Micro Coil for the RBA on your REO

[Commie]

Yes sir it is

Gonna have to read up more on the REO and maybe next month make the Jump.

I don't mean for it to sound ominous and dark, but that's likely to be the last jump you make. I've never been happy with any mod before. Kept buying different things, making about a dozen... Haven't had the urge to look since I got my Grand.

So jump, you won't regret it! The way I justified it from money perspective, is I sold a whole bunch of my other mods in classies. Made enough for 1 and a half Reos.

 

[Commie]

She might also look at you and say "damn, that new little box device is so manly. I like it so much better than that blinking pimp stick you were using before"

Yeah, I had a Vamo for about a week, until my wife called it Steely Dan... Now I can't look at tube mods the same.

 

[pdib]

My boss actually blurted out once, "that thing looks like a d-ldo". . . . . . . . .("the Natural" w/ AGA-t) .. . . . . . . "it certainly does" . . . I thought.

 

[cerver7]

i've always been partial to tube mods. only had 1 or 2 box mods before, none of them JoD though. Would like something maybe for an 18350, wood or alumn maybe. idk someone help a brotha out with some linkys

 

[super_X_drifter]

i've always been partial to tube mods. only had 1 or 2 box mods before, none of them JoD though. Would like something maybe for an 18350, wood or alumn maybe. idk someone help a brotha out with some linkys

18350 x 2 = vv grand. REOsmods.com. 175 for what Rob calls a "blemished mod". If there are actually any blemishes, they are cosmetic and minor. 6 out if the 7 blemished REOs I have bought from Rob there was nothing I would call a blemish on them. The VVG is money baby.

 

[cerver7]

he no has pics

edit, has pics on the shop side......long day 12 hour work day = no fun

 

[super_X_drifter]

Here's my VV Grand. Two words for it: Badass Mod.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Interior view

 

[dodari]

Well today got my 2nd RM2. First one I got last week I wrapped 6/5 32ga. K on 16ga needle and used pre-boiled butcher string for wick. It Ohmed at 2.3 worked well but was a bit cool and flavor and TH were sorta h0-hum-flat. But it worked for a first try.

The new one today I got, I wrapped a 6/5 30ga K on the same 16 ga. needle and used the same type butchers string for a wick. I got 1.2 Ohms on my 2 tubular pricey Ohms checkers. At least the tubulars are good for that.

Wow!!! Boy that raised the heat. The flavor, TH and plumes are astounding, what an amazing difference.

Wish I could get a bit more wick length in that little space. Can you kind of stack it a little bit? Just to get longer hits between squonks? I'm getting a good 5, maybe 6, hits between squonking, certainly can't complain. Love the strngth of the hits now, almost too much. Will be adjusting home made 555-Swamp Juice I think.

Love it.

Thanks SxD, pdib and everybody else that has helped find the path to follow on these.

 

[pdib]

dodari, "every time you squonk a bit, an angel gets his wings".*






I've tried lots of wick variations (its fun) and I keep coming back to not a whole lot of wick. Although I haven't cataloged the differences, it just seems like I get better and more consistent toots (cleaner flavor) and clouds with the tight n' short setup that Supe wisely adheres to. The one thing I'm trying to assess now, is the difference between "bit-wrap coil, then thread" vs. "bit-in-the-wick, wrap and pull out". I just tried the latter on my last build, and I can still see the hole down the middle, days later (Nextel). Also, I can feel the difference in the vape. Now that I know there's a difference, I'll swap over and back a few times and figure out what's what. I'm pretty sure I get a bit more juice, maybe one more tuck out of the "hollow wick" version. (Oh, by one more, I mean 3 pulls vs. 2 . . . . . . 28g eats juice.)





* direct quote from It's a Wonderful Life

 

[dodari]

dodari, "every time you squonk a bit, an angel gets his wings".*






I've tried lots of wick variations (its fun) and I keep coming back to not a whole lot of wick. Although I haven't cataloged the differences, it just seems like I get better and more consistent toots (cleaner flavor) and clouds with the tight n' short setup that Supe wisely adheres to. The one thing I'm trying to assess now, is the difference between "bit-wrap coil, then thread" vs. "bit-in-the-wick, wrap and pull out". I just tried the latter on my last build, and I can still see the hole down the middle, days later (Nextel). Also, I can feel the difference in the vape. Now that I know there's a difference, I'll swap over and back a few times and figure out what's what. I'm pretty sure I get a bit more juice, maybe one more tuck out of the "hollow wick" version. (Oh, by one more, I mean 3 pulls vs. 2 . . . . . . 28g eats juice.)





