Am I the only one?

[GamblerMagic]

Just creating something to talk out.

When you have a broken mod, an old mod that you don't use that's beaten up, or maybe something you despise...

...I've come accustomed to diassembling it and saving whatever I can salvage. Buttons, screws, 510 connectors and other parts.

There has to be someone with the same hoarding tendencies as myself. Not real hoarding, I keep things organized and labeled. Can never have too many parts!

 

[Baditude]

If I have a working mod that I no longer use, I keep it for safe keeping for the vape appocalypse. If it no longer works, it gets thrown away. I'm not handy with small electronic parts or devices.

Out of curiosity, I did take apart my sister's non-working istick 30W just to take a look at the internal battery.

 

[Bolivar]

Count me in. Throw something away and within a week, you need something off of it...keep it around for 20 years and never need it.

I always salvage parts off stuff.

 

[Falconeer]

Hmm, haven't thought of doing that ... you've given me an idea though!

 

[GamblerMagic]

Who needs therapy when there's ECF

 

[GamblerMagic]

Hmm, haven't thought of doing that ... you've given me an idea though!

I'm not responsible if you have roommates or an other half that hates you.

 

[homeuser6]

parts is parts

 

[bombastinator]

Just creating something to talk out.

When you have a broken mod, an old mod that you don't use that's beaten up, or maybe something you despise...

...I've come accustomed to diassembling it and saving whatever I can salvage. Buttons, screws, 510 connectors and other parts.

There has to be someone with the same hoarding tendencies as myself. Not real hoarding, I keep things organized and labeled. Can never have too many parts!

Still hoarding. That said I’ve got several plastic boxes full of old vape gear parts. Mostly from stuff I meant to repair but never got around to. Meanwhile vaping technology has passed all that stuff by and it’s basically garbage by this point.
*sigh*. I really should clean out those boxes.

 

[bombastinator]

Who needs therapy when there's ECF

Almost everyone in my experience.

 

[charlie1465]

Just creating something to talk out.

When you have a broken mod, an old mod that you don't use that's beaten up, or maybe something you despise...

...I've come accustomed to diassembling it and saving whatever I can salvage. Buttons, screws, 510 connectors and other parts.

There has to be someone with the same hoarding tendencies as myself. Not real hoarding, I keep things organized and labeled. Can never have too many parts!

When you get to the point that you can't walk around your house without climbing, due to the salvaging of mod parts...it's definitely become a problem

No, seriously I save my old working mods but not parts though...not a bad idea though...just thinking about those tiny screws that might come in handy

 

[r77r7r]

Nah, never bought a mod that was expensive enough to fix, lol. Not that I'm cheap, they just don't make expensive LiPo's.

 

[GamblerMagic]

I use these things like crazy to organize everything.

 

[bombastinator]

When you get to the point that you can't walk around your house without climbing, due to the salvaging of mod parts...it's definitely become a problem

No, seriously I save my old working mods but not parts though...not a bad idea though...just thinking about those tiny screws that might come in handy

Caution: that sort of thing can get way out of hand.

 

[Diver9543]

I have only thrown away one mod. It was a Kanger Tech squonk mod. The 510 had developed a wiring problem and I was so ...... that I threw it away. A week later I wished I had saved the screw for the battery compartment.

 

[the wind]

I have saved every old 18650 mod and RTA I ever had in tacked.

I think they will gold in those things in the future.

 

[Old Greybeard]

I've come accustomed to diassembling it and saving whatever I can salvage. Buttons, screws, 510 connectors and other parts.

You are Jai Haze and I claim my £5 (Wiki reference for those unfamiliar with this British colloquialism Lobby Lud - Wikipedia)

 

[DeloresRose]

I probably could fix a mod, but I have an old house - 130 years - that always needs fixing. Mods I throw away and buy another. I have plenty of projects for when I feel handy. My vape gear needs to just do its job fiddle-free while I tear apart my furnace.

 

[Vapedog]

Anything I have that breaks or stops working I take parts out of them. Got the habit from my father, he could always find something in his shed to fix something broken. Which sounds strange to say because then you wouldn't have anything broken that needed fixing so where'd he get all those parts from?

 

[stols001]

My husband has every electronic thing of all time since before I knew him. What he does not use, he plans to "smelt" and get all the precious materials out.

We are the proud owner of a shed that like, is probably worth 30 bucks if we sell it to the smelting companies,. Be still MY BEATING HEART.

LOL, yes it is a hording issue. I hoard spent coils. Thank goodness they are SMALL.

Anna

 

[englishmick]

Anything I have that breaks or stops working I take parts out of them. Got the habit from my father, he could always find something in his shed to fix something broken. Which sounds strange to say because then you wouldn't have anything broken that needed fixing so where'd he get all those parts from?

When I was a kid my grandfather had a shed like that. He kept used nails in a metal bucket, when I went round he would let me help hammer them straight to be reused.

That was right after the war so stuff was expensive or hard to get. We live in a throwaway society now but I inherited that attitude, I hate throwing anything away. Like a boxful of old Pro Tanks that I stockpiled when they were selling them off cheap, and a dozen old Spinners.