My room mate used to use a vanilla mod clone, the same one which i found off ebay. bought was for 9 bucks, couldn't get cheaper. so i thought, oh what the hell. apon receiving i quickly found out there was no locking ring. made to look like there was one. but there isn't. (even attempted with pliers.) I didn't do much inspection on it. anyhow he continued to vape fine on it for the next couple of days. till one day he came home, with a blisters on his hands. along with some 2nd degree burning on his thigh.
I came to find out the mod fired off while in his pocket, too busy at work to notice till it started hurting. he reached in his pocket to find all the sudden something burning hot. Now scared that his e-cig was shorting and to turn into a pipe bomb, he used his bare hands to unscrew the base off and pull out the battery, tossing them in the grass outside, safe from his co-workers.
so this brings up up to where he brought his mod back, battery separate from the mod. under close inspection i realized the spring was a copper spring. had very easy give on it. and the black plastic, insulating the pin from touching the battery was about 1/2 - 1 mm away from being flush with the pin. even while it'd been screwed in tightly. i realized the amount of force required to fire the ecig, would take just a feather's weight. now he's not very educated in ecigs. as i always double check his coils. and tell him if they're safe or not. and tell him the batteries he needs. though the thought of a hair trigger on a ecig, didn't seem like a issue to him. (something i didn't know about) but i'm throwing this out there. buyers beware. i'm not sure whom this clone was made by. but you could be buying a rather dangerous mod if you consider picking up this cloned mod. So pay close attention to that firing switch on vanilla clones.
here's a picture to show what i'm talking about. and this is with it screwed in tightly.
I came to find out the mod fired off while in his pocket, too busy at work to notice till it started hurting. he reached in his pocket to find all the sudden something burning hot. Now scared that his e-cig was shorting and to turn into a pipe bomb, he used his bare hands to unscrew the base off and pull out the battery, tossing them in the grass outside, safe from his co-workers.
so this brings up up to where he brought his mod back, battery separate from the mod. under close inspection i realized the spring was a copper spring. had very easy give on it. and the black plastic, insulating the pin from touching the battery was about 1/2 - 1 mm away from being flush with the pin. even while it'd been screwed in tightly. i realized the amount of force required to fire the ecig, would take just a feather's weight. now he's not very educated in ecigs. as i always double check his coils. and tell him if they're safe or not. and tell him the batteries he needs. though the thought of a hair trigger on a ecig, didn't seem like a issue to him. (something i didn't know about) but i'm throwing this out there. buyers beware. i'm not sure whom this clone was made by. but you could be buying a rather dangerous mod if you consider picking up this cloned mod. So pay close attention to that firing switch on vanilla clones.
here's a picture to show what i'm talking about. and this is with it screwed in tightly.
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