Ok here's the story of my first mod...
I only recently got into third generation equipment - I've been an ego/evod girl up until this point. For my first mod I bought a black nemesis from My Freedom Smokes. I'd been a customer there for a while so I trusted them, and they had them on sale.
So long story short - when I got it it worked fine, but I noticed that there were no notches cut into the threads as there should be, and so there was no venting whatsoever when the locking ring was up. I contacted customer support, and initially the guy seemed concerned.. but after talking to the returns department he basically said there was nothing wrong with that but he'd replace it if I'm "still not satisfied with its construction." I got upset and said I didn't feel like they were taking the issue seriously, that this is a safety concern. He said he would be willing to replace it instead with their stainless steel nemesis, which costs a couple dollars more and is arguably better quality. I agreed, sent back the black mod at my own expense, and got my new SS clone in the mail.
Now, I could tell right away that it was better quality than the last one. However, when I screwed my nautilus onto the top I noticed something was wrong. It wasn't sitting flush with the top of the mod. I checked all my tanks, and when I screw them all the way into the SS nemesis they lean to the side, and there is a noticeable gap on one side between the tank and the mod. The 510 threads in the top cap were cut wrong. This is the replacement I got!
Well obviously I didn't want to risk getting yet a third defective model from them (especially since I would have to pay shipping yet again), so I sent them an email simply saying that the new model is defective as well, and I did not want to go through the process of replacing it again. I suggested they start ordering from a different manufacturer. I then went ahead and ordered a replacement top cap from another website called vaping Walrus; they were the only ones willing to sell me the top cap only in stainless steel (every other place wants me to buy a bag of parts for the same price as the whole mod).
So now I just got the top cap in the mail - and it doesn't fit! The threads on the MFS clone are considerably wider in diameter than the threads on the new cap!
Ok, so this is a lot of bull to have to go through over one stupid clone, so someone please help so I can put this behind me already. First of all, was I wrong to expect that nemesis clones are all made to the same specifications, and therefore the parts are universal? Are they really all cut differently, or is it just that the MFS ones are cut to weird, new specs that no one else uses? Or is it the fault of the store who sent me the new top cap, are they the ones cutting the threads weird? (I'm more inclined to believe it's MFS simply because of all the issues I've already had with them). Is it worth paying the shipping, again, to send the top cap back?
Is it worth trying to salvage this mod, at all, at this point? Or would I be better off taking it outside and smashing it with a hammer (with the battery out of course
), which I'm more than willing to do at this point, and just saving my money and buying a brand new one and starting over?
I'm still using the nemesis even though the tank leans because it is still my only mod and I realize now that with all the money I've spent trying to fix the problems with this one I could've just bought a new one on fasttech...
(Please don't say this is my fault for buying a clone or buying cheap stuff - I bought from a place I thought I could trust.)
So tell me, what should I do now?...
I only recently got into third generation equipment - I've been an ego/evod girl up until this point. For my first mod I bought a black nemesis from My Freedom Smokes. I'd been a customer there for a while so I trusted them, and they had them on sale.
So long story short - when I got it it worked fine, but I noticed that there were no notches cut into the threads as there should be, and so there was no venting whatsoever when the locking ring was up. I contacted customer support, and initially the guy seemed concerned.. but after talking to the returns department he basically said there was nothing wrong with that but he'd replace it if I'm "still not satisfied with its construction." I got upset and said I didn't feel like they were taking the issue seriously, that this is a safety concern. He said he would be willing to replace it instead with their stainless steel nemesis, which costs a couple dollars more and is arguably better quality. I agreed, sent back the black mod at my own expense, and got my new SS clone in the mail.
Now, I could tell right away that it was better quality than the last one. However, when I screwed my nautilus onto the top I noticed something was wrong. It wasn't sitting flush with the top of the mod. I checked all my tanks, and when I screw them all the way into the SS nemesis they lean to the side, and there is a noticeable gap on one side between the tank and the mod. The 510 threads in the top cap were cut wrong. This is the replacement I got!
Well obviously I didn't want to risk getting yet a third defective model from them (especially since I would have to pay shipping yet again), so I sent them an email simply saying that the new model is defective as well, and I did not want to go through the process of replacing it again. I suggested they start ordering from a different manufacturer. I then went ahead and ordered a replacement top cap from another website called vaping Walrus; they were the only ones willing to sell me the top cap only in stainless steel (every other place wants me to buy a bag of parts for the same price as the whole mod).
So now I just got the top cap in the mail - and it doesn't fit! The threads on the MFS clone are considerably wider in diameter than the threads on the new cap!
Ok, so this is a lot of bull to have to go through over one stupid clone, so someone please help so I can put this behind me already. First of all, was I wrong to expect that nemesis clones are all made to the same specifications, and therefore the parts are universal? Are they really all cut differently, or is it just that the MFS ones are cut to weird, new specs that no one else uses? Or is it the fault of the store who sent me the new top cap, are they the ones cutting the threads weird? (I'm more inclined to believe it's MFS simply because of all the issues I've already had with them). Is it worth paying the shipping, again, to send the top cap back?
Is it worth trying to salvage this mod, at all, at this point? Or would I be better off taking it outside and smashing it with a hammer (with the battery out of course
), which I'm more than willing to do at this point, and just saving my money and buying a brand new one and starting over? I'm still using the nemesis even though the tank leans because it is still my only mod
and I realize now that with all the money I've spent trying to fix the problems with this one I could've just bought a new one on fasttech...(Please don't say this is my fault for buying a clone or buying cheap stuff - I bought from a place I thought I could trust.)
So tell me, what should I do now?...
That is good to know, and I wish I knew that before I bought all of this. Yes, I am looking forward to a good hammer smashing if that is how this turns out. 
now I know.
I took the opportunity to get a blue stainless steel one this time, it is very difficult to find mods in different colors so I thought I'd better get it while I can (I'm so stingy I'll probably never buy another nemesis just to have it in a different color). I'm looking forward to it, crossing my fingers for no issues this time!
