Lisa, I can see that as a remote possibility. I do check that the firing pin is in the right place and I do use Noalox. It just seems so.....solid that I never worry about it. I have found that the button took a tiny bit of getting used to...the feel of it. At first I was pushing it down too far every time....thought I had to....it was pushing the whole battery down on the spring. (Felt pretty spongy....ha.) But for the most part there's very little learning curve. I did get a little magnet that I put on the tip of my battery to make the firing pin contact with much less effort. I know I didn't really need it (and I know that Rob doesn't really recommend them anymore....) but it feels better to me. Not that it works any better, but it just feels more responsive to me. I'm loving this so much. I keep thinking that I'll never need any other pv now that I've found these. I say that at the very same time I'm holding my breath waiting for the 26th to get myself a Grand. LOL. Actually, I could live forever with this beautiful Mini, but I'd just like to have one with a bigger juice bottle and a longer-lasting battery. So....I'm going for a Grand. I have been drooling for days over the Woodvils...and checking every half hour and watching the stock dwindle down, down, down to nothing....fighting my hand from pushing the button. Ha. I want a Grand first. I have very little doubt that I'll end up with a Woodvil on the next batch. (Are we ALL this obsessive? I think that it must be a character trait that made us smokers in the first place.)
I'm hoping I love the Grand as much as I love this little Mini. The thing is, the Mini is such a perfect fit in my hand, in my pocket....in my life. I guess we have to go through all the stages of vaping to really appreciate these, but I can't help thinking that if a newbie could get his/her hands on one of these right out of the gate, that it would make things a lot easier and cheaper overall. But then, maybe they wouldn't know enough to truly appreciate how great these really are and still think they had to continue looking for something bigger and better. Don't know. I do know that I'm home.
