In the world of e cigarettes' mods' attys and those as yet strange items that appear to do next to bugger all to enhance your vape but people are throwing silly money at them all the same. Its fair to say theres a lot of choice these days to the average and not so average vaper out there.

 

You can buy anything from a 99p store cig-alike that doesn’t work right up to a three grand hand engraved mechanical mod. If you want a variable voltage/wattage device you can get one that goes way past the obligatory 11 to top out at 100 and beyond. If you are in the market for building your own coils to suit your vape then you have a vast range of both mechanicals and rebuildable drippers' tanks' gennys and god knows what will appear in the future.

 

You want to customize your mod? How about a wrap? Want it big? 26650? small? Here have a nice stealth device and a nice custom made pouch to carry it in along with a burr walnut veneered mod stand when you get home so you have your hands free to make a coil with that new coiling jig you just purchased for another 25 quid. Its fair to say if you can type it into google someone somewhere has probably already made it and if not just throw an idea at the many hobby mod makers out there along with a few quid and you can get one made up.

 

Is there a point to where im going with this particular train of thought? ….....

 

I was inspired to write this as a sort of response to a conversation I had late last night about thread issues on a certain mod. The guy had bought a vamo and was just the tiniest bit pissed off to the max that the threads had failed him and he had to get a replacement from the vendor he purchased it from. The best advice given was to back up his threads by purchasing another doohicky of an airflow control ring to take the strain off what were probably a brass 510 threading.

 

Considering just how much choice there is in the vaping world it stands to reason that theres going to be a lot of options to get it wrong when buying for our specific needs.

 

Are we vapers perhaps just expecting too much from our mods?

 

When I was a smoker a pack of 20 would cost me a fortune in today’s money (that’s even when I was flush enough to afford a pack). Out of that pack I could probably get a days worth of nicotine fix. If I dropped that pack in a puddle it was useless. If I stepped on it or it got run over it was also money down the drain. At not one point would have it occurred to me to take half a pack of soggy cigarettes back to the kiosk in a supermarket and demand a refund for a shoddy product that no longer performs how I expect it to.

 

Even in my recreational herb smoking days I never considered returning a battery operated pipe (the kind that shot a crap load of smoke at you as you did your best to be a real man and not cough a piece of lung up in front of your smoking buddies) that overheated and eventually gave up. My assumption was im purchasing a novelty item that I can have a bit of a jolly with before it no longer works. Smokers as a whole upon purchasing their pipe would pay particular attention to maintaining it. Cleaning the bowl was second nature as was the occasional beeswax on the often exotic wood used in its construction.

 

There are different vapers with specific needs from their mods. A soldier would most likely want something rugged that could withstand a grenade blast and would still operate with the the remnants of his platoon jammed into the 510 connection. A clubber on the other hand could happily settle for a decent looking stealth device with a couple of extra battery’s to keep him in nicotine while navigating through a crowd of piss heads on a drizzly Friday town centre night.

 

There’s enough mods and attys on the market to satisfy anyone’s lifestyle. I wouldnt dream of taking my weak threaded vamo on a 10 mile hike. I would however have no problems packing a few spear batteries and slinging a mechanical in a rucksack. (not a bloody nemesis with its annoyingly easy to lose rice grain) in the same way as I would take a small box mod or ego onto public transport should I need a stealth fix.

 

I suppose what im getting at in a roundabout way is you cant have it all. There are a million different mods that serve almost as many functions and the chances of one mod serving them all would make the rest pretty redundant and im guessing that mod doesn’t exist.

 

Sometimes it isn’t so much the mod that’s at fault but ours for buying something not suited to our needs.

 

Unless a comprehensive field test has been done on a particular mod for a particular need also sometimes even reviewers can get it wrong as well.