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I agree with the others, why even start? Your friends that smoke are admiring you for not being stupid and starting in the first place like they did. They continue to smoke, because they need to, not because they want to, except when they want a smoke then it's because they "want" to. Stay strong! For them, if not for you. With that said, at least you're looking into Zero nic. I'll assume you have other reasons for being interested in vaping, such as weight control or stress control. Peer pressure isn't in the picture or you would be interested in switching to vaping instead of just starting vaping. To answer your questions, and leave my judgements behind, (faint), Some of the side effects include but are not limited to nor are they guaranteed to appear are: Acne, Dehydration, Allergic reactions to either a flavor or the PG or the VG, and Empty Wallet Syndrome. There are more, but most side affects are symptoms from quitting smoking and won't relate to you, a non smoker. Like McQuinn stated, we don't know what the future "problems" might be in gear for us. All we know is that we feel 90% better since we've stopped smoking due to focusing on ecigs/vaping instead. Even COPD patients are healing, which is quite miraculous. If you go through with this, hopefully your smoking friends will become curious enough to switch over. Is that your angle? If so, you don't have to vape it... just buy a kit (eGo), a variety of flavors, and pass them out as Christmas gifts or .... make it a rule that they can only vape at your house or in your car... or something will come to you besides the act of sucking on something. I'm assuming many things, I know. I just can't understand why you would want to start something like this. Vaping is 99% safer than smoking cigarettes as far as we can tell from first hand experience. But, not vaping and not smoking at all, is 200% safer all around. No getting around that. Good luck and welcome to VT.

HP 950 has been scheduled for a public hearing on Monday, May 6th at 10 a.m in Room 127 of the State House (230 State Street in Augusta). CASAA encourages all of its members in Maine to to attend and testify at the hearing. We have been told that you do not need to sign up to testify -- just show up and move to the podium when they ask for opposition to HP 950. If you plan to attend, please e-mail us at board@casaa.org. Maine: Bill to Tax E-Cigarettes, Smokeless Tobacco, and Dissolvables at the Same Rate as Cigarettes (HP 950) http://blog.casaa.org/2013/04/call-to-action-maine-bill-to-tax-e_23.html http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/legislation-news/402260-maine-alert.html#post9372282 Oklahoma having issues too. Calif also. Go to Cassa.org to see how you can defend your right and the rights of others to quit smoking!!

LOL, yeh, I've been there, done that. Totally forgot how I perfected it the last go-round. But it all came back to me as I plodded along. A good coil will last for a long long time. Before each refill, I like to turn it upside down, pulsate dry burn, blow off the gunk, and she's as good as a few days old.

Kitsune's Butterscotch Espresso is my new all time favorite. My Gawd that stuff is good. She should open a store, she really should.

How's it going? Did you try a thicker juice? A thicker wick? Both? Neither? You're kind of leading the pack here, you're the Captain of the Viva REbuild enterprise. Be sure to let us know (for future VNrba users) what you come up with.

You can get a Kick Extender and a Kick for your SB, and change the watts for it. The Vamo is close in size, and is VV and VW. It's not as pocket friendly due to not being able to lock your setting down, but it's about the same size and they come in SS now too. I prefer my old LT1 over the Vamo, because of that. (lockable settings) I don't have an LT2 yet (wish I did though!). Bummers they're having problems with them. Are they quirks or real troubles? Are they fixable? I'm out of the loop as far as VV's go. The Provari is still the best of the best, and worth every penny. (craftsmanship, safety, USA).. I'm looking forward to the suggestions/input of others, like you. I still love my SB for outdoor chores. It'll always have a home in my back jean pocket.

Great tip and photo!! That's how I like to coil mine. The wick stays straight and true that way even while tightening er down. I also wrap mine before inserting it into the wick hole, to compromise for lack of knuckle space. (my post that follows MSE's, that shares "yet another way" was supposed to cover this, but I got sidetracked and just repeated what he said cuz what/how he said was so cool and fresh in my mind. Dontcha hate when that happens lol. (not the fresh in mind impressions, but the fact that we can't stick with our thoughts long enough to say them) Thank you for your post!!! You made it easy to see and understand. I'm so glad you posted this!!! Dan, I leave mine in during the torch, seasoning, and wrapping. It doesn't leave my wick until the fat lady sings. It keeps the wick from squishing, and it keeps the wick from kink bending over towards the positive post.

Brand new on the market! This might be a fantastic one for you Silica fans out there. Not only is it a Silica Rebuildable Atomizer, it is a Hybrid! (no loss of volts, solid one piece connection). Here's Scott's review: and here's the website: finnvape.com http://en.finnvape.com/product/507/

Here is a collection of wick sizes for the various gennys out there. Hope this helps. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atm-i6EmP-hudG9XQ3ZHNXBNUndUaFFzZU1SdXhDeEE#gid=0

Take note of your mesh, it might be best suited for VG based liquids. (which is good thing to know). Try adding some vg to your juice, thicken it up a bit. Thicker wick might help with a vnova, but I don't know. I do know that with the regular genesis attys, it actuaclly wicks better... holds more juice for chain vaping sessions, when the wick is thicker. (for me, imho). Try it! Your particular wrap and juice just might need a thicker wick.

haha, me too! ain't life grand!

It sounds to me like you either have a short or it's not wicking or both. Try try again.

Hi and welcome to VaporTalk! Here is a map of vendors across the US that might come in handy during your travels. Some are B&M (brick and mortar stores) while others are online stores only. I hope it helps. Good luck! edited to include link :facepalm:

You make it sound so easy! When I dig out the 24mg premix bottle, I'll be so familiar with how to do it, that it should be a cinch. Thanks Mike!!!