* direct quote from It's a Wonderful Life

G'mornin', just read your reply, thanks, I have a question or 2, still foggy eyed but maybe I can get 'em asked right.

Going from 32 ga. to 30ga. I'm seeing juice go a bit faster but it's such a better vape than what I had before, 'bout knocks me over, but that's a good I think.

On your "bit-in-the-wick, wrap and pull out" technique, I take it you're using 1/32" Nextel? I'll have to get some, but it looks like it should work well.

Y'all are light years ahead of me, thank goodness, love it, keep blazing the trail.

Ah, my Mom took me and my younger bro. to see It's a Wonderful Life in Rapid City, S.D., first run, in Dec. 1946.

Thanks.

 

[pdib]

Call me Clarence . . . . . . . . eh, don't. Yep. Super_X (if I may be so bold) and I are really loving the xc-132. Although, I am going to try some kind of "technique" for the xc-116 tonight/soon, cause I have a bunch of that and it needs using.

 

[dodari]

Call me Clarence . . . . . . . . eh, don't. Yep. Super_X (if I may be so bold) and I are really loving the xc-132. Although, I am going to try some kind of "technique" for the xc-116 tonight/soon, cause I have a bunch of that and it needs using.

Well I'll be following what y'all do. Keep us up to speed please.

Gotta go to town, Albuquerque, and work on a child custody brawl, earn some dimes and nickles for my REO addiction. Love it.

ciao.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Call me Clarence . . . . . . . . eh, don't. Yep. Super_X (if I may be so bold) and I are really loving the xc-132. Although, I am going to try some kind of "technique" for the xc-116 tonight/soon, cause I have a bunch of that and it needs using.

The timing on that one is too funny: last night, between OT periods 1 & 2, I ripped out both nextels and made some old school, 12 wrap micro coils around a 16 ga needle using 30 ga and pulled.........,

Cotton wicks thru em

Heaven

 

[cowboy6591]

I've had a ton of bad builds with original phoenix, even more with A7, and a few with the Hornet. I'm yet to manage an unacceptably bad build with RM2. Big kudos to Rob, this thing is designed to be russian-proof

I am using the AGA t2 genny knock off and the inconsistency is mostly blamed on the top platform not being screwed on tight enough to the tank post. You can tell when the ground becomes lousy when you feel voltage shock on your lips, be it very minor it sends your coil resistance measurements into tail spins and whirlwinds of P!$$ off like I have never seen.

 

[xxbodkinxx]

I love cotton!

 

[super_X_drifter]

^ me too. Here's why I think it is my medium of choice, aside from the fact that it vapes excellently.

1. My preferred method to build coils is to twist a coil around a micro sized blunt tip needle and mount it on the RBA. Then I like to adjust it (with the needle still in it) to my preferred optimum location.

I found that wrapping around a wick doesn't yield a small and tight enough coil for my preference. Additionally, for me, making adjustments with the wick in place is not as precise.

2. I enjoy the tinkering aspect of RBA's, like rewicking and recoiling on a whim. I have never needed to do either, but just LIKE to. This would be a waste to use Nextel in my case

3. Cotton just appeals more to my "I quit smoking to stop putting dangerous chemicals into my body" logic. I'm not saying that I think that Nextel is unsafe, I'm just saying that I feel better using something that I absolutely know is safer.

4. I like to wash out my RBAs ever week or so, why waste Nextel like that?

 

[Commie]

I wash Ekowool... I'd imagine nextel should be washable too?

 

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

Well i used Ecowool I burnt it up dry burning. The juice I am using gunks a coil in 24 hours. So I switched to nextel to be honest it is ok. I really am just prefering a micro coil with a cotton wick. I am just gonna leave the nextel in till i get my unflavored nic in. At that point I will tear ot apart and start fresh.

 

[xxbodkinxx]

My ADV is coppers creek house blend and I have to wash out the coil every few days. With cotton its as easy as getting tweezers, yanking the wick out. then I burn the coil. Let it cool. Brush with an old toothbrush, rinse under water, then throw a new wick in and go on my way. So easy.