Had one of those days today...

[lovemytank]

Accidentally left my mech tube in the bathroom stall in an airport, hmmmm no I don't sneak vape at all. I wondered if a vaper found it and said "cool" or an uneducated policeman saw it and called the bomb squad. I was nervous on my return connecting flight but no problems. Luckily I travel with a quiver of backups.

 

[MattyTny]

I think the worst part of it all is being away from home, knowing you won't be back for a while, and anxiously waiting to get home to sort out the issues.

 

[Jugband]

Somebody needs an rda. Glass comes with care requirements. Who needs those?

Exactly!!
I have got out of my Ranger Edge more times than I can recall and herd the dreaded "CLUNK" on the concrete parking lot but luckily my mod is bulletproof and it was topped with an RDA! Occasionally got a few heartbreaking scratches, other than that, picked it up and went on vapeing!
Sorry for your misfortune, I know how frustrating it can be. It happens to all of us when we carry them everywhere. I myself use bulletproof gear, and backups for the backups.

 

[DingerCPA]

@Brkdnc all I can say is "OH SNAP" Sorry honey - that has to suck rocks....

 

[VHRB2014]

Its gets better. Hopefully you stick with it long enough the toxins get completely out of your system and you find that you can go longer and longer without vaping, if need be.
Until then start building a kit. Iv always had my wife, and she`s got a purse I can toss stuff into, LOL. But now a days we can leave home without for a few hours and its no big deal, you know, if we forget it or something.

 

[Rixsta]

I CAN"T BELIEVE I DID IT AGAIN TODAY!

I must have the dropsies! Was at a benefit for a friend who has lung cancer listening to the band eating food didn't even have a cocktail yet and out of my hand went the Mech with the subtank that I cooked yesterday onto the concrete floor in the Pole barn and broke the glass. I did have my backup thank goodness.
So I am hoping it's over now 3 things in 2 day. Everything comes in 3's right so I must be safe now, right?

I said to be on guard !!!!!!!! Ah man I feel for you..

 

[crxess]

Know how you feel and I carry 1/2 dozen different setups with me. Even with that count I've had 5 go flat or have some other issue.

 

[Caro123]

Eeks what a pain I always figure three and your done. And could those who have heat send a few degrees east my tomatoes are searching for long johns -chilly June

 

[Lessifer]

You made it through, that's something to celebrate!

Other than that, a steel RDA is probably a good idea, they're difficult to break, not impossible, but difficult.

 

[Brkdnc]

a steel RDA is probably a good idea,

A RDA might be good at home, but for me out and about a dripper just wouldn't be for me

 

[suprtrkr]

A RDA might be good at home, but for me out and about a dripper just wouldn't be for me

There's at least one guy on the board that re-manufactures dripper-type attys for bottom feed, and at least one more who builds mods to work with them. The mod has a juice bottle inside of it, and the atty has a hole in the center pin for the juice to flow through. There's a cut out/hole in the side of the mod, through which you press/squeeze the plastic bottle, shooting juice up into the atty. I thought of it because one of the threads I saw is a machinist dude here on the board making them out of titanium, as well as brass and stainless steel. That would be pretty bullet proof, you ask me. There are also commercially available mods/atty combos that do the same thing. I see no reason one couldn't be built in hybrid style to avoid breaking the atty off if you accidentally ran over it with a bulldozer or something (the 501 connector being the weakest link in the system and a personal pet peeve). I have also wondered why you couldn't build a teeny-tiny peristaltic pump with a small servo and do the same thing without boring a hole in the mod to get to the bottle, but haven't gotten around to doing anything about it. I'm not really into dripper-style attys either. Such gear would be pricy, and I haven't researched it to see if they're all mechs, or if somebody is making one in a VW/TC model or what, but this could be the answer to the butterfingers among us. Just a thought, FWIW. Search the forum for the term "squonk"-- that's what the squonkers call their gear, don't ask me why-- and you'll step into a minefield.

 

[Brkdnc]

Thanks for the input have looked at the REO's and squonker styles over the last month before this bad luck streak started. With all the new stuff out there I have come to the conclusion most of the bells and whistles like 100w plus and / or temp control are cool but not needed, at least for me. If I have been looking at another Mech Box mod the Cherry Bomber. Simple and fool proof just have to be smart with it. Now if they made a stainless tank for the subtank Mini I would be set.

 

[tj99959]

It's so hot here that I ALMOST prayed for winter.

Now I remember why my backup is so simplistic that there is nothing much that can brake.
A backup doesn't have to be the best vape on the planet, it just has to work when Hell freezes over.

 

[suprtrkr]

Thanks for the input have looked at the REO's and squonker styles over the last month before this bad luck streak started. With all the new stuff out there I have come to the conclusion most of the bells and whistles like 100w plus and / or temp control are cool but not needed, at least for me. If I have been looking at another Mech Box mod the Cherry Bomber. Simple and fool proof just have to be smart with it. Now if they made a stainless tank for the subtank Mini I would be set.

There you go, then; and good luck with all that. I still hate the 510 connector, though, too easy to break the tank off...

 

[Brkdnc]

I still hate the 510 connector, though, too easy to break the tank off...

Sure something new to worry about LOL

 

[suprtrkr]

Sure something new to worry about LOL

Lol, It's just a pet peeve. I really do think a bayonet-style connector would be better. Slip fit, with a lock ring, and some solid and largish electrical contact pads. I'm gonna get around to designing and building it Real Soon Now...

 

[Brkdnc]

I really do think a bayonet-style connector would be better. Slip fit, with a lock ring, and some solid and largish electrical contact pads..

if you can build it, they will buy it, I would.

 

[suprtrkr]

if you can build it, they will buy it, I would.

That would be nice

 

[lovemytank]

Or a slip barrel like on air hoses, even less threads would make changing out faster. No time for all those threads, I have a text...hold a second.

 

[suprtrkr]

Or a slip barrel like on air hoses, even less threads would make changing out faster. No time for all those threads, I have a text...hold a second.

I take your point. That would work too. Still, a bayonet doesn't have to be threaded. They can use a cam lock or interrupted threads. Cam lock was the idea I had had; that way you could adjust contact pressure. And the mechanical strength is in the slip-fit connector, the cam merely holds it in place. This would be much larger in diameter than a 510, and therefore a stronger section. To get it into the stock 22mm tank diameter, you could easily manage 15mm. 18 isn't out of the question, but that's getting pretty thin wall. Strength is the idea. You get better electrical contact/greater ampacity for free, just by there being more room inside for larger contact pads.