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Ok, $11 for 250ft beats $11.05 for 200ft, though the shipping is also free on ebay. Does Temco accept paypal?
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Ok, $11 for 250ft beats $11.05 for 200ft, though the shipping is also free on ebay. Does Temco accept paypal?
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No, but I knew a guy with a premature I am a spammer ban me problem, who would come out of nowhere..
Eh, who am I kidding... What'cha got?
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Never had a problem with it. But they don't really cater to vapers, or didn't, and I think they're still pretty limited to Kanthal in our needs realm?
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I'm looking at Temco's page for Kanthal A1, and they're showing $12.50 for 250ft... so I think I'll go with the deal on ebay, $11.05 for 200ft (2 100ft spools, 15% off for buying 2).
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Well, I started on one of the super cheap Terminator kits. It had a now unused rda and a plastic toy grade mod for the battery & bottle. At that point I was unaware of using Oxgard or the like on the firing arm. It was in fact just some zinc coated aluminum washer that made contact with the battery as it got pushed down. It had wire in it from the positive to ground contact. Well, of course the positive contact eroded and got fouled.
It was enough though that I had squonked.
Now, I use the Reo Grand styled clones. They are aluminum bricks, no wires. I coat the contacts every so often with Oxgard. Small effort to keep them maintained. Even the knock offs of the Reos convince me that a Reo, or a 1:1 clone is what works for my squonking. Prefer durable goods being durable unlike the cheap buy every year 19 inch Wally World special push mowers.As to safety? Well, unregulated can be safe if you're safe. Takes a bit to learn & I'm still not 100% versed but I'm quickly getting there. Not going back to tobacco, no apologies. I'll squonk thank you.. Feels a lot better to vape in the truck with the wife, than it feels to smoke in the same situation. The worst I need to worry over is cracking my window to avoid clouding her view. *chuckles*
The pros for me:
Better flavor.
Clouds.
Less hassle/mess than regular dripping.
Cons:
Um, ...
Oh yeah, running out of juice and wire. *snicker*
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Yes, it appears they do as well as what appears most other valid credit/debit cards. As a bonus they are BBB accredited.
Figure all is good in dealing with them.
You raise a good point, although I've been pleased using their round Kanthal wire. The wire is very clean but a person can torch out any particulate impurities from shipping or setting. I do that at times, other times I'm not too concerned. From my understanding if you're born after August 1945, you're guaranteed to be a carrier of Strontium 90 isotopes. Yep, we have glow in the dark potentiality, thank you atom bombings.
Eh, suits you? All is good.
I still enjoy that aspect of vaping, the ability to have choice. I might distill some juice from elderberries and use it to flavor a nicotine base juice. Nothing says I cannot do that, if I choose learning how and do it. I just might too.Also thought of mixing up an herbal elixir. There's what is commonly called colt's foot that has the chemical used in making the cough syrup Robotusin. If you mix this with what is referred to as yarrow, which helps bring down fevers & helps purge toxins, you get a a nice cold/flu tonic. Now, consider dosing that tonic as you vape.
The chemicals go right to the lungs and are absorbed into the blood, or get absorbed via mucus membranes, tongue, skin. This would be direct medicine, applied directly. I'm sure others might be better versed at physiology, but trail and error can help gauge doses to affect relief for someone. This is the same as making up the herbal teas/infusions. Nothing greatly difficult, mildly time consuming though.
Been thinking of this for a spell now. Seems like a viable means to help medicate folks, possibly *gasp* even a market for doing that. Ah ha! If you hear tell I've vanished know it was Big Pharma what sent thugs erm police to black bag me, or maybe retired1.
Goodness knows I wouldn't talk about herbs much at all on ECF.Need to look something up. I'm recalling birch bark can be boiled out for aspirin despite my wife suggesting it is willow bark. Yes, these are the weird thoughts what hold me in insomniac thrall. That I even think is at times a crime. *chuckles* If all else fails, we can meet up at the Chestnut Tree Cafe. Ah, wait for it, the daily two minutes of hate is coming along, ...
ETA: Yes, as I thought it is birch. Birch has salicylate which is also found in aspirin. Birch bark is also good for various maladies, high in vitamins A,C to name a few, it is high in starch too. Native Americans considered birch bark famine food.
