Delux De-modificator

From Hellgatewiki.com

The Delux De-modificator is now required to safely remove Mods from your weapons for a fee. The amount of Palladium charged for this removal depends on the quality of the item and the Mod to be removed. Access the Delux De-modificator with a click on your mouse, place the item you want to un-socket and activate the device to separate the weapon from the Mods.

The point in this machine is to prevent exploitation. Hellgate: London permits unlimited socketing and unsocketing, and as there at some point might be macros written to enable instantaneous Mod switching in mid combat, completely changing the effect of your weapons, this Delux De-modificator makes it necessary to be in a town in order to change Mods.

The Hellgate Team wants to keep socketing and unsocketing quick and easy, but they don't want to allow unrealistic scenarios like the one described above, and making players take a quick trip to town and a quick jog from the portal to the unsocketing machine is their way of accomplishing that end. With higher level weapons and mods it quickly becomes quite a toll on your Palladium stock, so only un-mod when you really need to.