Let Us Now Praise Sturdy Gear

[Call Me Chuck]

How often we hear in this forum of pricey gear that stopped working after it was dropped. Sounds to me like planned obsolescence. Let's use this thread to recommend gear that has proven to be sturdy.

Steer clear of mentioning yet again the gear that didn't make it. B-o-r-i-n-g! This is a good-news blog.

My own example: the no-brand-name ego-style clones I got in a starter kit at EasyVapors.com--with two vapes, etc.--which cost me $26 (now down to $22). I've replaced worn-out batteries ($7) and gotten extra clearomizers ($2-$2.50) for different flavors, but I've dropped that vape just about every day. No problems!

 

[Azarias]

My Lavatube v1. 2 years old and working, working and working like a beast.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

My Reos, they've been dropped from 4'+ plus onto concrete doors flew off, batteries went flying the other way. Once put back together they vape like nothing ever happened. If I wasn't such a perfectionist and disliked scratches I would make vidoes of me throwing them for fun, having no fear they would still vape the exact same way as they did pre chunk.

 

[LMS62]

Maybe I should knock on wood by saying this, but in the 3 years I have been vaping.....I have never yet dropped a mod. Of course, now that I have said it, I'm doomed.

 

[CallmeRage]

Just like an iphone they make it cheap so when you break it you buy another I use a good amount of mods daily, one always tips over from my desk and hits the floor. Ive never dropped one whilst holding it

 

[Bigflyrodder]

Maybe I should knock on wood by saying this, but in the 3 years I have been vaping.....I have never yet dropped a mod. Of course, now that I have said it, I'm doomed.

lol...too true, leave the HEMs on the desk for a while until you get it over with ;-)

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Maybe I should knock on wood by saying this, but in the 3 years I have been vaping.....I have never yet dropped a mod. Of course, now that I have said it, I'm doomed.

ooooooo Stay off the concrete.

 

[Thrasher]

My poldiac. 3 years and tortured endlessly on construction sites, yet works like the day I took it out of the box

 

[roxynoodle]

I drop all my stuff, and it all works. It doesn't even get dinged or scratched. And I have hardwood floors.

 

[Podunk]

Well, I'm stuck on basic EVODs...drop my things way too often to admit, but those have been reasonably sturdy. Concrete, tile, hardwood floors all have some secret magnetic force that just pulls anything I'm holding. Or I could just be klumsy

 

[hashtag]

My Kbox has been dropped a few times with no sign of damage.

 

[BadTrainDriver]

Provari.
End thread.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Provari.
End thread.

OT: I just wanted to say I've seen your avatar a few times and if that's who I think it is I love that movie.

 

[caferacer]

I dropped my rDNA40 onto concrete as I was getting out of a cab last night and it still works perfectly.

 

[440BB]

Between being in my lap when getting out of the car and bending over with it in my shirt pocket, my mods get dropped. Everything mechanical, from the K100 and KTS to the Touchwood and GGTB, just get a nick or scratch and keep on vapin'. Wired or regulated mods that have held up for me are the Provari, for literally hundreds of drops, and the Lavatube Lambo, which is pretty solid. The little plastic 18350 Gripper from Madvapes has been abused and just keeps working too, possibly due to it's light weight.

I place a lot of value on a tool that takes serious drops on concrete and keeps working.

 

[Oregon Linda]

I've dropped all my mods at least once and they've just kept on working. That includes my iStick 30 watt, which I keep hearing is so flimsy and breakable. My Vamo v.2 has probably been dropped a good 50 times and still works just fine. My MVP's I don't even worry about. They're built like a tank. I think most mods are tougher than they look. Now clearomizers, that's another story. I have broken a few of those.

 

[Mooch]

OT: I just wanted to say I've seen your avatar a few times and if that's who I think it is I love that movie.

Agreed...as long as that's Leon.

 

[Call Me Chuck]

I drop all my stuff, and it all works. It doesn't even get dinged or scratched. And I have hardwood floors.

Ahem. WHAT STUFF?

 

[Azarias]

OT: I just wanted to say I've seen your avatar a few times and if that's who I think it is I love that movie.

Because it's the professional.

 

[Call Me Chuck]

Thanks for the posts that are ON TOPIC. Why make people looking for guidance wade through all the adolescent guffawing?!?