Carefull keeping you E-Cig in your trouser pocket

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"Vaping can vapourise you" perhaps a risk warning on the products?
 
Remember when exploding ciggies were something you bought in joke shops?
 
Tori_T said:
Remember when exploding ciggies were something you bought in joke shops?
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Yes, and......
The black eye telescope
Soap that made your hands black
Stink bombs
Whoopee cushions
Those woven tubes that when told the unwary to put their index fingers in each end then try to escape from it.

Such simple fun without electronics :lol:
 
Dose this mean I will have to stop. Keeping a large e fag in my pocket. In order to impress the girls.
 
It's not 'e-cigs' that are the problem, it's dumb users who know nothing about battery safety. I've been vaping 5 years now, it improved my health enormously! And guess what? I've never had a device spark on me. Why? Because I know battery safety, I know ohm's law, I don't use dodgy mechanical mods that have no built in safety features like high voltage or battery short cut off.

Every single time one of these stories appears it turns out that the user had a mech mod, was using a dodgy battery, had built coils way too low a resistance for the power they were trying to push, were more the |"clouds brah!" type than concerned about their health and they vented the battery because of this and this is the results. It's no different than the hundreds of phone charger stories about. Charge your phone and leave it laying on your bed or pillow or anything highly flammable and this may very well happen too.


With phones it doesn't even need to be user error related, just completely random!

A phone exploding in a guy's shirt pocket:
 
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I remember quite a few years ago now, when the "bic" ( the small cylindrical plastic ones) lighters started to become popular, there were a few horror stories about them also exploding and sending a fireball 100 (iirc) feet into the air.
It was eventually proven that it was a anti-PR stunt by one of the more conventional lighter manufactures, but I can't remember which one.

Cagey75 said:
had built coils way too low a resistance for the power they were trying to push, were more the |"clouds brah!"
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Exactly, people will always try and push the envelope why do they feel the need to fill small cities or their car, with clouds?
 
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Cobra said:
I remember quite a few years ago now, when the "bic" ( the small cylindrical plastic ones) lighters started to become popular, there were a few horror stories about them also exploding and sending a fireball 100 (iirc) feet into the air.
It was eventually proven that it was a anti-PR stunt by one of the more conventional lighter manufactures, but I can't remember which one.


Exactly, people will always try and push the envelope why do they feel the need to fill small cities or their car, with clouds?
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As a long time vaper the 'clouds brah" crowd embarrass me. The snap-back, merchandise wearing trendies who have collections of high end vape mods they barely know how to use. It got insane about 3 years ago when sub-ohm vaping took off, all the marketing and increased competition. I preferred it before the hype, when even the anti-brigade would praise you for giving it a go "sure it has to be better than the smokes" - nowadays it's more "I read in the Sun about those ... yokes!"

I had a battery nearly vent in my pocket a few years back, I felt the heat increase on my leg, stuck my hand into my pocket and burnt my fingers, managed to pull it out and chuck it into the grass ... scary! It was about to blow. It wasn't anything to do with vaping, it was a standard AA Duracell that made contact with the pile of coins and keys in the same pocket - I don't even remember why I put it in there. The batteries used for vape mods are a lot more powerful, they are more like 9v batteries, and were originally designed for use in powerful torches for long life.
 
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