Thanks, and you may be right, but HCigar labels them as alien claptons Specs are in pic below. Thumbnail leads to a very big photo.

Try contacting https://www.facebook.com/Cloudgearvapestudio/ and ask if "wavy" alien claptons r in stock already.

Last week when I was there, they even ran out of SS316L. Maybe fresh stocks have finally arrived by now.

Vape Empire sells the Griffin. Try calling their Melaka branch to see if they have stock.

https://www.facebook.com/vapeempiremalaysiamelaka/

Cooling agent does not make for a mintier taste because it has no flavor.
30ml Koolada for RM50 is expensive. Lelong has small-quantity resellers for much cheaper; the flavourist.com is also cheaper. If you want blended koolada/menthol mix, pm me and I'll pass u the contact of a reliable reseller.

If you want some mint flavor with the cooling effect, consider importing some Extreme Ice by Flavor West. I haven't seen anyone sell it locally yet. That flavor has spearmint, and I think wintergreen in it (not sure, am recalling from memory).

Can you describe exactly the cooling effect you want?

Off-hand for cooling without added flavor, Koolada/cooling agent's the only thing I can recommend. Several possibilities for yr problem:

1) Your Koolada has been diluted by the seller.
2) Your Koolada is from an old/past the best-by date batch and is now less effective.
3) You didn't add enough.
4) The other flavors in your juice have a psychological association with warm/hot flavor memory and your brain mutes the cooling effect.
5) You're having a touch of vaper's tongue and/or may have become desensitized to the cooling effect.

Edit: corrected typos. Darned autocorrect!

This post has been edited by andyng38: Feb 4 2016, 11:49 AM

TFA is a division of the TPA corporation.

If your rootbeer is being muted by other flavors or you want it to be more prominent, either up the percentage a bit or add 2-3% TFA Wintergreen. You can also try adding to yr rootbeer flavoring 1.5% Sassafras with 1.5% Wintergreen for an even more authentic "old time" rootbeer taste; adjust to your liking. Some rootbeer flavors may initially have a prominent metallic or chemical taste, but 2 hours of breathing, occasional agitation and 2-3 days of steeping should take care of that.

VG/PG premix will have some flavor. It will never be flavorless. IMO for various reasons I am loth to state, it's better to buy the straight ingredients from a trusted honest supplier and mix your own juice base.

Edit: Corrected an ambiguous suggestion.

This post has been edited by andyng38: Feb 4 2016, 02:08 PM

Wintergreen is not ice chilling; it's minty and will reinforce the root beer flavor.

Steeping your root beer will reduce/eliminate the chemical taste. If you've added a vanilla cream to your root beer, you may have to steep for up to a week. For freshly-mixed juice, I recommend letting it breathe for 2 hrs on the first day, then 15-20 minutes every day till it tastes good enough to vape. I prefer to do the breathing late at night or early morning when the air is fresher/less polluted. Juices need oxygen as part of the aging process, and also breathing allows the more pungent chemical scents to dissipate.

1-2ml of sucralose/10ml of juice is a crazy high rate. That's 10-20%!!! If u can try to eat a square of cadbury dairy milk chocolate and feel it to be very sweet, then your tastebuds are ok. If so, it's highly probably the sucralose you bought had been highly diluted by the seller to increase profits (a lot of that is happening). Another probable cause is that your juice requires more steeping time so that the flavors (and sweetness) appears; but for me, root beer without any creamy additions is a 2 day steep at the most.

Note: always taste your freshly-mixed juices so you can see how it changes over time. The initial taste may be a bit unpleasant, but at least you'll know how your juice is from the start. If it tastes like crap to begin with, chances are very high that no amount of steeping time will help it improve.

PM with info on 3 suppliers sent.

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Happy brewing to both of u!!

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Yeah Castle Long is expensive...but it can be cloned quite cheaply . Surf around for recipes. If memory serves me correctly, you'll need vanilla bourbon for that recipe, and that's hard to find locally. If u can't find that, hantam TFA French Vanilla 2 instead lah!

Thanks for your review on the Cuboid. Looks like I'll be aiming for a silver one after CNY (and when prices drop a little more)...am in no hurry

FA Oak Wood just doesn't cut it.

No oak barrel? No problem! Buy white oak chips from Amazon (the kind used for smoking meats).
Wash the chips in soap and water. Rinse thoroughly, boil for 2min and sun-dry. Such chips were never meant to be in direct contact with food/liquids, so you MUST clean them first.

Use a butane torch to char the chips.

You can save some time and trouble by getting this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Charred-Toasted-Wh...g-/200702272501

But for peace of mind on hygiene matters, I prefer to just get the untreated chips then wash, boil, dry and char. It's easy!

Make yr juice and store it in a container that can be turned upside down, and can lay on it's side without leaking.
Add an amount of chips which will approximate one-third the surface area of the juice touching the inside of the container. Just agak-agak this and don't worry. A bit more or a bit less won't hurt.

