bobthesalesclerk Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I have been dying for a Silver Vein Omega ever since it first came out. I had only owned a way overpriced e cig, a 510 pcc kit, and an ego kit at that point in my vaping life and wanted a mod. I watched damn near every review video for the Omega and it's competitor(for me) The Buzz. In the end my want for a variable voltage device ended up with me deciding on a purple buzz(which I miss to death ). I got back into vaping a month ago and ended up ordering a lava tube. It's a nice mod but when I started watching vaping videos again my want for a silver vein Omega crept back. Unfortunately I already had a larger mod and wanted something more ego size and pocketable. My eyes instantly lit up when I went to altsmoke.com and saw that they had come out with a 14500 version of the Omega...The Alpha. I began to salivate, sweat poured down my back, and I got a warm tingle in my pants that can only be compared to my first viewing of Titanic when I was 12 years old. I had to have one but they were a little bit out of my price range. Luckily the day after Christmas I was trolling the forums and found a canadian supplier called eletronic-cigz.com having a 25% off boxing day sale. I couldn't pass on the opurtunity to have an Alpha for $70(that $70 includes the shipping!). I bought it and waited for the Christmas and New Years rush. I mail man stalked hard for a good 4 days straight and my stalking finally came to a halt today. I went to the mailbox in my crummy sweatpants and Pittsburgh Penguins hat and saw my package sitting in the mailbox. I was listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the time which made the unboxing even more epic than I could have imagined. It came in a nice little crushed pouch taped together with a sticker that read ALPHA - SILVER VEIN. First off the finish and beauty of this mod can only be described if you have seen on in person. The texturing on it feels great in the hand and the finish itself looks superb. The threads already had noalax on them and were buttery smooth. I was to excited to wait to charge the batteries to full charge(they came charged at 3.9 volts). I filled up a boge 2.0 carto with some Gorilla Juice, pushed the plunger, and took my first vape on the Alpha. The first thing I noticed that kind of had my worried was the button. After using it all day it is not a problem. It's very comfortable to hold in the hand and use and the amount of space on the plunger for your thumb is more than enough. I have been using my thumb and index finger to fire it. It conceals it a big better and is more comfortable to fire. The button is not as easy to plunge as I thought it would be. I couldn't see this thing going off in the pocket as you really need to want to press the button to fire it. It's not to the point where you have to muscle it but it's not a button that fires with a lite touch. Back to the build quality on this device. It is a well made mod. It feels like I could run this thing over with my fathers F-350, pick it up, and continue to vape with it. The finish on it feels great in the hand and is beautiful. It has a nice A at the bottom for Alpha and two evenly spaced vent holds. The seam that seperates the battery compartment from the switch is barely noticeable. As many others have already pointed out it looks like the seam is part of the design and not where you would open it to put the batteries in. It came with a hot spring attached and was one of the two flaws I see in this device. I noticed that the spring on mine is severely bent to one side. It doesn't affect performance at all but when I saw it it kind of thrown off. I have used some of Chads mods before and know he is one of, if not the most highly reguarded mod builder in the PV world. Seeing a crooked spring was just strange to me. The other problem I have with this device is kind of a big one but I feel like it could be fixed with some tinkering. The switch is loose. Not just a little bit loose either. It rattles and I notice it almost everytime I pick up the device or fire it. I have seen some other peoples Omegas with the same issue and I don't know if it's supposed to be like that or not. When I picked it up at first I thought the batteries where not in the device snuggly(is that a word?) but it turns out it was the loose switch. I am thinking I could remedy this by tightening up the 5/8s socket a little but for a mod of this quality I was expecting it to be perfect out of the box. Other than those two complaints this mod has not let me down at all. It is everything I was looking for and then some. I wanted a small 3.7 device that didn't feel like I was carrying around a minature basebal bat in my pocket and that's what I got. The thing is just barely longer than my middle finger and is a great device for stealth vaping. With a 306 atomizer on it it pretty much disapears in your hand and I have pretty average sized hands. Build Quality - 8.5/10(took off a half point for the spring and 1 point for the lose switch...doesn't change the fact that this thing is SOLID) Finish - 10/10 Vaping - 10/10 with LR attys and cartos...7/10 with standard resistance Overall - 9/10 I would highly reccomend this mod to anyone looking for a stealthy, small, pocket friendly 3.7 device to use LR cartos and attys on it. hmmmm...I thought that was going to be a short review Sent from my flashback honeycomb gtablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffb Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Nice review Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Nice review! I have an Omega. It's really nice, but not long after I got it went to a VV device so it never got used much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthesalesclerk Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Nice review! I have an Omega. It's really nice, but not long after I got it went to a VV device so it never got used much. Well that is sad you have an unused omega just sitting around! I will pm you my address Sent from my flashback honeycomb gtablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthesalesclerk Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Nice review Bob Thank you Sent from my flashback honeycomb gtablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthesalesclerk Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 My poor lavatube hasn't seen much use the last 2 days lol I didn't think this device could get any better but I seem to like it more and more everytime I pick it up. Sent from my flashback honeycomb gtablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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