Air-hole position ?

[Joules_Verne]

In ctinnin's thread Raynman mentioned about O-rings and air-hole positioning - is there a reason that I've missed why the air-hole should be aligned away from you ? My LP rm2 started off this way but has migrated around a third of a revolution towards the button - coil still aligned with the air-hole.

I hope ctinnin realises that a Reo spoils you for anything else..

meanwhile, in other news, USPS is going slow with number 2 they must have missed the sprinkling of porc'y dust, so pics will be delayed.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

The air hole positioned at 12:00 when you tilt to draw (the o-ring just helps you be able to get it positioned there) is to lessen the likelihood of leakage out of the air hole.

As for the delayed shipping issue.... try getting them to Canada (it's not long.... just intolerable when you're wanting to get your squonk on with a new little beauty).

 

[K31Scout]

I hate slow mail! Or worse when the package gets delivered to one of my neighbors. The idea of the air hole being away from you is to prevent any juice from leaking by way of gravity. But I squonk and give it a couple of seconds to drain before tilting it to take a puff. Probably more critical with a top fed atty.

Papa got in ahead of me!

 

[supertrunker]

The main reason to turn the airhole away from your face when you vape is because if your atty spits, or you vape it hot - you avoid a warm chin!

T

 

[Raynman]

As long as the air hole is between 9 and 3 with 12 being opposite the firing button you should be okay. I'd say it would be to have the hole facing away from you in case there's any hot juice splatter. Some even like it at 9 o'clock to be able to look at the air hole to see the juice for squonking purposes. Positioning of Air hole is very subjective to the person using it. FB uses it with the air hole facing the button because he vapes it button up. So YMMV as to where you want the air hole to face.

 

[eratikmind]

With dual air holes/slots, I opt to position the said at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

With dual air holes/slots, I opt to position the said at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions.

Yep - again, relative to when you tilt to draw. Folks use all kinds of orientations of the mod for holding/drawing.

 

[Rule62]

Same here. I use dual coils, and in vaping position, I position my coils/air holes at 3:00 and 9:00

 

[Spydro]

I hate slow mail! Or worse when the package gets delivered to one of my neighbors. The idea of the air hole being away from you is to prevent any juice from leaking by way of gravity. But I squonk and give it a couple of seconds to drain before tilting it to take a puff. Probably more critical with a top fed atty.

Papa got in ahead of me!

As long as the air hole is between 9 and 3 with 12 being opposite the firing button you should be okay. I'd say it would be to have the hole facing away from you in case there's any hot juice splatter. Some even like it at 9 o'clock to be able to look at the air hole to see the juice for squonking purposes. Positioning of Air hole is very subjective to the person using it. FB uses it with the air hole facing the button because he vapes it button up. So YMMV as to where you want the air hole to face.

Yep - again, relative to when you tilt to draw. Folks use all kinds of orientations of the mod for holding/drawing.

We are creatures of habit usually, but also quite adapable if we have a mind set to be so. It used to be some regimented habits with me from being an engineer much of my working lifetime. As in there is a right way and lots of wrong ways to have all the ducks in a row, and I was paid handsomely to find/invent/build the right ways. But early on in the 24 years of retirement regimented anything faded away.

I vape 24/7, so up to half of the time in the dark where by default technique (with no vision) is my way. So my squonk technique is a gradual squonk on, pause and gradual squonk off to push the joose in and pull it back out of my atty's... ideally not leaving a puddle of joose in the atty, just a well saturated wick. It's a touchy-feely thing as joose viscocity, which atty, bottles and how tight, etc differences can make the technique vary some. But I very rarely have excess joose leak out of air holes anymore, and after I learned to trust my by feel only technique of squonking I never got dry hits again.

Where my air hole(s) end up is mostly where they end up when the atty is screwed in to what seems to be snug enough to not leak past the o-ring without over tightening it. If there is a good wick/coil build relationship there is no snap, crackle or pop joose splatter to be concerned with even with my long lung hits. So when I pick up a Reo to squonk or vape it... the Reo's orientation in whichever hand depends on how it was oriented when picked up. And it matters not to me what the air hole orientation is. After dealing with dripping in the dark for so long, the Reo's design and efficency is as easy as easy gets "dripping" 24/7.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

You want the air hole up, so condensation does not gurgle or drip out.

I like the thicker 1.5 mm o rings, the seem to hold the air hole where I put it.

Whether the air hole is face the button and fire with a finger or the air hole is away from the button and you fire with a thump does not matter as long as the air hole is up.

 

[Joules_Verne]

Thanks all for the informative replies.
FB - changed out the 1mm for the 1.5mm O-ring and it's much better, around 10 o'clock now.
Spydro, - 'dripping in the dark' sounds like a cue for a song/musical...the wife bit is just like your ex, after 47yrs, it's a ritual dance.
(keep meaning to ask, was that a '73/74 Vette in your old sig' ? I get all nostalgic when 454 big block is mentioned, had a '73 C3 454 T-top, 4 on the floor out in Jeddah, only place I could afford the petrol/gas at 9mpg ! )

 

[Spydro]

David... It's a numbers matching '73 that was sold new in Vegas late '72 and was customized into an Elvis Stingray show car. She got a typical early 70's wild paint job and mural of Elvis playing a guitar on the rear deck, custom interior, engine upgrades, rags and mags, etc. The bullet proof IMRON paint is going on 42 years old and is still near perfect. I've owned it since mid summer 2005, but it has spent most of it's time since in a climate garage. I took this picture for the 2006 International CV3R Corvette Calendar that she was Miss August in.

 

[Joules_Verne]

Thanks for the pic, she's a beauty, great paint, good choice for Miss August.
now I can see it's a '73, I think only year they made them with PU front and chrome rear 'bumpers'
Only car I've ever owned that would spin the rears in any gear, at any speed (tires were cheap and my 7y.o daughter was impressed by my boyish behaviour !)