The Moneypenny Mod by fsors

Some mods are marvels of modern engineering, made by massive machines capable of constructing objects to exacting specifications, with tolerances down to the thousandth of an inch. They can crank out parts by the hundreds, everyone perfectly, exactly according to design, and then these parts are passed to other machines to be polished to a mirror-like shine. These parts assembled to create awesome machines, breathtaking in their perfection and utterly predictable in their fit and finish.

The Moneypenny Mod is not one of those.

If machines are involved in the construction of the Moneypenny, they’re of the sort no more complicated than a pipe cutter or power drill.  This is a mod that is built by one guy with his bare hands, most likely in his garage.  It’s not made from parts that have been engineered to price specs — in fact, the stamp of the manufacturer of the tubing used to build it is visible on several of the parts.

The Moneypenny is assembled from sections of copper tubing, with brass pieces used for the contacts and oversized switch. A quick glance at the parts is enough to discern that most, and possible all of them could be obtained at your local hardware store.  It is a big, heavy beast: a mechanical mod that uses an 18650 battery, and towers over our other mods.

It’s something of a Frankenstein’s monster of pieces that were never intended to be used for a PV, but were repurposed into this giant copper behemoth.  The finish of the tubing varies from section to section, the edges of the tubes aren’t cut completely straight, and the huge bolt-like switch with the exposed spring  looks like something out of a silent monster movie, and makes a little raspy noise when you hit it, from the threads on the screw it was made from scraping against the hole in the body.

And we love this mod.

This is just not the kind of thing that rolls off an assembly line.  It’s a makeshift machine built from off-the-shelf parts with relatively common tools, and it’s charming as hell. In a room full of people carrying Juggernauts and Caravelas, the Moneypenny is going to get the attention. What it lacks in refinement and polish it more than makes up for with uniqueness and personality.

Did we mention it vapes like nobody’s business?  Because of the all copper body and brass contacts, the Moneypenny conducts electricity beautifully.  This quirky home-made mod can get power from the battery to a 510 connector very efficiently, and that comes through in the vape.

So, yes, the Moneypenny is simple, and almost primitive in its construction, but that’s part of what we love about it. It looks like something that could have come out of the Edwardian era, if there had been vapers then.

If you’re looking for a mod that requires multi-million-dollar machines to construct, with parts that all work together smoothly and seamlessly… well, this isn’t your mod.  But if you’re looking for something with a personality of its own, created with the sweat of one guy working alone in his garage, and that just happens to vape like a monster… well, you may want to check out nu-vapor or Facebook to see if fsors is still taking orders.

The Moneypenny Mod by fsors