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Well, you can tell I am a complete noob when it comes to tanks. Just went to fill my Boreas for the fourth time and I forgot to close the air holes off before removing top cap and juice went everywhere out the air holes lol. Cleaned it, filled it and working flawless again.

You can bottom fill, too so you don't have to worry about it. Flip it, open jfc all the way to make it easier, unscrew 510 base and fill. Leave the deck in.
 

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Andria, why not try a side airflow? Bottom airflow RDAs do have a tendency to leak. I recently got a Sapor with top airflow, and I'm really digging it :)

The NarDa is supposed to have killer flavor, and clones are cheap and easy to get. I've been trying to get an authentic, but playing the FB game sucks.
 

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Andria, why not try a side airflow? Bottom airflow RDAs do have a tendency to leak. I recently got a Sapor with top airflow, and I'm really digging it :)

The NarDa is supposed to have killer flavor, and clones are cheap and easy to get. I've been trying to get an authentic, but playing the FB game sucks.
Yeah, I don't understand her insistence on bottom air flow. I love the shit out of my top/side air RDAs
 

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Andria, why not try a side airflow? Bottom airflow RDAs do have a tendency to leak. I recently got a Sapor with top airflow, and I'm really digging it :)

The NarDa is supposed to have killer flavor, and clones are cheap and easy to get. I've been trying to get an authentic, but playing the FB game sucks.

I've never been able to get any flavor from side airflow attys -- that's why I PIFed my Derringer, Veritas, and Caterpillar, aside from them being too airy -- no flavor, even when I had only the tiniest slice of the airhole showing (the Veritas). If the air doesn't come right over the coil and wick, then it's just hot air, not flavor.

ETA: the Achilles is bottom airflow, and NEVER EVER leaks.

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You can bottom fill, too so you don't have to worry about it. Flip it, open jfc all the way to make it easier, unscrew 510 base and fill. Leave the deck in.
Honestly I found it easier to just remove the top cap, fill it, screw it back on instead of removing the whole thing from the device and doing it that way. Thats just me though.

After this tank is empty I am going to through a pair of fused claptons in it.
 
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I've never been able to get any flavor from side airflow attys -- that's why I PIFed my Derringer, Veritas, and Caterpillar, aside from them being too airy -- no flavor, even when I had only the tiniest slice of the airhole showing (the Veritas). If the air doesn't come right over the coil and wick, then it's just hot air, not flavor.

Andria

You have to play with coil height a bit I've learned. Sometimes it seems best with the coil right in front of the airhole. And sometimes it's best with the coil maybe only showing 1/2 to 1/3 of the bottom when you peep through the airhole. And sometimes the best flavor comes when the whole coil is just above the airhole.
 

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Honestly I found it easier to just remove the top cap, fill it, screw it back on instead of removing the whole thing from the device and doing it that way. Thats just me though.

After this tank is empty I am going to through a pair of fuses claptons in it.

I usually top fill, too.
 

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I've never been able to get any flavor from side airflow attys -- that's why I PIFed my Derringer, Veritas, and Caterpillar, aside from them being too airy -- no flavor, even when I had only the tiniest slice of the airhole showing (the Veritas). If the air doesn't come right over the coil and wick, then it's just hot air, not flavor.

ETA: the Achilles is bottom airflow, and NEVER EVER leaks.

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Dang, I get great flavor off my Velocity. I have never tried anything other than side airflow so maybe I just dont know good the other are.
 

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I'm convinced the system is fucking utter shit!
Never heard of it.. it's called a NarDa RDA? Can that big monster driptip be replaced with a normal one?

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it takes any 510, the petri tip happens to be my favorite.. its the a NarDa rda by Narmods; strictly a flavor rda with a tight draw, the draw is extremely tight. it has airflow from both sides, and the coil sits on top. If you do a 3 or 3.5 mm coil, the coil will sit above both airflow ports.
 

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You have to play with coil height a bit I've learned. Sometimes it seems best with the coil right in front of the airhole. And sometimes it's best with the coil maybe only showing 1/2 to 1/3 of the bottom when you peep through the airhole. And sometimes the best flavor comes when the whole coil is just above the airhole.
I always do mine that way. Look through my air holes and you can only see the bottom half of the coils.
 
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Andria, why not try a side airflow? Bottom airflow RDAs do have a tendency to leak. I recently got a Sapor with top airflow, and I'm really digging it :)

The NarDa is supposed to have killer flavor, and clones are cheap and easy to get. I've been trying to get an authentic, but playing the FB game sucks.
with you there, The petri and tugboats are hands down my favorite rda's, followed by the Aeolus.
 

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The thing is... during my first year as a vaper, and even into my 2nd... I was willing to try a whole lot of different attys, because I wasn't yet really sure what would work best, for me and my preferences. Now that I know what I like.... not so willing to spend money on a whole lot of different stuff, when that stuff has "features" that I disliked in other things I've tried and gotten rid of -- such as side airflow.

I want absolutely saturated flavor -- so far, the only thing I've found that provides that is bottom airflow, so the air goes right over the coil and wick.

I want absolutely the tightest draw I can get -- like the draw from a carto; but cartos don't work for me, because there isn't enough flavor, and my juice is too gunky. But I'll never be anything but a MtL vaper, and I want to feel some resistance in the draw -- like a carto, or you know... a cigarette? ;)

I want inexpensive -- or clone. I'm not a snob, and I'm not rich; I've spent only $55 on my most expensive *mod*, and it has custom etching on it; for an atty, if it's more than $35, not interested. Though I *might* at some point try an authentic Achilles 2, if they remain available and I can't find a clone of it.

