Is this the death of the hardware buying virus?

[Tom]

I was wondering if I have reached the end of the road when its coming to hardware? In recent months I have not bothered to look around on what to get next.... on the facebook groups that I am in the messages dont even pop up anymore, so little I have been looking around there

I have had a lot of different setups.....mech devices, regulated, drippers and tanks. I even bought a Reo in between. Nowadays I am almost exclusively using one setup....either one of 2 FeV RBA's on 2 different regulated mods, the Sigelei 100W for home use and the IPV mini for travelling. I must say the hunt for better has faded since. I am quite happy with those setups. The FeV's are just so easy to deal with, never a let down and can be filled so easily, combined with huge clouds comparable to drippers, just with the benefit of being a tank device.

My Kayfuns are just gathering dust, and my Reo is with me on my travels in case the IPV would break down, or get lost. Just as the mechanical backup. I also got a Vanilla with me, same reason, with one of the Kayfuns. But not getting used at all....

So, right now I am only chasing the software....the juices. And even with that I have a considerable amount of excellent juices in my rotation, so its basically filling up on that mostly. Still getting once in a while some new juice to see if it fits into that rotation

I am happy with that.... its great having the equipment that suits my lifestyle.

Anyone else at their happy spot already? Share your experience

 

[free3dom]

I've found my "happy spot" 20 times over already...and then I hang around all my new favourite people (hint: they're all vapers) and the cycle starts again

I no longer need a better vape (nirvana attained, been there done that) but I love vaping so much that I don't think I will ever stop trying out as much new stuff as I can

This industry really is only getting started and the amazing stuff coming out each week has me more excited than I have been in decades. Even when they aren't better, it's still a fun and interesting experince playing around with the new stuff

 

[johan]

Yip, after 2 months of vaping, got a Reo and an e-pipe and never looked back - the other hardware obtained was a Nuppin RDA for the Reo. Got an eGrip last year for traveling purposes only. I'm content with what I've got and only purchase e-juice from time to time.

 

[2 Angry Wolves]

Im so content too now. It was like a race for a better vape all the time but now i have a rda and rta setup that can rotate on devices with no hassle.

 

[FireFly]

More or less the same here...

I toot on my Cloupor T6 with Either the Subtank or the Kangertech Turbo. Loving the Sub Tank Though.
Then I have a BEC Pro with Kangertech tank as a backup if needed. Also mrs IPV v2 if things get real ugly.

As they Did Yesterday... Took freshly charged Battery off Charger to go watch son playing rugby, inserted into T6 with new Juice, Packed BEC PRo...

Halfway to venue, Battery Shows 0% on T6 (oh the Horror!!!! Really...) Pull out BEC, Not feeling it... Ask for IPV v2, did not feel it but lasted the morning until I could get my other 26650 for the T6...

Not a Good Vaping day, amongst many good ones I must say...

 

[Derick]

I love where I am with vaping, but in the 90's I loved my golf 1 GTS - now I drive a GTI, and I'm sure in 20 years the car I drive will be just as radically different.

Things will always improve as new ideas come out - we are currently on the carburetor stage of vaping and we are happy, as I was with my GTS, but fuel injection, turbos, ABS and forced induction is still around the corner and I can't wait to see what they do

 

[FireFly]

forced induction is still around the corner

LOL, Sign me up... Vaping on Auto...

 

[Silver]

Marvellous post @Tom

Who would have thought you would have reached this point that day we met at the first VapeMeet in Dec14 i think - at @Gizmo's place. I remember that day clearly. I had my Twisps and thought they were quite good. I even had my GreenSmoke which impressed most of you for its performance given its size. Then @TylerD gave me a toot on one of his rebuildables and i could not believe it.

We were so inexperienced then. (And i agree with @Derick, its a relative thing, so we are still inexperienced now, given what will pobably unfold over the coming year or two)

It has been such an amazing journey so far.

I too have tried so many things. For mouth to lung I am now sorted on the Reos. I know them well and they give me so much vaping pleasure and flavour. I could not ask for more in that department.

I was pretty sorted at that point for a number of months, but then my Greek friends and @Alex got me into lung hitting. So the whole thing started again. I am in my early stages on the lung hit journey. Nuppin, Atlantis, Subtank.... And more mods.... I am getting there but not yet in the same zone as you.

I wonder whether i will give up mouth to lung or end up doing both. The difference fascinates me and I still like both.

The journey for me is not finished... Still lots more to try... Although I am a bit more restrained now.

