I agree with Emris....the ERA is not really fiddly at all. And it's a good atomizer (IMHO). The Hornet is almost exactly like the ERA....just a little smaller and because of that it'll fit more of the REOs. And...both the ERA and the Hornet have a little tighter draw than the Reomizer if you do think the Reomizer is too airy. (I love the draw of the Reomizer and have reamed the air holes out of my ERA and my Hornet to get them to be as "airy" as the Reomizer, but each to his/her own.) I wouldn't even consider the A7....way too risky and short-prone. There are those (Alice - westamyx) who love the Killer 705, and I haven't tried it, but I think it's a little more complicated than either the ERA or the Hornet. You have to have non-resistance wire as well as the regular resistance wire which is just one more layer of complicated for me. But, I do hear they work really well....you should maybe read the Killer 705 thread. The new rebuildable that Rob is putting together is going to be half the price of either the ERA or the Hornet.....and I'm thinking it's going to be great. Rob's been burnt once, and I don't think he's going to bring another rebuildable to us unless he's confident that it's sturdy and reliable. He's really picky about what he wants to back.
So......having said all that, MY personal opinion and recommendation would be to live with the Reomizer for a couple more weeks until Rob makes the one he's putting together available.
Yes, Killer 705 is my absolute favorite. I have or have had Reomizers, ERAs, Hornets, A7s, A7 Minis, Surfaces, and Vision Eternity and several RBA tanks, some Genesis High End/High Dollar.
Few things that make Killer/eBaron superior to ME:
-The ceramic cup - hard to beat the flavor
-The non resistance wire - I mean how hard is it to twist a couple pieces of NR wire onto pre ohm measured length of resistance before making coil???!!! And not having to rebuild a coil if ohms are not what you want because you use cheap multimeter and place one point on one end, after doing one end of NR attachment, and then move the other point of mm along the R wire to the point of exact ohm you want for coil and attach the NR wire there. No need for fancy join beads or crimping or soldering.
-NR Wire - A major weak point in RBAs that use post holes with screws to tighten down on R wire is that the R wire becomes weaker and weaker over time from heat applied to it while being smushed by screw. That's one major thing that kills coils that break at point where screw smushes down on wire. This weakness does not exist for the ceramic cup using NR wire.
-Weakness of post design - if you want to do a good coil torching to clean coil back to "new" and silica wick back to white if you do this on a post design you WILL eventually melt the positive post insulator!!!! Good luck locating a post insulator or even at all.
-Ceramic cup for Killer and its big brother eBaron are common CE2 cups easily obtained from many vendors or vapers' stash boxes. I have several boxes of CE2 left over from my tank modding days in 2010; perfect fit
The Killer is tiny and has loads of room to spare in smallest catch cup or well. It blind squonks perfectly. It is precision made and built tough like a REO. Very non fussy look and simple lines.
I was into week five with original stock coil wick when weakest point, the NR wire that comes out and makes contact with screw threads on outside of base, the threads that accept the tiny screw on cap, finally broke from so much screwing cap on and off every single day. My juice gunks up any and all coils. I dryburn daily and give the whole thing a good torching every couple days. This brings coil back to virtually new, silica wick to bright white, and ceramic cup to bright white. I can dryburn and/or torch faster than anyone can build a coil and wick and install it and only tool I need is inexpensive chef torch if torching. Okay a small part of paper towel to first soak up excess juice in wick.
Much more to say but out of time 3 hours ago.
Did I mention I ordered another Killer and first eBaron Spiral (for larger REOs) from Greece? They are en route now. Main reason I'm keeping my anodized colors Hornet is they are so cute on all our colored anodized Mini REOs. That's #4 Killer.
Killer was designed for 510 carto tanks so if you enjoy using a tank you can use your killer and never have to buy cartos again and punch them if you get non pre punched cartos.
Oh yeah, you always run the risk of burning any o-ring, on most RBAs, that either holds the press on cap on and/or prevents leaking!!!!!
And people believe Killers and eBarons are complicated or fiddly. These beliefs are only that; just beliefs and not based on reality. ( Will qualify this statement to say that non fiddly applies only to using as BF RBA or Dripper and not to Killer's use in carto tank.)
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