Let's make this Reo seaworthy

[Triggajig]

I started using ecigs 4 months ago and recently got my first Reo about 2 weeks ago. I like it. It's the best. My second one is coming today.
However During the summer I work as a wakeboard/surf coach. Obviously, this type of environment isn't ideal for any sort of electronics. I'd like to get a Reo just for the boats, I understand there's really no water proofing something like this, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to how I could make it a bit more resilient when it comes to salt water.

Protecting batteries and contacts
Sealing the doors
Squonk hole
Best rba / protecting rba's
Screw protection Ect.


I think this has the potential to be a good thread not just for those in my position but for others wanting to make an already durable device even tougher.

I plan on experimenting with any of the suggestions my fellow reobots post here and giving updates of the results (def. Gonna have a couple more repair kits on hand).
So let's try and get some good ideas flowin and do it in the name of science.

 

[jifjifjif]

The first thing that comes to mind (and it's not really answering your question) is one of those plastic, water-tight cases that people hang around their necks when they want to take cash or hotel room keys into the ocean with them on vacation. The one I have at home does not fit a REO Grand (barely) but maybe there are some that are bigger.

 

[vsummer1]

Sorry I can't help, I live in the desert

But it just so happens I am watching deadliest catch right now. I gotta say I don't think there is anything that is going to work short of heat sealing it in plastic every time you change battery etc. if that is the kind of stuff you are up to! And even then stuff coming in through the dt would be a problem. You would have to figure out a way to put a plug in the dt

 

[jifjifjif]

So jealous you are watching Deadliest Catch right now while I am at work with it sitting on my DVR from last night.

Enjoy!

 

[Triggajig]

Haha. I'd probably still be smoking cigs if I worked on a fishing boat. We do most of our wakeboard stuff in a bay so it's a bit less intense.

I was thinking a mini would be best so that water case idea is actually pretty good. And maybe I could put a atomizer condom on the drip tip. Thanks guys

 

[Filthy-Beast]

You need to make sure to protect the contacts from salt water. I'd probably use dielectric grease. I use this on my contacts of the jeeps that do river runs.

Use a wick like ReadyxWick ceramic wicks that can be dry burned to clean them.

If it takes a bath in salt water, pull the battery, rinse the mod and coil / wick with fresh water. towel dry, dry burn the wick, install dry battery, squonk and vape.

 

[Dconnor]

What about some sort of camera case (ie GoPro etc)?

 

[dodari]

Perhaps something like a little styrofoam flotation addition on the back. Just in case?

 

[canoeist]

REO life jacket

 

[dodari]

REO life jacket

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Perfect, just needs a squonk hole.

 

[Triggajig]

REO life jacket

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It's. It's.....beautiful.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

what happens to a battery when you drop it into water... can you just shake them off/dry with towel and continue to use??


my contribution to the thread... you could use a wickless coil

cork jacket for the reo

and a cork top hat for the DT

 

[Bigflyrodder]

Was thinking something along the same lines, you could use one of those crazy long drip tips and feed it through a hole you cut or burn through the side of one of those clear waterproof bags they have for phones and such. You could seal the bag around the drip tip somehow, silicone maybe, and then you'd only have to open the bag to cycle air every once in a while. May have to wrap an sinculator around the RM2 without blockin the airhole and maybe some of the driptip as well to keep the heat from melting the bag.

Should work, could squonk through the bag.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Water is conductive, salt water more so. It could possibly discharging slightly. Just rinse and dry. I think I had my Reo a few weeks before I dropped it in a full 20 oz cup of coffee. Rinsed everything off, towel dry and back to vaping. Took longer to clean the splashes off my desk than it took to get the Reo back in operation.

 

[boatman2]

Put it in a freezer bag or one of those waterproof cel phone pak

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

ok so i presume a battery can be washed much the same way we wash a mech reo, but the plastic coating on the battery may peel off

Water is conductive, salt water more so. It could possibly discharging slightly. Just rinse and dry. I think I had my Reo a few weeks before I dropped it in a full 20 oz cup of coffee. Rinsed everything off, towel dry and back to vaping. Took longer to clean the splashes off my desk than it took to get the Reo back in operation.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I think your biggest problem will be salt creep from splashes or wet hands drying on the mod and then the occasional dunking from a big wave breaking over the boat or trip in the water before pulling it out of a pocket.

Just give it a good rinse every night to get the dried salt off.

I think you are way over thinking this. It's the most bullet proof mod made. I would have no problem taking it bare on board with a little dielectric grease or noalox on the contacts to protect them from corrosion.

If you're truly worried about loosing it overboard then a Reo life jacket might be in order, but it seems to me that would just over complicate things too much. Ease of use or you won't use it.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

ok so i presume a battery can be washed much the same way we wash a mech reo, but the plastic coating on the battery may peel off

if it does just replace with 19 or 20mm shrink wrap tubing.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

reason im asking.. i can see what looks like noalox under that plastic coating.. a job for the future

if it does just replace with 19 or 20mm shrink wrap tubing.

 

[Triggajig]

I think your biggest problem will be salt creep from splashes or wet hands drying on the mod and then the occasional dunking from a big wave breaking over the boat or trip in the water before pulling it out of a pocket.

Just give it a good rinse every night to get the dried salt off.

I think you are way over thinking this. It's the most bullet proof mod made. I would have no problem taking it bare on board with a little dielectric grease or noalox on the contacts to protect them from corrosion.

If you're truly worried about loosing it overboard then a Reo life jacket might be in order, but it seems to me that would just over complicate things too much. Ease of use or you won't use it.

I think your right for the most part. Wet hands and accidental splashing are going to be the the biggest things and just like anything else constantly exposed to salt water, a good cleaning to get rid of any salt deposits will keep it running smoothly. However if I can make a few adjustments or mods in the beginning of the season to keep maintenance low and decrease the over all risk involved, it's probably not a bad idea.