Okay, this might get a little lengthy...
He did a review/build on the 24mm Dotmod dotRDA when it first came out. COMPLETELY fucked it up. He SAYS that it's because of the RDA, when it's incredibly apparent that he's trying to put the lower leg of the coil into the upper slot, and vice versa. I couldn't believe that a so called "professional" could screw something up this bad.
At any rate, I was like "Fuck this...", and so I made a video showing how EASY it is to just slip a pair of coils in there and be done with it.
Piece of cake. So what is his freakin' problem??? After this, there was some banter back and forth between us, then that was it. Over.
So, I see him at the NVE show in CT and I decided to introduce myself and say Hi. He's like "Ohhh... YOU"RE THE DOTMOD GUY". And I was like, "Yup". So we just chit-chatted a bit about his video and my video, and then he told me that it was the RDAs fault, not his. And that it was because the RDA couldn't handle the small wires that he used for the wrap on his fused Claptons that he used in the video.
Huh???
I asked him what he meant, and he said that he was using either 48 or 50 gauge to wrap his fused Claptons. Yeah, he said that. He also went on to say that he uses only 48, 50, or 52 gauge wire to wrap ALL the coils that he personally uses. I'm thinking to myself "this guy's fool of shit". He then goes on to say that he even has a tutorial showing how to use this extremely small gauge of wire... Okay, so I give him the benefit of the doubt, because there's supposedly PROOF that he uses these small gauge wires to wrap with. So we say goodbye and I'm on my way home.
Get home, go to YouTube. The small gauge wrap video he mentioned? It doesn't exist. Anywhere. Also, I re-watched the build he did on the dotRDA, and he says in the video he's using 28g cores, and 38g wrap. Remember - he told me, to my face, that he was using 48 or 50 gauge in the video. I have used upwards of 52 gauge, and can absolutely, 100%, guarantee you that there is not a snowball's chance in Hell that he got the gauges confused.
He's a liar, pure and simple. And he even looked me in the eyes when he said these things.
So, like I said earlier, what minuscule amount of respect I may have had for him has completely dissipated. He has absolutely ZERO credibility as far as I'm concerned.
And Brie (who I still think is a sweetheart) just stood there nodding her head up and down like a good little puppet.
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