New tip, new door, and new contacts

[Trox.Shawn]

My new drip tip, and my ReoMail arrived yesterday... I'm excited. Now after fighting the install it is purrrrrtty. One quick question: when putting the center pin I used the rubber piece from that older kit because I (may have) torn the other a bit trying to get it to sit right. Is this a problem?

 

[GreatestUnKnown]

Are you referring to the positive post seal/gasket? If so as long as the old one was not too badly warped or torn re-using the original part should be fine, when I revuilt mine I only used the new firing pin and new spring because all of the other original parts were undamaged. SL TRA door looks awesome!

 

[Trox.Shawn]

Yes the positive pose seal/gasket. It wasn't damaged - at least it didn't appear to be. I only had my Reo for ~2 months before getting the SO kit.

 

[Jugband]

Congrats! Looks great! I'm getting ready to order my rebuild kit, nervous about it, hope it wasn't very difficult.

 

[Trox.Shawn]

As long as you have the proper tools the rebuilding was very simple. The only trouble I had was getting the center (positive) pin seated properly; and also getting the old one out. At first I didn't have a screw driver to fit the positive contact in order to unscrew the connection to the feeding tube, but once I got my lazy-... out of the chair and grabbed the proper sized screw driver it was a cake walk.

At first I was using it with my normal .95 ohm coil, which seemed to hit slightly better (could be placebo effect) but now that I've wrapped a 6-wrap 26 gauge (.60 ohm) coil it is a nice difference. I love the heat it produces and the balance between power/battery life.

 

[Raynman]

Congrats it looks great. I can hardly wait to get mine. TRA LP with other goodies.