Reos and Cartos

[Rev. Stabard]

Hi everyone. As a few of you might know my sister wants to move to e-cigs. Eventually she wants a Reo so I put together a laundry list of items that are inexpensive that she can buy and use now while we figure out how we're going to handle the Reo. I have to teach her battery safety, how to make a coil, how to test the coil, how to wick, etc, etc.

I'm thinking of instead of putting together a cheap kit to start with I go straight to the Reo and have her use cartos while she gets up to speed on the rest of the stuff.

I've never used a carto with a Reo however so I don't know what gotchas lurk in that part of the woods. I'm assuming the ones that Rob sells are bottom feed and they can be squonked. What do you do to prime the carto? Do you do a standard fill using a dropper or syringe and then once wet rely on squonking from then on? Or can you simply put the carto on, with a full bottle of juice inside, and squonk until you see the juice wetting the carto filler and just continue squonking as you vape?

Any other gotchas that might make this plan a bad idea? The goal is to keep her from doing what I, and I'm sure many others, have done on the way to Reoville. Namely buy tons of gear to have it end up in a storage box once you see just how good the Reo is.

Any helpful thoughts would be appreciated greatly.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Hey, Fleet. I think your idea of getting the reo/battery part of the equation sorted first is a good one.

In terms of transitionary toppers, you might want to consider using a 510 bridgeless (or 306) atty. Since juice storage is taken care of by the squonk bottle, the need to have juice in the carto is pretty much moot. Also, it would get her used to squonking regularly.

Rob sells 510's if you're interested.

Never used a carto on a reo myself, but I know there is the dark art called blind squonking involved which I'm sure some 'naut with more experience than I can help you with.

 

[Doffy]

i second the bridgeless idea of papa. cartos on a reo involve squonk, then a few short short sharp pulls to pull the juice up before vaping. an attie is just squonk and go so easier

 

[unsure]

I might have a new packaged bridgeless 510. If I can find it you can have it.

 

[Rev. Stabard]

I might have a new packaged bridgeless 510. If I can find it you can have it.

Thank you, that's very kind. I think we'll be all set as I'll have to buy a few of them for her to have spares on hand.

If I may ask, what is "bridgeless" when it comes to cartos?

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Bridgeless essentially means "no wick" - it's pretty standard for most any 510 you could source these days.

ETA: so, it refers to atties, not cartos (which, of course, have filler/wick).

 

[Rev. Stabard]

Bridgeless essentially means "no wick" - it's pretty standard for most any 510 you could source these days.

ETA: so, it refers to atties, not cartos (which, of course, have filler/wick).

Ah yes, after re-reading your post it was I who confused attys with cartos regarding bridgeless. For a bridgeless 510 atty do you have any recommendations?

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Well, to keep it simple, Rob has 510's on his site...

Atomizers

I have an old hh.357, but that would be a pain for you to source. I have it as my doomsday backup when I travel.

 

[Rickajho]

Cartos is good, better and easier to use actually on a Reo.

The whole catch cup and feed on demand eliminates the annoyances of using cartos with non Reo stuff. To prime one I just squonk the bejeezers out of it until I see the filler at the top is saturated. Priming it on the Reo - from the bottom up - means you know the filler is going to be fully saturated when you see it's moist at the top. Since the catch cup is going to take up any excess it's kind of hard to do it wrong and easier to keep the things consistently wet. Cartos drove me insane when not on a Reo: Too much liquid and you had flooding and leaking, too little and you had dry hits and ruined cartos. Easy peasy on a Reo.

Simple single coil stuff in the 1.5 to 1.8 ohm works well. I would get her both some cartos to try and an atty as suggested. People do have preferences one over the other when it comes to ease of use and flavor production. And they are both cheap enough so trying both won't break the bank.

 

[redeyedancer]

Many of my customers use cartos only and have no plans to ever use anything but cartos . They work great on a reo and in my opinion are the easiest to master for a new reo user I would fill the carto and fill the mod once the carto dries out feed it from the bottle from that point on

 

[MamaTried]

Well, to keep it simple, Rob has 510's on his site...

Atomizers

I have an old hh.357, but that would be a pain for you to source. I have it as my doomsday backup when I travel.

i had 3 hh.357's die in 4 days. good luck on doomsday

 

[Mrs C]

Hi everyone. As a few of you might know my sister wants to move to e-cigs. Eventually she wants a Reo so I put together a laundry list of items that are inexpensive that she can buy and use now while we figure out how we're going to handle the Reo. I have to teach her battery safety, how to make a coil, how to test the coil, how to wick, etc, etc.

I'm thinking of instead of putting together a cheap kit to start with I go straight to the Reo and have her use cartos while she gets up to speed on the rest of the stuff.

I've never used a carto with a Reo however so I don't know what gotchas lurk in that part of the woods. I'm assuming the ones that Rob sells are bottom feed and they can be squonked. What do you do to prime the carto? Do you do a standard fill using a dropper or syringe and then once wet rely on squonking from then on? Or can you simply put the carto on, with a full bottle of juice inside, and squonk until you see the juice wetting the carto filler and just continue squonking as you vape?

Any other gotchas that might make this plan a bad idea? The goal is to keep her from doing what I, and I'm sure many others, have done on the way to Reoville. Namely buy tons of gear to have it end up in a storage box once you see just how good the Reo is.

Any helpful thoughts would be appreciated greatly.

SXD has a vid for the blind squonk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpmTDOO5ko

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

i had 3 hh.357's die in 4 days. good luck on doomsday

Yep, I hear you. 1 or 2 days is all I need, typically, on a biz trip. Longer than that and I'm flush with backup atties, wire, etc.

 

[Rev. Stabard]

Ok, this has all been very helpful folks. I really appreciate it. She'll be on a Reo in no time...

Thanks folks!