I had a buddy give me some of his old mechanical mods. I vape only a little and never got into the mech stuff. I was just curious if there is any sort of market for this type of stuff? I know the carbon fiber one is a Paragon that was probably around $200 when new and I've seen they make clones of them so figured they might be worth something? I have no idea what the silver one is. Any info about them would be great and it would be good to know if they would be worth trying to sell of if I should not waste my time. Thanks!
Question about mods I acquired
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The "silver" mod is a King V2. It's an awesome mod... One of my favorite 22mm mechs ever. It's also a clone... They never made one in that color.
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@Shawn Hoefer is right. I also wouldn't expect a ton of cash for them either. Mechs are now selling at a huge discount off their original retail price. I know: I've been buying them. I picked up a NIB original Kato Hammer last year for $65.00; new-old stock, a display model from a closing vape shop. They originally sold at $750-1000 in the States.Won't hurt to put the Paragon up on eBay. Bamavapor.com has V3s, matte black, new for $40 bucks, or so the website says, with 11 in stock. I'd probably price in about half that.
Mechs are great and teach you battery respect. Clean threads, shined contacts and your good to go. 350+ grit sandpaper works great on the battery contacts. The 510 threads are the weak point of mostly clone mechs so an adapter to keep the threads from loosening. I have a brass sentinel that I'm still using sitting on the desk. Depending on how you vape a kick works good so your not running your batt down to nothing accidentally and damage them so a kick will cut off at 3.4 volts.
Enjoy the mechs...
Enjoy the mechs...
New ones still fetch around $200. Nuts money imo.
I picked up an elderly, authentic mech that is absolutely BEAUTIFUL, I bought it for the husband thinking it would play to his strengths (he's an engineer) and tempt him, but it turns out he started vaping on a Nautilus 2 like everyone else. LOL.
I still have it, I plan to vape it (currently using my baby Ephro Armor training mod).
If you have ANY interest in mechs, I'd suggest hanging on to them and vaping them when you are ready, because honestly I PICKED up that mod at an absolute steal price, and that sort of tells me that well, I'm not going to be able to turn around and resell it for it's original worth or more.
Also if they're clones, forget it and just enjoy them. IMHO mech mods aren't quite antiques and desirable enough that unless they are some sort of limited edition thing, I doubt you'd get much for them.
Maybe once the FDA is done with us, they may have some sort of crazy resale value, but again, that would probably be ILLEGAL and honestly if you have ANY interest in ever vaping a mech, well, you may wind up happy you have them and etc.
Anna
I still have it, I plan to vape it (currently using my baby Ephro Armor training mod).
If you have ANY interest in mechs, I'd suggest hanging on to them and vaping them when you are ready, because honestly I PICKED up that mod at an absolute steal price, and that sort of tells me that well, I'm not going to be able to turn around and resell it for it's original worth or more.
Also if they're clones, forget it and just enjoy them. IMHO mech mods aren't quite antiques and desirable enough that unless they are some sort of limited edition thing, I doubt you'd get much for them.
Maybe once the FDA is done with us, they may have some sort of crazy resale value, but again, that would probably be ILLEGAL and honestly if you have ANY interest in ever vaping a mech, well, you may wind up happy you have them and etc.
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