Those NCR18650PD always impress me in my other mods. I wish mine were button tops, that would be all I would use in my REO if they were. Unfortunately I got flat tops for in my other mods. I have still been getting a day out of my AW 2000mAh so I cant complain to much.
Ran a .7 ohm dual coil all day yesterday on the stock spring, probably vaped 5 ml of juice, from 8 am to 9 pm, and my NCR18650PD was still at 3.89 volts, astounding!
I did the 10 amp fuse mod last night, and will be running the same coil all day today and see what the volts end up at tonight.
In other news, the IGO-W4 modded to bottom feed is bloody awesome on the REO.
I temporarily set my DNA20 mods and KFL / Fogger aside for a couple days when I got the REO, just so I could use it exclusively and get familiar with its quirks and stuff.
Well I am now kinda letting them back into the rotation, and while there are aspects about them I quite enjoy, I am finding that the REO is what I am reaching for more often then not.
I can get a great vape off anything I can recoil and tweak a bit, but where the REO excels is in its simplicity, form, and function.
I don't need to carry a screw driver and a needle filler to fill, I can play with my coil all I want without a bunch of steps to disassemble and drain liquid. All parts of the REO are very obvious, and can all be quite easily fixed/replaced with very common easy to source materials, without needing major fabrication skills or tools. This is truly a mod that will last a long long long time, and in the hands of someone how likes to work on their own stuff, it will probably continue on working forever.
The only part on the REO that I see as a weak point, (and is true of most mods) is the 510 connector.
Has anyone had to replace the 510 inside the REO and been successful?
I don't think the REO Grand itself can really even be improved upon, however I think there is room for another similar mod in the REO lineup.
I would explode with joy to see some kind of "REO HYBRID", that instead of having a 510 connector, it would be milled in such a way that the "catch cup" as we know it now, would become the actual atty base, and would be milled from the same single piece of aluminum as the REO body itself, and would have a slip on atty cover just like the IGO-S / IGO-W etc.
Doing this would give you a few benefits;
The atty base could be machined any way you want, with the feed hole and pos/neg posts able to be placed anywhere, you would not be restricted to the limitations of where things are located in a 510 connector.
The weakest point, and really the only point of failure (the 510 connector) would be eliminated, and your atty would basically be as indestructible as the REO itself, this mod would truly be able to last for EVER.
I understand that a mod like this wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, as you would no longer be able to play with all the random 510 attys out there, but for me, and probably a lot of people, an indestructible hybrid REO would be a godsend.
I would buy a hybrid REO in a heartbeat, anyone else? Thoughts?
