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life

I honestly wish disposable vapes get banned. They're addictive for me personally. I stop for 3 or 4 days then I'm straight back on them.

Laughing gas are going to be banned soon, hopefully disposable vapes are next.

Saw this today saying Scotland considering banning them. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66718599

WelshBlue

I'm not sure where I stand on the banning of disposables - but a lot of vaping forums ban the advertising and links to them, because they're not geared towards 'serious vapers'.  Proper recycling and I don't see the harm really.  Getting people to do the right thing is as usual, the hardest part.  I include shops in this who  sell to kids

I've 2 pod systems, one you change the whole pod, one you change the coil ... the whole pods I keep and saving towards making a wood, pod and resin side table ... the replacable coils are saved, washed in vodka and reused, then saved to make a sculpture I'm making.  Any disposables I buy are disassembled for parts for the side table and sculpture

The other vaping systems I make my own coils out of wire and Japanese cotton, e-liquid bottles are recycled so the impact on landfill is very very minimal

Vaping has helped me give up smoking, saved me thousands on tobacco and more importantly improved my lung function.  Yes I get shouted at for setting off the smoke alarm at 3 am ... but when you experiment making your own juice, add different flavour concentrates and after 2 weeks steeping ... vape it and go OMG that is sublime.  It's rewarding.   I've very little in my life now, and vaping is a hobby I enjoy doing but most of all learning  ... it can be a complex thing to get right

Will I give up ?  One day.  Is it damaging long term ?  I think I'll be long gone before the true extent comes out.

My thoughts over ... I bought some seeds ready to plan next years sowing and planting.
Dropping away from flowers and going down more fruit and veg

66Mustang

@WelshBlue good luck with the veggies, nice idea to grow your own, they always taste nicer even if they don't save any money in the long run

Just bought a gift card for a relatives birthday  

Lottie1732

A couple of over the door hook units. Hopefully they will fit! Just moved in to my very tiny bungalow. Boxes stacked up to the ceilings nearly.  it'll work out eventually but in the meantime I keep almost tripping over stuff. They were cheap as anything, made you know where. But, if they do the job that's OK. 

66Mustang

How exciting a new house, hope you settle in and enjoy the bungalow soon @Lottie1732

WelshBlue

66Mustang said:

@WelshBlue good luck with the veggies, nice idea to grow your own, they always taste nicer even if they don't save any money in the long run

You're not wrong there.  Taste is chalk and cheese from shop bought.
Cost wise a lot of things do sometimes work out cheaper depending on the crop, and if you grow your own.  Not been the best Summer but had a pretty good crop of most everything really

Cherry Tomatoes - 14lbs and still going
Mini Cucumbers x 30
Lettuces x 35
Strawberries - 12lbs and still going
Raspberries - 12lb 
Blackcurrants - 8lb 
Dwarf French Beans 8lb 

Spring Onions, chillies and capsicum peppers have been a total bust this year.
Potatoes were the worst  ... would have been cheaper to fly to Jersey for some Jersey Royals lol

Next year I'm going from container growing - too much work trying to balance the nutrients/ minerals 

Grinchy

i bought a 4k bluray set, superman, had to sell some of my star wars collection to afford it, an expensive set but worth it

66Mustang

To all responding to my vape post my point is how many puffs do you get from a refillable one because you have to throw the refill capsule away I thought?

What I am trying to say is, and I am making these numbers up, if a disposable one lasts 600 puffs and a refill for a refillable one lasts 60 puffs then is it just as bad throwing away 10 refills than a whole disposable machine?

My brother is the only person I know who vapes and he gets through 2-3 refills a day which seems like quite a lot to me. I don't know how many puffs that is.

Not trying to argue, just trying to raise a point for the discussion, I don't vape at all so I don't use either so I don't throw anything away. Do I get extra well done points?  

Kalps

Well all refill pods are 2ml. So if a disposable @ 2ml is 600 puffs so should the pods. Its also dependent on how long the puffs are for too. 

66Mustang

I didn't know that, thanks, I will just sit here quietly then and think about how much I am saving the planet by not using either

Just bought a gift bag for a birthday present to go in  

WelshBlue

@66Mustang ... I didn't see it as arguing.  Unless we know something, always good to question

Sadly until there's a cure for human nature, littering of anything and everything will go on.  They've taken away the composting recycling from my town because of the things being dumped in there.
Says a lot of the person who thinks it's okay to put a mattress in there ... It was the last recycling feature, everything else taken away now so it's a 56 mile round journey because of people abusing things

Just bought some new jeans from Vinted .. £8 with P & P 

life

It's always good to debate 😉

This came out today on the news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66740556

5 million a week 😳

Sandy_123

What lights were those @woodbine are they garden ones

Jimm_Scope

I suppose I wonder, can the refill tubes not be... re-used? So much more goes into making the disposable vape than the refill pods. It has to have a heating element and electronics to work that heating element as well as the casing itself is much larger than just a refill pod. So I don't think comparing number of puffs is the best metric here in my opinion. We should be trying to re-use as much as possible, to me it seems much easier to make the refills re-usable than these disposable vapes.

C_J

Tailgate struts for the car.

WelshBlue

Interesting article @life ... astounding figures, and that's not taking into account those under 16 ?
That's a lot of money every week at just £2 if bought online.  Shop prices and it's even more staggering.

The trouble with disposable vapes is the coils are made of the thinnest kanthal wire, the wicking cotton gets gunged quickly because it's not the best japanese muji , so being reusable isn't really in the equation, because everything is made on the cheap and doesn't last to be re-used

Which is why the next step up is refillable pods, and then pods with replacable coils to cut down on waste even more ... there's the tank option for sub ohm vaping etc.  Either buy coils, or make your own.

Vaping is a huge industry and sadly there's more money to be made in throwaways than there is in buy a kit and use it and use it.  As said before, vaping forums ban advertising of disposables 

Bought a car wiper motor and linkage from ebay ... local garage wanted £110 ... fleabay £20 with postage

Just got to get my body working to fit it ... 

durhamjaide2001

My food shop from Sainsbury's as I have just come back from 11 days holiday at Calvert Trust Keilder in Northumberland and Bendrigg Trust in the Lake District 

Sandy_123

How do you make your own coils @WelshBlue

A frying pan mine was needing replaced

WelshBlue

@Sandy_123 ... this video explains the basics, but you've got to use physics in Ohm's law ... resistance etc.  Different types of wire, kanthal, Stainless Steel, Titanium NiChrome - different gauges all give different results ... I stay away from NiChrome because I know I would poison myself using the wrong settings

The video makes it look easy enlarged but when you've lost use of most of your hands ... it's challenging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkZDqSu2JA&ab_channel=OXVAOfficial&themeRefresh=1

There's also different types of coils, and some real artisans who sell individual ones, only about a fiver but they last 6 months so good economics ... 



I only want true flavour replication ... not interested in big clouds so basic all the way for me

Sandy_123

I'll watch it later thanks @WelshBlue