During steeping time, store the container in various positions (right-side up, upside-down, on it's side and rolled to a different part of its side daily) so that the oak chips are distributed as well as can be. This will help speed things up. I recommend you turn the container at least 2X a day.
Expect a loss of 0.5-1.5% of juice volume as some will be soaked up by the chips. If you use oak chunks instead of chips, the loss can be over 3% for the first batch, but subsequent batches will have less loss (and will also taste better as the oak "improves").

Usually CLR takes a week to steep. With oak chips, adding in another 4-7 days will only improve it.
Do sample your juice daily, and when it hits the right amount of steeping, enjoyyyyy!

Hope the procedure goes well and u heal fast.
You may wanna consider getting a suitably-sized drip tip and pioneering the nose to lung method

I know what u mean. I've cold-smoked fish, tiger prawns and meats before, but never done so with liquids. Your concept is a good example of thinking out of the box.

When I read your post, I had an instant mental image of a mini cold-smoker attached to the intake of an aquarium air pump leading to a diffuser sitting at the bottom of a liter of juice. The pump would have to work harder if the juice is high VG

Interesting concept...but I think it'd not make for a very good juice, as the components of smoke may react with the liquid adversely (and toxicity may be introduced to the liquid too). But do keep thinking along similar lines...you have an innovative mind!

There are many strawberry pie recipes out there...just google.

While I can't share my recipes (they take time, money and effort to develop...and most are not very good anyways), I can give you a tip or two.

TFA (The Flavor Apprentice) strawberry ripe is a very good flavor, but has a characteristic of suffering from some muting 2-3 weeks after steeping, especially if other flavors in the mix have maltol/ethyl maltol in them. To lessen that effect, consider mixing it with FA (Flavorart)Strawberry (red touch)which has better low and high notes (TFA's has very good mid notes). You'll get a balanced, richer and more accurate strawberry flavor. Try 7% TFA's with 4-5% FA for a single flavor juice.

For a stronger pastry flavor, use graham cracker and pie crust in yr recipe.

Do u know any local stockist for Inawera and Tasty Puff flavorings?

TF-R3 is a 3 coil rba. It's available at FT by itself.

I don't own a cuboid...yet! But if you're feeling adventurous, you can try lowering the TCR for kanthal and try firing at a higher temperature. It may or may not work on your mod (and you do so at yr own risk!). I've experimented on using kanthal in TC mode before...for some mods, it won't work but for others, it does. You MAY have better luck with a spaced coil than contact ones.

The TCR (Temperature Coefficient of Resistance) of kanthal is very low; its' resistance does not change by much when heated (unlike nickel, titanium & ss). When you lower the TCR and fire at a higher max temp, it is in hope that the change in resistance will be large enough for the mod's chip to recognize and allow firing, instead of jumping into power mode to protek you.

For your SS's sweet spot being elusive, you may wish to play around with the TCR and temperature. Experiment in small increments/subtractions. As I said, I don't own a cuboid yet...but I have a feeling you may want to lower the TCR and temperature a bit first, and see if the vape quality improves.

Since you have stainless steel, I'd forget about using kanthal on TC mode, unless you just wanna experiment. BTW hows the cuboid holding up? Fire button still solid and rattle-free?

AFAIK, Evolv doesn't have ss profiles for TC yet. The DNA40's profiles are probably more lenient/have broader resistance ranges and your ss coil can be used while in TC mode (but don't let that fool you into thinking that you're getting proper protection), maybe because it's only 40W max, as opposed to 200W.

http://www.evolvapor.com/datasheet/dna200.pdf

See page 3.

Maybe I'll have to partially correct myself...it seems you can create a custom profile for yr DNA200 to use SS:

http://evolvapor.forumchitchat.com/post/uw...-tcmode-7610469

Hope that helps you.

Torn wrappers? Rewrap your batteries!

If you need shrink-wrap fast, altsmo.com sells them, RM2/m. Got mine when I ordered some attys. If u can wait for the slow-boat from China, Fasttech is much cheaper and has pre-cut wrap of various colors. Maybe u can find some in Jln Pasar too, or buy from an electronics repair shop near u if it's very urgent and you have no other spare battery.

Cut to 73mm lengths for 18650 batteries, remove old wrapper, pop the insulator back on on the positive, slide on the new wrapper.
If you don't have a heat-gun, a candle will do to shrink it. I was leery of using my butane torch and opted for a slower heat source, shrinking the positive end first so the insulator stays in, then moving along the sides to the negative end. Rotate and move the battery while heating to prevent scorching. The scotch-tape's (used to secure the roll) gum residue on the shrink-wrap was not removed before I started heating, resulting in some black residue on one of the batteries.

And yes that's my old ash tray from my former smoking days, used as a candle-stand now.

Try yr luck with the imSold app. Saw a d2 in sealed box for RM90 there earlier today, and there's used vape stuff too.