What bad hardware have you bought ?

[Coastal Cowboy]

The leaking problem in the original PT was lack of wicking material. If you bought some 1mm silica and laid it right across the top so it stuck out both sides it didn't leak or take the usually 2 flavor wicks inside the head and set them so some of each stuck out the sides it didn't leak. Best fix was to remove the silica altogether in a new head and replace with cotton into the stock coil. The few PT heads that I did use before I rebuilt them didn't leak with that little bit of revamping the flavor wicks or adding the wick across the top.
Yes.. break the vacuum and they leak but that still goes for a multitude of attys still sold today.

I remember doing that!

I think Kanger fixed that when the revamped the coil heads. The old ones we called "stubbies." The newer ones you still get today have a longer shaft into the chimney and a different silicone rubber gasket.

I still have a few stubbies, I think...

 

[Travis180]

I was just thinking about what hardware I never should have bought (in hindsight).

Two come to mind:

1. An iClear 30s tank. First tank I ever got. cheap plastic.
2. Kanger Aerotank Turbo Quad. Nice looking but always leaked.

So anybody else ?

Kanger toptank mini. Leaks worse than anything I have ever seen.

 

[TJVapes]

Pre 2014 - There was a site that was constantly coming out with the "new best thing". I still will never buy from them because every single product was crap despite them testing and raving on the product. All crap, mostly new kinds of cartomizers, etc.

Most recently since this year, Kanger top tank..leaky piece of tasteless nothing. Steamcrave aromizer that tastes and smells like machine oil despite cleaning it a bazillion times. I buy too much but mostly I've been getting good products with those exceptions.

 

[mattiem]

The Kangertech 40 watt kbox.. that thing is a .... and I have two.

Fortunately I just have one and it was a gift. Love the one that gave it to me just 'cause I wanted to try one but am not fond of the device It is now in my "hope I never have to depend on" box.

 

[Opinionated]

Fortunately I just have one and it was a gift. Love the one that gave it to me just 'cause I wanted to try one but am not fond of the device It is now in my "hope I never have to depend on" box.

Hahaha.. mine are sitting in that same box!

 

[GeorgeS]

I have dozens of tanks and mods that "did not make the daily rotation cut" however I can't claim real fault with any of them, just that they were not my "cup of tea".

• My 1st real "opps" was a "genuine" noname "TC40W". It would never really do TC. I used it in VW mode for ~1yr to dry fire coils and act as an ohm meter. It finally quit being able to do that.
• Segelli 213 - at one point I had TWO of them as I could not imagine that anything could possibly be THAT BAD right from the factory. Got stuck with one. (yes they were THAT BAD)
  
• IPV6x - comically the replacement for the above. Never did work I finally swapped it for a Alien220. (which has its own "issues") While I've checked a few times I've never come across a IPV6x with new enough firmware to actually function in TC mode. Sad really sad.

I think the vaping community been subjected to all sorts of 1/2 baked ideas and products. I still can't believe the number of MOD's that actually get tested BAD right from the factory, new in a review box.

 

[Belhade]

The leaking problem in the original PT was lack of wicking material. If you bought some 1mm silica and laid it right across the top so it stuck out both sides it didn't leak or take the usually 2 flavor wicks inside the head and set them so some of each stuck out the sides it didn't leak. Best fix was to remove the silica altogether in a new head and replace with cotton into the stock coil. The few PT heads that I did use before I rebuilt them didn't leak with that little bit of revamping the flavor wicks or adding the wick across the top.
Yes.. break the vacuum and they leak but that still goes for a multitude of attys still sold today.

I've been rebuilding Protank 2 heads for years and usually put a small flavor wick (cotton) across the top. They likes em nice and fluffy.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

I've been rebuilding Protank 2 heads for years and usually put a small flavor wick (cotton) across the top. They likes em nice and fluffy.

I bow in your general direction, sir.

I used to build those little fu... boogers a few years ago. I finally figured out that it wasn't worth my time and just loaded up on coils from FastTech and Mt. Baker.

