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Swag 2 small mod musings

It`s the silver one. The sides are showing a random kind of mottled effect where the finish has rubbed off. I`ve been disappointed by every chinesium mod I`ve ever owned. Never again.
 
It`s the silver one. The sides are showing a random kind of mottled effect where the finish has rubbed off. I`ve been disappointed by every chinesium mod I`ve ever owned. Never again.

I see, I wonder if the coloured ones are paint dipped rather than dyed. If the base plastic moulding is black, that would explain why mine is good.
I've not had too many issues with mods - apart from almost the entire industries inabity to make them.not burst asunder when dropped - which is why I always use screwcap battery doors (even then the threading is invariably shitty)
I just see it as cost of doing business If they last a year then they owe me nothing - the price of three or four packet of fags.
But don't get me started on the money spunked on the utter shitshow that is Atty's
They always nearly get it right but fuck up somewhere.
It's like they look at all the issues with existing atty's decide to fix them, but use exploding drip tips or some stupid other shit.
 
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* I'm sure no-one is reading a necropost; but if you are, I may as well update my review after owning a Swag 2 for just over a year.

Today it died after frankly, some sterling service.
Yes, I fairly panned it's shortcomings, of which there really was only one serious: the lack of any functional battery indicator.

It was a workshop Mod and as a workshop Mod, it had to take a beating like the old Pico and live - It did all that.

It had to be light enough to not be noticed in a boilersuit pocket, or have a continual tendency to succumb to gravity and leap, fall, slide or tip towards the ground in an attempt to fuse its mass to the Earth's core - it was and seldom did.

It had to avoid cracking displays on a whim like a £1000 i-phone and onanistically spilling its battery under immovable objects any time it was dropped - it did all that.

It had to be subject to every caustic and oleogenic substance and flying swarf known to grimy workshops the world over, and not disintegrate, or fry its guts - it didn't.

It had to dropped, booted, stood on, laid on, dropped in an oily sump and once, accidentally have a Landrover parked on top of it (could I find the bastard that day...could I f*** !)
It survived all that - so in your face Aegis, big clunking fist of a Mod that you are.

It developed a duller, scarred, flaked and chipped exterior over time, but kept functioning - a well earned and battle scarred patina.

*Enquiring minds would like to know what atty was paired with this legend?
Easy - an OFRF Gear and bubble glass. It required a mere two replacement glasses in that time. The Gear was chosen for its small form factor profile and bubble glass for strength -capacity not an issue when you are busy.

But today the Swag 2 died. There are only so many times you can degrease a mod and wipe the crud from it, before it says 'f*** this for a game of soldiers!'

It had already begun to succumb to stripped threads on the battery cap/body (it's only a light 'white metal' alloy after all) it was just a matter of time before it failed to hold a battery in place - I hadn't expected 'Failure to Fire' as cause of death, but there you go.

So I stripped it down and poked at it, but it continues to register random resistance without an atty - it will therefore "fire" with no atty attached but won't fire any atty that is actually attached...

I suspect swarf and crud in the 510 shoe under the pin, but it won't seem to clean out - or perhaps the board is just failing... but it owes me nothing.

Well, I won't waste much time on it, I'll just buy another one... you can't ask for a fairer review than that.

Vaporesso...your Mod took one helluva beating!
 
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