Vaping Accidents - Because we're only human after all

[DeliciousClouds]

I thought it would be an interesting idea for people to share their vaping accidents. Whether you tried filling your tank with the bottom cap still on it, or dropped your brand-spanking new tube mod from three stories high... Share 'em so we can laugh it off or cry collectively. And maybe we can all learn a thing or two from it.

Me? Oh you know, just you're average juice-spiller. I once knocked over a full bottle of expensive juice, frantically trying to suck it back up from the table. I've also dropped a freshly topped off tank and blew it out from the wrong side, causing various drops of liquid to find a new home on my desk and clothes.

 

[Baditude]

Two years ago I had the unfortunate misfortune of having a battery blow up in my first mechanical mod. I was using a protected Trustfire ICR battery, which was what was recommended at that time for my mod. I had begun storing my mods in a pants pocket in my locker at work. The firing button got pressed against another mod while in the pants pocket, causing the battery to rapidly over-discharge and go into thermal runaway. The mod required repair and my pants were badly scorched and ruined, but considering the circumstances I was lucky a larger fire didn't start while at work.

I've also had an IMR safe chemistry battery vent in a pocket. Not aware that there was some loose change in the pocket, the coins completed the circuit to the battery and I immediately felt heat of great intensity. I managed to get the battery out of my pocket quite quickly, which was a good thing because you can get a second degree burn from the hot gas which is expelled.

Hence my preaching about safe battery practices on this forum. Only safe-chemistry IMR or IMR/hybrid batteries for mods. ICR batteries are obsolete for use in mods in this day of modern battery technology. Carry spare batteries in a plastic battery case, away from any metal like keys or coins while in a purse or pocket.

 

[wheelie]

Had to laugh the other day when I was taking a Kayfun tank off without looking. I twisted the tank off the bottom piece and ended up with a lap of juice. Made me laugh because I read the forum thread from a member that did that a few days before and was curing the tank and saying the Kayfuns were junk because his/hers did that.

 

[Dissonance]

Heard of many horrible injuries (such as verpies) on these forums... My worst accident was spilling a 15ml bottle of flavoring while making juice tho. I got the amount I needed to make the batch I was making tho B)

 

[slyphex]

The first time I refilled my Kayfun I thought I would unscrew the top and fill it that way. But the chimney o-ring was so new and tight that it unscrewed the chimney from the deck instead and everything poured out the airhole.

 

[The Torch]

Just last night I was filling up my Russian 91% and was surprised to see juice coming out the tip fast. I forgot to screw on the top part of the chimney

A couple of weeks ago I got wayyy to drunk in front of the computer. I kept dropping my Privari with 2 week old Russian on top. The top two thirds of the tank looked crooked and I was afraid I scrapped the threads on the plastic part. I almost needed pliers to take it apart, but the threads are intact enough to put it back together without resorting to the spare metal part.

I put my Provari in the door handle when driving: it holds well and sits at the right place to grab it without fumbling around. The other day I put it in the wrong direction and it fell on the asphalt when I opened the door. Just a small dent on the cap and I thought "It's the first scratch that feels the worst"

 

[niczgreat]

My favorite is that I bought a VV unit, can't remember the name but it was some type of Lava clone. The first time I used it I unscrewed a Vivi Nova and instead of the 510 connection coming free, the tank unscrewed spilling a full tank down the side of the Mod. Then I started vaping and the unit started acting wonky [1 - 2 minutes later]. Then all of a sudden the APV began to smoke. I mean Smoke started comiing out from behind the LCD. I quickly unscrewed and took out the battery.

It gave me a laugh because I can now say that I'm the only person I know who can unintentionally wreck a APV in less then 15 minutes.

Luckily Vapor Beast took it back and because it was my 2nd one of this model from them. We called it a day.

 

[AndriaD]

Just last night I was filling up my Russian 91% and was surprised to see juice coming out the tip fast. I forgot to screw on the top part of the chimney

I did this exact thing just a few weeks ago.

Most of mine are pretty standard -- filled a T3S, and turned it upright.. before screwing the base on! And dropping the PV onto the tile floor is pretty common around here, though it's usually my husband's fault for messing with my desk and starting an avalanche (he's been warned, but persists in trying to do things to my desk). I've broken 3 drip tips this way; 1 jade and 2 acrylic. The weird thing was the last one to break was acrylic.. attached to a Mini PT II (glass!) which did NOT break. So he only got about 80 dB instead of 100.

