There has been a reinvention in the ecig community, a reinvention of understand and terminology. In a day and age where spinning drives are being replaced by longer lasting flash units, and the computer mouse is ditching its moving ball in favor of lasers or track pads, we see a common belief among buyers and makers of high end mods towards all mechanical. You hear it all the time on the ecf, on sellers websites, and in the community at large..."It's all mechanical so there is nothing to break".
The problem with this idea is that it stands apart from our everyday experience, mechanical stuff breaks all the time in most of our lives...in fact the idea that the fewer moving parts the better has been accepted everywhere from electronic devices to car engines to large scale industrial devices yet the exact opposite has somehow worked its way into pv users...and with unsurprising results, people are learning that all mechanical units have to be cleaned...to the point where noalox becomes as much a component of using the pv as LR attys and drip tips. I am not a modder but I am a person with a mechanical background...when I see a switch with 19 parts I see 19 potential points of failure all constantly stressed during device operation. All springs..all of them...some last for decades...but those are normally the size of farm animals and not something you find in small devices, will break and loose the very springiness that makes them function. The best mechanical units will be those that have the fewest moving parts...the easiest to replace springs and the stoutest material able to use comfortably in the device. All of them will need maintenance, as all mechanical things do, so its best if it can be done without any tools...or at the very least nothing more complex than a screwdriver and a pair of pliers..and maybe tweezers as we all love tweezers.
Don't get me wrong I love the aesthetic appeal of mechanical devices, I am a steam punk fan and for some reason all that brass and steel moving around appeals to me, but I believe for durability and actual no fuss operations...the fewer parts the better, a properly built touch sensitive device, with the proper wires to handle the vapers various attys and batteries, will last for decades..there would be no springs to wear down, no spaces to collect debris...nothing to noalox, nothing to disassemble, nothing to collect debris or need oil. Of course even if such a device comes out and has an acceptable form factor and is dirt cheap....there will still be a place for collectors of mechanical devices with springs and breakable components...after all I still use a vinyl record player to play music. But the idea that all mechanical= nothing to break...has got to go.
The problem with this idea is that it stands apart from our everyday experience, mechanical stuff breaks all the time in most of our lives...in fact the idea that the fewer moving parts the better has been accepted everywhere from electronic devices to car engines to large scale industrial devices yet the exact opposite has somehow worked its way into pv users...and with unsurprising results, people are learning that all mechanical units have to be cleaned...to the point where noalox becomes as much a component of using the pv as LR attys and drip tips. I am not a modder but I am a person with a mechanical background...when I see a switch with 19 parts I see 19 potential points of failure all constantly stressed during device operation. All springs..all of them...some last for decades...but those are normally the size of farm animals and not something you find in small devices, will break and loose the very springiness that makes them function. The best mechanical units will be those that have the fewest moving parts...the easiest to replace springs and the stoutest material able to use comfortably in the device. All of them will need maintenance, as all mechanical things do, so its best if it can be done without any tools...or at the very least nothing more complex than a screwdriver and a pair of pliers..and maybe tweezers as we all love tweezers.
Don't get me wrong I love the aesthetic appeal of mechanical devices, I am a steam punk fan and for some reason all that brass and steel moving around appeals to me, but I believe for durability and actual no fuss operations...the fewer parts the better, a properly built touch sensitive device, with the proper wires to handle the vapers various attys and batteries, will last for decades..there would be no springs to wear down, no spaces to collect debris...nothing to noalox, nothing to disassemble, nothing to collect debris or need oil. Of course even if such a device comes out and has an acceptable form factor and is dirt cheap....there will still be a place for collectors of mechanical devices with springs and breakable components...after all I still use a vinyl record player to play music. But the idea that all mechanical= nothing to break...has got to go.
) looking for an hour I figured where it had to be and dug through an 8 foot high pie -- and it was about 3 foot down. I tapped it against my leg to shake the snow off expecting the worst......but the SOB fired right up, got a good vape off of it although my lips stuck to the aluminum tip (Think Christmas Story!!!
