How many are still rocking the single coil RM2 ...Q about the kick?

[NancyR]

Great! If you're like many of us, your vaping life just got a whole lot better

oh yes, I had one of the older reo minis a couple years ago, loved it hated the 14500 cell, but have the mini 2 now and love the 18500 cells which is what I use in almost everything I have

 

[hubseven]

Flexsr, I still rock only RM2s with single coil. Well, it depends on what you mean by single coil. I wrap a parallel coil in my RM2s, but not dual coils (one on each side of the atty) I use 28g Kanthal A1 and do 3 or 4 wraps on a Q-Tip shaft which takes 3mm ReadyXwick perfectly, in my opinion. I want to try all of these other attys that we are all reading about, but lack of cash squashes that. I haven't owned a kick since the days when I rocked my first REO. Nowadays, I just build what I know will come in at about .4-.5ohms and the coil I mentioned above gives me that.

I DO want to try some of the mouth-to-lung atomizers and I will some day.

What do you mean by parallel. Thanks

 

[Funk Dracula]

I like having a variety of RDAs around, but frankly the RM2 is still hands down my favorite.

I sawed a Pdib style horizontal airslit into the cap for lung hitting airflow, and a .6Ω twisted coil lives in it. Man, what a great vape, especially throwing some high nic juice into it.

Cheers

 

[Funk Dracula]

What do you mean by parallel. Thanks

You hold two separate wires parallel together, and wrap. It's like a dual coil, only it's all on one side.

It's the same concept with my preferred twisted coil, only instead of the wires being cleanly parallel, they are instead twisted together. I like the twisted better, because the actual coil holds juice better, almost like metal cotton.

Parallel/twisted allows you to get more wraps in (bigger/longer coils with more surface) whilst maintaining the lower resistance to get the wattage you desire. A great way to build in a tiny RDA like the RM2.

Cheers

 

[sc12]

Flavor and vapor from the RM2 is perfect for me and my Reos. No desire to change but a spare rolling around in a drawer would probably make me feel better.

 

[ed101z]

You hold two separate wires parallel together, and wrap. It's like a dual coil, only it's all on one side.

It's the same concept with my preferred twisted coil, only instead of the wires being cleanly parallel, they are instead twisted together. I like the twisted better, because the actual coil holds juice better, almost like metal cotton.

Parallel/twisted allows you to get more wraps in (bigger/longer coils with more surface) whilst maintaining the lower resistance to get the wattage you desire. A great way to build in a tiny RDA like the RM2.

Cheers

To add to this..., it's best to use Thinner wire for Parallel coils. Don't have too, but I find thinner gauge works best for overall performance.

 

[ElConquistador]

I couldn't resist buying a Chalice III, which is a fabulous piece, but honestly I think I prefer the RM2. It's simple, lightweight, I prefer the screw on cap, and it gives me a great vape.

 

[rudy4653]

In my RM2 and Nuppins I run a single twisted 29g - 8 wraps x 16g luer with RxW wick. Comes out to just under 1 ohm. It's my sweet spot. With the firmness of a twisted coil and forever lasting ceramic wick I go for month(s) at a time without changing a thing. Dry burns and occasional post screw tightening, that's it. I like maintenance free.

 

[sjoat]

Parallel/twisted allows you to get more wraps in (bigger/longer coils with more surface) whilst maintaining the lower resistance to get the wattage you desire. A great way to build in a tiny RDA like the RM2.

Pics? If it's not a hassle

 

[sjoat]

In my RM2 and Nuppins I run a single twisted 29g - 8 wraps x 16g luer with RxW wick. Comes out to just under 1 ohm. It's my sweet spot. With the firmness of a twisted coil and forever lasting ceramic wick I go for month(s) at a time without changing a thing. Dry burns and occasional post screw tightening, that's it. I like maintenance free.

Similar to my sweet spot (I'm pretty new to rebuilding though) except I use cotton

I assume you use 2mm RxW. Can I ask how you fit it in to such a thin coil? And what length do you use, and how do you position it

 

[six]

I spend my workday with a dual coil RM3 on a metal grand, but when I get home, my woodville ends up in my hand for the evening. It has a brass RM2 and for quite a while now a 26 ga 1.2 ohm coil wicked with 3mm readyXwick. Before being set up this way, it had a ~1 ohm 29 ga 2mm coil wicked with cotton. --- I'm still love/hating the readyXwick but I bet I end up going back to a 2mm coil next time I need to build that RM2.

As to a kick... I never ran one in a REO, but I had a couple of the first version in tubes. Well... I dunno. I was really late to adopt variable voltage because I had spent a lot of time and effort matching my attys and cartos to my batteries before vv/vw was a popular thing. After I killed the chip in my VV Woodville and my VVPV was dead, I wasn't at all unhappy to just build my coils to match my batteries. I'm not anti-vv/vw by any means, but I think it's just as good to make coils that will do what I want them to do fed by the batteries I have.

 

[rudy4653]

Similar to my sweet spot (I'm pretty new to rebuilding though) except I use cotton

I assume you use 2mm RxW. Can I ask how you fit it in to such a thin coil? And what length do you use, and how do you position it

Yes I use 2mm. Either a 1/16" or 16 gauge leur needle ( very slightly bigger) is a perfect size diameter to keep contact with wick without choking or too loose so it won't slide around.. I cut end at a sharp angle with nail clippers, about 1/2" piece, dab with a little juice on the pointy end and press with fingers, then SCREW into the coil in the same direction as the the wind. Like screwing a bolt into a nut. Don't try just pushing it in like threading a needle. Once I have it in place I run a small paperclip thru the RxW so it's nice and open like a hose. Positioned at edge and in front of atty airhole at same height. I leave a little tail of wick sitting on the deck to suck up the juice.

 

[sjoat]

Yes I use 2mm. Either a 1/16" or 16 gauge leur needle ( very slightly bigger) is a perfect size diameter to keep contact with wick without choking or too loose so it won't slide around.. I cut end at a sharp angle with nail clippers, about 1/2" piece, dab with a little juice on the pointy end and press with fingers, then SCREW into the coil in the same direction as the the wind. Like screwing a bolt into a nut. Don't try just pushing it in like threading a needle. Once I have it in place I run a small paperclip thru the RxW so it's nice and open like a hose. Positioned at edge and in front of atty airhole at same height. I leave a little tail of wick sitting on the deck to suck up the juice.

Thanks man, I'm gonna be trying this

 

[Underdawg736]

I still run RM2s on both my Grand and Mini. Well I should say I did as I kinda busted one of the RM2s by gorilla torqueing it on my Grand....effectively cracking the ceramic bottom and pushing the center pin up to the point that it'll short out.....which it did! Don't ask me why I did it as I'm still trying to figure that out myself! Now with one RM2 still functioning beautifully abet with much gentler handling, just swapping out the Mini and Grand every so often. Funny thing is that the Mini was my go to REO up until about 2 months ago, now I'm digging the Grand a bit more since I got the contacts upgraded. I'll run it anywhere from .35 to .75/.8 depending on my mood and how much juice I got to go crazy with.
So with one RM2 knocked out of action the best course of action is to send it back up to Maine for a snip off the top and one of those fancy RM7s right? RIGHT!!