Andria

 

[Nacon]

Dumbest accident for me was when I looked down the hole of a dripping atomizer to see if it was working. Got scorched in the eye by really hot fluid. Between the temp and the nicotine, it hurt more than expected. damn!

 

[Deryan3]

i will join the others who have spilled juice on their laps while filling a kayfun with the top part of the chimney not tighten all the way. I was so careful of everything else but that... needless to say... i check and double check now...

 

[HauntedMyst]

A number of times rebuilding my Taifun I've refilled it and forgotten to put the chamber cap on and flooded it.

 

[AndriaD]

i will join the others who have spilled juice on their laps while filling a kayfun with the top part of the chimney not tighten all the way. I was so careful of everything else but that... needless to say... i check and double check now...

Yeah, that one really makes you feel like an idjit, doesn't it? Here you are, this awesome tank with the coil you built and wicked your own damn self, so you're feeling like The VapeMaster... and then you don't even finish putting it together before you try and fill it. I felt like slapping MYSELF upside the head for that one.

I also forgot to mention another one I used to do a lot, when I was using the T3S's pretty regularly, and had learned to rebuild them; getting that little silicone dealy back on the chimney when you put it all back together. Depending on how tightly you've got the chimney in the head, it may or may not be immediately obvious... but sometimes you just can't figure out why it keeps doing that gurgling thing, and then you see the silly little silicone thing, still laying there...

Andria

 

[Mowgli]

My buddy just told me he had a 15ml bottle of Hazelnut in his cargo pants leg pocket.
It went though the washer & dryer.
It's steeped now.

My only DIY accident was adding strawberry flavor to Blueberry juice.
I doubled the premix to keep the correct flavor % and that same buddy liked it

I vaped Bacon e-juice on purpose but it tasted like vaping shart or something. shart = accident.


I was trying to pull my cartotanked mod out of it's SerenityGear Leather sleeve.
By the tank.
Hawk Sauce everywhere.

 

[dbrandt01]

I haven't had the juice in my lap. I dropped a protank 3 a good 2 inches on to my desk and the tank cracked in two and juice went everywhere. Ruining my a drawing I spent a couple hours on. I didn't even bother doing it over.

 

[serenity21899]

Not realizing the importance of the oring for the chimney on a Kayfun.

Dropping a ProVari with a glass carto tank down on concrete. Tank shattered; ProVari was unharmed.

 

[hydruid]

My funniest accident happened today. Bought my first Russian 91% and while in a rush at work, mistaked the refill hole for the adjustable airhole lol.

Spilled juice on my desk and all over me... 10 minutes and 15 paper towels later I got it all worked out.

 

[The Torch]

Dumbest accident for me was when I looked down the hole of a dripping atomizer to see if it was working. Got scorched in the eye by really hot fluid. Between the temp and the nicotine, it hurt more than expected. damn!

OUCH!

I had trouble filling a tank once and did the stupid thing: held the bottle horizontal in front of me, looking at the bottle tip and squeezed it. Got a good spray straight in the eye. I was still very paranoid at juice toxicity back then so I must have held me eye under running water for at least 5 minutes straight.

 

[zapped]

If words were bullets this thread would be giving our enemies fully automatic clips right now.

Why make their job easier for them?

We know they peruse these forums looking for things to use against us while simultaneously spreading misinformation and fear.

No matter how self deprecating or informative threads like these are I think the negatives mentioned above far outweigh any perceived benefits or camaraderie shared with fellow vapers as we laugh at ourselves and the rare accident that will inevitably occur. ......to anyone...doing anything....at any time.

They probably arent as understanding of that fact.

Just my

 

[antony73]

Took a while to get in the habit of turning my Protank upside down to refill it. Been so used to top fillers.

 

[Ryedan]

Made a really nice micro coil ... my mod slipped as I fired it and I grabbed it quickly ...

Unfortunately the coil landed on the side of my finger for a second

Nine wraps I believe, or is it ten

The scar underneath that is from a X-acto knife accident while building a model airplane decades ago. Buried the blade in my finger. That was a lot scarier