Got both of mine in yesterday. Local post office, out of habit, held them for me at their front counter.
This RBA has a lot going for it. Looks nice, fits my OMG** and VVG perfectly. Ceramic base allows use of unoxidized SS mesh. Appears to be solidly made. Posts are nicely set apart, and longer screws shouldn't accidentally come out as easily while recoiling. Pretty decent airflow and draw. Top cap screws nicely onto the base with real precision; i.e., the air inlet hole is always above the coil every time it's screwed on. And the RM2* as a whole screws onto the same place on my Grands on every install. Nice. It also doesn't discolor or darken the juice in my bottle after repeated squonking.
Most of all, there's the price for these features. I think Robert could have charged more for this RBA, and the fact that he didn't is a real testament to both his character and comradeship to the Reo community.
It's not perfect, though. But my issues with it are relatively minor niggles so far. For starters, the holes on the posts are pretty darned small: I have to use my reading specs or magnifying headpiece thingamagig to thread the coil ends into them. The delrin drip tip included with mine fits loosely and whistles a bit while inhaling. And ironically for a bottom feeder, it's not the best at feeding juice onto the atty's base and requires a longer and harder bottle squeeze than other rebuildables I've tried. Though this is offset by being able to peer down into the mod after removing the drip tip and being able to see the amount of juice that's present. Like many RBA's where the top cap screws down onto a relatively low base the top cap often detaches when I want to remove the RM2* from my Reo; a beveled edge on the base would be a big help in this regard.
It's been said that this is a dripper modified for bottom feeding, which explains it's less than stellar juice feeding. But it also has a nice side benefit: the ability to hold a fair amount of a second juice dripped onto it for a change of pace without contaminating the juice in the bottle.
My biggest issue is that for me it appears to somehow lose a bit of oomph in getting current to the coil. Case in point, I used kanthal and cotton wick (Thanks, Jan!) that read .79 ohms on my meter, but it didn't give me a ULR experience, even with a fully charged AW IMR battery. Other coil setups that measured in the 1.3 to 1.5 ohm range provided a somewhat unexciting vaping experience. This could be due to my (lack of) coiling skills, so I'll hold off on final judgment. And the .79 coil, while it doesn't blow my head off, is sufficient. Needless to say, I'm enjoying the RM2* more on my VVG than my OMG**.
So far, this isn't my absolute favorite rebuildable, but I can see it quickly becoming my go-to, daily driver RBA: it's many strengths outweigh it's few deficiencies. And I would highly recommend it to any Reonaut yearning to try their first rebuildable.
I've used it with ss-sheathed thick bulli on my VVG, but am enjoying the ULR cotton at 3.7v vaping. My next build will be to wrap a bit of SS around a thick sewing needle and coiling that to take full advantage of the ceramic base. Wish me luck.
*Reomizer 2nd edition
**Original Mechanical Grand
This RBA has a lot going for it. Looks nice, fits my OMG** and VVG perfectly. Ceramic base allows use of unoxidized SS mesh. Appears to be solidly made. Posts are nicely set apart, and longer screws shouldn't accidentally come out as easily while recoiling. Pretty decent airflow and draw. Top cap screws nicely onto the base with real precision; i.e., the air inlet hole is always above the coil every time it's screwed on. And the RM2* as a whole screws onto the same place on my Grands on every install. Nice. It also doesn't discolor or darken the juice in my bottle after repeated squonking.
Most of all, there's the price for these features. I think Robert could have charged more for this RBA, and the fact that he didn't is a real testament to both his character and comradeship to the Reo community.
It's not perfect, though. But my issues with it are relatively minor niggles so far. For starters, the holes on the posts are pretty darned small: I have to use my reading specs or magnifying headpiece thingamagig to thread the coil ends into them. The delrin drip tip included with mine fits loosely and whistles a bit while inhaling. And ironically for a bottom feeder, it's not the best at feeding juice onto the atty's base and requires a longer and harder bottle squeeze than other rebuildables I've tried. Though this is offset by being able to peer down into the mod after removing the drip tip and being able to see the amount of juice that's present. Like many RBA's where the top cap screws down onto a relatively low base the top cap often detaches when I want to remove the RM2* from my Reo; a beveled edge on the base would be a big help in this regard.
It's been said that this is a dripper modified for bottom feeding, which explains it's less than stellar juice feeding. But it also has a nice side benefit: the ability to hold a fair amount of a second juice dripped onto it for a change of pace without contaminating the juice in the bottle.
My biggest issue is that for me it appears to somehow lose a bit of oomph in getting current to the coil. Case in point, I used kanthal and cotton wick (Thanks, Jan!) that read .79 ohms on my meter, but it didn't give me a ULR experience, even with a fully charged AW IMR battery. Other coil setups that measured in the 1.3 to 1.5 ohm range provided a somewhat unexciting vaping experience. This could be due to my (lack of) coiling skills, so I'll hold off on final judgment. And the .79 coil, while it doesn't blow my head off, is sufficient. Needless to say, I'm enjoying the RM2* more on my VVG than my OMG**.
So far, this isn't my absolute favorite rebuildable, but I can see it quickly becoming my go-to, daily driver RBA: it's many strengths outweigh it's few deficiencies. And I would highly recommend it to any Reonaut yearning to try their first rebuildable.
I've used it with ss-sheathed thick bulli on my VVG, but am enjoying the ULR cotton at 3.7v vaping. My next build will be to wrap a bit of SS around a thick sewing needle and coiling that to take full advantage of the ceramic base. Wish me luck.
*Reomizer 2nd edition
**Original Mechanical Grand
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