need a cooler vape on my REO's - help me out

[ed101z]

Just curious mousie,... were you able to pull the ceramic deck out and rotate it? Did it solve the problem?

I found disassembling the newer RM2 to be a little challenging because the center pin are two adjoining pieces.

 

[JC Okie]

http://youtu.be/y1wwh2BkVXg


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Great video. I learned a LOT from that. You're a natural.

 

[coaldriller]

Great video. I learned a LOT from that. You're a natural.

Thanks Jan. I found this out whenever my osd kicked in and thought I had to tear it apart to clean it. Put it back together, built a coil, and wow! what did I do. Tore back in it and realized what I had done. Very simple mistake. Also I want to point out, and just noticed this, but in the tutorial there is a pic of the bottom of the ceramic showing the metal disk where the pos pin screws into, it is upside down. The beveled part should be facing the other way, because the beveled part allows juice to come up the feed hole. The way it is pictured the juice would come up through the center post and deadhead against the bottom of the ceramic with no bevel to let it pass. Hope this helps also.

 

[debb]

This is an excellent thread...It helped me greatly... ..Thanks all..great troubleshooting!

 

[JetMac]

I have a question, my buddy has an old beat rm2, he wants to use it but it's extremely dirty and needs cleaned and he has the same issue where the cap hole and coil don't line up. I told him I'd take it apart and clean it for him so he can use it, but when I was looking at it the center pin on the bottom wasn't a flat tip screw. Did some of the older rm2's come with different center pins that you couldn't remove? I thought about trying to cut notches in the center pin so that I would be able to remove it. Any insight is welcomed.


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[coaldriller]

I have a question, my buddy has an old beat rm2, he wants to use it but it's extremely dirty and needs cleaned and he has the same issue where the cap hole and coil don't line up. I told him I'd take it apart and clean it for him so he can use it, but when I was looking at it the center pin on the bottom wasn't a flat tip screw. Did some of the older rm2's come with different center pins that you couldn't remove? I thought about trying to cut notches in the center pin so that I would be able to remove it. Any insight is welcomed.


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It should not hurt it to slot it. I just find something that will barely fit up inside and grab the sides and unscrew it that way. It shouldn't be super tight.


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[mousiemaximus]

Just curious mousie,... were you able to pull the ceramic deck out and rotate it? Did it solve the problem?

I found disassembling the newer RM2 to be a little challenging because the center pin are two adjoining pieces.

I won't be home until tomorrow late and won't have a chance to rip it up until Friday sometime. I am certain that either I switched caps between my 2 RM2s or what Mr. Driller says will indeed fix it.

I will let yall know, but a video is worth a thousand pictures, I guess

 

[ed101z]

Word of CAUTION to those that attempt to remove the ceramic deck on an RM2.

Older RM2 models have a ceramic deck that is easy to remove. However, the ceramic deck on NEWER RM2's (such as mine) are very hard to remove, and seems damn near impossible without breaking, and cracking it all to hell. Quiet frankly, mine WILL NOT budge at all! Sticking a small screw driver through the bottom (510 connector); and using small pliers on the top just did not move it. I've already chipped a tiny piece of ceramic off, and decided to stop. Any more tension and pressure would've resulted in the ceramic deck breaking into many pieces.

 

[JetMac]

It should not hurt it to slot it. I just find something that will barely fit up inside and grab the sides and unscrew it that way. It shouldn't be super tight.


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Ok, I got it figured out finally, I didn't have to cut notches in the center pin. On my buddies, I removed the negative post first, then took a small screw driver and pressed upward on the center pin and the ceramic deck and center pin all popped out the top, then I was able to remove the center pin and positive post. I saw the two holes you were talking about, in the housing. It was put back together the wrong way from the previous owner he got the rm2 from. The atomizer is nasty, I told him to just toss it and get a new one. He doesn't want to so I guess he'll take all the parts and boil them and once everything's clean I'll reassemble it.


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[mousiemaximus]

so I got home finally from like 2 week trip. I checked my RM2 on my mini mini me and it was off also. Switched the caps and now everything is working again and lined up right. DUh!

I must have given all the kids a bath at the same time. Lining up them holes makes 110% of a difference, jeez it was awful trying to vape that with the hole on the wrong side.

Thanks all, especially Mr. Coal Driller, who graciously tolerated my nonsense and put a great explanatory vid out there for everyone.

Yay!

 

[ed101z]

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Long shot here: Do you have another RM2 like the one you have in the photo? If so, you may have used the wrong top cap.

so I got home finally from like 2 week trip. I checked my RM2 on my mini mini me and it was off also. Switched the caps and now everything is working again and lined up right. DUh!
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Dang. You mean I could've won a 100 bucks.

 

[mousiemaximus]

Mr. Coal Driller was not in it for the money (thank heavens). But I do owe everyone here that helped figure it out. I will find some way to thank Mr. Coal Driller in the near future.

As for you Mr. Ed.....a horse is a.......just kidding, you nailed it from the get go. Thank you!

 

[JC Okie]

What a cool thread. Reoville at it's best. I learned a lot about my RM2s from your problem, mousie. I think the most important thing I learned is to bathe them separately.