I want to let out a huge THANK YOU!!! to Kitsune for sending to me not only a stack of wonderful flavors to have fun with, but she also sent 3 premixed ready to vape incredible concoctions that puts the word WOW back into the dictionary. Thank you Kitsune!!!! And a huge THANK YOU to everyone for being so helpful and encouraging while I fumble my way through the math and other scarey stuff. The recipes for the flavors on hand were fun to test out, and every single one of them were good!! (except for one I made up on my own ... ewwww). The Liquid Amber is sweet/sour, like a bit of cranberry aftertaste, ... it's a refreshing vape. I hope you all try it too. The caramel cappuccino/cinnamon danish swirl/usa mix is to die for good. The Banana Sweet Desert is wonderful!!! and so on and so on... What a difference DIY makes, just like everyone's always said. It's so true. Thank you for helping me to discover this first hand. Oh! and I now have a new all-time favorite vape... Kitsune's Butterscotch Espresso. Out of this world good!!! Enough excited rambling. I'm off to the kitchen to make a double batch, with confidence. Thanks guys!!

Thank you Mike!! It's making sense to me now, I appreciate your insights. Math makes me more nervous than the act of mixing flavors. It's not fun having math blocks, let me tell ya. The manager asks for drops per ml, when adding a new flavor to the ingredient list. I've been setting it at 20 (I hope that's right lol). The Concentrates will be more like 0.5, is that correct-ish? When I calculate a recipe in the manager, it comes up with "0" drops. But when I calculate with the BreakTru, it gives me the drops, but it always gives me a minus error on the pg/vg .... and I remember a post about that minus, but I can't remember what the post said. I'll look for it today. Haha, so far you don't want my recipes, trust me! But when I do finally conjure up a good one, you can bet your sweet booty that I'll be shouting it from the rooftops in every recipe thread I find. (starting with this one). Thanks again, and I'm copying/pasting your post to notepad for reference. I'll be needing to read it during every panic session. oy!

Right on!!! You're the Rockstar dude, btw. It takes a lot of nerve and patience to do these. I bow to you dear Sir, for tearing apart a working genny, in order to get a better working genny. (I need to do that with my IGO, like Proteus above). You're so going to love it after it's drilled out. Drilling it out will provide room for many optional experiments, as you're very aware of. Make sure the airhole is lined up with your wick, and is facing towards the floor. (sometimes I forget this simple to do task, and end up with a dry hit when chain vaping). Congrats Danpio, it's all uphill from here.

!!!!!~Happy Annivapsary Dan~!!!!!

I mixed up every suggestion you all have given me and I really like them all so far!(except my own suggestion, which was epic fail but, it might be better after a week or 10). I am stoked. Anyway the flavors sing, my muse goes wild with suggestions for a next batch, and so far it's so incredibly easy. It's easy staying away from calculators. But, now I'm in to the calculator part. I added flavors to the calculator (manager), edited the flavor for 1.5ml or 0.5ml, used and then clicked create a recipe, but when it calculates how much of each flavor for a larger amount, say 10ml, it reads 0 drops. I might need to open a new thread called "Calculators for Dummies 101" ::off to mix a Banana Nut Bread batch::: thanks Mike~

!!!!!~HAPPY ANNIVAPSARY RIXTER~!!!!!

You really don't want to hear my opinion of these. Honest. But, they may have changed over the past months towards the better end of the stick, so I won't say anything, except: Look at it this way. The modders love them for practicing their drilling on so they don't ruin their better ones. If you love it, great!! If you don't, then it's still good for drilling practice.

That sounds delicious! I picked up the flavoring, and now I'm antsy to mix some up. I know what I'll be doing today.

As far as we know, he's totally on the up and up. We were introduced to him on the net last year, around April I think, when he was preparing his studies for the Global Conference. Here is one of his interview videos.

I'm sure it will, that Dr is a go-getter, non-biased, Cardio-surgeon that really does have our best interests at heart.

You're welcome! The check-off lists are great aren't they. Pretty soon you'll be checking off the lists like it's second nature, without a thought. While torching, or seasoning, and coiling my wick, I like to insert the straightened out paperclip or a blunt needle, and then hold the "handle" end with a pair of pliers. Yes, you nailed it! Bending the wick will bandaid the top coil hot spot, but it causes other problems such as choking the wick, or even slicing wick. The wire will slice right through, shortening the life of your wick. The bent wick can also lean so far over sometimes that the bottom of the wick will touch the side of the tank, smothering the flow or even shorting out. The straight wick, raised off the bottom, cut at an angle or fan, with minute air flow around the edges and a nice clean airhole through the middle, will assure a good wicking genny. (the u-ey's being exceptions, those are cut and rolled differently), The wick should fit into the hole, snuggish, never tight, ... it should be easy to remove without feeling the "grating" against the sides. Yet it shouldn't be so easy to remove that it removes itself. (for perfect). We do what we gotta do in order to get the genny up and vaping. Fine tuning is what brings the excellent results to a vape. Knowing what we want, and figuring out ways to achieve our results is half the fun. (and p.i.a.). Save those cut-offs! Some AGA-T+ vapers have discovered that making 3 or more super skinny straw wicks, bundling them together with a wrap around the top (like the L, but from a lose scrap they have lying around), wicks like there's no tomorrow. The hole in yours might have a burr or something. Drilling it out, like you said, will fix that, plus make for a larger wick. All the batches that come in from China have something different about them. That's the luck of the "draw" (pun intended). You are so on the right track. The goal is to somehow move the positive center post tie down closer to the wick, not the opposite. Either by adding washers, spring, extra roll around the top part of the wick, ... whatever you can think of. edited to say: As long as you can vape it, you're good to go! All suggestions in this post are for perfecting the vape, perfecting the wicking, ... if you have to do the 3:00 Genesis Tilt, then so be it.