So I've had my buzz for almost a year now. Both sets of batteries (all 4 of them) are showing concave ends and some deeper pits where the spring from the buzz rides against them when it's screwed in.
Is this something to worry about? It's started getting worse over the past month or two. Battery performance hasn't been effected - they all come off the charger at almost exactly the same voltage and discharge evenly still. Should I be thinking about replacing them soon?
On a similar note, I REALLY --REALLY-- wish the bottom cap on the buzz was better.
I love my buzz to death, but the bottom cap feels and looks absolutely awful. I'm a little aggravated that the spring is sharp enough to actually put divots in the battery after extended use. The threaded delrin insert drives me NUTS sometimes as it's always been a little off center. The threads always feel completely unsure of themselves and I'm pretty sure they're gunna strip out sometime in the near future. The roll pin and nut/bolt isn't sufficient to hold the delrin flat against the endcap either and it ends up mushrooming out as it threads in so it ends up all lopsided and wonky.
Now, I do understand completely the added safety bonus of having it setup like that. They can separate in the case of a battery failure, the softer delrin is less likely to chew out the aluminum threads in the body too. I'd gladly trade some all metal threads and a solid endcap for slightly larger vents or something similar though. When I saw the new bottom caps get released I thought it was a brilliant interim design.. but I think it's about time to go back to the drawing board.
Anywho! /rantoff. I'm not trying to trash notcigs products at all, but as a very mechanically inclined person having to deal with this daily I just felt the need to throw that out there. I'm still not going to stop using my buzz, but I also wouldn't be upset with a better endcap design either
Is this something to worry about? It's started getting worse over the past month or two. Battery performance hasn't been effected - they all come off the charger at almost exactly the same voltage and discharge evenly still. Should I be thinking about replacing them soon?
On a similar note, I REALLY --REALLY-- wish the bottom cap on the buzz was better.
I love my buzz to death, but the bottom cap feels and looks absolutely awful. I'm a little aggravated that the spring is sharp enough to actually put divots in the battery after extended use. The threaded delrin insert drives me NUTS sometimes as it's always been a little off center. The threads always feel completely unsure of themselves and I'm pretty sure they're gunna strip out sometime in the near future. The roll pin and nut/bolt isn't sufficient to hold the delrin flat against the endcap either and it ends up mushrooming out as it threads in so it ends up all lopsided and wonky.
Now, I do understand completely the added safety bonus of having it setup like that. They can separate in the case of a battery failure, the softer delrin is less likely to chew out the aluminum threads in the body too. I'd gladly trade some all metal threads and a solid endcap for slightly larger vents or something similar though. When I saw the new bottom caps get released I thought it was a brilliant interim design.. but I think it's about time to go back to the drawing board.
Anywho! /rantoff. I'm not trying to trash notcigs products at all, but as a very mechanically inclined person having to deal with this daily I just felt the need to throw that out there. I'm still not going to stop using my buzz, but I also wouldn't be upset with a better endcap design either
