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Sounds like it's the liquid. Or, if this started with new coils, it could be you got a bad batch, or even a couple of bad batches of coils. I've seen both (and had both happen to me).

Kanger itself says that regular single coils can be used in the KPT3. I agree with what Brian said - when they contact you about leaking/flooding, make sure they are talking about true ACTUAL leakage and not just flooding and gurgling, and make sure they aren't talking about when the coil is going bad, either - I've had leakage when a coil is going out.

You know, frankly, what the customer in question PROBABLY had was just a bad coil, causing leaking and flooding because it wasn't burning off all the liquid. And even if they told him the tank was bad (freaking idiots), they should have just offered to sell him another KPT 2, rather than the upsell. And definitely never use a coil that hasn't been volt tested. Yeah, I would have stepped in unless he was already looking at a mod and an RDA. Brian, I have to disagree with selling under 1.5 commercially. REPUTABLE stores in my area build coils, test them out in front of you, and all that and do just perfectly fine. And the two stores I go to the most, if the clerk isn't RDA/RBA savvy when you come in with a question, will check with another staff member. THOSE are the shops we go to. The shop that was opened by a non-vaper (she started vaping 0 nic after deciding to open the shop, evidently her husband is "the vaper"), I don't frequent at all. Her staff is knowledgeable, she isn't.

I agree that it's bits of char. I've seen it happen even on my Kanger coils when I've taken the wick out to dry burn after cleaning them, I'm pretty sure.

Rixter, other than first two slip ups within my first, heck, less than a month of vaping, I've had an actual hard to get over craving ONCE. That Thanksgiving, we were at my sister's, and darn near everyone was smoking except my mother and my brother and his family. The smell hit me, and I wanted one. I mean, it hit me hard that I wanted one. Occasionally, through the last year and a half, I'll just out of the blue want a cigarette, but it's not a nicotine craving, it's more of a mental thing.

Here's one link. I could have sworn a link was imbedded in the article, one that took you to the actual online published article, but I guess not. But this link is word for word the same link that I read when I looked it up after I read the article, just a different site. http://www.nationaljewish.org/about/mediacenter/pressreleases/2014-News/Study-Links-The-Liquid-Used-In-E-cigarettes-To-An-Increased-Risk-Of-Viral That's the official position of the hospital that funded the study, and the doctors who practice there. In reality, the doctors in my doctor's practice group advocate it. My father's doctor, who is in the same practice group, has been begging him for well over a year to make the switch, congratulated my sister on making the switch (she, at least, listened to me), and said something to my sister along the lines of, "Now I just wish your dad would do it." Saw a link to another doctor that said the same thing - drug therapy, or patches, gum, lozenges, or even the nasal inhaler. I, for one, wish I could see the full study, to find out the numbers - how many times he ran the experiment, if he also used tissues from a smoker, etc. The way I see it, he has no "control group" to compare it to. I saw another study (I'm sorry, I didn't grab the link, I was awash in a sea of matches) that compared the effects of e-cigs via spirometry to smokers, non-smokers, and COPD/emphysema patients. Of course, in non-smokers, the spirometry went down, but not by much. In current smokers, the numbers went UP a significant amount (granted, there was break between the time they had their last cigarette and the time they hit the e-cig). As you would expect, no change on the COPD patients. I'm open to finding out about possible effects the e-cigs have. Like someone said, they haven't been out long, especially compared to various versions of people inhaling some form of burning tobacco, or any other type of leaf (I can't remember if it was Columbus or the American Colonists that shipped tobacco back to Europe, but the natives were smoking it well before then). It's just that tobacco wasn't a native plant to Europe. They could been smoking other stuff. There have been, okay, my math is fuzzy here, so I'm going to use decades, studies going back into the 40's on analogs, AFAIK. But like Rixter said, I can only go by what I feel now - and I feel a butt-load better than when I did when I was smoking. I can taste better, I can breathe better, I haven't had ANY infections, not even a sinus infection (and my immune system is suppressed due to a drug I take for my MS), god, I can SMELL better - and I'm no longer nose blind to the smell of smokers and a smoked in area, and I'm beating myself up for sending my kids to school smelling like that just because they were in the same house, so god know I smell better, lol.

And just to point out, there is a new inhalable (is that even a word) of caffeine that's hit the market, and yeah, people have already overdosed on caffeine using it, because it hits your system that much quicker, and harder, so it's easy to get "too much" in more time than it would take you to pound out those Red Bulls or other energy drinks to put you to the point of caffeine overdose. I think it's only one company, and it may be looked at as more of novelty product, but the FDA is already talking about banning the inhalable caffeine.

