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A serving of crow with a side of tasty vape cooked up personally by Redeyedancer.
It's an easy trap to fall into if you've been around the block a few times, thinking that you know it all. I've heard the term sophomore (a student in their second year of studies in a four year program) described as meaning a 'wise fool'.
I'm feeling a bit sophomoric in writing this review now. I have flatly stated before that the 18650 is the only 3.7v battery worth using, that I'm not a fan of the 510 on 3rd gen mods, and that I vastly prefer gravity or air pressure juice feeding to bottle fed delivery systems. Period. Finito. End o' story.
My prejudices and presumptions got knocked on their
the other day when I visited my friend Sterno, and looked over his silver (polished aluminum) Mini Reo. Gorgeous, well made aluminum box mod using a 14500 battery and a LR510 atty hooked up to a 2 or 3 ml bottle. Imagine my surprise that his pretty little box was also a great vape, especially after removing the bridge and wick from his atty. I would have sworn I was vaping at high voltage with great taste and throat hit to boot. I was further shocked to learn that a single 14500 would last him the entire day, and that the mod needed next to no bottle squeezing when using PG, 'twas almost self juicing. Sterno grinned (Is 'smugged' a word?) every time I put down my AVS and picked up his Mini, which was a lot.
I had to struggle with mental confusion and cognitive dissonance to realize the fact that I mod whose components I almost despised individually created such a superior vape. My only explanation is that Redeyedancer, in making all of his wooden Reos, must have chopped down the Keebler Elf Tree and forced its inhabitants to use their powers to make mods instead of buttery cookies and crackers against their will. (Scoff if you will, but it also explains why you haven't seen them lately on television.)
By the way, there's no potential conflict of interest in this review: after trying Sterno's Mini I contacted Redeyedancer and paid the full asking price for the model the Reonauts call the 'yellowjacket' (golden body with a black door and button). THAT'S how impressed I was.
The Mini has a aluminum body measuring by by and a sliding aluminum door held in place by a magnet granting access to the battery and bottle. It can be finely polished as was Sterno's, or anodized in a variety of colors. The reo comes with the mod itself, a LR510 atomizer, black drip tip, 510 to 901/KR 808D-1 adapter, bottle and a PG reducer tube, , recommended by Redeyedancer for people getting flooding with thin juices for roughly $131.00 including shipping. 14500 batteries and charger, and juice must be purchased separately. The atty and tip sticks out of the top of the mod about an inch and a half.
Again, I struggle to adequately explain how sterling this mod looks and works. This mod looks professionally designed and made, unlike plastic or wooden boxes or machined tubes. This should be literally sold at a jewelry counter.
Other nifty features of the device include:
A locking vape button. Turn the button clockwise ¼ turn to turn it off so as to prevent accidental firings. Not sure if it is needed to be honest, but its a nice touch.
You can drop juice in the recessed atomizer housing to quickly vape a second flavor. Inhaling sucks the juice out of the housing into the atty. Pressing the bottle for two hard or too long will also cause the excess to collect there until the atty is ready to use it. Besides containing leaks, this feature should make the mod harder to flood than other bottle fed 3rd gen vapes. Another nice thing about this combo is that it has a high juice efficiency rating the tiny 3ml bottle seems to last my chain vaping all day.
It appears to be almost maintenance free, and consists solely of cleaning and noaloxing tip of switch/positive battery connection and polishing bare metal versions. There doesnt really appear to be anything else to go wrong with it.
Finally, the mini has the ability to use a 901/kr808d1 with included adapter.
This is an initial review, and Im just impressed. Really. Small, attractive package, dependability with a minimum of fuss, and a great frakkin vape to boot. Redeyedancer may have just proved me wrong on my long held vaping assumptions, and royally screwed over all the other modders in the process by raising the bar so high.
The only niggles I have about the mod, minor at that, are a) it could probably use another magnet to more securely hold the door in place, and b) I do have to carry at least one spare 14500 battery.
These are my initial impressions of the device, and Ill come back in a month or so and let everyone know how it handled some extended (ab)use.
