What's the (continuing) attraction of mechanical mods?
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I didn't know about the high amp 14500. Very cool. I may have get a few and resurrect my Bagua 14500 (non-clone). That mod combined with the Kayfun mini 2.1 in drip mode is by far the smallest mod I own loved that thing, but the low power got to me after awhile.
Paranoia is a horrible thing.
The government couldn't ban VV/VW mods outright. It doesn't have the legal authority to. It can tax ecig sales, it can regulate nicotine solutions, but it cannot outright ban the sale of an electronics device. I find it humorous how many people believe this is even remotely possible when you can legally buy a machine gun or cannon.
A VV/VW mod is nothing more than a battery powered electronics device that allows you to change the output power. How are you going to ban it without banning a stereo or toaster which do the exact same thing? Even my cellphone has adjustable watt output to it's speaker. The ONLY difference between a mech mod and a VV/VW mod is the chip, and the government cannot ban chips that allow power adjustment. FAR too many consumer electronics rely on them.
The government isn't about bans. It doesn't want outright bans. It wants regulation and taxation. I can assure you the government is far more interested in making money off of ecigs than it is banning them. A ban means no money for them.
It is possible for vaping devices to become harder to obtain by means of the government. If this happens either due to regulation or high taxation doesn't matter. But, for people who are willing and have desire to keep on vaping, it would help to have everything you need before it happens.
If mods become illegal or too expensive, I will make my own mods.
If the great choices for e-juice become limited, I will make my own juice.
And with a ton of mechanical mods, I already have a lot of gear that will last a very long time.
But this is not really the reason why mechanical mods are popular, imo. They fit a very specific style and appeal to vapers who use rebuildable devices coiled at low resistances. And hobbyists and collectors. Certainly, not for everyone. For me, they are great and allow me exactly the kind of vape that I desire. I know exactly how I will build my coils. I know how many wraps I am going to use whether I am using twisted wire, parallel coils, 24g, 22g, nichrome or kanthal. I know exactly how I will build an RDA deck for 2 coils, 3 coils, or 4 coils. And I know, give or take .02, what my resistance is going to be. So I don't want a device with multiple adjustments and settings to go through. I just want to build what I already have mastered and know will be perfect. And then throw it on any one of my mods and vape away without fiddling with anything.
I used mech mods pretty much exclusively for almost a year but since I got my first high wattage (for me that's 30 watts) regulated I rarely touch my mechs anymore. If I'm traveling I usually have one mech with me though, in addition to two regulateds, just to be on the safe side. Also, just tonight I whipped out my Hammer clone to make use of my 18350s, and I've finding that I still love it. If there's any type of mod suitable for dressing up in fine clothing it's definitely a mech. A box mod is a poor companion to black (tux) or white tie (tails) 
The early regulated devices mimicked the form factor exactly of a mech tube mod for a reason, they became wide bodied 'box's' for another
You're depending on the government to exercise common sense and go for the money , but if the FDA sticks to their propsed regulations , we will be restricted to the cigalikes that big tobacco makes , there's a lot of money lobbying for the restrictions , not to mention the nanny staters that wanna save us from ourselves . If you think it can't happen take a look at prohibition , the government wasn't too concerned about loosing the revenue from alcohol . I wouldn't depend on their greed to stop regulations now .
EDIT: nevermind, this thread is getting too long. Mech mods will always have a niche in the vaping market.
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A good quality mechanical device is something that'll be working decades from now. Regulated devices will fail long before that in most cases.
I don't know. I've only ever bought GG mechanicals, and I see no reason they won't be working many years from now. That's my plan anyway.
Of course. What makes a mech high quality? Certainly paying $300 is not one of the criteria. Conductive metal + good threading + simple switch = great working mech that will last forever.
That's jumping to conclusions.
Do I think China can produce quality in a wide range of products? Absolutely. Has that always been the case? Absolutely not.
It has nothing to do with a particular country. When Japan and South Korea started getting heavy into manufacturing, large amounts of their stuff was junk too. Now they're world leaders in lots of sectors.
Early on in any countries industrial growth they produce mountains of inferior products, make plenty of simple mistakes and create container loads of unusable scrap. It takes a long time for people's first impressions of anything to change. It takes even longer if they see numerous examples that reinforce those impressions.
China is much larger than Japan or South Korea. They're still growing. They're currently producing top quality in some areas and lots of junk in others. Decades from now they'll be established and the world leaders, in both innovation and quality, in some sectors. Vape gear likely being one of them. By that time people will be seeing large amounts of inferior products coming out of India, Africa or South America.
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Not really. I asked what made a mod high quality. Steve might as well have said, "as long as black people don't make it". Its exactly the same thing and I think its offensive.
PRC manufacturing generally produces poorly made, disposable items of questionable materials, when it comes to low cost things. Giving the working conditions of the shops, it is no wonder why...
Ok, so you believe undisclosed materials and poor craftsmanship are not high quality. But there should be tangible characteristics to a high quality mech. Price of materials, where it was manufactured, or who made it should not be a factor. Can China produce well-manufactured products out of known metals? Of course they can.
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