So, it's my birthday week

[rel322]

So my birthday is coming up on Thursday and I decided to give my Reo it's first cleaning. It's been about two weeks since I got it off the classifieds, since then I've gone through 6oz of Menthol tobacco and about 4oz of Root Beer. (Not a heavy vaporer I guess). So today I:

Clean the atomizer that was used with the Menthol tobacco by leaving it sit in Rubbing Alcohol (91%) for a few hours and then washed it off with warm water and is now sitting drying.

Soaked the intake tube in a 6oz bottle of Rubbing alcohol and put rubbing alcohol in the catch cup and squonked the air out of it, and let it sit for a couple of hours. Then I ran water through the tube and catch cup and blew out the water.

Lastly, tossed the o-ring which is now sitting in the alcohol.

Oh! I also cleaned the firing pin and applied a small dab of Noalox on the firing pin.

So now my Grand is back together and waiting for the drive to school. My main question is...
Did I miss anything?

 

[iamtopher34]

the 22nd is my birthday aswell so happy birthday to us

 

[nerak]

You can put the whole REO (it is a Metal right?) under the running warm water and rinse everything. It will take a little longer to dry where the parts sit behind the delrin insert. But a rinsing will remove any dry juice that may be in the bottom around the spring.

The rest you did sounds great! I don't clean mine that often. Not a total cleaning like that. I clean anything around or in the catch cup and inside the bottom when needed. I don't mind the flavor carry over when filling with juice. The tubing seldom gets flushed.

They do look better and work better with a good thorough cleaning.

 

[rel322]

Yea, it's metal. Delrin insert? is that the plate held in by a screw covering the firing pin and the other thingy (technical, i know)? I figure I'll clean the atty's everytime i finish a bottle (hoping to increase life span) and a full clean maybe every 2-3 weeks of use.

Yay! Happy Birthday to Me! (and all the other people born on March 22)

 

[Mudflap]

So my birthday is coming up on Thursday and I decided to give my Reo it's first cleaning. It's been about two weeks since I got it off the classifieds, since then I've gone through 6oz of Menthol Tobacco and about 4oz of Root Beer. (Not a heavy vaporer I guess).

10 oz = 295.735296875 ml



Just teasing ya.

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[Sterno]

Happy birthday !!!!

 

[SammyT]

Exactly What I was thinking Muddy sounds like a good cleaning process. if you clean your atties in vodka or PGA (everclear) then you can just prime them and vape them afterward, some atties do not like to get dried out.

 

[Bowtie]

5/16 plastic tube attached to whatever fits your faucet.
I just open the faucet slightly, and come back in a minute. Never have any flavor residue.


Sorry for the crap pic.

 

[Butters78]

I gave mine a complete washing the other day.. works like a champ now. Happy bday! Mine is the 25th.

 

[redeyedancer]

5/16 plastic tube attached to whatever fits your faucet.
I just open the faucet slightly, and come back in a minute. Never have any flavor residue.

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Sorry for the crap pic.

Here is a guy that doesn't like to waste time lol thanks for sharing and the lol

 

[redeyedancer]

Happy birthday rel322

 

[washvap]

Happy Birthday!

You can put the whole REO (it is a Metal right?) under the running warm water and rinse everything. It will take a little longer to dry where the parts sit behind the delrin insert. But a rinsing will remove any dry juice that may be in the bottom around the spring.

The rest you did sounds great! I don't clean mine that often. Not a total cleaning like that. I clean anything around or in the catch cup and inside the bottom when needed. I don't mind the flavor carry over when filling with juice. The tubing seldom gets flushed.

They do look better and work better with a good thorough cleaning.

+1

That's exactly what I do when I clean my metal REO's.

5/16 plastic tube attached to whatever fits your faucet.
I just open the faucet slightly, and come back in a minute. Never have any flavor residue.

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Sorry for the crap pic.

Awesome tip, never thought of that before and it looks very effective.

 

[charady]

I just use a kid's medicine syringe to run water through the tubing (or vodka if it was something strong). It has a straw type opening on the end that fits nicely to shoot the water through the tubing lol.

 

[pmoraldo]

I prefer PGA myself but sounds like you did a great job amd happy birthday

 

[Della Cirque]

Happy Birthday!

My favorite way to clean the feed tube-
Pour shot of everclear into shot glass
Put feed tube into shot glass
Drink shot using the tube as a straw

 

[nerak]

Happy Birthday!

My favorite way to clean the feed tube-
Pour shot of everclear into shot glass
Put feed tube into shot glass
Drink shot using the tube as a straw

A whole shot to clean one tube? Well, I guess I better stop by the local liquor store and grab a few bottles! Me got some tubes to clean! Works for me! Um.........wait.......37 shots? Maybe I will only do the metals this week!

 

[whatitstrue]

It's official, HAPPY BIRTHDAY rel322 and iamtopher34!!!!!!!!!

Here's your birthday banana dances!!!!!!!!


I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that celibrates Birthday Weeks!!!!!

 

[unsure]

 

[JC Okie]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Cool that it falls on National Vaping Day.

 

[rel322]

Thanks for the Birthday wishes!!!

And yes, my mother taught me that we all get a birthday week, not just a day

And, isn't everyday National Vaping Day?