My Mini Turns Three

[six]

Three years ago today, I ordered my 14500 mini. It was 11/17/2011 order number 2510.

It has never once failed me in any way. It has made vapor every single time I pushed the button for three entire years. It has happily served me well with boge cartos - with smoketek shorty cartos - with cisco 510s - with cisco aeros - with 306's - and now with an RM2. It has never once needed any sort of repair - it has never once done anything I didn't expect - it has been 100% reliable and incredibly durable. Even after 3 years, it looks almost as perfect as the day I got it. It has the tiniest ding near the bottom of the right hand side from bouncing off a rock once... but if you didn't know that ding was there, you probably would never find it.... Three whole years of perfect service and it even still looks nice.

Here it is watching a ZZTop concert with me this summer... and here it is sitting next to the new SL Grand... Perfect. Thanks, Rob! I appreciate the excellent device!

 

[Cptfunpants]

That's awesome!

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Very cool to hear. I'll bet that little beauty has stories aplenty to tell. Here's to 3 more (and 3 more, and...)

 

[olefolks]

Well said and congrats!!

 

[Raynman]

I told my son this is the last mod you'll ever need. His mod comes today.

 

[redeyedancer]

You took a beaten on the mod lost your shirt

 

[six]

You took a beaten on the mod lost your shirt

Including shipping, 13 cents a day to own it so far. 146 and a nickel divided by 1095 days = 13 cents.

1095 days of trouble free, worry free, hassle free vaping = priceless.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Hey brother six - now that you are an atty rebuilding machine, do you sometimes wish you started rebuilding when the RM2 first dropped? It's pretty darn elementary ain't it? It has to be because I can do it.

Congrats on your mods bday. You know, every girlz crazy bout a sharp dressed grand.

 

[pianoguy]

I'll have to fill up my old Mini one of these days - I got it in Sept. 2010, and its anodized black finish has suffered any number of indignities. But it still works like a champ!

 

[six]

Hey brother six - now that you are an atty rebuilding machine, do you sometimes wish you started rebuilding when the RM2 first dropped?

I actually wish I would have started rebuilding when I bought my RM1... I bought my RM1 on 2/18/2013 and never even took it out of the bag until after I bought my RM2 on 7/1/2014.

I just assumed it would be a hassle... all that coil wrapping and trying to stuff wick through some stupid coils and messing around with it all the time.... but I was wrong. It's dead simple. And, really: I have you to thank for pushing me over the edge to just do it. I watched a couple of your vids and thought, "Well gee whiz. That really doesn't look so hard to do." So, I got the stuff you used in your vid - 29ga kanthal and some KGD and I was off and running.

The RM1 remains unused... but it does have a coil and wick installed in case I ever need to grab a ready atty and go. One of my RM2s is sitting like that, too... coiled and wicked, but dry as a bone waiting for that day I am too lazy to re-wick and need to just get going.... or maybe waiting for that day I cave in and get another Grand (actually really likely to happen soon after the new 510s are standard equipment).

I can't build the DC RM3 nearly as fast or as easily as the RM2s... In fact, I'm going to go ahead and just say it meets my definition of a "hassle"... but luckily there's no need to rebuild it very often. After I was done experimenting and settled in to how I want my coils, I don't suppose I'll have to do it more often than maybe every couple of months. I like it well enough to be willing to do that on that sort of occasional schedule.

 

[Spydro]

Nice 14500 Mini, and a great read about the service it's given you.

I love my two 14500 Woodies... never had a chance to score a metal one.