No...I didn't get some sort of massive elctrical shock from it...that's what you were thinking, right?
I came home today after doing a bunch of chores, carried in a bag of groceries and set them down, raised the stealth/ody up to take a drag...NO FREAKING BUTTON!!!
The threaded stud is still in the Stealth body, but the top of the button and the spring are GONE...
Now this is truly a reason to panic...I've given away all of my other vaping gear since it wasn't being used anyway...no spares...I don't need spares, right, the GG is bomb-proof, never going to break..I'd just never factored in losing parts..
After my initial panic, I started back-tracking in my mind..when did I take the last drag? After I parked my truck, so it had to be somewhere between the truck and the back door, right? The complicating factor is the 2 feet of snow over everything.
Back outside, hunting. After 20 minutes, I found the button top, but no spring. S'okay...I've got lots of springs, I can make something work. Another 20 minutes of finding the right size spring, some washers to serve as retainers, a bit of loctite...everything's good. Then, walking back upstairs from the basement where I'd been doing my repair job...there's the spring, lying on the step.
Disassembled again, put the right spring back in the switch, more loctite and re-assemble. Lesson learned; I'd thought about this very thing happening the day I got the Stealth...it seemed to me to be logical to put a drop of loctite on the threads of the switch. I should have done it then, when I thought about it, instead of after it came apart. Fortunately, it happened when it did and not 20 minutes sooner, or I'd be smoking analogs right now. Note to self; get a back-up, even a cheapie...it's better to vape a cheap POS than to have to go buy a pack of analogs.
I came home today after doing a bunch of chores, carried in a bag of groceries and set them down, raised the stealth/ody up to take a drag...NO FREAKING BUTTON!!!
The threaded stud is still in the Stealth body, but the top of the button and the spring are GONE...
Now this is truly a reason to panic...I've given away all of my other vaping gear since it wasn't being used anyway...no spares...I don't need spares, right, the GG is bomb-proof, never going to break..I'd just never factored in losing parts..
After my initial panic, I started back-tracking in my mind..when did I take the last drag? After I parked my truck, so it had to be somewhere between the truck and the back door, right? The complicating factor is the 2 feet of snow over everything.
Back outside, hunting. After 20 minutes, I found the button top, but no spring. S'okay...I've got lots of springs, I can make something work. Another 20 minutes of finding the right size spring, some washers to serve as retainers, a bit of loctite...everything's good. Then, walking back upstairs from the basement where I'd been doing my repair job...there's the spring, lying on the step.
Disassembled again, put the right spring back in the switch, more loctite and re-assemble. Lesson learned; I'd thought about this very thing happening the day I got the Stealth...it seemed to me to be logical to put a drop of loctite on the threads of the switch. I should have done it then, when I thought about it, instead of after it came apart. Fortunately, it happened when it did and not 20 minutes sooner, or I'd be smoking analogs right now. Note to self; get a back-up, even a cheapie...it's better to vape a cheap POS than to have to go buy a pack of analogs.
