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Drip Tips Week Two

On By michaelvaporsIn Accessories, Accoutrements

Well it’s week two, actually week three but who’s counting? So I found a few more pics from prior advertising I kept from my retail store days of some more special product from Cherry Vape.

Anyway, here are three more from the new collection since I missed last weeks post.

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25 MM
32 MM

The first tip is a lovely putty color base with a swirling mixture of hot yellow and a mixture of pink and teal. You really can’t see these little variations from a distance except close up. The second one is a bright iridescent green with small grey stripes and what appears to be pink hearts kind of like xmas meets valentines day combined. The third one simply looks like beautiful turquoise stone.

Drip Tips Week One

On By michaelvaporsIn Accessories, Hardware

First, a bit of history. An avid collector of drip tips I am. A few weeks ago I came upon an unbelievable ad on ECF. An older collection of hand turned drip tips turned up. Made by a mysterious fellow named Brett, the owner of a company called Bull Box Mods circa 2014. I had to buy them.

Each week I will showcase with a pic each and every one of 35 tips that I have acquired as I think these are some of the most beautiful tips I have seen in a long time. I have always been a fan of the venerable “Ming” style tips and these are truly outstanding. The first Ming tips I acquired years ago circa 2012-2013 were made by Cheryl’s husband for their company CherryVape which sadly is no longer in business as far as I know. I believe CherryVape coined the name “Ming” as a style of the drip tip they made. It was of course a dynasty in China but it appears that this style was used in old Chinese smoking devices and also an ancient Asian pottery and glassware in the shape of a vase (see pics). Anyway, you get the idea.

Each one of these drip tips are lined with a steel tube. Some drip tips are still made this way. I do prefer the exclusion of metal but on the other hand this makes them more durable over time. CherryVape Mings are solid acrylic. I have many broken Mings that have to be used with a CherryVape adapter made especially for broken stem Mings they called the “Ming Bowl” 🙂

Cheryl sold her Ming tips for $10 each and also did special designs for the holidays. It appears that Brett sold his tips for anywhere from $25 to $65 each. Today, you can still get Ming style tips for as low as $1 and even less in volume, from several companies on the web but they are just not as good as the originals.

Another company that hand crafted Ming style and others was Siam Mods. I never did get to purchase one of these beauties back in the day, so I dont know much about them. I know they were expensive including shipping from Asia but just somehow never acquired five or six that I wanted.

Matchy Matchy with a Pulse. This one measure 45mm tall.

Wotofo Designer Coils ? !

On By michaelvaporsIn Accessories, Hardware, Vaping Industry

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Attention folks, Asia, specifically Wotofo, is making perfect (well almost 🙂 ) designer coils! Someone at Wotofo has listened to someone who knows something about vaping coils.
For the first time, in my vaping history anyway, for less than $1 per coil, I can get really nicely made and very clean designer coils in a packs of 10 each. Yes I know Asia has produced separate coils in various configurations, but they usually are much less complicated or the wrong diameter and of less quantity and quality. Now, we have 3mm (the perfect diameter) N80 coils that I can put in most of my atomizers without much hassle or wishing I could make the ones we see on Instagram, commonly known as coil porn. In my mind, if these were made from stainless steel, they would be perfect. I can’t wait to give them a try and hopefully, I am not allergic to Nickel.
30 coils should last me a long, long time. As I have read, nichrome has a TCR value of 0.000112 or Joyetech format 0011. Ni80 is not intended for use with temp control.

Here are the three variations that I ordered from my friends at Eciggity.com :
https://eciggity.com/wotofo-prebuilt-specialty-coils-10-pc/

Framed Staple Clapton
28+38 x 9 + 28+36 @ .33 Ohms

Tri Core Fused Clapton
26×3 + 38 @ .17 Ohms

Quad Core Fused Clapton
28×4 + 36 @ .26 Ohms

Simply amazing.

 

Organize your Mods with Bricks

On By michaelvaporsIn Accessories

If you are like me, your mods tend to get spread all over the desk and the house. These bricks are great for organizing your mods in one place and they are visually appealing, to me anyway. Bricks stack and fit together and even have dividers if you want them. They have rubber feet to keep them from slipping around are made in several sizes. They are made in 3 colors, clear, shown here, or transparent smoke and white. Get them here.

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DotMod Petri V2 Squonk Kit Install

On By michaelvaporsIn Accessories, General, Hardware, How To

https://youtu.be/KKGB9Do9SeU

As a preface to the video, the Petri is one of the best all around rda’s ever produced IMHO. Its well made, engineered for flavor and originally had no AFC which means they carefully thought out size and positioning if the air holes and tightness of draw of a single hole on each side of the cap. The press fit drip tip is still the best tip to use with this rda for draw and flavor. I have tried other drip tips but none compare to the stock drip tip the way its designed. The cloud cap came along afterwards only by demand of people interested in cloud blowing and competitive cloud blowing events at the time vs. flavor. As time passed, the demand for 24mm rda’s came about and so DotMod came out with a conversion cap for that purpose that includes AFC as well.

Before the $5 Squonk Kit came out recently, I thought there was really no need for the small hex tool that came with the rda and hence I never used it and never could figure out why it was included because it did not fit anything visible on/in the RDA. After I watched the French video on how to replace the French conversion kit a light bulb went on, even though the guy did not even use the included allen key. I did not remember that the rda did come with a tool until after making the video. I dug in my archive of empty boxes of vape hardware to find the tool, tore down my build to try it and NO it does not fit the hex screw that holds down the negative post, it’s too small. I just don’t know why they included the tool when it does not fit. Anyway, you will have to find your own H1.3 hex bit driver or allen wrench to remove the negative post screw as stated in the video.

Links I promised: The product:
https://dotmod.com/collections/access…

The French install video for the $20 French Kit by Alliance Vapor: https://youtu.be/KlWlmElx2rI

The tool kit I used: (I have the older 54 piece kit)
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/64…