Ordered an AR mod from Vapor-Hub and received it on the 10th of this month. Was excited to see it. Looked great, felt great.
She got home from work and put a battery in it. Wolverine could not have done a better job of ripping that battery wrap to shreds. I looked down in the tube and couldn't really see much of what what causing the problem, so I slowly ran my finger on the inside to see what I could feel. BURS! BURS EVERYWHERE! It was like I tried to finger-bang a tiny metal cactus. Along with that, the threading on the switch and top cap were chunky. They would grind themselves in as you tightened them down. It made me cringe every-time we would change batteries out over the next few days. Before we could change the batteries, I had to go to Home Depot and pick up a metal file kit to smooth out the inside of the tube. After that was done, we fired the thing up and hit hits like a rock star! The stock spring is laughably weak in this one. That was remedied by the wife installing the magnets she ordered with it.
So we were off to a rocky start. Happens I guess. I had named these issues before and it was recommended in person at vape shops locally to send the mod back as a QC issue. I explained that although I understand that idea, having paid ~$200 for this American Made mod I felt that once they put it in the box and shipped it, that was them saying ,"This meets our standards". Meaning, I'm not going to send it back. I'll do the finishing work to include making it serviceable for use since it wasn't capable of being used right out-of-the-box.
The wife submitted a review of the issues and why were happy with it once we got it working. Our only complaints were that for this price, there shouldn't be these types of issues at all. It might have been a bad piece, but a bad piece shouldn't have gone out, but we were still happy with it overall.
Since it had negative points, it was pending for 18 days. Yesterday, it wasn't there for submission review and it isn't posted on the site. I'd like to think they aren't screening out negative issues on their review page because that is just
for me.
Been using it for 20 days as of today. It's been a nice experiance!
And then...
the magnets broke. The wife noticed the firing button was sticking today. She took the switch apart to look at it and found that one of the magnets had snapped into two pieces. 20 days of use. We knew the spring was going to be weak from other people talking about them and that the magnets were an upgrade, but 20 days of use?
Also of note, the Cerakote on the bottom ring has come off and been work down to silver just from being put down on a table. In 20 days. . .
TL;DR
So to recap experience, ~$200 for mod with upgraded magnet switch, then out a $12 battery and $10 for a metal file kit from Home Depot to smooth out the inside of the tube and make it usable. Now we have to consider buying more magnets for the switch (the stock spring is laughably poor) or make it our most expensive paperweight to date.
We didn't spend $200 on a mech for the wife to have as a pretty desk ornament. We spent that money on what we thought was a solid mod that could handle being used. Turns out, it couldn't even be used out of the box >.>
Is anyone else having problems? Were we wrong in thinking this was a mod that could handle daily use? Should this have been bought and used 1-2 times a month and then put in a trophy case? Are we actually mislead in thinking that this price point should be above these types of problems for a legit mod?
These are real questions, not meant as sarcasm.
*We don't drop our mods or bang them around. We are delicate and detail oriented people as well.
** Vapor hub sells the magnets for $10 a set. Wife says they are currently on sale for 6.99
People have said they get about 2 weeks out of the stock spring before it fails and I can't justify spending $10 a month on magnets to be able to continue using a $200 mod.
She got home from work and put a battery in it. Wolverine could not have done a better job of ripping that battery wrap to shreds. I looked down in the tube and couldn't really see much of what what causing the problem, so I slowly ran my finger on the inside to see what I could feel. BURS! BURS EVERYWHERE! It was like I tried to finger-bang a tiny metal cactus. Along with that, the threading on the switch and top cap were chunky. They would grind themselves in as you tightened them down. It made me cringe every-time we would change batteries out over the next few days. Before we could change the batteries, I had to go to Home Depot and pick up a metal file kit to smooth out the inside of the tube. After that was done, we fired the thing up and hit hits like a rock star! The stock spring is laughably weak in this one. That was remedied by the wife installing the magnets she ordered with it.
So we were off to a rocky start. Happens I guess. I had named these issues before and it was recommended in person at vape shops locally to send the mod back as a QC issue. I explained that although I understand that idea, having paid ~$200 for this American Made mod I felt that once they put it in the box and shipped it, that was them saying ,"This meets our standards". Meaning, I'm not going to send it back. I'll do the finishing work to include making it serviceable for use since it wasn't capable of being used right out-of-the-box.
The wife submitted a review of the issues and why were happy with it once we got it working. Our only complaints were that for this price, there shouldn't be these types of issues at all. It might have been a bad piece, but a bad piece shouldn't have gone out, but we were still happy with it overall.
Since it had negative points, it was pending for 18 days. Yesterday, it wasn't there for submission review and it isn't posted on the site. I'd like to think they aren't screening out negative issues on their review page because that is just
Been using it for 20 days as of today. It's been a nice experiance!
And then...
the magnets broke. The wife noticed the firing button was sticking today. She took the switch apart to look at it and found that one of the magnets had snapped into two pieces. 20 days of use. We knew the spring was going to be weak from other people talking about them and that the magnets were an upgrade, but 20 days of use?
Also of note, the Cerakote on the bottom ring has come off and been work down to silver just from being put down on a table. In 20 days. . .
TL;DR
So to recap experience, ~$200 for mod with upgraded magnet switch, then out a $12 battery and $10 for a metal file kit from Home Depot to smooth out the inside of the tube and make it usable. Now we have to consider buying more magnets for the switch (the stock spring is laughably poor) or make it our most expensive paperweight to date.
We didn't spend $200 on a mech for the wife to have as a pretty desk ornament. We spent that money on what we thought was a solid mod that could handle being used. Turns out, it couldn't even be used out of the box >.>
Is anyone else having problems? Were we wrong in thinking this was a mod that could handle daily use? Should this have been bought and used 1-2 times a month and then put in a trophy case? Are we actually mislead in thinking that this price point should be above these types of problems for a legit mod?
These are real questions, not meant as sarcasm.
*We don't drop our mods or bang them around. We are delicate and detail oriented people as well.
** Vapor hub sells the magnets for $10 a set. Wife says they are currently on sale for 6.99
People have said they get about 2 weeks out of the stock spring before it fails and I can't justify spending $10 a month on magnets to be able to continue using a $200 mod.
