Anyone know where this is leaking from?

[edricketts]

Got my grand two weeks or so ago. I haven't fiddled around with it other than changing batteries and juice bottle and RM2. I realized just now that I see this and wipe it away every time I open the cover. Wiped it away two hours ago and just found it again. No leakage from the bottle or inside the unit that I can see. If the picture doesn't show it, it is a sheen of juice between the door and the body just above the battery that is smeared from edge to magnet. Any thoughts? How do I fix it?

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[JC Okie]

I get that occasionally.....it is coming from the bottom of the atty....over the juice well. When you wipe it off, wipe the door off as well. If you put the door back on and it has juice on it (in that same spot....on the magnets,) it just puts the juice back on the REO. Are you using an o-ring in the connection? If so, you might try a little thicker one, or....I put a bigger o-ring (size 7 from Lowe's) around the RM2 on the outside where it's milled down, and that blocks any stray juice that tries to make it out of the drip well.

EDIT: Just one little drop over the edge of the drip well will spread across that whole area. It makes it look like a huge leak all the way across, but it's really just very little juice that has followed the path of least resistance and spread all the way across.

 

[Matthee]

Jan always explains these things so well...magic with words.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

If that's your air hole right above it you might also be dribbling a little from there.

 

[JC Okie]

Jan always explains these things so well...magic with words.

Thanks, Andre.

 

[edricketts]

You guys are awesome. Fixed that up and haven't had it since. I mostly wanted to make sure there wasn't a possible area that it could leak through the seam where I drew this yellow line. I saw a deconstructed grand on a thread once, just can't find it again.

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[custom-classic]

Could be leaking where the tube is connected to the little nipple and seeping into the delrin cover. Here's Rob's video on rebuilding the Reo. It will show you the guts of the thing:

 

[edricketts]

Could be leaking where the tube is connected to the little nipple and seeping into the delrin cover. Here's Rob's video on rebuilding the Reo. It will show you the guts of the thing:

Yup. Turns out the problem has shown up again a few hours later. A wet spot in the same place is back now. The tube looks like it has 360 contact at that nipple. Just try a new tube or is there some trick to sealing it better that I don't know? Mine looks like this:

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[custom-classic]

I would pull the screw and drop the delrin (black plastic) piece and see if it's wet inside there. See if it looks like it's leaking around the nipple when you give it a hard squonk. I know Rob uses a dab of CA (super glue) when he installs the tube on the nipple.

It could also be where the nipple screws into the center pin. It might need to be tightened up a bit.

 

[JC Okie]

If it were leaking behind the delrin cover, I don't think it'd show up where it is.....it'd be running down the back wall into the inside of the mod. I'm sure the liquid is coming from the catch cup area....either from around the bottom of the atty or maybe from the air hole.

 

[edricketts]

If it were leaking behind the delrin cover, I don't think it'd show up where it is.....it'd be running down the back wall into the inside of the mod. I'm sure the liquid is coming from the catch cup area....either from around the bottom of the atty or maybe from the air hole.

Man it beats the heck out of me. I could swear I haven't over-squonked because the rm2 doesn't have any juice on the outside, but I'm so new at this that I could be missing something. I'm going to be so bummed if I break this thing because tomorrow is my day off and I left all my other vaping stuff at work. I think I'm going to wait to unscrew the delrin cover until Monday. Here's the latest photo 4 hours since looking dry.

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[Alexander Mundy]

Do you lay it down or carry it on its side?
Does it squonk nice and easy or does it take over about 1/2 second for the juice to come out the hole in the ceramic in the RM2 with some effort required to squeeze the bottle?
Take the battery out and see if the top of the battery or the firing pin that the button pushes down is wet at all.

Had the same thing when a piece of cotton got sucked down inside the RM2.
Was a fairly newbie to squonking and didn't realize I was squonking hard because there was a restriction.
Caused juice to get past the tube and into the firing pin between it and the silicone sleeve around it which then traveled down the pin and onto the battery very slightly. In the pocket where it was laying sideways when I sat down it would get between the door and the body right along the line between the body and the derlin cover.

Don't know if that is it or not but that is what was causing mine.
It also caused micro craters on top of the battery where it arced due to the very thin layer of juice.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I just had a very hard squonk episode after a cleaning. Thought something was stuck in the hole, no matter how hard I pressed very little juice went into the RM2. But a piece of coil wire easily slide through the 510 and into the bottle. turned out the bottle was to tight.

