SXK Corolla V1.5 MTL RTA

Smokey_Robinson

Smokey_Robinson

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Spyro said:
Bud do yourself a favour and don't go back to that shop. That is utter nonsense. Although I can totally agree that it will be a more satisfying experience. For them to say that your 45w built in device is not good enough is bang out of order. Either Thier staff are not educated. That or they are encouraged to make money off of customers at every opportunity. 45W is way more than plenty for an MTL vape and depending on your needs 20w will be too.


SXk corolla tank@R250
P100 GTRS tech mod @R550
Samsung 18650 batt @ R100
AWT 2 charger @ R150
Cotton Beacon @ R120
3m or 3ft ? thread/coil @ R150.

This is not bad but I feel like he's flogging old gear to you.

A far better setup in my opinion would be:
Vapour storm Puma mini (the one with the screen) +-R450

Vandy vape berserker RTA +- 500

Samsung 30Q

Ditch the charger. With MTL you won't use a full battery in a day. And if you do you can always go back and get an extra battery and charger.

The wire is fine.

And you are pretty safe charging on board on a single battery mod. There are millions of vapers who do this without issue.

When you need to, get a spare battery and 2 bay charger. Go nitecore - they barely ever die.

I would also recommend purchasing online.

But again, you can ditch all of that, save yourself the money and just get the wire, cotton and atomiser. 45W is more than anyone on this forum uses for MTL.

Better yet, take up that generous gentleman's offer, buy yourself two batteries and an MTL tank and you'll have power for the better half of a week on each charge. Plus you'll have your other vapes as backup batteries.
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Agree with this, Vapor Storm Puma mini is great value for money. The latest Berserker should be a winner, I still use the first version of this atty and it's still great. A Samsung 30Q 3000mah battery will last you over a day. And there is nothing wrong with charging a battery in the mod. I've been doing it for almost 5 years with no issue. If the mod can deliver 80 Watts to a coil, it's shouldn't have a problem delivering 5 to 10w of power to the battery to charge it.
 
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Resistance said:
If you use the 20w mod @say 7- 12w and the 45w mod say at 12- 20w...I would say together (alternatively) you should be able to vape throughout the day on them.
The istick on say 12-18mg and the vega on say 9-12mg
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@Resistance ....thanks.
Currently vaping commercial coils of 1.6 ohm and freebase nic of 12-18mg, 50/50 up to 60/40 I think on both mods with a Naut mini
 
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Smokey_Robinson said:
@Spyro ....

I don't want to bad mouth any supplier, especially in today's almost recession economic climate.......but this guy saw that my knowledge i.t.o. MTL RTA is absolute zero, or he did the best with the limited stock/services he does have, but he makes his own juices, so he seems knowledgeable and on the company facebook clients seems happy, but then again there are not many any other shops.....
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Absolutely, but based on the sole fact that he's trying to sell you a mod you don't actually need. Ehhh telling you what you have isn't adequate, that's just being a salesman.
 
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GSM500 said:
Agree with this, Vapor Storm Puma mini is great value for money. The latest Berserker should be a winner, I still use the first version of this atty and it's still great. A Samsung 30Q 3000mah battery will last you over a day. And there is nothing wrong with charging a battery in the mod. I've been doing it for almost 5 years with no issue. If the mod can deliver 80 Watts to a coil, it's shouldn't have a problem delivering 5 to 10w of power to the battery to charge it.
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@GSM500 thanks, I did ask him to include a mod that has a screen with a VV/VW setting, and that might exclude cheaper options?
 
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Smokey_Robinson said:
Thanks, I have a lot of scissors, clippers etc, due to my love for flyfishing, tie my owm flies.....
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If you fly tie, you have all the tools you need and you certainly won't struggle to build and wick if you do this.

Just don't use dubbing for wick if you run out of cotton, gives the juice a fishy flavour. :D
 
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GSM500 said:
If you fly tie, you have all the tools you need and you certainly won't struggle to build and wick if you do this.

Just don't use dubbing for wick if you run out of cotton, gives the juice a fishy flavour. :D
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@GSM500 ..... you know your tying!!! :)
Good one.....nope winter on the Vaal is largie time (aka largemouth yellow) so mostly deerhair and baitfish patterns, but love casting a mayfly pattern like a hotspot ptn or old trusty GHRE, that uses lots of hare's ear :p for my favourite "smallies" (smallmouth yellows).
 
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Hi @Smokey_Robinson

Glad you came to ask for advice. I feel the advice given above by the gents is spot on.
And the offer by @Random264 is fabulous. Kudos to you @Random264

My advice would be just get the right RTA. I think you won’t go wrong with either the Berserker, SirenV2 or Rose MTL. I use the latter two and they work great.