I've never tried a cartomizer. Before my husband started using his bottom feed RBA, he was using tank/cartomizers with his mod and with his Provari. But something the guy that owns the B&M we frequent the most said stuck with me - when he was using carto tanks, he always had the problem that the carto itself (the cotton batting) was always either too dry or too wet in the experience he had with it. I don't know if that meant he was vaping thicker liquid, and with the regular sized single hole it wasn't wicking enough fast enough, and then he tried making the hole bigger, and essentially flooded it because then TOO much juice got in, or what. But also, the type of tank that my husband uses - heck, I can't remember the name, but he had difficulty finding the right sized carto - it didn't take the standard size, and he could only reliable find the right size on one site - the site he ordered the original tank from in the first place.

Depends on the juice. Although some juices REQUIRE aging (okay, it sounds like we are talking about whiskey/bourbon/Scotch and/or wine), and most juices benefit from it, I tend to get juices that don't "require" aging, but that do benefit from it if it gets aged. I tend to get two bottles at a time of Cactus Juice (two fifty ml bottles) and two 30 ml bottles of Smurfblood (another hometown "brew", from different B&M, and with my husband in school full time, the opportunity to get out to get more juice only happens on weekends that's he's not piled down with homework), and so that second bottle ends up "aging", even if it's just a week or two. I know I had a bottle of 618 (a hometown "brew" that a local B&M makes, named after our area code) that was sitting mostly full for about nine months before I gave it to my husband, because he was out of it, and and couldn't get to the B&M soon enough to replace it before he ran out - I had stopped vaping it that long ago, and he still does (it was our first flavor a yeah and a half ago when we started).

Try doing a "dry draw" every so often - otherwise called an unpowered draw. It can pull juice into your wick without having the heat going into it. You won't get vapor or anything, it's just getting juice into the wick. It's the same thing that's recommended when you fill up a tank, and presumably let it sit for a few minutes to get the wick saturated before you fire up a new (or newly rebuilt) coil/wick assembly to get juice in the wick before you but heat in it.

Hi, I'm new to this convo here. But the only risk, so far, that I've read about (other than batteries exploding because of improper charging, and the risk of nicotine poisoning if you - and why would anyone do this - drink the juice, or if you are dealing straight 99% nic to DIY your own juice (my husband orders his pre-cut to a nic/PG mix at 12 mg) and get it on your skin - that's why gloves are needed if you deal with that stuff, the only study that I've seen that has shown any risk from e-cigs is that, essentially, inhaling the vapor from juice opens up your airway cells to lung infections (I can't say that I've had that problem, and I'm immunosuppressed from medication, and I've been vaping for a year and half). But no one knew what the effect of inhaling liquid, in vapor form, would have on the lungs, since it's different than smoke. I don't anyone has ever said that there is no risk at all with e-cigs, but that it's "harm reduction" - it's still so new, studies are still being done. I'm just tired of everyone trotting out the line that the only reason they make it in flavors is to attract kids. My taste buds didn't stop working when I reached the magical number of 18, and if they tasted like Marlboros, I'd likely still be smoking. The switch was easier for me because the e-cig (the juice) tasted better.

Okay, while I still think this falls under the heading "harm reduction", this study found that after 10 minutes of use, inhaling the vapor of juice damaged healthy cells in the airway for 24 hours or more, and made them "more susceptible to respiratory infections". To me, that's a heck of a lot better than lung cancer, COPD/emphysema, cancer of the lip, mouth and surrounding areas, throat cancer, heart disease, etc. (yes, I know there are many other factors that cause heart disease and/or high blood pressure, but smoking has been linked to both). Granted, I haven't had a single respiratory infection since I got on the e-cigs (and I have a weakened immune system because of medication), and my lungs have never felt better. I also have a problem with the fact that the article and the experts in the article are continuing to push the myth that they are flavored to appeal to younger users. Frankly, I've heard that just nicotine in a vg/pg mix essentially tastes like a regular cigarette. That's NOT the taste I'm going for. Granted, when I started out, my flavors were "tobacco flavored" (sort of), but they tasted a heck of a lot better than burning cancer sticks. I TRIED the "straight" tobacco flavored (you know, the ones that supposedly taste like Marlboro or some such) and I couldn't stand it - even that first day. From the beginning, I've been a mouth to lung inhale, and I didn't like how it tasted in my mouth (yet, I never did this with analog burning cancer sticks). I wouldn't get TOO hyped up about this, but I think this is going to lead to further legislation. http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/health/2014/12/26/study-e-cigarettes-damage-healthy-cells/20919357/ Tina

I should follow that up by saying I've developed a taste for a certain style/shape drip tip. Even though the drip tips on my of PTs are fine, every now and then, I would get one that felt too big - probably my imagination, maybe not. But that's when I started getting different drip tips.

