With a nearly full scale banishment on electronic devices being a real possibility, I'm looking into stocking up to sustain myself for at least a while. I have a few questions and I'm sure others so as well and thought a thread on the subject could prove useful.
First, nicotine. What is the better, longest lasting base to get with nicotine VG or PG ? And I assume freezing is the optimal preservation method?
Secondly, equipment. Obviously full mechanical mods are the best bet for long term, heavy duty use... But what is the best material between stainless steel, copper, brass, etc (for a combination of longevity and low maintenance)? What is the best material for the contacts?
What about regulated mods? I would love to own a parallel 18650 mod that could stand the test of time. Are there any that have a very simple design on the inside that could be easily fixed (wires coming loose or chip needing replaced etc)?
Then, finally, atomizers. Is the best course of action just to find your favorite and buy a high quantity or are there RTAs and RBAs out there that are built to last and are constructed with quality materials that could last years with good care?
Thanks for anyone's advice/experience in advanced, and feel free to use this thread to ask related questions yourself.
“I’ll NOT be doing THAT again!” - the famous Taurus War Cry was heard in our house this morning!
As happens to the aged, O500 hrs this morning found me suddenly wide awake for no good reason. As usual when this happens I got up, sat in my recliner office chair, drank a pot of tea, read for a bit, and visited forums until the rest of the world came awake accompanying all that with a vape.
However that vaping ( OK chain vaping for 2-3 hours ) was done with my new Feedlink Squonk, inadvertently loaded with 18 strength liquid, fired at 4.2 volts to begin with, through a 0.6 ohm coil.
Not good. Not good at all.
Having smoked since I was very young, inhaled even pipe tobacco etc I never reckoned I could get nic sic at this late stage … but OMG suddenly I got hit with the full repertoire, the sweats, the feeling of nausea, dizziness the restlessness where I couldn’t settle but had to prowl, the racing heart etc etc.
How did I manage to do it? Carelessness coupled with the old “it’ll never happen to me” routine basically.
I had grabbed a bottle of my old 18 strength Menthol Liquid, filled the squonk bottle without looking at the juice bottle’s label and chain vaped using what is in essence a protected mech mod with a new battery on a sub ohm coil.
I’m normally a tootle puffer with 1,6 ohm coils but OMG initially at least with the squonk I enjoyed trying DTL and blowing clouds … initially!
I’m sure the rest of you reading this will have more sense than to do anything like I did this morning, but trust me - I’ll NOT be doing THAT again!
This is the end of the story of my previous post about Box Mods. I hope you like them
For about a year I follow with great interest this project by Original Moddog. So much time it took before he found its realization, but I must say that the result has fully repaid the wait.
And a big box is born. From all points of view. Big in size, performance, design, innovative solutions offering.
The shape is unique, original, without magnetized doors or holes for Squonk. There are no corners, but only beautiful curves, expertly carved on the footprint of the palm of a large hand. Yeah, it takes a big hand to wrap it, tame it, make it a wonderful object that can produce clouds of electronic steam. While the thumb rests on the little ignition button, the little finger is already perfectly positioned on the bottle in the most natural position for Squonk.
The classic access hole to the bottle is here replaced by a "cave" carved in the wood block where the bottle is enclosed and protected. Apparently a cornerstone of the whole structure.
Immobilized on the bottom of his steel cap that does not allow any play or movement during Squonk. The bottle is inserted vertically through this cap and engages the feeding cup automatically through a rigid connector, designed in aluminum, which wraps around the silicone tubing. The set is entirely liquid-proof, no loss, perfectly firm and solid, so as to allow the flow of liquid toward the atomizer with a minimum pressure of the little finger.
The other round cap at the bottom of the box, larger in diameter, perfectly laser engraved with the logo of Original Moddog, gives access to the battery compartment.
Here we have a solution completely innovative and extremely practical and functional. A battery compartment completely isolated, in itself, capable of accepting batteries from 18350 to 26650 thanks to a spring mechanism for the change of length and to a plastic adapter for the change in diameter.
