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  1. Brew1961

    Closed/Sold (US) - Selling - US REO Grand & REO Mini 2.1 with RM2 RBAs

    For Sale/Trade POSTING IN THE THREAD IS REQUIRED FOR FEEDBACK TO BE ENABLED Selling: REO Grand & REO Mini 2.1 with RM2 RBAs Condition: Good Known flaws: Have been used but otherwise just some minor abrasions Image: Description: I am slowly reducing my stock of backups for my backups in...
  2. Brew1961

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    So hopefully everyone is warm and enjoying their day. It was 4 degrees this AM with a -13 wind chill but the wood-burning insert is stoked and it's 78 degrees inside the house. It's really feeling like Christmas around here!! Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season. Brew
  3. Brew1961

    REO Technical Issues/Shop Talk

    So to finish the follow up. I swapped in a previously unused/spare Chalice III and as of yet no failures of any kind. It seems I have an intermittent short in the Chalice or by coincidence had the button stick....on 3 occasions in 2 different Grands. I'm leaning towards a bad Chalice that...
  4. Brew1961

    Lookout Public you're sitting next to a Cauliflower!

    Just got back from a trip to Maui and found that Vapers are definitely hated as much as Smokers all over the island. The car rental place made a point of telling us that there was no vaping or smoking in the vehicle lest we incur a $250 fine to clean out the smell. My group attended a Luau at...
  5. Brew1961

    REO Technical Issues/Shop Talk

    The wick was pretty nasty but had been in use for over a week with sweet, fruit juices. Hard to tell if it was cooked through 40+ hours of use or from the incident. I had been planning to recoil/rewick that afternoon but never got there before it failed. Brew
  6. Brew1961

    REO Technical Issues/Shop Talk

    Thanks again for your welcome answers. This particular Grand had just been swapped in when my other Grand was assumed to have the same issue. The button on this one was not gummed as I had given it a bath and cleaned out prior to setting it back in my spares inventory. So this issue has now...
  7. Brew1961

    REO Technical Issues/Shop Talk

    Thanks for the replies!! Definitely hot in the car and could have been in the sun for some time of that 2 hours. Firing pin appears to return to position but can't say for sure if something got stuck on that last toot. Feed tube seems tight. The spring is both collapsed and has one of the...
  8. Brew1961

    REO Technical Issues/Shop Talk

    I had been using the Grand/Chalice all morning. Headed out for a lunch meeting and on the way realized the bottle was empty. So I took one last toot, put it in a foam cupholder insert that keeps the mod upright and left it sitting there for 2 hours. Came back to the spring dropped. Brew
  9. Brew1961

    REO Technical Issues/Shop Talk

    Positive pin sitting up, centered and curled over as expected. I may not have had the firing button locked but there was nothing near the REO to push down on the button.
  10. Brew1961

    REO Technical Issues/Shop Talk

    So I got an odd issue that I can't seem to pinpoint. I use a variety of REOs all with the Chalice III RBAs but I have been having a problem of dropping springs that can't be tied to not checking resistance of the built/capped Chalice. I just met a friend for lunch and left my REO Grand/Chalice...
  11. Brew1961

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    I greatly appreciate it but my family is just a few miles past the Ohio/Indiana border. Gives me an excuse to see my cousins more often. 80 miles straight East from Noblesville. Mrs. Brew and I have had you on our minds of late. So sad about your little guy George as we've been there 3...
  12. Brew1961

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    Howdy Trippyville, Sending my best to all those merry trippsters! Sedge, That's awesome but sad at the same time. I too have contemplated quitting if for no other reason then to defy all of the stupid legislation that has come and will be coming our way. So will you be keeping a good...
  13. Brew1961

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    Good afternoon Trippyville! Too bad Delilah but have to agree that 28/29 gauge is a lot easier to deal with on my aging eyes. 10-wraps on a 1.5mm rod nets me 1.4-1.5 ohms which at 8.5 - 10.5W is my Tootle-Puffer happy place. I haven't yet brought myself to move up to temp. control but those...
  14. Brew1961

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    Hello Trippyvile, I hope everyone is well and moving forward through this week. All is good here and even had time to stop by to say HI! Delilah, I think Bert spends most of his time looking at the Trippy Facebook pages these days. Not much happening here 'sept chat among us original...
  15. Brew1961

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    One of my faves! Mrs. Brew uses limeade to make a Keylime imatation identical to your Grandmother's recipe. She also does a Peanut Butter pie in a similar fashion...So yummy! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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    75°F this morning but dew-point was 76°F. Then up to the mid-80s with no breeze and a heat-index at 100°F We are definitely big on rain and heat this summer. So true on fire. Haven't met a guy yet who wasn't a semi-pyro at heart. I never see a squonker in the wild. Everyone round these...
  17. Brew1961

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    Hey Reidus, Will have to pass this on to Mrs. Brew but hope she doesn't make them until our next gathering. Gained 4lbs in Hawaii that needs to come back off ASAP. Still 35 down from my high but last years crazy work schedule had me off the treadmill sitting at the computer far too many hours...
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    Good Morning Trippyville, Had a great 4th weekend as the rain forecast for Friday through Tuesday did let up @ 5pm on Sunday, so our fireworks extravaganza went off without a hitch. Did another volley on the actual 4th and have fully covered the back 3 acres with exploded cardboard remnants...
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    Hi Delilah, We did get 2 full days at home prior to me going back to work so I'm finally staring to feel normal again. Hey Wharf! We also wished we had more time to spend but we definitely made the best of the time we had available. Our babies were well pampered but my little guy Greystoke...
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    Good Afternoon Trippyville! I'm finally getting back into a routine after 16 days of vacation. The trip included a week on Maui and a week on the West coast. One highlight of our trip was going to Fresno to visit Wharf Rat and his lovely family. Most of our vacation was spent with my sister...