Friday night, working on my first attempt.

[TX Foilhead]

OK, working on my first build on an REO, I bought Sedge's REO project with Nuppin's and doors patina'd by Dready.

Been searching and reading since last weekend, now it's all here and I need to know what I should build. I've got 26 28 30 32 A1 Kanthal, both sizes of Ready X Wick, coil Gizmo with my own homemade 3/32nd rod for the 3mm RxW. While I was learning the do's and dont's and how to's I didn't think about what I should be trying to build. All I know is I'm going to go with the 3mm RxW. Normally I use a Subtank with 1.2ohm coil about 20w and Virus is my ADV, so I'll probably start with single similar to that and go from there.

Any ideas or thoughts are welcome, I'll be around until this thing is working.

 

[JC Okie]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AiaRSDxC1vG6dC1HZEtmY0pPYzBvdUw2blJHVjdkc1E&usp=sharing

This chart helps me a lot. It'll basically tell you how many wraps of what gauge wire people are using to get to their desired ohms.

It's a good start. I usually use 28 gauge wire. Anything bigger takes too long to heat up, and anything thinner is too fragile. It's all just personal taste, though, so experimenting is the fun of it.

Edit: did you get the brownish one or the greenish one? They're both beautiful!

 

[BlueSnake]

This is good too. Just plug in the type of wire, the ohms you want, and the inside diameter and it tells you how many wraps.

Coil wrapping | Steam Engine | free vaping calculators

 

[Walter Ego]

Drill Size Conversion Table
3/32" = .0938
2.4mm = .0945
3/32" works great for me

 

[BlueSnake]

Drill Size Conversion Table
3/32" = .0938
2.4mm = .0945
3/32" works great for me

You are correct. Sorry I had a senior moment.

 

[TX Foilhead]

Edit: did you get the brownish one or the greenish one? They're both beautiful!

Got them both, I'm used to having 2 flavors so it was the perfect impulse buy.

No luck last night, probably too much happy hour, got a few hours here and there to fiddle with it this weekend so hopefully I'll get the touch needed figured out with a little more practice.

 

[TX Foilhead]

Got it! Took about 15 tries to get a coil that looked somewhat acceptable, haven't figured out how to make them tight on the gizmo yet so evenly spaced was good enough. Came in @ 1.27ohm which is exactly what Steam Engine said. I torched the wire before I started and had no hot legs or anything else to deal with once I got it bolted down RxW slid right in and now I'm dizzy from trying it out.

 

[JC Okie]

YAY!!!

I'm betting you are going to have a good weekend. You might want to lower your nic level a little.....these things are pretty efficient delivery systems.

Pretty awesome that you got both of those beauties. They really belong together.

Jan

 

[sjoat]

And, bookmarked

There's also http://www.bricomedicalsupplies.net/images/bluntsizechart.gif if you use those blunt luer needles. Dunno how accurate.

 

[JC Okie]

And, bookmarked

There's also http://www.bricomedicalsupplies.net/images/bluntsizechart.gif if you use those blunt luer needles. Dunno how accurate.

I just bookmarked this.....I've looked for this info from time to time....good to have it. Thanks, @sjoat.

 

[TX Foilhead]

It's not figured out yet, flavor isn't quite there so I wicked it again and there's an improvement but still dull. The RxW may have something to do with it, I remember it taking a little while to get up to speed in my Subtank. Now that it's working I can start to play with it and try some things.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

It's not figured out yet, flavor isn't quite there so I wicked it again and there's an improvement but still dull. The RxW may have something to do with it, I remember it taking a little while to get up to speed in my Subtank. Now that it's working I can start to play with it and try some things.

Not for nothin', but you might want to try experimenting using cotton for wicking. It's so much easier to iterate with as you play around with coils. RxW is great, but it's not as easy to fiddle with and it's expensive to toss as you develop your build chops with this gear.

That said, it looks like you have experience with it already, so maybe you're not worried.

 

[TX Foilhead]

I like the idea of RxW, I can't say I've been successful with it, I never got it to work with the rebuildable deck on my subtanks. I did manage to get some 3mm trough one of the OCC coils last weekend and just changed it out this morning. That's a whole week, the best I've managed with the OCC coils was 4 days. Thanks to lots of info here from people who have managed to dial it in I've had fairly good luck getting it to work. I have a bunk of koh gen doh as well and haven't figured that out at all.

I would truly be pulling my hair out now if I was having to rewick because it burnt the KGD every time I did squonk properly.

 

[JC Okie]

You'll get there. And the RxW does better after a little break-in period. Also, I've had really good results with rayon...I really like it best. If you want to try some, PM me and I'll stick a sample in an envelope and send it to you. It's similar to cotton, but I like it better and it seems to last longer.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Nuppins have a higher air hole than most RBAs, play with coil position relative to the air hole. a MM change in position can have big impact.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Bro, I can't help with the ready wick but I can tell you that the time you spend to master squonking is time well spent. There is simply no better delivery method. Especially if portability, simplicity, durability, dependability and pocket-ability are any of the boxes you checked. My guess is that any ex smoker checks all those boxes.

Trust me, once you get that bad boy dialed there is no going back.

When in doubt, squonk. Squonk after every hit or two if ya want. It'll drain away the excess and leave you with nothing but fresh squozen juice - on demand

Don't forget this too

 

[TX Foilhead]

I don't know if I've got everything dialed in or not, but thanks to everyone's and this forum I've managed to easily get through the day with just my REO's. Never would have predicted that with all the failed attempts at trying to DIY and rebuild the mass produced Chinese gear. I figured get this to work reasonably well would take a few weeks maybe more and now 48 hrs later it's working better than anything before it and I'm trying to figure out ways to make it even better.

Thanks everyone

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Huzzah!

Another reoville win.

You're prolly waiting for the other shoe to drop - the one that involves leaking and misfiring and dry hits. Well, not gonna happen if you just watch your wicking and squonking.

Take a selfie. Today's the day that changed your vaping world.

 

[TX Foilhead]

I figured this was coming about a week after I found this place, took a while to learn what it did and what I needed to know to make it work. That was probably about the time I quite for good back in February after playing with ecigs on and off for 3 or 4 years. It's pretty funny that modern technology and the consistency of commercially available juice is what eventually did it and now all of that technology got replaced with the simplest low tech device imaginable to do the exact same thing.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

In actual fact, the tech to do this has been around for >30 years (not sure when pg was developed). Certainly, the concept of a simple DC circuit and the tools to machine atties has been around even longer.

It's just a shame that it took that long to get the spark of inspiration to put it all together as vaping. Countless millions could have been spared (both dollars and lives, potentially).

The IC component of vaping (that is, regulation) - meh, a 'nice to have' at best (IMHO). And tank systems? Heh - it reminds me of the story of the US spending millions during the space race in the 60's to get a ball point pen to work in zero gravity. The Soviets used a pencil for about 50 rubles (at today's exchange rate). Squonking into an atty is that pencil for vaping.