A serving of crow with a side of tasty vape cooked up personally by Redeyedancer.
It's an easy trap to fall into if you've been around the block a few times, thinking that you know it all. I've heard the term sophomore (a student in their second year of studies in a four year program) described as meaning a 'wise fool'.
I'm feeling a bit sophomoric in writing this review now. I have flatly stated before that the 18650 is the only 3.7v battery worth using, that I'm not a fan of the 510 on 3rd gen mods, and that I vastly prefer gravity or air pressure juice feeding to bottle fed delivery systems. Period. Finito. End o' story.
My prejudices and presumptions got knocked on their
the other day when I visited my friend Sterno, and looked over his silver (polished aluminum) Mini Reo. Gorgeous, well made aluminum box mod using a 14500 battery and a LR510 atty hooked up to a 2 or 3 ml bottle. Imagine my surprise that his pretty little box was also a great vape, especially after removing the bridge and wick from his atty. I would have sworn I was vaping at high voltage with great taste and throat hit to boot. I was further shocked to learn that a single 14500 would last him the entire day, and that the mod needed next to no bottle squeezing when using PG, 'twas almost self juicing. Sterno grinned (Is 'smugged' a word?) every time I put down my AVS and picked up his Mini, which was a lot.I had to struggle with mental confusion and cognitive dissonance to realize the fact that I mod whose components I almost despised individually created such a superior vape. My only explanation is that Redeyedancer, in making all of his wooden Reos, must have chopped down the Keebler Elf Tree and forced its inhabitants to use their powers to make mods instead of buttery cookies and crackers against their will. (Scoff if you will, but it also explains why you haven't seen them lately on television.)
By the way, there's no potential conflict of interest in this review: after trying Sterno's Mini I contacted Redeyedancer and paid the full asking price for the model the Reonauts call the 'yellowjacket' (golden body with a black door and button). THAT'S how impressed I was.
The Mini has a aluminum body measuring by by and a sliding aluminum door held in place by a magnet granting access to the battery and bottle. It can be finely polished as was Sterno's, or anodized in a variety of colors. The reo comes with the mod itself, a LR510 atomizer, black drip tip, 510 to 901/KR 808D-1 adapter, bottle and a PG reducer tube, , recommended by Redeyedancer for people getting flooding with thin juices for roughly $131.00 including shipping. 14500 batteries and charger, and juice must be purchased separately. The atty and tip sticks out of the top of the mod about an inch and a half.
Again, I struggle to adequately explain how sterling this mod looks and works. This mod looks professionally designed and made, unlike plastic or wooden boxes or machined tubes. This should be literally sold at a jewelry counter.
Other nifty features of the device include:
A locking vape button. Turn the button clockwise ¼ turn to turn it off so as to prevent accidental firings. Not sure if it is needed to be honest, but its a nice touch.
You can drop juice in the recessed atomizer housing to quickly vape a second flavor. Inhaling sucks the juice out of the housing into the atty. Pressing the bottle for two hard or too long will also cause the excess to collect there until the atty is ready to use it. Besides containing leaks, this feature should make the mod harder to flood than other bottle fed 3rd gen vapes. Another nice thing about this combo is that it has a high juice efficiency rating the tiny 3ml bottle seems to last my chain vaping
all day. It appears to be almost maintenance free, and consists solely of cleaning and noaloxing tip of switch/positive battery connection and polishing bare metal versions. There doesnt really appear to be anything else to go wrong with it.
Finally, the mini has the ability to use a 901/kr808d1 with included adapter.
This is an initial review, and Im just
impressed. Really. Small, attractive package, dependability with a minimum of fuss, and a great frakkin vape to boot. Redeyedancer may have just proved me wrong on my long held vaping assumptions, and royally screwed over all the other modders in the process by raising the bar so high. The only niggles I have about the mod, minor at that, are a) it could probably use another magnet to more securely hold the door in place, and b) I do have to carry at least one spare 14500 battery.
These are my initial impressions of the device, and Ill come back in a month or so and let everyone know how it handled some extended (ab)use.
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