first bad experience...

[Rob.Gee]

I want to start this post by saying this has to be user error in some way..

So i bought my first reo about a month ago and have been using it every day all dam day ever since. so last night i rebuilt the coil the same way i always do: 28g kanthal, 8 wraps for about 1.25 ohm, used the same screw driver and even the same cotton bacon. I usually get decent clouds with a nice throat hit. After the rebuild I am getting very small clouds and almost no throat hit. Then earlier today at work it stopped working all together. No vapor, no throat hit, nothing. good thing i still had a spare ego in my back pack because i still had about 5 hours left at work. On my next break I tried the reo again and it was working like the beast it usually is. Then I get off work and its back to barely working. So I'm home now and i have made sure the screws are tight, battery is charged and juice is flowing smoothly through my rm2. Any other ideas for me?

 

[Fuzzy Bruce]

Since this is an intermittent problem, I am guessing there is a problem with the positive connection of the firing system. Look at cleaning of the firing contact and also check that the "blade" is not cracked or broken and being held together by the rubber thingy. Remove the screw on top between the battery/juice well and drop the cover to check this.

Yea, I know, not so technical but hope you understand.

 

[caup]

Sounds to me like an electrical problem.
I would check the electrical contacts, clean them and apply some Noalox or Deoxit.
If you have the gear, check the battery charge and measure the voltage of the 510 connection.

 

[dbrandt01]

I had a similar issue once. I noticed when it barely worked and my battery was getting hot. I gave it a good bath. Applied noalax since I can't find deoxit gold here. I also noticed rotating my battery a little bit helped significantly. Maybe there's actually a helpful answer, but that's how I noticed it. Even with a full battery it struggled and the little bit I did helped a lot.

 

[RGLP4Lyfe]

I want to start this post by saying this has to be user error in some way..

So i bought my first reo about a month ago and have been using it every day all dam day ever since. so last night i rebuilt the coil the same way i always do: 28g kanthal, 8 wraps for about 1.25 ohm, used the same screw driver and even the same cotton bacon. I usually get decent clouds with a nice throat hit. After the rebuild I am getting very small clouds and almost no throat hit. Then earlier today at work it stopped working all together. No vapor, no throat hit, nothing. good thing i still had a spare ego in my back pack because i still had about 5 hours left at work. On my next break I tried the reo again and it was working like the beast it usually is. Then I get off work and its back to barely working. So I'm home now and i have made sure the screws are tight, battery is charged and juice is flowing smoothly through my rm2. Any other ideas for me?

Make sure your spring is tight at the bottom. And your firing pin, that could be the problem..do you button mash? If you press to hard on your button all day you could of deformed your fire pin.. it could also be your pin connecting from your fire pin to your 510.. those are all things you need to be careful checking though cause you can break things even more...
Unscrew your black delrin ( be very very careful uninstalling/ installing that delrin screw. The alum strips VERY easy!) After the delrn is off check your firing pin. If it's not straight and the little curl at the end is flat, then you pressed to hard on the button. Also check the firing pin for cracks. If that's all good check out the pin going to 510, the one the bottle tube is connected to. If that's not cracked or broken you should be good. You can also check to see if said pin is loose. That would cause it not to fire.. just hold onto the tube and give it a twist, to tighten, righty tighty lefty loosey. Haha. Be careful with that too cause it snaps/ strips easy.

Overall if it's not something simple your best bet is to send back to Rob.

-Mark

 

[Tony Spectacular]

Only a month old and coils >1 ohm? Shouldn't be buildup on the contacts. Do you have the new 510? If so, make sure that the positive post (the allen key part in the middle) is extended enough to make good contact with your atty. If not, and your atty has an adjustable positive, make sure that your atty's positive pin is extended enough to make contact with the 510. If none of that works, try another atty. A dripper should fit fine, so long as you have the LP version. If that atty has the same problem, I'd take the door off and check that the contact is making a good connection with your battery. Are you using a button cover? Those things have a habit of seating too deeply and preventing the button from depressing fully, thereby preventing the contact from meeting the battery. You can put a tiny o ring, a bit of floss, or a little bit of sticker (my preferred method) in between the button and the cover to make sure it's pushing in enough.

If none of that applies, maybe it's time to contact Rob.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Flat top or button top batteries?

 

[Rickajho]

Are you a button masher?

If you started having a problem, and then resorted to mashing down on the button (kinda reflexive), you may have bent or broken off the battery positive contact on the firing pin - which would give you all sorts of flaky firing behavior. Take the battery out and have a good look at the firing pin when you press the button. Compare it to the pics of a new pin on reosmods in the parts department.

 

[Rob.Gee]

im going to lean on the side of firing pin being the problem, will take it apart and inspect it. not going to lie, i am using flat top batts. in my defense they are brand new and now have no other use.