When it comes to building coils, @Spyro is right you don’t need a whole tool kit, you just need the right wire and a screwdriver of the correct diameter to wind the wire around. 2mm diameter or 2.5mm is a good size. As for the wire, You can try Kanthal 28 or 26gauge. Or NI80 wire. The thickness of the wire plays a role in the surface area of the coil and the crispness of the vape. You can experiment over time. It may take a while to dial in the perfect vape but once you happy it’s plain sailing and will be much more cost effective than buying commercial coils.
 
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@Smokey_Robinson Spyro is right, scissors and nail clippers or any sort of clipping tool like a side cutter works wonders. In terms of wrapping your coils, you need not worry as I'll send these along in your package, one is for wrapping normal coils and the other for spaced coils.
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Or just Buy the Wotofo Tool Kit, excellent quility and cost under R500 plus you get a free tool bag / carry case to keep things in order ;-)

“If you going to do something, do it properly” and “the right tool for the job” is how the sayings go!
 
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CaliGuy said:
Or just Buy the Wotofo tool kit, excellent quility and cost under R500 and get it over with.

“If you going to do something, do it properly” and “the right tool for the job” is how the sayings go!
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You're hurting all of the MacGyver's feelings over here... :p

I strongly believe that if you CAN do the job properly without spending extra, don't spend extra.
 
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CaliGuy said:
Or just Buy the Wotofo Tool Kit, excellent quility and cost under R500 plus you get a free tool bag / carry case to keep things in order ;-)

“If you going to do something, do it properly” and “the right tool for the job” is how the sayings go!
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True dude, but some food for thought, vaping is where it is today because people weren't happy with the current vaping gear that was out at the time, so they made a plan to make their own
 
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Agree with your intentions @Spyro but why cut corners, toe nail clippers don’t cut all that good because they are meant for something completely different :-D

Besides some people like to spend money on nice things, purely giving the member a option for one of the best quility tool kits releases to date and it’s cheap. The clippers and scissor in the Wotofo Kit alone are worth the R450.
 
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I must introduce you to my tweezerman nailclippers. They'll clip the clips off your clippers :--P

If someone wants to by nice things then by all means! It's just in my blood to not spend more than I need to :)
 
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Random264 said:
True dude, but some food for thought, vaping is where it is today because people weren't happy with the current vaping gear that was out at the time, so they made a plan to make their own
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Totally agree with you, any hobby or industry will come from it’s grass roots to a place in the present or future where we won’t need to make a plan and can rely on the equipment designed for the job at hand.

If I recall the OP of this thread fly fishes for Yellows, fly fishing like vaping isn’t cheap, so why only offer the man one side of the solution when we can give him other options based on our collective opinions as long as they are inline with his needs. The OP said “Basic Tool Kit” which I interpreted as the bare essentials for vaping, my apologies if it came across wrong and was offensive.
 
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Spyro said:
I must introduce you to my tweezerman nailclippers. They'll clip the clips off your clippers :--P

If someone wants to by nice things then by all means! It's just in my blood to not spend more than I need to :)
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My grandma had boss toenail clippers, the grand kids scattered for cover just Incase one got a toenail clipping in the eye :-D

Only mentioned the toe nail clipper not being ideal as I tried that myself in the beginning, did not work as good as I wanted so I got one of the more expensive cosmic clippers (Grandma’s Clipper) as the vape clippers in my first kit couldn’t get into the tight deck clamp spaces but those fancier toe nail clippers also didn’t work as the edge was not hardened and would not always cut.

Final decided to get the Wotofo Cutters (Yes I’m a Wotofo Fan Boy:)) as standalone to replace my orginal ones and these Wotofo ones are top quility. When I saw the price of the complete kit for R450 and the rest of the tools quility I was pissed that I didn’t have the Wotofo kit as an option middle of last year. Hence my comment about the right tool for the job.
 
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CaliGuy said:
Totally agree with you, any hobby or industry will come from it’s grass roots to a place in the present or future where we won’t need to make a plan and can rely on the equipment designed for the job at hand.

If I recall the OP of this thread fly fishes for Yellows, fly fishing like vaping isn’t cheap, so why only offer the man one side of the solution when we can give him other options based on our collective opinions as long as they are inline with his needs. The OP said “Basic Tool Kit” which I interpreted as the bare essentials for vaping, my apologies if it came across wrong and was offensive.
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Totally agree with you @CaliGuy proper tools make life alot easier, but @Smokey_Robinson budget is tight, therefore I am piffing him some stuff to get him going and he needs to use what's left of his budget to get an rta and some batteries. I myself love my geekvape kit, but until I could get my hands on it, my grandfather's side cutters and my mother's kitchen scissors did the job.
 
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@Random264 I totally missed the budget is tight conversation, good on you to lend the man a hand and piff him some items. I recall in some of @Smokey_Robinson first posts he found some of his older vape gear from years gone buy and someone piffed some working order atomizers if I recall correctly.

Joh @Smokey_Robinson you are in for a tough financial time picking two very expensive hobbies, and both your hobbies are good for you health - Fishing and Vaping :-D
 
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