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Thanks for the advice. I've mainly been using Protank 2's and Anyvape Davides with low resistance coil heads. I also tried my eBaron Dripper, which comes with pre-made coils and wicks in a ceramic. But I think that they all have too low a resistance to work well with a fresh battery on a mech, so I'll get myself some higher resistance coils and try them out. 

Until yesterday I'd never tried using a mech mod. I don't build my own coils and hate fiddly tasks, so I decided that mechs just weren't for me. But then I had a moment of weakness, succumbed to shineyitus and bought myself 2 cheap mech mods - a Nemesis clone and a King clone. I thought that they would be a good way to try out mech mods without spending too much, and that I could always upgrade to better (i.e. not fake:D) devices if I found out that I liked them. 

Anyway, I received them yesterday and was quite impressed - they both look well made and feel solid in the hand. But they have been nothing but trouble ever since. I'm already starting to regret not sticking to vv mods, which I feel comfortable using. 

I'd be very grateful for advice but I should probably point out that I have the manual dexterity of a slug and the technical expertise of a goldfish, so please keep that in mind when making suggestions.

The Nemesis clone

The Nemesis clone was comparatively easy to set up - it only took me an hour and a half to work out how to fit it together and get it to fire. But it makes everything taste burnt. I usually use low resistance coil heads on my glassomizers and pre-made low resistance ceramic wicky thingies on my eBaron dripper, and they don't seem to be able to handle whatever voltage the Nemesis is putting out. If the mod was regulated, I could just turn the voltage down. But you can't do that on a mech mod, so everything gets frazzled.  

The King clone

The King clone is a giant pain in the @rse.  If I met whoever came up with the idea of reverse-threaded locking mechanisms, I would wack him on the head with a mech mod. Reverse threading seems to be specifically designed to wind up clumsy people like me, and I spend my time trying to get the bloody thing unstuck after turning it the wrong way. 

More importantly, hardly any of my devices actually fire on the King clone. The only atty that works is the eBaron dripper and I can only get my protanks and Davides to fire by using a 510 to 510 connector, which means that they hover about a centimeter above the top of the mod looking ridiculous. I'd be very grateful if anyone could suggest an easy fix for this.

I have the practical skills of a sea cucumber, so it's definitely not something that I'd shell out for! (I feel like I've conquered a feat of technical wizardry every time I change a coil head on a protank without getting juice all over myself! ) And considering that you can get an excellent mod made for you for that money, it does seem a bit on the expensive side.

But if you're the kind of person who enjoys building things and you really want that particular mod, then it might be a good investment for you. Don't let me put you off this project just because it sounds like my idea of hell!

Rob Throathit on UKV is another box mod maker worth considering. I have one of his Throathit Twins, which is a vv box mod that takes 2 X 18650 batteries, and I couldn't be happier with it. The batteries last about 3 days before recharging, the mod is built like a tank and Rob will happily fix it for you for a small fee in the unlikely event that it ever breaks.

It costs £100 including delivery, batteries and a charger. It's not cheap, but it's very well made and should last for years. My one is my most highly prized vaping possession and does everything I want it to. Here's a link to the thread about it on UKV, with pics and more info:

ukvapers.org/Thread-THROATHIT-TWIN-18650-V-V-MOD?highlight=throathit

I’m not a Christian, but as far as I’m aware Jesus taught that you should love and respect your neighbour. So if your neighbour asks you to be accommodating to beliefs that are important to him and doing what he asks will only cause you minor inconvenience, it seems to me that the kind and Christian thing to do would be to respect his wishes, even if his beliefs differ from your own.


I also think that people are more likely to be respectful and accommodating towards your beliefs if you treat them in this way, and that the world would be a better place if people with different beliefs were more tolerant of each other’s practices and didn’t label each other as ‘delusional’. It strikes me that there’s something seriously wrong with a society that sees a company treating the beliefs of its employees with respect and consideration as a bad thing, which is why I find the ‘news’ in papers like the Daily Mail quite disturbing.

It's not as if M&S are preventing customers from buying pork and alcohol. This was one isolated incident in which one employee stated that they weren't prepared to personally serve pork and alcohol. The customer could then be served pork and alcohol by another employee. So all that happened was that a customer had a bit of minor inconvenience for a few minutes. And minor inconveniences are fairly common occurrences when shopping. 

In short, it's a fuss over nothing. I think that the question we should be asking is why the Daily Mail considers this news-worthy in the first place. What's their agenda behind making a big deal out of this?