Juice wise, i think it will be an ongoing journey for me. I still love the excitement of getting a great new juice and trying it out for the first time. So great to see what flavour surprise is lurking around each corner... Its that surprise element that makes the juice journey so interesting.

But having said all that, what keeps this journey so special for me and keeps it going is two big things
1) the amazing peeps on this forum, logging on and feeling part of a special clan
2) knowing i am still off the stinkies. That gives me such pleasure and makes me smile all the time.

 

[Tom]

Marvellous post @Tom

Who would have thought you would have reached this point that day we met at the first VapeMeet in Dec14 i think - at @Gizmo's place. I remember that day clearly. I had my Twisps and thought they were quite good. I even had my GreenSmoke which impressed most of you for its performance given its size. Then @TylerD gave me a toot on one of his rebuildables and i could not believe it.

We were so inexperienced then. (And i agree with @Derick, its a relative thing, so we are still inexperienced now, given what will pobably unfold over the coming year or two)

It has been such an amazing journey so far.

I too have tried so many things. For mouth to lung I am now sorted on the Reos. I know them well and they give me so much vaping pleasure and flavour. I could not ask for more in that department.

I was pretty sorted at that point for a number of months, but then my Greek friends and @Alex got me into lung hitting. So the whole thing started again. I am in my early stages on the lung hit journey. Nuppin, Atlantis, Subtank.... And more mods.... I am getting there but not yet in the same zone as you.

I wonder whether i will give up mouth to lung or end up doing both. The difference fascinates me and I still like both.

The journey for me is not finished... Still lots more to try... Although I am a bit more restrained now.

Juice wise, i think it will be an ongoing journey for me. I still love the excitement of getting a great new juice and trying it out for the first time. So great to see what flavour surprise is lurking around each corner... Its that surprise element that makes the juice journey so interesting.

But having said all that, what keeps this journey so special for me and keeps it going is two big things
1) the amazing peeps on this forum, logging on and feeling part of a special clan
2) knowing i am still off the stinkies. That gives me such pleasure and makes me smile all the time.

yip....we were so noob back then

Although having found my sweet spot.....@Derick made a valid point. Its probably for now my sweet spot, certainly not forever. But I am still happy that I dont have to chase the newest hardware anymore for the time being until new developments come in, right now there is no stepping up from what I got by buying something else. Its too likely that I will just carry on using my favourites and whatever new I would buy will just gather dust in the cabinet.

 

[Derick]

yip....we were so noob back then

Although having found my sweet spot.....@Derick made a valid point. Its probably for now my sweet spot, certainly not forever. But I am still happy that I dont have to chase the newest hardware anymore for the time being until new developments come in, right now there is no stepping up from what I got by buying something else. Its too likely that I will just carry on using my favourites and whatever new I would buy will just gather dust in the cabinet.

I also think that when we started, the target we were chasing was moving so fast that you basically had to upgrade every few months just to stay current. Now that the major improvements have been done, only the minor tweaks are left and a lot of them are not worth upgrading for. That is of course until someone invents fuel injection and we don't need our wicked coils (carburetors) anymore

 

[Rob Fisher]

While I keep searching for better vapes because I enjoy trying new vaping stuff I still spend 98% of the time with Avril the REO with a Cyclone on top with a 1,2Ω coil and tropical ice in the bottle.

Some of the classics of times past are...

The Nautilus tanks - but neither are in use anymore because they are past their sell by dates. They we game changers in their time!
The Sigelei 20W - I still have two of them and still use them occasionally... just a pity they don't do Sub Ohm.
The Authentic Russian 91% - This is still one of the best tanks ever made and still holds it own vape wise. Just a pain to re-wick.
The Atlantis - Still have one full of diluted Tropical Ice for a could blowing and taste change from REO's from time to time.
The Goblin - While I don't use it much because of the pain of rewicking it's probably the best RTA around at the moment.

Everything else... Ho Hum...

 

[FireFly]

I feel so inferior right now....

Nice Collection there Rob

 

[Rob Fisher]

I feel so inferior right now....

Nice Collection there Rob

I wouldn't feel inferior right now... feel sorry for me rather... I have a serious FOMO problem... all I really need in that whole batch is Avril and Lily and nothing else... and Lily is just a back up for Avril. I'm just lucky that I have worked hard for 59 years and can afford it.

 

[n0ugh7_zw]

it goes in fits and starts for me... I find my happy place for a few weeks... Then I find another.... Then i see something new, and it all repeats itself.

