Anybody else have problems with their Legacy not firing (making connection) sometimes when you go to vape?
Sometimes I need to rotate the unit in my hand in order to fire. Sometimes I need to press much firmer on the button.
I'm using a Legacy, Kick, 18650 and four washers. Doesn't matter what I have on the unit, as this happens to everything I put on the Legacy.
Just kinda of a pain when you go to vape and you have to fiddle with the darn thing to get it to fire.
I use a Legacy Standard with the extension tube to use a Kicked 18650 ... here are a couple of thoughts:
1. The Kick signals a low battery with what has been described as a "stutter" ... it feels like a mis-fire to me. Perhaps that is happening to you? This is a design feature of the Kick, and usually comes into play when the Kick thinks the battery is below 3.6V. I have several different Kicks, and this cutoff point seems to vary slightly ...
2. Like all mechanical mods, the Legacy will deliver peak performance when it is routinely disassembled and thoroughly cleaned. Depending on the heaviness of my usage, this complete strip-down and cleaning routine is done once a month or so for light usage, to weekly for heavy usage. (I would define heavy usage as being primary, all-day-device usage.)
3. The Kick is very sensitive to having a solid ground connection. The little brass spring affair that contacts the inside of the Legacy tube will oxidize over time and the contact between Kick and tube will start getting spotty, causing mis-fires. When I start getting mis-fires with a battery I know is well charged, my first—and usually last—troubleshooting step is to remove the Kick, clean the brass contact spring,
and clean the area of the tube where the spring makes contact. (If this contact point is on the tube threads, simply rotating the Kick slightly will often improve the contact.)
When everything is clean and making good connections, the Kicked Legacy is one of the finest vapes I've ever experienced, and well worth the bit of extra maintenance effort that all mechanical mods—and especially Kicked ones—require.
