iStick40. While the RBA is downright painful to build on I left the 1.4 ohm Kanthal build on it and filled the 2ml tank with the 50mg juice. The iStick40 is said to have a 2700mah battery (and optional TC with NI coils). The iSticks have their USB ports on the bottom. So with the tank filled up and the iStick charged up I again went about my business. This setup was a vast improvement over the 'pod mod'. Better (but not great, after all it is a Nautilus mini) output, longer battery life and more juice. It felt good to be able to grab some gear out of my stash and put it to use. The setup did have its downsides, namely the filling of the tank. Tanks of this era are filled by unscrewing the bottom+coil/atomizer out of it and squeezing juice directly into the upside down tank and then screwing it back together. While I had a dozen or more of this style of tank in use in my early vaping days, I've grown accustomed to easy top fill tanks so started thinking that I could do better so back to the stash I looked.

Enter the setup on the right. While the mod itself is fairly new (Dicodes 21700) the tank is a eLeaf "Lemo2" (only slightly newer vintage then the Nautilus). This setup gives me 3.2ml of tank, even higher output, top fill ease, longer battery life and TC of the coil. The three drawbacks of this setup are that its MUCH larger and heavier than the pod mod that I started out with and the only way to get new energy into the mod is swap batteries. Last and importantly (for those that like to use coil wrecking flavors) is that the only way to service the coil is complete disassembly of the entire tank to gain access to the coil. (not much of a worry when vaping pure unflavored juice).

This is the setup I've been using while enjoying my morning cup of coffee though. Just all part of a evolution.  

I find it very, uh, disturbing I guess, that nearly every picture of a person vaping shows them exhaling a huge cloud. Now I'm not into clouds myself, and maybe that biases me against pictures like that, but on the other hand I don't really have anything against 'cloud chuckers'. Even pictures that accomany 'pro-vaping' articles tend to lean in that direction, and I think it does not help the general public's view of vaping. It might even make a newb that wants to make the switch think that that is the way it's supposed to be.  

Not sure where to post this, but some pods have bad spit back. I'm trying to make the switch back. I slipped when my mother died in April(was vaping only for 4-5yr's before that). The device itself was 99cent's at a local store so I grabbed 3 of them. The pods have been so random tho 3/6 where fine in 1 flavor. 2/2 where fine in another, the 3rd flavor was 0/2. Was wonder if other's where having this issue maybe switch to Juul? Before I can get back from mtl to dl with my other mods/rda's/juice.  

International Travelers

I am now in the US and I am going back to the Philippines for about a year.

I have a couple of VW box mods and a mech. tube mod along with 3 or 4 various atomizers. I also have a bunch of 18650 and 18500 batteries along with a couple of those skinny EGO style Twist batteries.

Since I make my own juice, I have some large bottles of VG and some 60mg Nic unflavored PG base, along with some bottles of flavorings.

I am thinking that everything I have goes into the checked bags except for the batteries which go in carry-on luggage ... does this sound right to you?


One thing else ... If I have a small EGO Twist battery with a small Kanger Aerotank Mini on top of it (for vaping at the airport once I get into Hong Kong), do you think I would have any problem with airport security if I put that in the TSA tray along with my other carry-on junk that's in my pocket before going though the metal detector? ... The Aerotank Mini in my pocket would have a little juice in it.

Thanks,