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Yup my Green Grand came from Racehorse .Im thinking the pics she showed me when I first became interested might be pics you posted before.Sounds like you have got your hands full !
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Yup my Green Grand came from Racehorse .Im thinking the pics she showed me when I first became interested might be pics you posted before.Sounds like you have got your hands full !
Has Rob ever made a door with the plunger for a Regular Grand ? Would it even possible to do it ? Would be nice to have this as a option for at home
Not saying I will bug him for one right now just curious and maybe its something I can talk to him about in the future . If no one knows no worries .Figured better to ask around before bugging Robert Thanks
Psssst hey Vash..... I wasn't asking for no reason
I've got a few special doors in the works. I to thought a button would be cool. If you look on the photos and storage thread you can see a solid brass door I have that I'm working on the button might be a cool fit for it. 
And thank you all for the wonderful pics and descriptions. This thread just keeps getting better.
Great minds think a likePsssst hey Vash..... I wasn't asking for no reason
And thank you all for the wonderful pics and descriptions. This thread just keeps getting better.
Those NETs are on their way too my friend ! Yeah button wouldnt work for pocket use or work for me but would be awesome for when Im home.Keep me updated on how it works out my friend .I agree too love this thread !!!
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Sounds like you have got your hands full !
Having my hands full is pretty constant. Never a dull moment unless all humans vacated and Bubs are relaxing for a bit. And no visiting "civilized" beings here. Snagging some pics. More but may be doing one per post because I'm on Android Tablet, using Chrome, just installed, and Tapatalk is demanding yet another upgrade and demanding a payment that my that my Sprint is rejecting and, damnit, I just put a new upgrade on and how many frigg'n times do I have to change my password and how many user names do I frigg'n have!!!!!!?????? All this frigg'n change over to everything being so connected...... Really pisses me off. I'm totally "wired" and computer connected, for decades, but this is madness. How in the world do non real computer, IT support peeps manage!!!???
Give me snarling, slashling carnivores any day.
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Sorry but I have things beeping at me that need attention. Have to stop and see to them. Pic should give a good idea. Green Anodized came along really late in timeline. Not sure how many of the dark greens produced but Robert, soon after, used a "new" anodizer who only did the lighter green, as seen on body of Grand in picture. Robert moving to doing most of process in house was so he could have more quality control with so much less waste.
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Clyde, I also have one that I think predates that one. No magnet in the door. worked on friction. and the 808 connection did not have the adjustable center post.
Yep. I used to have the first one out the door (ReoUNO) before I gave it to a neighbor who royally screwed it up trying to re-mod it; it was as you described.* Rob was constantly upgrading and honing the design, and I swear at one point I had three of the early models. At one point, I had a minor issue (in retrospect, probably user error) with it and sent it back, and truthfully had forgotten about it.
Long story short, I managed to get UNO back back but the modifications basically killed it. Ever the perfectionist, Rob didn't want the by then ugly, and beat up prototype circulating, so he reminded me about this one and offered to send it back in trade. When we discussing it, he mentioned that it was a limited production run of only two models, with himself keeping the other one.
Didn't say it was the oldest, but respectfully contend it is the rarest.
*At the time, I had a policy of donating mods I didn't outright purchase to local flesh and blood newbies to get them off analogs. Steve was the first person I got off of analogs in general, Sterno my first conversion as a Reovangelist. Happy to report Steve has been a hardcore convert to our denomination since spring of this year.
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Has Rob ever made a door with the plunger for a Regular Grand ? Would it even possible to do it ? Would be nice to have this as a option for at home
Not saying I will bug him for one right now just curious and maybe its something I can talk to him about in the future . If no one knows no worries .Figured better to ask around before bugging Robert Thanks
The current doors for the Metal Reos are too thin for a plunger. There needs to be enough thickness for a plunger to sit recessed so it would be able to slide onto the body or a notch in the body to clear the plunger. There's always ways though. I'm not sure how the woodies' plungers look like on the inside but this is what I would imagine.
The different release 18650 wood mods are just awesome. The build quality looks fantastic.
I mentioned the Polished then Anodized REO's done in early runs of Grands and Mini's.
Here are a few of mine:
Polished Anodized Black with a Copper Vein door Grand.
Polished Anodized Purple Mini.
Polished Anodized Gold with a Black Wrinkle door Grand.
I admit, I am a REO collector. My collection was made by choice following a list of rare REO's. Then I went kind of wild with different woods. LOL!
I love my REO's and cherish the ones that are indeed rare.
Here are a few of mine:
Polished Anodized Black with a Copper Vein door Grand.
Polished Anodized Purple Mini.
Polished Anodized Gold with a Black Wrinkle door Grand.
I admit, I am a REO collector. My collection was made by choice following a list of rare REO's. Then I went kind of wild with different woods. LOL!
I love my REO's and cherish the ones that are indeed rare.
