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Ok, I know Im late to the party. First there is something I need to get off my chest.....I am a vaping snob! I like nice things and have no issue in paying for quality. I don't buy much kit but what I have is all good stuff. I haven't used a tank which has cost me less than £100 for two and a half years. Im not showing off, just trying to paint a picture of the kind of paper I usually am. I am also rather in love with my temp control and thats where my vape snobbery came a little unstuck. I LOVE my heron but the airflow just can't cool the coil fast enough and the build deck isn't great for the size coil needed for a nickel build. Im not brave enough to try temp control on a gennie, especially not on my in'ax.
It all came to a head yesterday morning. I woke up and the bloody coil was all over the place, just couldn't get it to stabilise, couldn't get a nice inhale without the temp control wiping it out. Then my coil snapped, just before work. So I shoved an emergency coil in and went hunting for a new tank. Trouble is I couldn't find any that ticked all the boxes. The closest was the squape r but been there, done that and didn't want something that Ive already had once.
So I hit up my good friend google and all things pointed to a subtank! Noooooooooooo! could I bring myself to getting the ultimate cloud chucking chav machine? Well, it turns out that after the vaping morning from hell that I could! The other half went out and got a couple and they were waiting for me when I got back at lunchtime. Very impressive packaging, high end gear could really learn a lot. The OH got a flask a couple of weeks ago and it came in a cheap brown box with a paper sticker on the front and that was pretty much it on the presentation side, but this has everything, coils, screwdriver, cotton, authenticity, spare orings and tank and instructions! I shit you not! But then I had a good look at the tank and my heart sank. Crunchy, horrible threads...yeah they work fine, but hardly silky smooth. Those red seals are minging and I hate the look of it, but once again that is probably me being a snob. There isn't much you can do to make it look anything other than a subtank.
But I tried to push the inner snob aside and got on with the serious bit...building a nickel coil. I wasn't expecting much at all but it is the easiest thing I think I have ever build on. It has a very open deck, once disassembled. Ten wraps round a 2.8mm rod, spaced, fitted easily with no need to fiddle. First build must have taken all of a minute! The cotton slid in easily as there was nothing to obstruct the angle and it was no bother to get it sitting in just the right place. So I filled it, took a deep breath and had my first go on it, fully expecting it to fuck up.
Lovely clouds and flawless performance! wow, that was a surprise. I thought It might take a little while to get the wicking right, but no, hit after hit was spot on. If anything it got better as it bedded in. Then I started to get a headache...that hasn't happened for a long time. Plus the clouds were getting a little boring and I was missing the flavour, and for me vaping is all about the flavour. So I closed off the airflow a notch and it was whistling. hmmmm, not cool. Surely those tiny air holes will be shit? wrong again. now I had a lovely, warm, tasty vape with a civilised amount of vapour but still light enough to take an easy draw through. Well bugger me backwards, this thing is really rather good.
Now the snob inside of me is still cringing at the though of using such a chavy atty, but it was such a pleasure to build on and has such a good vape so Im just going to have to get over that until something posher comes out that ticks all the boxes. I have made one concession though....my drip tip cost more than the tank
(I know this isn't strictly speaking a straight rebuildable, but that is what I will be using it as, so that is why Ive put this in the rebuildable section rather than in general vaping.)
It all came to a head yesterday morning. I woke up and the bloody coil was all over the place, just couldn't get it to stabilise, couldn't get a nice inhale without the temp control wiping it out. Then my coil snapped, just before work. So I shoved an emergency coil in and went hunting for a new tank. Trouble is I couldn't find any that ticked all the boxes. The closest was the squape r but been there, done that and didn't want something that Ive already had once.
So I hit up my good friend google and all things pointed to a subtank! Noooooooooooo! could I bring myself to getting the ultimate cloud chucking chav machine? Well, it turns out that after the vaping morning from hell that I could! The other half went out and got a couple and they were waiting for me when I got back at lunchtime. Very impressive packaging, high end gear could really learn a lot. The OH got a flask a couple of weeks ago and it came in a cheap brown box with a paper sticker on the front and that was pretty much it on the presentation side, but this has everything, coils, screwdriver, cotton, authenticity, spare orings and tank and instructions! I shit you not! But then I had a good look at the tank and my heart sank. Crunchy, horrible threads...yeah they work fine, but hardly silky smooth. Those red seals are minging and I hate the look of it, but once again that is probably me being a snob. There isn't much you can do to make it look anything other than a subtank.
But I tried to push the inner snob aside and got on with the serious bit...building a nickel coil. I wasn't expecting much at all but it is the easiest thing I think I have ever build on. It has a very open deck, once disassembled. Ten wraps round a 2.8mm rod, spaced, fitted easily with no need to fiddle. First build must have taken all of a minute! The cotton slid in easily as there was nothing to obstruct the angle and it was no bother to get it sitting in just the right place. So I filled it, took a deep breath and had my first go on it, fully expecting it to fuck up.
Lovely clouds and flawless performance! wow, that was a surprise. I thought It might take a little while to get the wicking right, but no, hit after hit was spot on. If anything it got better as it bedded in. Then I started to get a headache...that hasn't happened for a long time. Plus the clouds were getting a little boring and I was missing the flavour, and for me vaping is all about the flavour. So I closed off the airflow a notch and it was whistling. hmmmm, not cool. Surely those tiny air holes will be shit? wrong again. now I had a lovely, warm, tasty vape with a civilised amount of vapour but still light enough to take an easy draw through. Well bugger me backwards, this thing is really rather good.
Now the snob inside of me is still cringing at the though of using such a chavy atty, but it was such a pleasure to build on and has such a good vape so Im just going to have to get over that until something posher comes out that ticks all the boxes. I have made one concession though....my drip tip cost more than the tank
(I know this isn't strictly speaking a straight rebuildable, but that is what I will be using it as, so that is why Ive put this in the rebuildable section rather than in general vaping.)