It was defined system "Sherpa", and is intended to bring the heaviest 26650 as well as the small 18650-18500-18350. In the most simple and rational way. Of course, it adds weight to the whole system, being made of steel, but the solution is ingenious and practical at the same time.
The body of the box is studied in detail. Commenting on the debut of Michele as a Box modder, I was really surprized about his ability to convert harmoniously the piece of wood to object for Electronic Steam, respecting shape and veins, not, vice versa, forcing, cutting and squaring the block towards more regular and contained shapes.
Now, logically, this trend has also infected him in his more commercial models, but these top of the range Boxes are masterpieces of naturalness against any forcing.
Nevertheless, the size of the box is, in my opinion, very contained. If we consider the comparison with the best known electronic boxes and we keep in mind that the Leviathan can mount batteries 26650, the comparison holds, and how well.
Electronic heart of the system is the DNA40 of Evolv, new generation, with larger display than the traditional. No comment from me, the choice seems to me correct, although I wish my next box with a SX350J. The increase in surface area of the OLED is however an advantage, both as aesthetics, but above all as legibility. As it regards the reliability of the circuit .... To each their own experiences and their own conclusions.
The circuit is housed in a vertical groove, covered by a sheet of wood of different essence, embedded in a perfect manner, without solution of continuity. The three small buttons for firing and adjustment are placed on that layer, barely visible, extremely small, but adequately tactile. It is not important that you see the small buttons, it is important that you feel them. I believe that the perfect button is not born yet. That's why I prefer the SX with gravity control (at least the button is only one). This solution is however congruous with the design of the box.
The last feature concerns the construction of the feeding cup "All Seasons", which Michele and Alberto had already proposed in project more than a year ago. They have "slept" a bit on the realization of this idea, leaving overcome in time to market by other manufacturers. The idea was right, that what is important.
The central block onto which we can screw the cups from 14, 16, 22 mm, depending on the needs, allows the Leviathan to transform in a few moments from a box BF to a Battery Box overperforming. The only two variables remain the atomizer and the cup diameter.
Comfort / eclectic truly remarkable: we start in the morning with a full Kayfun tank in battery box, we spend the afternoon in Bottom Feeder system only substituting Kayfun with the Chalice in our pocket ... .. damn, forgotten at home the Chalice, no problem, we fill in Kayfun with the liquid of the bottle below and continue in battery box. Not bad.
Compromise or permanent solution?
Certainly much more of a compromise between a Box BF and Battery Box. The term "compromise" always contains a negative value. And here I see very little negative: the weight, the size, but really are negative characteristics? In my opinion the use of batteries 26650 with high performance discharge and long life will be important in the future of electronic steam, plus the ability (in this case) to use many different types of batteries. Practically those that at that time each has in his pocket.
Permanent solution?
It could be, at least for those who want in a single box all the best features of a Box BF and a Battery Box. There is not, in my opinion a more eclectic Box, if not turning somersaults using Flatter, beauty rings, adapters that distort the construction and aesthetics of the Box.
I like the Vapor Flask, with its harmonic lines: the added Squonk hole has sacrified one of the two 18650 to accommodate the bottle. Less autonomy, no wood, a true compromise. Here we are on another planet.
But it is not the ultimate solution. Although personally I could very well please.
It is only the Leviathan V1.
Michele and Alberto state that is already discontinued. There will soon be a Leviathan V2 system with brass Sherpa tube and cap to increase conductivity and a Leviathan Mini with battery 18XXX to significantly reduce the size, just for smaller hands of my polar bear hands.
Not only that: the cup "All Seasons" will be lightened and with a modified pin for attachment to the bottle, therefore compatible with the standard silicone tubing.
New Leviathan, following the trend of the moment, will be built with stabilized wood or hybrid.
The trend of the moment must be followed, no objection, right to try it, but I am sure that the natural grain of the wood will soon return to being the most popular and loved.
Maybe the focus will shift towards vintage woods, antiqued or worm-eaten, but the wood yellow, green or red have the months counted. For colors there is plastic. Personal opinion and refutable.