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Yup mine is the newer one .Thanks for the pic !Having my hands full is pretty constant. Never a dull moment unless all humans vacated and Bubs are relaxing for a bit. And no visiting "civilized" beings here. Snagging some pics. More but may be doing one per post because I'm on Android Tablet, using Chrome, just installed, and Tapatalk is demanding yet another upgrade and demanding a payment that my that my Sprint is rejecting and, damnit, I just put a new upgrade on and how many frigg'n times do I have to change my password and how many user names do I frigg'n have!!!!!!?????? All this frigg'n change over to everything being so connected...... Really pisses me off. I'm totally "wired" and computer connected, for decades, but this is madness. How in the world do non real computer, IT support peeps manage!!!???
Give me snarling, slashling carnivores any day.
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Alice would be able to tell you about the Grand you have ---- it was part of a trade I made with her for my VV REO Grand (black and white).
Grands, whether VV or Mechanical, are and were just not good for my very small hand size.
I'm sure the Alice or the historians can "date" your green REO....Alice would know when she bought it.I look at the annodized green grands and yours looked more like an army green, I think you even called it that, Vash. It is not sparkly in any way, that is sort of what I liked about it. flat and natural looking, yet, still a certain something.....
What is interesting about the annodized REOs is the way they reflect light. I'm sure people who know aobut annodizing already know this, but the colors change in almost every single photograph, depending on the light. (since photography is really photographing light, and not the objects, anyway, so this would sort of make sense!) I love that about the annodized REOs, but it is also real hard to show anyone the color LOL
So back to the green stuff, Alice, the mini green (with the door that doesn't match) is from 2011? In some light the door almost matches, in other light, the mis-match is more obvious.
What is the blue-ish looking one that looks more like turquiose that somebody posted here? That one is drop down dead gorgeous.
Alice would be able to tell you about the Grand you have ---- it was part of a trade I made with her for my VV REO Grand (black and white).
Grands, whether VV or Mechanical, are and were just not good for my very small hand size.
I look at the annodized green grands and yours looked more like an army green, I think you even called it that, Vash. It is not sparkly in any way, that is sort of what I liked about it. flat and natural looking, yet, still a certain something.....
What is interesting about the annodized REOs is the way they reflect light. I'm sure people who know aobut annodizing already know this, but the colors change in almost every single photograph, depending on the light. (since photography is really photographing light, and not the objects, anyway, so this would sort of make sense!) I love that about the annodized REOs, but it is also real hard to show anyone the color LOL
So back to the green stuff, Alice, the mini green (with the door that doesn't match) is from 2011? In some light the door almost matches, in other light, the mis-match is more obvious.
What is the blue-ish looking one that looks more like turquiose that somebody posted here? That one is drop down dead gorgeous.
I'll have to go look at dates on some of my first pics of the greens when I can snag some time. I can't remember when Robert started the greens nor when he switch over to the lighter green; anodized that is. Perhaps someone will have better memory. One way to age them is milling marks inside. 2010 metals had swirling, swishing marks inside. At some point, late 2010 or early 2011 he changed miller and marks are rectangular. Next they were circular. My first 18490 Minis have rectangular but not as distinct as the earlier ones. The most recent, anodized, which he stopped doing in 2013, have virtally no milling marks inside but I only have Mini 2.1 and VV anodized and powder coated and no Grand. Don't have access to collection right now but I may have one between circular and lates no marks that has some swirling/swishing but different from the 2010 marks. But don't quote me on that. I have a few anodized that have the distinct rectangular lines but some swirling between the lines. At the moment I'm not sure wher they fit in. (Hopefully I can do some pics this weekend.)
You are so right about the difficulty getting pics showing real color. And the anodizing "changing" colors in different lighting and angles of light. Couple months ago I was sending a few anodized off, some extra multiples of "same" colors. I had a heck of a time matching doors to their correct bodies. Part of the problem was some doors were purchased separate from bodies that came originally with doors different from bodies, like for instance a gold that came with black door and I later purchased a gold door. Some of the colors stayed very close between different anodizers Robert used but with a few colors there was a noticeable change. The two greens are most obvious. The Blue, that came out a long time after first run of Mini, in mid 2010 and absent for a long time after (not offered), changed very subtlety between anodizers. Ratman saw a blue he preferred over another and was looking for a Grand in the dark blue that had just a little less green. I had Mini in one Blue and Grand in the one he wanted and extra doors. Trying to match them up required taking them all to several different lighting sources was only way I could distinquish between all.
Another difference in colors has to do with how thick the anodizing is even if same formula is used and, of couse, whether they were polished before anodizing. I have several purple anodized, all same color, but the tumbled process is different on some changing the look of color. The polished is very obviously different but one looks like it is polished because the anodizing is glossier. I purchased it as "polished" and I can see why seller thought it was polished. It took putting it beside the real polished to really tell the difference.
As far as I know there was only one run of the Buff finishes. That was the first run of Grands in November 2010.
Alice would be able to tell you about the Grand you have ---- it was part of a trade I made with her for my VV REO Grand (black and white).
