Genuine vs Clones and safety

[Funk Dracula]

Unfortunately, even with high-end stuff things can go wrong without a cautious and watchful eye.

With a high-end mechanical like the Caravela, there is no insulator where the battery rests on the switch assembly. If your battery wrapper is compromised, or doesn't wrap around enough, it's going to short if it get's nudged a bit to the side. There's a type of Panasonic battery out there that does this, where the diameter of the exposed negative side of the battery is too large.

A good amount of the posts on high-end rda's are still merely press fit into the deck somehow. The exact same thing can go wrong. They can turn or wobble.

People love phillips head screws instead of the hollow tiny Hex-key ones, but those phillips head screw posts can't tighten down as good on the wire, sometimes coming loose, and the larger heads can contact each other (in your case), or they add more height to the posts, brining in the potential for a metal drip tip that goes a bit deeper into the chamber to make contact. (happened to me once)

You have to be aware of the "little things" that can go wrong with a mechanical. As soon as you take a regulated circuit or fuse out of the equation, it's all up to the user's watchful eye and cautionary execution to use them safely.

 

[crxess]

Truly understand.
Eternity is a good example of bad. Great Idea for a high volume Dripper and it actually works nice. Unfortunately it is super poorly built and extremely easy to break even when attempting to be as careful as possible.
I think one of the biggest problems we have is lack of Brand identification. To many Coat Tail manufacturers riding the latest wave and building garbage just to turn a fast buck.(these would be the No Name products) Mystery Manufacturers

 

[Lucky1384]

People love phillips head screws instead of the hollow tiny Hex-key ones, but those phillips head screw posts can't tighten down as good on the wire, sometimes coming loose, and the larger heads can contact each other (in your case), or they add more height to the posts, brining in the potential for a metal drip tip that goes a bit deeper into the chamber to make contact. (happened to me once)

This is the thing I REALLY don't like about even high end rda's. Not particularly dangerous in my experience so far, but definitely annoying. In fact I'm using my Atomic now and after installing a coil an hour ago, I could tell what was wrong straight away. A 1.4 ohm coil was suddenly 2.4 ohm because the Phillips screw on the center post had worked slightly loose. There's a company here in the UK that sell knurled socket screws for around $2-3 a pair. You can easily get them 80% tight with fingers and just finish them off with a hex key. I got my first pair this morning and the look excellent!

As you say, it may just be that they are trying to please the majority, as a lot of reviews have criticised socket head screws. I can't see any disadvantage myself as long as you have a hex key. It's only replacing a screwdriver!