Another trend followed, unfortunately in the negative, is the "leviathation" of price. 500 euro for a box certainly are not for everyone, but the cost is not exaggerated for a unique object, that cannot be cloned, which incorporates original solutions, manual processes superfine and exclusive features.
Finally a plause to Original Moddog for transparency in the management of the sales of their products. Their website acts as a showroom and shop. No lists, no more or less hidden invitations to go on Facebook or private channels. I hope they continue this way.
Leviathan was a biblical monster. Yes, this is really a box "monstrous".
hi my smok 22 vape pen button is jammed in so the top bit is fully pushing in and the bottom is fully not pushed in. it’s not firing or anything when i don’t want it to so that’s good but it also won’t fire at all. idk how to add images
Hi everyone, I am searching for some info from REAL users NOT reviewers or Yihi directly as I truly do not trust them.
Here is what I am looking for. If anyone has or did have one of those SX auto squonk mods, I would like to know if that auto squonk feature did in fact work well. I thought way back I had read someone saying it never would sense the wicks getting dry, so it really didn’t function well at all. Yihi is saying they have fixed this and I would like to know if it is in fact true. I don’t trust them at all. I DO trust you all though
Thanks for any help and info
There are so many of us purchasing stabwood mods lately so I thought we should have a thread dedicated to showing them off and caring for them!
Include the name of the mod and if it has an atty on it include the name of that too!!
So since I started this thread I’ll go 1st !!
Asmodus Minikin V2 in purple w Kennedy 24 clone
Asmodus Thor in pink w Loop 1.5
Asmodus Thor in blue w GeekVape Zeus dual coil
Yihi SX Mini Sl Class in green w Avocado 24
Asmodus EOS II in purple w Recurve
Hi Albert I have a few different yihi chips one is an auto squonk and the other is the topside dual carbon I really like the temperature control of both of them and would like to find a single coil DNA to try out because I also like the power curves and everything is well I'm just having a hard time finding a single battery DNA squonk that's under $100. Any help would greatly be appreciated
I caMe home from work and seen my topside single was lit up on my dresser.I hadn’t used it in a couple days so I picked it up only to see that the wattage is going down non stop and won’t fire and it’s as if the wattage down button is stuck. It’s not though. I can’t find anything small enough to take the panel off so I pretty mad. Only
I’ve had Mabye 40 refills with this mod and never been dropped . Just use it on the weekends when I drive mainly that’s it . This is why I hate regulated mods. Anyone else have this problem? I don’t know why it doesn’t even come with a Alan key to
Take it apart.
I joined ECF back in August of 2017. I was sixty-five years old and had been smoking 25-30 cigarettes a day for 40+ years. I began vaping at the same time win the hope I could at least cut down. I dual used for months, continually cutting back on cigarettes. I smoked my last cigarette on May 11, 2018 - I am coming up on my three year anniversary. When I began, I vaped 24mg nicotine. Now I alternate between 3mg and zero nic.
Given how incredibly positive vaping has been for me, I am in shock at recent events. I was down to two working mods. I have ordered four mods, some tanks and a bunch of coils. I am still able to buy some eliquids where I live - but many of my favorites from Halo have been discontinued. I still have some outstanding hardware orders that I hope get delivered.
The treatment of vaping in the media has been a one sided disgrace, and propaganda works. Over the years when I have mentioned to people that I quit by vaping, they respond, ‘so you quit smoking by picking up a habit that is even more dangerous’.
I am set for at least a year. Fortunately I have kicked my addiction to nicotine - I recently vaped zero nic for a month. If I was just starting out, it would truly be panic time, and I would go back to cigarettes for sure. I suspect that many will do just that. Happy I started when I did.
Hey guys,
I’m looking for a good regulated Squonk mod. Can you guys recommend which ones are good? I’ve heard good things about the dotmod dot squonk and the vandy vape pulse 2.
Are those generally the best options? Is one better than the other?
Thanks