What is the DUMBEST thing you've done in your vaping career?

[rurwin]

@HauntedMyst: No you didn't.

But wow someone had a major escape there. One boulder stopped within inches of the main building, and the other seems to have missed LPG tanks by the same margin.

I wonder if they are thinking of selling up... and if anyone would be daft enough to buy.

 

[Seann.V91]

The stupidest thing I've done was buy a VAMO thinking the 510 center pin connection could last longer than a week because I thought it would be better than a ProVari which I bought after that. And has been working like brand new since this last September

 

[KenD]

Send it to me, I love 24!

Oh, I think the postage from Sweden to the US won't be worth it. Not for me at least

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[Jugband]

The stupidest thing I've done was buy a VAMO thinking the 510 center pin connection could last longer than a week because I thought it would be better than a ProVari which I bought after that. And has been working like brand new since this last September

My 510 threading lasted about three months on my Vamo. I'll be ordering a second Provari soon. You live and learn.

 

[txtts]

Omg. Yes. Idonotneedakayfun
ETA: whoops. Was supposed to be a reply to the poster who said signing up for this site.

 

[Kowboy_Kenny]

On my first dual coil build I test coil at .9 ohm was happy not think that it was only one cvoil and that I was using an 18350 battery not the brightest or safest moment

 

[OBDave]

Bonehead's Corollary: No matter how much you like your PV, it's not worth diving down the cellar steps to catch it!

(2 broken wrists, 5-inch gash on my jaw caused by the myFace-MVP-concretefloor sandwich. MVP has some scratches and a big corner-dent, but works fine. Could have bought about 80 of them for the medical bills, even after insurance!)

Haven't finished the last 8 pages, but no need. You, sir, are awarded the win for this thread.

 

[OBDave]

I posted this a while back - fortunately, it's still in the lead:

Like many of you, I season my new SS wicks by coating them with a little juice, then burning it off.

FUN FACT!

If you have juice dripping from your wick and you set it on fire, you will thereafter have flaming juice dripping from your wick. And if you're using a paper towel in your lap as a drop cloth to catch the dripping juice, it will also catch the flaming dripping juice. And if your drop cloth is a paper product that has been drizzled with an accelerant, well ... you end up with a lap-full of wick-quenching water.

So if you're thinking about kicking back in the Barca Lounger and watching the all-day N.C.I.S. marathon while you do your wick work ... stop it.

This has been a public service announcement from Vapidiots.org. We do the stupid s**t so you don't have to.

...and then this is the very next post.

 

[OBDave]

So I've got nothing new to add - just the one time I unscrewed my Evod and the base remained stuck to my battery, etc. Money dumb was spending hundreds on 510 accessories and giving up on vaping for about three years after a couple months fidgeting with early-generation hardware issues, then thinking that regular Egos were my new god and buying dozens of them before realizing how awesome Twists were, then buying dozens of them before deciding to get into real mods...

My RDAs, mechs, and Vamos show up in a few weeks - I'm sure I'll be stuck on stupid for a while and will come up with all sorts of fun stories once I've got the big kid stuff in hand.

 

[numbskull]

Dropped my Nemmy (clone) and jacked the locking ring. Borrowed a friends mod, didn't lock it then stood it up.....it fired my KFL+ for about 5-7 minuets straight killing all the juice and frying my insulator....

All in less than 24 hours....

 

[Ay Dee Jay]

Just the other day- was bored and decided to check voltage on ego ( not even sure you can with PWM?). holding 2 meter leads and pushing the button is too much talent for me apparently. ZAP. Now sitting there bored and dead perfectly good eGo.

I've done this too, years ago! What a bummer. Now with Ego Twists I'm not compelled to check, but I always had knock-offs and was curious once upon a time where I was in the 3.2-3.4V range on a particular 900 mAh battery...

 

[Ay Dee Jay]

Ok I want to share mine as I just did this last night.
I only recently got into rebuilding. Love it, so I was rebuilding the coil on my russian. Got it all nice and tightly wrapped. It was a thing of beauty. Put it on my my tester, 1.8. Perfect! Put it in my Provari. Fire. Nothing. Cold and dead... Check the resistance. Lo. Lo? Ok what the heck? Put it back on my tester. 1.8. Move the pin out further. Lo. Grr. Try my kfl. Lo. What the crap!! Rebuild coil. 4 times. Bash head against wall. Different battery. Nothing. Check Provari manual. Lo volts. Also can mean its off. Cry myself to sleep.


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What voltage are you running at? LO means "atomizer resistance is too low for me to handle the load at this voltage" if I recall correctly due to the amp / watt cutoff. My Provari was finicky at low resistance, start at the lowest voltage and work up.

 

[iamzg]

Let the guy at a B&M tell me the "right way" to put my magnets on my nemesis. Bye bye nemmy

 

[Ay Dee Jay]

Mine are Definitely not winners... But here we go:

Got my new apv. Took it to run errands. I Vape between the car and the store. Instinctively thew it in my back pocket like ego... Went to sit in the car... Broke the glass on my mpt2.... Car now smells like bananas (my wife hates the smell of banannas)... Ordered replacement glass for the mpt2, went to put it on, than realized the post broke off in the base...

Once I broke a glass tank on a long Twist battery after a night of drinking...my BAC must've been pretty high because I noticed the broken glass upon arriving at my hotel, after sticking my hand in my pocket to retrieve the PV and pulling it out quickly to find it bleeding like crazy! It ended up being a tiny poke but seemed to bleed forever.

 

[Ryedan]

Rebuilt a Kanger head with superconducting wire using a supercollider at 14 trillion electron volts and shut down the Chinese internet for one hour. Yeah guys that was me!

Naw but wouldn't that be cool?

Now that's what I call sub ohm

 

[Ryedan]

I was cliff climbing in northern italy recently and lost a peg. The only thing handy at the time was a solid but cheap SS 26650 clone so I hammered it in and finished my climb. I forgot to take the battery out and it over heated and exploded sending this boulder down on this house. I'd have gone down and apologized but I don't know how to say "Oops" in italian and the old lady there looked really .......

I really hate when that happens.

 

[Ohms Lawbreaker]

@ Ohms Lawbreaker, a superconducting coil wouldn't get hot....

Have you ever ran 14 trillion electron volts through an inch of it? Yeah, you get a little heat.

 

[Ryedan]

Making one of my first micro coils on a Trident. Fired it, the mod slipped and I grabbed it before it could hit the table:

Nice looking coil, wasn't it

 

[rurwin]

Have you ever ran 14 trillion electron volts through an inch of it? Yeah, you get a little heat.

Yeah, I did that like a light-year ago. ;-)

Seriously though. Electron Volts is a measure of energy, so it's dependent on how long you took to do the job, but let's say one five second puff. Google says: 2.24304719 × 10^-6 joules. Over five seconds that's 0.000000448609438 watts.

Of course, being power, it doesn't matter if your coil is superconducting or not, but if it gets detectably warm at that power level there's either something up with it or you have an amazingly sensitive calorimeter.

 

[Ohms Lawbreaker]

Yeah, I did that like a light-year ago. ;-)

Seriously though. Electron Volts is a measure of energy, so it's dependent on how long you took to do the job, but let's say one five second puff. Google says: 2.24304719 × 10^-6 joules. Over five seconds that's 0.000000448609438 watts.

Of course, being power, it doesn't matter if your coil is superconducting or not, but if it gets detectably warm at that power level there's either something up with it or you have an amazingly sensitive calorimeter.

Agreed, and fascinating. I'm a little low on ergs right now so Kanthal and an iTaste are enough to make my god particles.