Grands, whether VV or Mechanical, are and were just not good for my very small hand size.
I look at the annodized green grands and yours looked more like an army green, I think you even called it that, Vash. It is not sparkly in any way, that is sort of what I liked about it. flat and natural looking, yet, still a certain something.....
What is interesting about the annodized REOs is the way they reflect light. I'm sure people who know aobut annodizing already know this, but the colors change in almost every single photograph, depending on the light. (since photography is really photographing light, and not the objects, anyway, so this would sort of make sense!) I love that about the annodized REOs, but it is also real hard to show anyone the color LOL
So back to the green stuff, Alice, the mini green (with the door that doesn't match) is from 2011? In some light the door almost matches, in other light, the mis-match is more obvious.
What is the blue-ish looking one that looks more like turquiose that somebody posted here? That one is drop down dead gorgeous.
I have one blue, from the couple of runs Robert did mid 2010, before the Buff Grands came out in Nov. 2010. It is definitely closer to turquoise than the later, darker Blues, probably late 2011 and on. I can't remember if there were any Blue in the Buff Grand release; possibly not.
This is the mid 2010 blue. In most lighting it has a lot more green in the blue and lighter than picture reflects. Also, it has the fine milling marks on outside. Lisa posted a picture of two Reds; one later, without milling marks and one very early with the exterior milling marks. I'll go snag a pic of the Blue that came along later, after a long stretch with no Blues offered.
Original, very early Blue. (Note: not an AW IMR. This was before the AWs came on the vaping scene. My first IMRs were not AW. And there was a very diffinate performance difference in the AW 14500. It wasn't quite as major in the larger batteries.)
These are the later Blues. Although the picture doesn't show it well, the lighter one has a tinge more green in it than the darker one. Neither are as light as the 2010 blue nor do they have as much green in the blue.
Another shot of later Blues.
Original, very early Blue. (Note: not an AW IMR. This was before the AWs came on the vaping scene. My first IMRs were not AW. And there was a very diffinate performance difference in the AW 14500. It wasn't quite as major in the larger batteries.)
These are the later Blues. Although the picture doesn't show it well, the lighter one has a tinge more green in it than the darker one. Neither are as light as the 2010 blue nor do they have as much green in the blue.
Another shot of later Blues.
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A rare one of it's kind will be coming soon. Yeah I know the drill pics when it shows up.
A rare one of is kind will be coming soon. Yeah I know the drill pics when it shows up.
And to that I say......YOU SUCK! Tease! lol
That's a really good looking blue. Wish I would've gotten into REOs way earlier; I would've racked up a larger collection of anodized colors. I'm just thankful I caught the last blue anodized REO Grands I saw in stock on the website. Checked frequently for a while to see if my cousin could get a blue anodized as well, until I was told no more anodized . At least I have one, and thankfully I was also able to snag a serenitygear sleeve before Tim stopped making them for REOs, lol. It has been protecting my beautiful blue grand's finish since day one. Right at the cusp of change, I was.
Great thread. I enjoy seeing the history and all the changes. Makes you wonder even more what's in the future...
. At least I have one, and thankfully I was also able to snag a serenitygear sleeve before Tim stopped making them for REOs, lol. It has been protecting my beautiful blue grand's finish since day one. Right at the cusp of change, I was.Great thread. I enjoy seeing the history and all the changes. Makes you wonder even more what's in the future...
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New on the left, old on the right.
I was talking about a turquiose (to me anyway) that is the color of the actual stone, I think the one on the right, but how does this compare to the blues that Alice posted in #135??
In #135 they look very blue indeed. I was never an art student, wish I was, so don't know much about colors, but I call the ones in 135 more like a royal blue?
The one i am talking about would have more green, like a tuquoise stone? More like your photo, the reo on the right?
Well no matter, the ones you pictured are my 2 favorite colors, if I could mix that paint together into one color it would probably be perfect LOL
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Thanks RacehorseAlice would be able to tell you about the Grand you have ---- it was part of a trade I made with her for my VV REO Grand (black and white).
Grands, whether VV or Mechanical, are and were just not good for my very small hand size.
I look at the annodized green grands and yours looked more like an army green, I think you even called it that, Vash. It is not sparkly in any way, that is sort of what I liked about it. flat and natural looking, yet, still a certain something.....
What is interesting about the annodized REOs is the way they reflect light. I'm sure people who know aobut annodizing already know this, but the colors change in almost every single photograph, depending on the light. (since photography is really photographing light, and not the objects, anyway, so this would sort of make sense!) I love that about the annodized REOs, but it is also real hard to show anyone the color LOL
So back to the green stuff, Alice, the mini green (with the door that doesn't match) is from 2011? In some light the door almost matches, in other light, the mis-match is more obvious.
What is the blue-ish looking one that looks more like turquiose that somebody posted here? That one is drop down dead gorgeous.
Yeah mine is much more of a army green and like you said and flat in color,I love that about it .Its not flashy and very simple and rugged looking while having that certain something about .- Status
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