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You can torch out surface problems, but I'd rather spend the extra couple bucks to not have machine oil on the wire, or have wire that was milled on machines that also mill lead, or some shit, hahaYou raise a good point, although I've been pleased using their round Kanthal wire. The wire is very clean but a person can torch out any particulate impurities from shipping or setting. I do that at times, other times I'm not too concerned. From my understanding if you're born after August 1945, you're guaranteed to be a carrier of Strontium 90 isotopes. Yep, we have glow in the dark potentiality, thank you atom bombings.
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Yep, you nailed it right there.
But don't tell that to the wire is wire crowd
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*nodding and chuckling* Ayup, know what you mean. "Oh, I'm vaping to reduce risks. Never mind the inhaling oil or lead from the coils, it's all safer and less risk. Ha ha yuck yuck."
Yep, you nailed it right there.
But don't tell that to the wire is wire crowd
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Hey now! We all know the Earth, she be a flat, right?
Also, please be a lert. If you're a lert you might avoid the accidental anal sex with dolphins.Think my mind is unwinding. Do I need one to unwind? Well, figure I better rack. I'll start making cents from scents in the past sense, since it's there.
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I am using Stu's wire almost exclusively for awhile now and I will say it is some clean shit and a many times easier to work with than kanthal
Well worth the extra couple of dollars to be able to just wrap, pulse and vape
Well worth the extra couple of dollars to be able to just wrap, pulse and vape
Little oil on wire? Glow all mine well.
I did not start vaping for health asons anyway. Did it to save money.
Delaying my death is a negative for me.
I did not start vaping for health asons anyway. Did it to save money.
Delaying my death is a negative for me.
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I started strictly to save money too. I'd made peace with the fact that smoking would probably knock me off many years ago because I refused to deal with the unpleasant side effects of quitting tobacco.
But once I really got into vaping - and had to learn to build because I knew the deeming regs were out there - it's something I'm willing to part with my hard-earned green so it can be enjoyed at a higher level.
Torching is one of the things I used to hate about building and would put if off as long as possible.
Now I enjoy building just by eliminating that one thing I disliked doing.
Plus, now I'm saving on lighters and saving this planet you so disdain by completely eliminating all butane emissions
Sorry but saving maybe $2 on a years worth of wire to put up with dirty/oily wire isn't worth it
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Excellent tip! Why didn't I even think of that? I bet this will work well with a couple of my tanks, even if they aren't Crowns.
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Eskie!!! Good to see you!
Anyway welcome to the refugees thread. I haven't been on either forum much lately. Been too busy. GM and gfy all
One of those big head cones. Lol. Glad the surgery went well.I feel like I played a game of hide and seek to track you all down.
Pup had her eye surgery yesterday, and I'm picking her up later this morning. Now, how do you keep a dog from rubbing their eye?
Nah, she can still get the face up against something like the edge of the couch. Vet said it wasn't the worst thing, just try to keep her from doing it as best as possible. I'll just rely on logic and reason to make her understand.
And food. That's it, train her with food. Bacon! That's the solution!
Bacon is the solution for a lot of issues. lol!
Groovy. Stu has clean shit.
I might have buy some of Stu's shit, it's the stainless steel shit and not Kanthal shit? Sure, I know shit is shit but once in a while I like variety in my shit. That kind of shit can often land me in the shit though, especially around the holier than thou shits what think their shit don't stink. Ah well, piss. All this talk of shit reminds me I need to take a dog out for a shit.
Dammit! We didn't hide well enough.I feel like I played a game of hide and seek to track you all down.
Pup had her eye surgery yesterday, and I'm picking her up later this morning. Now, how do you keep a dog from rubbing their eye?
Welcome to the playground Eskie, no schoolyard bullies (at least none that look liked creepy eyed dogs) running around here.
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Found us huh?
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I FINALLY have gathered the adulting tasks I can do with a motorcycle. Off to the DMV and vape supplies pickup. Probably going to be a few wrong turns along the way..
I FINALLY have gathered the adulting tasks I can do with a motorcycle. Off to the DMV and vape supplies pickup. Probably going to be a few wrong turns along the way..
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Eh, suits you? All is good.
Also thought of mixing up an herbal elixir. There's what is commonly called colt's foot that has the chemical used in making the cough syrup Robotusin. If you mix this with what is referred to as yarrow, which helps bring down fevers & helps purge toxins, you get a a nice cold/flu tonic. Now, consider dosing that tonic as you vape.