Not just get it and ingest it, but the baby was already unresponsive when the caretaker, whoever it was, found him. Now, I don't know how quick it would knock a baby out, but you have to assume it's not instantaneous.

The good thing about ProTanks is you can get them with different colored glass. That's how I could differentiate between my juice flavors, by ordering different colored glass tanks. Then, when I ran out of different colors, I started using drip tips, lol. Heck, out of the three ProTanks I use regularly now, none of them have the stock drip tip anymore.

Let's see - started at 15, stopped at 39, so that would be 24 years - well, okay, actually started in the fall of the year I was 15, when I started hanging out and spending most of my free time with a girl who smoked (how on earth did those places sell us cigarettes at FIFTEEN YEARS OLD?). Took ten days to finish off the supply of analogs we had after we started vaping (and some family issues/tragedy played a part in that), but the last of those were gone July 17 of last year at like, two AM. I had two cheat days - one at a family reunion RIGHT after, where I had two cigarettes, and one where my mom was facing a SERIOUS medical crisis (almost lost her leg), and I was with my sister at the hospital - still just a couple weeks after dropping the analogs, and I grabbed three of her cigarettes out of stress, and frustration. The next time I thought I would be tempted was at another family function (like the first time I slipped up), but by that time, our house was aired out, all of our clothes had been washed, and I had been away from the smell of cigarettes for a while. The smell of people smoking darn near turned my stomach. My son had been away from cigarette smoke long enough that he thought he was having trouble breathing, and had to actually leave the house, and spent a good deal of the time we were there outside. I was in favor, initially, if we had guests who smoked allowing them to go ahead and smoke in our house, still, but after smelling that, nope, not doing it. Which reminds me, I need to wash the downstairs bathroom curtains. I'm SURE that's where the cigarette smell in there is coming from - I've eliminated all other possible sources, unless the wallpaper is somehow holding on to it.

Yeah, I got the regular iClear 30 with the MVP, and 30s with the VTR. Like I said, after ten minutes of actually vaping with the first one, it was enough for me to decide I didn't like it. There's a girl at one of the B&Ms I go to who swears by them for the tanks she doesn't have to worry about cracking, and that she doesn't build herself. But gosh, those coils are expensive, too, compared to bcc coils. I'm assuming a combination of the extra wicking material and the fact that it's dual coil.

My biggest thing with this - other than the lack of supervision - was a) obviously not in a child proof bottle (I would fully support mandating that e-juice be sold in child-proof bottles, as long as the supplier doesn't have to stop selling juice while the transition is under way, if they don't already), and it was where the kid could get to it. Okay, the non child proof bottle, in some cases, I can understand. When we get 120 ml bottles from Better Vapes, it's not a child proof bottle. It has a flip up spout on it. But again, it's not where a kid can get it (well, my 17 and 20 year olds could get it, but not where a toddler can get it). But, like I said in point number 2, IT WAS WHERE THE KID COULD GET TO IT. Which, I agree Bone, leads down the path of lack of supervision - whether it was parental or a babysitter. I mean, if it didn't happen at home, if it happened at someone's home they visited, as a parent, I supervised MORE in those instances. My kids at that age didn't leave my sight unless another person was with them. You just follow them around. So yeah, lack of supervision, and pure idiocy for leaving it wherever it was left that the baby could get into it. I mean, okay, to take a child darn near everyone has seen pictures of in the press (unless you live under a rock), imagine young Prince George (Prince William and Kate's son) scrambling out of the room, and managing to find a bottle of e-juice, get to it, and swallow some of it, and have time to pass out/become non-responsive all in the time it takes for you to follow him?

Well, the Joyetech tanks I looked at, from the description, it sounded like they were ego threaded, but I can't be positive - NVM, on looking at it and reading it again, they clearly have 510 fittings and they said they fit on ego batteries - because ego batteries allow both 510 tanks and ego threaded clearomizers. BUT, it looks like every purchase option from sweet vapes comes with a 510 to ego adapter, unless I'm reading it wrong, so you SHOULD have no problem using a mini davide with it.

