TusTom
Member
Greetings fellow tobacco consumers!
I believe I've read dang-near every thread in the Cigarette Forum in the past few months and I finally made the plunge to buy two lbs. of Virginia Blend from WLT in order to introduce my wife and myself to MYO cigarettes. While my machinery and tubes came from a different vendor, they were to arrive at a later date than my leaf and I was able to de-rib one lb. of leaf and have it ready for shredding while waiting for the machinery and tubes to arrive.
Upon opening one bag of leaf, I was amazed of what a heavenly aroma it was to smell tobacco leaf in its unadulterated form!
My "machinery" consists of a manual Weston Pasta Machine (w/Angel Hair attachment purchased seperately) and a Powermatic II injector. The consumables consist of Premier Menthol 100 tubes as well as Gambler Tube Cut Gold tubes.
I'm very anxious to get started shredding but have noticed (and read in the forum) that the machining oils need to be removed from the pasta machine prior to use. I suppose I could go through all the trouble of making a sacrificial batch of dough to send through the machine a few times and then brush-out all the flour residue but I wondered if I could just use some disc brake cleaner on the "knives" instead? Any suggestions from you knowledgeable members would be most appreciated.
I also want to go about this new endeavor carefully, absorbing all the information that everyone here in this forum has contributed to make calculated and informed decisions.
You all are a wealth of knowledge and I hope to take plenty of notes during my first process so that I may help others ween themselves from, as my wife says, "The "hot dogs" of cigarettes to the "filet migon" of cigarettes.
FYI, I was going to purchase an e-cig but according to what I've read and heard in the media recently, this is the next product to get hit by taxes. Where does it end?
(I guess my beer is next so look for me on a MYOB forum!)
Best regards to all,
Tom
I believe I've read dang-near every thread in the Cigarette Forum in the past few months and I finally made the plunge to buy two lbs. of Virginia Blend from WLT in order to introduce my wife and myself to MYO cigarettes. While my machinery and tubes came from a different vendor, they were to arrive at a later date than my leaf and I was able to de-rib one lb. of leaf and have it ready for shredding while waiting for the machinery and tubes to arrive.
Upon opening one bag of leaf, I was amazed of what a heavenly aroma it was to smell tobacco leaf in its unadulterated form!
My "machinery" consists of a manual Weston Pasta Machine (w/Angel Hair attachment purchased seperately) and a Powermatic II injector. The consumables consist of Premier Menthol 100 tubes as well as Gambler Tube Cut Gold tubes.
I'm very anxious to get started shredding but have noticed (and read in the forum) that the machining oils need to be removed from the pasta machine prior to use. I suppose I could go through all the trouble of making a sacrificial batch of dough to send through the machine a few times and then brush-out all the flour residue but I wondered if I could just use some disc brake cleaner on the "knives" instead? Any suggestions from you knowledgeable members would be most appreciated.
I also want to go about this new endeavor carefully, absorbing all the information that everyone here in this forum has contributed to make calculated and informed decisions.
You all are a wealth of knowledge and I hope to take plenty of notes during my first process so that I may help others ween themselves from, as my wife says, "The "hot dogs" of cigarettes to the "filet migon" of cigarettes.
FYI, I was going to purchase an e-cig but according to what I've read and heard in the media recently, this is the next product to get hit by taxes. Where does it end?
(I guess my beer is next so look for me on a MYOB forum!)
Best regards to all,
Tom