The chemicals go right to the lungs and are absorbed into the blood, or get absorbed via mucus membranes, tongue, skin. This would be direct medicine, applied directly. I'm sure others might be better versed at physiology, but trail and error can help gauge doses to affect relief for someone. This is the same as making up the herbal teas/infusions. Nothing greatly difficult, mildly time consuming though.
Been thinking of this for a spell now. Seems like a viable means to help medicate folks, possibly *gasp* even a market for doing that. Ah ha! If you hear tell I've vanished know it was Big Pharma what sent thugs erm police to black bag me, or maybe retired1.
Need to look something up. I'm recalling birch bark can be boiled out for aspirin despite my wife suggesting it is willow bark. Yes, these are the weird thoughts what hold me in insomniac thrall. That I even think is at times a crime. *chuckles* If all else fails, we can meet up at the Chestnut Tree Cafe. Ah, wait for it, the daily two minutes of hate is coming along, ...
ETA: Yes, as I thought it is birch. Birch has salicylate which is also found in aspirin. Birch bark is also good for various maladies, high in vitamins A,C to name a few, it is high in starch too. Native Americans considered birch bark famine food.
It's both actually, birch AND willow -- I guess it depends on where you live, which is more common -- down here in the south, there ain't a lot of birch trees (like, none, unless some enterprising yankee imported them and babied them to survive the summers), but there's willows EVERYWHERE. Everywhere there's water, anyway.
I've thought some along these lines too, but the only thing that keeps popping up going "yeah but" is that hot coil; some substances, and I'm thinking herbal essences, might not take kindly to all that heat. Not sure, to be honest. I know excessive heat would definitely render most vitamins inert, but I don't really know, for herbal decoctions. I'm also concerned about that direct application to the lungs that you mention; for some things, maybe slippery elm? that might be a great thing... other things, that are meant to act systemically, it might actually be toxic. One cold remedy I've heard of, and it does seem to work pretty well, is boiling rosemary in water, and hanging your head over it to snort up all those fumes... so rosemary might be a prime candidate, and maybe thyme; both of them are excellent anti-virals and anti-bacterials.
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I'm so glad you changed your avatar back.
Up before noon again? Who are you and where is Andria? lol
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Ditto, likewise. My husband has to outlive me.... When I get those weird little chest pains, I just smile; maybe I'll get my dearest wish, and make a sudden hasty exit, rather than the wasting away by inches that cancer or diabetes provides.
Death doesn't frighten me at all; it's whatever I might have to go thru to get to it.
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You sound like my mother. Denying the inevitability of death is not going to keep it from happening. Best to figure out how one wants to deal with it. I'd rather be dead and gone than have to lay in a bed, GOD FORBID, in some fucking hospital for days, weeks, or months. Not only are hospitals literal HELL, they're expensive as shit, and I'd rather leave as few debts on my husband as I can get away with. Fast heart attack for me, please.
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I did not on the other board.
It has always been this over here.
Naah a dead parrot on a table.
I'm not denying the inevitability of it, but I'm still having fun. I'd rather kick the bucket like my Uncle Joseph. Go Cajun dancing one night, and just not wake up after.
Oh. Guess I need more java.
lol! Actually 3 posts. heheheheTRIPLE post. Fucking software!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm not denying the inevitability of it, but I'm still having fun. I'd rather kick the bucket like my Uncle Joseph. Go Cajun dancing one night, and just not wake up after.
Well same here! I figure I've got maybe 25-30 yrs to go, since I'm 55 now. But I've got that possible/probable 25-30 thx only to vaping!
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Cajun Dancing?I'm not denying the inevitability of it, but I'm still having fun. I'd rather kick the bucket like my Uncle Joseph. Go Cajun dancing one night, and just not wake up after.
Isn't there a study out there that says it kills more people than smoking?
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Yeah the fucking forum just fucking SAT THERE and did absolutely nothing for over 5 minutes, no matter what I clicked!
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Depends who you dance with and how fast. hehehehe
Same here. Even if I died tomorrow, my friends and family could say I lived a very FULL and enjoyable life.Well same here! I figure I've got maybe 25-30 yrs to go, since I'm 55 now. But I've got that possible/probable 25-30 thx only to vaping!
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