Micro Coil for the RBA on your REO

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My thanks to pdib who kindly agreed to let me rob him!

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And to me - Rene wire indeed! pfft!

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Anything French sounding is dodgy!

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i read somewhere that the Cisco spec guy does not use K or N, but buys some special secret alloy from Germany and has it shipped to the factory in China. Rene is clearly French, not German.

is there a Gertrude 41 or Hildebrand 41???


i've been wondering why some people insist HH357/Cisco attys still work better than RBAs...
 

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nothing works better than an RBA, because if you balls it up - it's your fault! And when you get it down - game over.

i have some atomisers i got with the first Reo i bought and they are fine in a pinch, but anyone that tells me they are the pinnacle of vaping is full of it!

to be blunt - i don't care if it's a cisco or a bridgeless anything - they are not the same as anything i can make. I make all my coils dual as above and they last me 2 weeks or until i get bored. Anyone that is serious about their vape will need, sooner or later, to make their own gear - whether that is forced on them by regulation or not.
Some old mountain guy in a stupid pink shirt told me these things! Top man!

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i read somewhere that the Cisco spec guy does not use K or N, but buys some special secret alloy from Germany and has it shipped to the factory in China. Rene is clearly French, not German.

is there a Gertrude 41 or Hildebrand 41???


i've been wondering why some people insist HH357/Cisco attys still work better than RBAs...

Well, the Siegfried 41 has not been invented yet, but there are more high tech alloys where the Rene comes from. There is Waspalloy or Phynox, and quite a few more. One of them may well be manufactured in Germany - I'll look around.

Edit: Ah, the mother of all of the temperatur-constant wires has been invented in Germany I think: Constantan - wonder if that's still produced in its original alloy.
 
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i am thinking uridium will be a winner but only for space ships. Germans lack ingenuity but they are disciplined and work hard. Italians? lol - it's really all a sh4tstorm about to happen and i am so pleased i am in Texas!

The cool thing about Texas is i can go for days without seeing anyone annoying - the downside is that Smurf can get lonely i suppose - well ... do you expect if you talk Dutch?

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nothing works better than an RBA, because if you balls it up - it's your fault! And when you get it down - game over.

i have some atomisers i got with the first Reo i bought and they are fine in a pinch, but anyone that tells me they are the pinnacle of vaping is full of it!

to be blunt - i don't care if it's a cisco or a bridgeless anything - they are not the same as anything i can make. I make all my coils dual as above and they last me 2 weeks or until i get bored. Anyone that is serious about their vape will need, sooner or later, to make their own gear - whether that is forced on them by regulation or not.
Some old mountain guy in a stupid pink shirt told me these things! Top man!

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i agree completely, and i pretty much suck at wrapping coils. i have a few HH357s, but even with my limited skills the RM2 is game over.

i suspect that some part of the Cisco mystic is physchological.
 

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Decided to back off the 27g Kanthal and try a 30g 1.7ohm to compare flavor:

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Ran it for a while trying different amounts of cotton and it just didn't deliver. Tore it out and built another .8 27g standard position micro. Actually pulled it back closer to the posts. This increased the air flow quite a bit compared to the aihole crowders I've been building. Excellent vape!

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Btw, I was able to my post holes pointing straight by taking out the screw, inserting a tiny screwdriver through both sides, and using a little elbow grease.
 

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isn't an o-ring easier?

Anyway i don't use micros because cotton is well dismal in terms of lifespan - this is what i do

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Big fat bit of silica blowtorched to death. I appreciate your pretty coils but i do have to have some function from them that is not constant re-wicking. Too bad for me that SS mesh and solid ceramic wicks are just too grim in an RM2 to bother with!

i tried.

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isn't an o-ring easier?

Anyway i don't use micros because cotton is well dismal in terms of lifespan

He was talking about the posts.


Don't have to use cotton with micros. X & P used to use Nextel. I don't use cotton in my Reos & is why I didn't start using micros sooner than I did. Now I only use Micros because they perform so much better for me.


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Before my micro days

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i read somewhere that the Cisco spec guy does not use K or N, but buys some special secret alloy from Germany and has it shipped to the factory in China. Rene is clearly French, not German.

is there a Gertrude 41 or Hildebrand 41???


i've been wondering why some people insist HH357/Cisco attys still work better than RBAs...

Because they pay more? Not a fan....grrrr....
 

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Because they pay more? Not a fan....grrrr....

i think that is at least part of it. psychological. i was about to say as much in another thread to someone new struggling with his RM2 who thought his HH357 tasted better, but since i'm such a raw newb myself, i didn'y feel qualified.

rare restraint and humility on my part :)
 
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