 

[JC Okie]

edricketts, don't take the delrin cover off yet. I wouldn't take it off unless I just had to. It screws into the aluminum body of the REO at the back, and it's easy to strip it, and it's not an easy fix. Ride it out a little bit. Take your RM2 off and wipe it down, maybe blow it out....blow down through the feed hole and up through the center pin. Clean it up and dry it off, swab out the catch cup so it's nice and clean. Put your o-ring in the catch cup.....essentially start over with everything dry....then check it periodically.

Is it just in one little spot on the right side between the magnet and the edge (that's all I can see in the picture) or does it go all the way across the top, covering both magnets? When my Reomizer leaks, I just sort of wipe around it, or wipe the air hole off with my finger and don't think much about it. But sometimes some juice has dripped down in between the door and the body, and I don't think to look there....so I don't wipe it. Then when I do open the door....there's juice all across that area. I wipe it off, and wipe the door off, then it's fine.

Is it vaping okay? If it is, then just sorta let this play out a little longer. Don't worry too much about it, and don't dismantle the REO yet. We'll all walk through every step with you until we get it figured out. Even if there is something wrong, there's ALWAYS a fix.

 

[pesky_human]

If you figure this out, please let us know. I get the same exact thing, mostly on my Pluid Reo, which gets the tube taken off and put back on just about daily. I figure it has something to do with the tube seal. It's not a huge deal, but I really hate juice leaks of any sort, so if I could find out how to prevent this, I would love to do so.

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

I'm sure Rob will put in his 2 cents worth soon, but I was thinking perhaps there is a tiny hole or split in the tubing at the top. An quick fix for this would be to remove the tube, and put it back on upside down so the bottom of the tube is going on the nipple. I hope this is all it is. Keep us posted.

 

[edricketts]

Do you lay it down or carry it on its side?
Does it squonk nice and easy or does it take over about 1/2 second for the juice to come out the hole in the ceramic in the RM2 with some effort required to squeeze the bottle?
Take the battery out and see if the top of the battery or the firing pin that the button pushes down is wet at all.

Had the same thing when a piece of cotton got sucked down inside the RM2.
Was a fairly newbie to squonking and didn't realize I was squonking hard because there was a restriction.
Caused juice to get past the tube and into the firing pin between it and the silicone sleeve around it which then traveled down the pin and onto the battery very slightly. In the pocket where it was laying sideways when I sat down it would get between the door and the body right along the line between the body and the derlin cover.

Don't know if that is it or not but that is what was causing mine.
It also caused micro craters on top of the battery where it arced due to the very thin layer of juice.

I did an experiment and laid it so the side with the fluid from the leak was facing up for a couple hours. No matching leaky spot in between the cover and the body of the grand. Seems like all the fluid comes through at that one spot. I wish I knew if I was pushing hard when I squonk, but I am new in the field of squonking. I did what Jan said and cleaned it all out. A few hours later it looks just like it does in the above photo with the juice dribbled at that upper edge. I stuck a whisp tightly rolled TP under the delrin cover where the firing pin is and it didn't come out wet, but I could really sweep it around to check because it was so flimsy.

I'm going to change the tube and give it a day or two to see if it helps.


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[edricketts]

Oh and it still performs like a champ. In two weeks I went from "what the heck did I buy" to "I'm starting to get it" to "I should buy a mini too"


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[yolo_]

I did an experiment and laid it so the side with the fluid from the leak was facing up for a couple hours. No matching leaky spot in between the cover and the body of the grand. Seems like all the fluid comes through at that one spot. I wish I knew if I was pushing hard when I squonk, but I am new in the field of squonking. I did what Jan said and cleaned it all out. A few hours later it looks just like it does in the above photo with the juice dribbled at that upper edge. I stuck a whisp tightly rolled TP under the delrin cover where the firing pin is and it didn't come out wet, but I could really sweep it around to check because it was so flimsy.

I'm going to change the tube and give it a day or two to see if it helps.


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When i got my first Reo and didn't know how hard to squonk i experimented by watching the well while i squonked. I didn't even have anything attached. Then when I knew how much pressure and how long to hold the squonk i was more confidant.Back then i used cartos.

Now that i have the RM2 i can do the same thing to watch while the RM2 is attached without the drip tip on. Just saying sometimes it is better to observe the squonk results and learn that way.

 

[supertrunker]

i like the way you think!

how hard were you squeezing at the time and do you find the RM2 hole easier to get juice thru than say, a carto?

if i swap RM2 in your above post for 'Smurf' and 'Reo' for wife it reads a lot better!

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