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Not according to what I read here...

Hows your "ProRape" doin? Mr Don't Want the Shit Over Here?!?

LOLz
my prorape is doing just fine, since they finally realized an 18650 can hit 50w. Kind of cool, when they use actual electronics theory and stop lying to sell products.

are you done? can you let the people that left and got kicked out of there have their thread?
 

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Someone else recommended a Chalice... but I'd need a squonk mod, which I don't have. Maybe that's a new direction to go in, for 2016. I resisted the squonk idea for a long time, because I had this crazy idea that "dripping" meant a huffing airy vape, and also because REOs are 1) expensive as hell and 2) not regulated... but now there are less costly squonkers, and some are regulated.

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Squonking is great but you want side or top airflow for that, since you flood and drain the deck to saturate the wick.

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Squonking is great but you want side or top airflow for that, since you flood and drain the deck to saturate the wick.

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you can do bottom airflow, with the snapdragon, ot anything with "kennedy style" airflow in a bottom feed mod. the airflow is in a tube and above the deck
 

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Yeah, I need to look around and find a good regulated squonker. Definitely should try a chalice, it does look like it would offer the really tight draw I like.

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Yeah, I need to look around and find a good regulated squonker. Definitely should try a chalice, it does look like it would offer the really tight draw I like.
A Chalice is definitely a tight-draw device, with a large, continuous range of adjustment from very little air to literally none. I have a few of them, but I'm liking the Origen Little 16 better these days, so I'd be happy to send you a Chalice if you wish to try it. Another potential option is a Cyclone. No adjustment, but the stock air hole is quite small

As for regulated squonkers, that's more difficult. They're a rare breed, and the few that are out there tend to be expensive and hard to get. Your best bet might be a Kanger Dripbox. It's protected, but not regulated. The atty that comes with it is totally unsuited to your style though. Still, at $30-ish dollars, it's hard to beat even if you throw the atty that comes with it straight in the trash.
 
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A Chalice is definitely a tight-draw device, with a large, continuous range of adjustment from very little air to literally none. I have a few of them, but I'm liking the Origen Little 16 better these days, so I'd be happy to send you a Chalice if you wish to try it. Another potential option is a Cyclone. No adjustment, but the stock air hole is quite small

As for regulated squonkers, that's more difficult. They're a rare breed, and the few that are out there tend to be expensive and hard to get. Your best bet might be a Kanger Dripbox. It's protected, but not regulated. The atty that comes with it is totally unsuited to your style though. Still, at $30-ish dollars, it's hard to beat even if you trow the atty straight in the trash.
I saw that effusion is doing one also
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Apparently SJ has posted I'm reinstated as a Supplier Associate. They can bite me.

* The only communication I received ever was that email issuing me the ultimatum of being a supplier or closing my account. I told them to close my account.

* I refuse to be a supplier when I was not paid a damn thing, and have never contacted a vendor.

* They stripped my verified status also.

They can shove it!
 

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Apparently SJ has posted I'm reinstated as a Supplier Associate. They can bite me.

* The only communication I received ever was that email issuing me the ultimatum of being a supplier or closing my account. I told them to close my account.

* I refuse to be a supplier when I was not paid a damn thing, and have never contacted a vendor.

* They stripped my verified status also.

They can shove it!

I commend you for standing by your principals. Not many people do, to that extent these days, its very uplifting to see. I'm sorry to see them doing that to you, but, I'm glad to see you here.
 

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A Chalice is definitely a tight-draw device, with a large, continuous range of adjustment from very little air to literally none. I have a few of them, but I'm liking the Origen Little 16 better these days, so I'd be happy to send you a Chalice if you wish to try it. Another potential option is a Cyclone. No adjustment, but the stock air hole is quite small

As for regulated squonkers, that's more difficult. They're a rare breed, and the few that are out there tend to be expensive and hard to get. Your best bet might be a Kanger Dripbox. It's protected, but not regulated. The atty that comes with it is totally unsuited to your style though. Still, at $30-ish dollars, it's hard to beat even if you throw the atty that comes with it straight in the trash.

Yeah, I just really dislike unregulated devices; the way they blow your head off when the battery is fresh, and get gradually less and less satisfying. That had more to do with my retiring my starter eRoll than the PITA tank size and short battery life. I don't like a really warm vape at all, just barely warm (10-ish watts, 2 ohms), and I want it to stay just like that, all the way thru the battery cycle.

The chalice you mentioned... is it a "regular" type, or a BF one? All the squonk stuff is really unfamiliar territory to me, so I dunno much about the different options, except I know that squonk attys need a hollow bottom pin.

Andria
 

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Apparently SJ has posted I'm reinstated as a Supplier Associate. They can bite me.

* The only communication I received ever was that email issuing me the ultimatum of being a supplier or closing my account. I told them to close my account.

* I refuse to be a supplier when I was not paid a damn thing, and have never contacted a vendor.

* They stripped my verified status also.

They can shove it!
Can't say I blame you one bit.
 

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The chalice you mentioned... is it a "regular" type, or a BF one? All the squonk stuff is really unfamiliar territory to me, so I dunno much about the different options, except I know that squonk attys need a hollow bottom pin.
It's BF. It's one of the very few atties that were designed for BF from the get-go.
 
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