Went to my normal vape shop last night to get a couple batteries. While I was there hanging out and trying a bunch of flavors some kid came in with his mod and started complaining how it was junk and never worked right since about three days after he bought it. the two people behind the counter were busy with other customers and had quite a few others waiting so I offered to look at it for him.
Kid didn't seem to want to, wasn't sure if I would know what I was doing, but the shop owner assured him that I would be able to help him. he had a generic series box mod with a trustfire and a MXJO battery in it. wiring looked scorched as ..... He said it wasnt working right, to hot, batteries were getting hot with every use, tasted like crap.... So I started poking around. Coil loked to be about 3mm and wrapped in som HEAVY ... wire. I asked him what gauge it was. He said he wasnt sure, but it was the smallest paperclip he could find. Wait, wut? Paperclip?? Yea, he didnt want to "Pay a store some ungodly price for normal wire with a special name" so he had wrapped a set of dual coils from a paperclip... I asked him what the resistance was. He actually told me that resistance was futile. I almost walked away from him at that point, but I knew if I did soon he would become a statistic.
So I told him I was going to redo a few things in his mod and build him a new coil, but he needed to buy new batteries. right then. tonight. Before I give him back his mod. Took him over to the "Building Desk" where I had my soldering iron already set up as I was fixing a few other boxes for the shop and proceeded to rip most of the wiring out of his box. The look on his face was freaking priceless when I started doing that... Put new wiring and a real Fet in it, then built a set of coils, dual parallel 26G kanthal that were at .35 and wicked it for him. Dropped a couple of my spare 25r's in it and handed it back to him. Took him over to the juice bar and let him pick a juice to try.
Not sure what juice he tried first, but he said he couldn't believe how much better it tasted and The batteries dont get hot!! Kid was stoked. suddenly he had a million questions, from what the hell did I do to it to make it work good, to how can he build the same type of coils... About this time the store owner was done with all the customers in the store and came over to talk to the kid. Ended up selling him batteries, Ohm meter, juice and wire. They store kept the coils from paperclips. guess they had never seen that one.
It just never ceases to amaze me at what some people do in the name of ignorance...
She said it still wasn't working right!