Now, an injury has left my right hand incapable of manipulating small objects and now my time really IS worth more than my money. Now, my coil building paraphernalia sits unused in the StashBox. But I remember cussing that little coil to hell and back!

Still use my ProTank II's...

 

[ScandaLeX]

I'd LOVE to say everything I purchased had been phenomenal but ummm... NO!
My problem seems to be falling for all the newest-must have-hyped items only to finally get said item in my hand and find for me its a POS....Visions of the VS rDNA 40 come to mind and still cause me nightmares.

Now moving along to talk about the Kanger DripEZ... Well I'll have you know that thing went from box to vape to trash!!!

What in the hell was Kanger thinking?
I'm curious to know how many people other than me purchased that headache???

 

[bombastinator]

I'd LOVE to say everything I purchased had been phenomenal but ummm... NO!
My problem seems to be falling for all the newest-must have-hyped items only to finally get said item in my hand and find for me its a POS....Visions of the VS rDNA 40 come to mind and still cause me nightmares.

Now moving along to talk about the Kanger DripEZ... Well I'll have you know that thing went from box to vape to trash!!!

What in the hell was Kanger thinking?
I'm curious to know how many people other than me purchased that headache???

My solution for this issue is to avoid early adoption. The newest thing I have came out iirc in 2015

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

The bleeding edge of technology is a lot cheaper than the leading edge.

Less dangerous, too!

 

[williamclarkonet]

Vamo series..... I picked up the V1 and a week later it broke and i swore then i would never by another vamo but when the V2 came out i thought i had to have it and almost exactly a week later IT BROKE. i have since never touched one

 

[r77r7r]

My solution for this issue is to avoid early adoption. The newest thing I have came out iirc in 2015

Same here altho I wish I had gotten this Nautilus sooner than waiting 2+ yrs.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Vamo series..... I picked up the V1 and a week later it broke and i swore then i would never by another vamo but when the V2 came out i thought i had to have it and almost exactly a week later IT BROKE. i have since never touched one

And therein lies the benefit of staying on the bleeding edge of technology, rather than the leading edge.

My Vamo V3 and V5 are still working flawlessly after almost four years of use.

The V1 and V2 were problem ridden and to this day, I don't think KSD has recovered from that QC fiasco. Consumers have long memories.

 

[bombastinator]

And therein lies the benefit of staying on the bleeding edge of technology, rather than the leading edge.

My Vamo V3 and V5 are still working flawlessly after almost four years of use.

The V1 and V2 were problem ridden and to this day, I don't think KSD has recovered from that QC fiasco. Consumers have long memories.

You may be misusing the term bleeding edge. Google seems to disagree or at any rate gives it the same meaning as leading edge.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

You may be misusing the term bleeding edge. Google seems to disagree or at any rate gives it the same meaning as leading edge.

Leave it to Google to muck up a perfectly good description of how one holds back to lets other try new the stuff and work out the problems.

 

[VictorViper]

The RM Mods Pulse RDA (not the VV Pulse) is an unusual dripper with no real reason to exist. It's a classic example of some nice ideas being slapped together with no real attention to the end result - in this case, mediocre vapour and flavour from a REALLY heavy topper that might as well be a heat sink.

I still have it, I still hate it.

 

[Hightech Redneck]

Back before I did research before purchasing I would say my worst was the old smok mech.
The fury-s, it was the stainless one with a skull with fangs. I'm sure others remember that lovely finger warmer they called a button.

 

[pfaber11]

The smoke Alien was my worst purchase. The first one lasted a week the second one 3 months and the 3rd one is still going after 11 weeks and 14941 puffs. I look after my equipment and would expect to get a year out of an alien. Mine cost 52.99 just for the mod. Anyway vape on.

 

[NicotineRush]

Back when I was just starting I was having trouble with the cheap pen style units leaking so I did a little research and ended up buying a Joyetech EgoOne. LEAKED LIKE A SIEVE so I sent it back to Joyetech. Got the unit back with a note saying that there was nothing wrong with it. STILL LEAKED! I'll never buy a Joytech product again.

More research. Started buying Aspire products and haven't had a leak since. (K1's > K3's > Elite >Triton Minis)