 

[Rob.Gee]

Ok don't have time to take it apart now. i need to run to the store really quick. bit of an emergency came up. will get back to here as soon as i can though.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Flat tops do that to me all the time, hold off on taking it apart. Apply deoxit/noalox to your spring and pin. Next time it craps out on you spin the battery and try again. Also check the positive post on your battery to see if there are any arcing marks on it, the only time my Reo's do exactly what you described is when I have flat tops in them.

 

[caup]

I currently use Samsung 25r flat top batteries with no problems at all.
To inspect the push button, you have to take of the delrin cover, which is easy to do.
Just be careful, when you put it back together later.
DO NOT OVERTIGHTEN THE SCREW.
The threading within the Reo's back side breaks easily.
Just screw it in and stop on first resistance.

 

[Rickajho]

im going to lean on the side of firing pin being the problem, will take it apart and inspect it. not going to lie, i am using flat top batts. in my defense they are brand new and now have no other use.

Not much to take apart really. If you look at the pics of a new pin on the web site, if the rounded end of the pin is broken off it's pretty obvious what's missing. (Assuming you have one with the new gold plated contacts.) Other than that, take the screw out of the delrin cover and slide the cover down a bit to expose the full pin - again, if it's bent it will be obvious.

 

[Rob.Gee]

guess im not going to the store. I did put a new wick in it and its running great right now so i will hold off on taking it apart. I also have a repair kit on the way that i ordered a few days ago. Any tips on removing the feed tube for when i do take it apart? its on there pretty tight? should i even worry about it or just pull it off?

 

[RGLP4Lyfe]

guess im not going to the store. I did put a new wick in it and its running great right now so i will hold off on taking it apart. I also have a repair kit on the way that i ordered a few days ago. Any tips on removing the feed tube for when i do take it apart? its on there pretty tight? should i even worry about it or just pull it off?

When you pull the delrin out you don't need to take the feed tube off. Its glued on by rob. Just slide the bottle off leaving the tube.

-Mark

 

[RGLP4Lyfe]

For watching videos on how to make sure your getting connection I think Russ (SuperX) has a video that may help you out with steps on making sure your insides are nice and working properly. I don't have a link and not even sure if there is said video, but I thought he did one.. check out his YouTube. "Sxmxdrifter"

-Mark

 

[JetMac]

A good question was brought up and if you give us a little more info on your rig we can effectively help you trouble shoot the problem a lot better. Do you have a LP mod with a new 510 (adjustable) or the old 510 (non-adjustable)? Do you have a button cover installed or just using the stock button? Have you looked at your spring to make sure it's not collapsed, maybe you accidentally caused a short and collapsed the spring which is totally possible. I didn't even know it and collapsed my spring, coil made contact with the top cap. My mod still worked, but was doing exactly the same thing as what you described, and I realized I could get it to fire still even with the dropped spring if I just pressed the button a little harder to get it to make better contact with the battery. I didn't have a replacement spring at the time so I pulled the dropped spring back up with some small pliers. It worked again and kept me running until I was able to get some new springs and replace it.


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[JetMac]

If you don't know what a dropped spring looks like, since your using flat top batteries here's an easy way to check if you have a dropped spring. Remove the door, hold the mod with the removed door facing down, gently shake the mod with a soft downward motion and if your battery easily pops out or exits the mod you spring is collapsed. With a good spring it will have enough pressure to hold those flat top batteries in place and should fell pretty good resistance when installing or removing batteries by hand, the dropped spring will have barely any resistance when you pull or install a battery.


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[Rob.Gee]

A good question was brought up and if you give us a little more info on your rig we can effectively help you trouble shoot the problem a lot better. Do you have a LP mod with a new 510 (adjustable) or the old 510 (non-adjustable)? Do you have a button cover installed or just using the stock button? Have you looked at your spring to make sure it's not collapsed, maybe you accidentally caused a short and collapsed the spring which is totally possible. I didn't even know it and collapsed my spring, coil made contact with the top cap. My mod still worked, but was doing exactly the same thing as what you described, and I realized I could get it to fire still even with the dropped spring if I just pressed the button a little harder to get it to make better contact with the battery. I didn't have a replacement spring at the time so I pulled the dropped spring back up with some small pliers. It worked again and kept me running until I was able to get some new springs and replace it.


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its a lp grand with the new 510 connection, no button cover and the spring is not collapsed. the battery stays in pretty good with no door and a good shake. I put the Rm2 on my nemesis mod with the same battery and it works wonderfully. I will be testing the volts at the 510 and taking it apart a bit later.

 

[redeyedancer]

its a lp grand with the new 510 connection, no button cover and the spring is not collapsed. the battery stays in pretty good with no door and a good shake. I put the Rm2 on my nemesis mod with the same battery and it works wonderfully. I will be testing the volts at the 510 and taking it apart a bit later.

The first thing you want to try is cleaning your positive contact apply some noalox or deoxit to the positive contact . No need to take the mod apart until you have at least tried cleaning the contact