Smok Tech Telescope poll - did your button break?

[jrjacobs]

I got one of the very early ST Telescope mods back in August. The bottom button broke on mine within four days just by tightening the lock.

I considered it a fluke, and ordered another switch. One day my telescope rolled off the table and again the switch snapped at the same spot.
The post on these switches (at least on the ones I got from GV and MV) were made of a cheap pot metal or plastic, wrapped in a thin brass sleeve.

At any rate, I was recently told by GotVapes that they had never heard of this happening to anyone, which I find hard to believe given how easily mine repeatedly broke.

I am curious as to who else had their button break off at the shaft - please, no "mine works fine" posts. I'm only interested in how many of these actually broke.

 

[eagarcia123]

forgot to lock the button on mine. rolled off my bed and broke. they do need to fix it and make thicker

 

[t8kiteasy]

I stopped using mine when i got the Legacy.I guess mine will never break now.

 

[jrjacobs]

I did, by the way, figure out a way to fix the button. Will post details later.

 

[thecatanddog]

the new rebuildable one from MV doesn't have this issue

 

[fourthrok]

I got my telescope back in October last year. Used it heavily and haven't been that gentle with it...so far no trouble with the switch. But I did hear some people had theirs break. I think they were the ones from the first run of the smok telescope...the ones that came out last Spring/Summer. Mine was a later model that was vented by smok at the factory rather than modded after market (with a mess of holes all over it...like the ones MV was selling last Fall). Maybe mine was built a bit better since it was a newer (not from the first release) model?

You can get replacement switch assemblies for the telescope at MV.

 

[Adam the Aussie]

I've got three telescopes, never had a button break, but the buttons on the chrome versions are much better than the stainless steel version. I use the chrome button in the stainless telescope.

 

[thecatanddog]

what makes the button assembly better about the chrome vs ss?

 

[Adam the Aussie]

what makes the button assembly better about the chrome vs ss?

Quite a few things. The first thing I noticed was the sound the different buttons make, the chrome is a nice click when it makes connection, the stainless is a scratchy, scrape sort of sound that becomes quite annoying in a very short space of time. The chrome has a shorter throw, which is easier to use and actually makes the telescope about 7ml shorter with the same battery. The chrome has a thicker shaft and is pretty sturdy when you place the telescope on end, the stainless switch has a lot of play in it and sways like a tree in the breeze when standing up. The stainless comes loose and requires tightening regularly, never had to do this with the chrome switch. I like the spring in the chrome battery compared to the no spring stainless switch. The chrome is just a better switch all around for me, the stainless switch is junk. The actual stainless telescope is a great tube, nice threading and great for the kick with the threaded top cap.

Here's my review if you're interested:

 

[thecatanddog]

makes me glad I purchased two Curves instead of the stainless telescope. I'll check the review out after work.

 

[t8kiteasy]

Quite a few things. The first thing I noticed was the sound the different buttons make, the chrome is a nice click when it makes connection, the stainless is a scratchy, scrape sort of sound that becomes quite annoying in a very short space of time. The chrome has a shorter throw, which is easier to use and actually makes the telescope about 7ml shorter with the same battery. The chrome has a thicker shaft and is pretty sturdy when you place the telescope on end, the stainless switch has a lot of play in it and sways like a tree in the breeze when standing up. The stainless comes loose and requires tightening regularly, never had to do this with the chrome switch. I like the spring in the chrome battery compared to the no spring stainless switch. The chrome is just a better switch all around for me, the stainless switch is junk. The actual stainless telescope is a great tube, nice threading and great for the kick with the threaded top cap.

Here's my review if you're interested:

That looks like the rebuildable telescope MV's is selling,with the replaceable top cap???

 

[Adam the Aussie]

That looks like the rebuildable telescope MV's is selling,with the replaceable top cap???

It probably is, I got mine from an Australian vendor, but it's probably the same model. It's all good except for the switch, I still use it all the time, along with my vamo and ProVari.

 

[jrjacobs]

Maybe you missed the part I wrote about not being interested in the "mine works fine" posts.

Again - in four years of vaping, I've never seen anything break as easily as this; rolling off the table onto the carpet snapped one of them. - I've been through three of the chrome-style buttons.

I can't be the only one. Who else?

 

[troye32993]

I got the ss rebuildable telescope from mv and just today it rolled of my table and the switch broke

 

[jrjacobs]

I got the ss rebuildable telescope from mv and just today it rolled of my table and the switch broke

So apparently the SS switch can break easily too.....

 

[tc1]

The button issue is the reason I waited and decided to get a pinky "gg style" telescope mod. That and I heard some people had threading issues where either they showed or ate at the battery.

Glad I waited and grabbed a CCTS when it was on sale for $24-$26 ... can't remember.

Sorry to hear about the switch button breaking.

 

[renoman]

Well, mine just slipped thru my fingers,dropped about 2' onto carpet and broke the button.
Pretty sure I can fix it with a brass bolt..............

 

[jrjacobs]

Well, mine just slipped thru my fingers,dropped about 2' onto carpet and broke the button.
Pretty sure I can fix it with a brass bolt..............

Amazing how easy it breaks, isnt it. I fixed with some brass rod.

 

[Trick]

I see reports of that switch breaking all the time around here. Mine was still in one piece when I sold it, but I've never been so happy to get rid of a mod in my life. I pity the guy who bought it off me in the classies, but I was very up-front with how big a piece of crap I thought it was. I'm actually somewhat proud of that "for sale" post, and amazed that someone actually bought my "robotic tampon" after how I described it.

Anyway, I've also seen reports of people using a simple screw to fix it.

 

[foreversummer47]

just did. I got it put back together in about 10 minutes though. i should have probably waited until I had some threadlocker, oh well. It works fine now, but I'm annoyed that my kick won't work, after sanding the top tube and the contacts on the kick, and putting noalox on all the threads.