 

[Rotten_Bunny]

my Nirvana has been reached. a coupl of threads back to be exact...
Reo is the way to go !

 

[Yusuf Cape Vaper]

my Nirvana has been reached. a coupl of threads back to be exact...
Reo is the way to go !

To each his own I for one tried the REO game out twice and could not for the life of me find it to be as satisfying as some of my other mods. But that's me

 

[Tom]

To each his own I for one tried the REO game out twice and could not for the life of me find it to be as satisfying as some of my other mods. But that's me

me too. I still have to make my Reo into a LP version, and give final judgement thereafter. With the ordinary Reomiser its just not enough clouds for my liking. Thats why its currently just my backup mod for travelling. Not an ADV device for me, unfortunately.

 

[Yusuf Cape Vaper]

me too. I still have to make my Reo into a LP version, and give final judgement thereafter. With the ordinary Reomiser its just not enough clouds for my liking. Thats why its currently just my backup mod for travelling. Not an ADV device for me, unfortunately.

I've tried with a few of the LP compatible atomizers. I actually loved the reo for a week. I only used it and nothing else. Then one day I decided to pick my mod up, and I couldn't put it down. After that I couldn't pick the reo up again. I do however feel that it is an amazing machine and the build quality is superb. It just isn't everyone's cup of tea, and because of that it is not the end of the road. This road has no end it has pauses and breaks where you're content with something. But that is not the end. For not atleast

 

[rogue zombie]

I have for the last two months at least found exactly the Vape I'm looking for.

So I'm skipping so much new tanks and mods. It's been bliss being able to pass up so much new stuff.

I only tweak and try slightly different things now. Not like a few months ago when I was blindly chasing everything, trying to find something that really satisfied me.

 

[Tom]

I've tried with a few of the LP compatible atomizers. I actually loved the reo for a week. I only used it and nothing else. Then one day I decided to pick my mod up, and I couldn't put it down. After that I couldn't pick the reo up again. I do however feel that it is an amazing machine and the build quality is superb. It just isn't everyone's cup of tea, and because of that it is not the end of the road. This road has no end it has pauses and breaks where you're content with something. But that is not the end. For not atleast

Undoubtedly it is a great device. Loved it for quite a while too. Actually same story.... got the FeV and hardly used the Reo since. Like said....too little clouds for my liking. But i will keep it, for sure. Actually keeping everything i got now....even the Kayfuns. Its not worth it selling anyways since the V4 was released.

 

[Rotten_Bunny]

im a flavor freak. the Reo serves as my all day all night every day every night vape. sure the clouds arent massive. but the taste is amazing.

i do still however want to be able to blow clouds like mount whatever it is that spews them.

so i am going to be looking out for a cloud rig very shortly

 

[Andre]

Every now and then I try the other stuff, and every time I go back to my Reos. Not built as low as some do go (think @zadiac enjoys his Reo just below 0.2 ohms), but between 0.45 and 0.7 juice depending.
So, have again decided to try and restrain myself - till next time.
As to chasing juices, @Tom - what can I say - we are worse that way than gear. An obsession not easily tamed.

 

[rvdwesth]

Nice thread guys...
Made me think --> I bough quite a few tanks, sold them all again and kept on coming back to my Kayfun, with a 1.4 Ohm build and VM4, Hawk Sauce or Thug Juice in the tank.
I tried some Japanese cotton last week, and I'm back to organic Dischem cotton, tried a 26g 1 Ohm yesterday, and this morning i recoiled a 1.4 on 28g
I play around with DIY juices.... Simply because I refuse to pay 300 madibas for a bottle of juice

My 2c, I think you find a sweet spot and idle there for a while. I kinda have my heart and savings set on a REO. I did wonder about getting a KUI in the meantime... but REO for me is the dream I'm working toward.

 

[zadiac]

Every now and then I try the other stuff, and every time I go back to my Reos. Not built as low as some do go (think @zadiac enjoys his Reo just below 0.2 ohms), but between 0.45 and 0.7 juice depending.
So, have again decided to try and restrain myself - till next time.
As to chasing juices, @Tom - what can I say - we are worse that way than gear. An obsession not easily tamed.

lol.....no sir. Between .25 and .35 is my sweet spot on the Reo I like a warmish airy vape

 

[Tom]

As to chasing juices, @Tom - what can I say - we are worse that way than gear. An obsession not easily tamed.

I am enjoying it....concentration 100% on the juices now that the hardware is set.