Bone Slammer, why can't you use your mini tanks with the iStick? I love the Davides, although because I tend to make such a mess, I use a needlenose bottle for filling (of course, my Davide is the one flavor I'm actively vaping now that doesn't come with a very thin spout on the bottle - like the VT juices have - so I put the juice I use in the Davide in the bottle with the needle nose tip). The only reason I prefer the ProTanks over the Davide is because the drip tip is a bit loose in the Davide, and after a year, I can be vaping while walking and my arm jars and all of the sudden the drip tip is in my lips, but my APV isn't there anymore. But it's a standard 510 drip tip - well, it may actually be a bit bigger. Maybe it's just on mine, but it's like the "chamber" where the drip tip connects to has gotten smoothed out over time. I say maybe it's actually bigger because the drip tip won't fit in my ProTanks, or in the Kayfun 3.1 that I have an adapter on to accept a 510 drip tip. But that is LITERALLY my only objection to it - that and I like to change out drip tips, and other drip tips seem looser than the original drip tip. In actuality, if you have a needlenose bottle, or a bottle with very thin spout on it, filling it, and getting it all the way full, is a bit easier than the ProTanks, IMO. It's just the normal nipple top bottles that can make it messy if you are like me, and require you to fill it at an angle, rather than straight up to get it actually full. Brian, have you had issues with your drip tips being loose, or getting looser with time? And you can use the Kanger single coils with the BDC version, or did you make the adjustment so it can take the single Kanger coils rather than the dual coil Aspire coils?

Comp, I do think you can get an adapter to put a regular 510 drip tip on it, but from everything I've heard, once you put the stock drip tip in, it doesn't come out. Yeah, I had one that came with my MVP, and then one that came with my VTR. I tried the one with the MVP for about ten minutes (after letting it sit a good long time to soak the wicks). So yeah, the one that came with the VTR, which I'm pretty sure was the s model - I don't feel like digging in my box to check right now - is sitting unused. I'm sure there are those that swear by it that don't mind plastic tanks, and that are fond of top wicked tanks. It's just not for me.

I've not actually had a problem with them, but I only JUST started ordering from them, and the last time I asked them a question was about a year ago and I got a response within a day. As for tanks, my vote would be the Davide, or a ProTank 2 (I'm not fond of dual coils, that's why I didn't mention the ProTank 3) myself, but really boils down to personal preference. It's my understanding that the Joyetech eleaf tanks are dual coil or triple coil, and that if you use the triple coil, you have to have a hefty battery to support it (minimum 25 - 30 amps).

Same. For one, I don't like top coils, I switched to bottom coils the first replaceable coil clearomizers I bought (Evods). Easier for me to deal with. Secondly, anymore, other than my Kayfun 3.1, I only vape out of glass tanks (I have a Davide and ProTank 2's). I even switched out the Evods for mini protank 2's (for juices I'm trying), because I prefer the taste from a glass tank, and you don't have to worry about a tank cracker juice and you don't know it. But all in all, I wasn't impressed with iClear 30, so I never tried the iClear 30s. I didn't think encasing the wicks in the metal tube would make much of a difference in the vape.

Very cool. I can trace my ancestry back to (in this country) the American Revolution, and my German ancestors back a couple hundred years (thanks to a document written up at some point in time in the Loeffler family history leading up to how my mother's grandparents, on her mother's side, left German - at that time, Prussia). Been able to trace some of the Irish and Scot family history, but that's trickier, since my father's father left home at 16, and we don't have a lot of information on his side of the family, other than I think his parents and step-mother. Luckily, on my father's mother's side, there is a distant cousin that has done extensive research on the her side of the family - they even had a lumber town named after them, because well, the lumber mill was theirs, and they, primarily, were the residents of the town, a whole extended family. I've passed off the genealogy research back to my mother, now that she has time for it. She has connections out in the distant relatives that I just don't have - I managed to find three wives for one of my grandmother's ancestors, and an ungodly number of children - but either one marriage ended in divorce, which, you know, wasn't done in the 1700's (I think it was the 1700's) or the information is wrong, because I have the third wife while the second is still alive - which means you can't always trust information you get off others' family trees. In some distant way, we are supposed to be related to Charlemagne, but I didn't bother to trace that side line out. But it was very cool finding all the ancestors that fought in the Revolution, and some that died in the Revolution. joejoe, I'd heard that about Efest, I think I even saw the same chart. Not sure what you meant by IMR batteries pretty much tap out at 1600 - do you mean they die, or their performance drops off?

Well, I was going to say alcohol, but then you said it was copper, and I have no idea. Unless maybe you put a coat of poly over the copper so it won't tarnish from the oil in your hands (I know some paint jobs on the REOs people do that because of tarnishing, and I don't know how copper reacts with repeated, often near constant handling). I just don't know enough about copper to know, but actually, I'm pretty sure that unless the copper is coated with something, you should be okay with either acetone or alcohol - that's just from my experience with our copper pipes, which is limited, I know. I'll be following this topic so I can see what others have to say. EDIT: Just spoke with my SO, who has MUCH more experience with copper. He said nix the acetone, he would be worried about that, but alcohol SHOULD be okay. Still, following this thread to see what others have to say.