One feature that I miss about the P67 - I liked being able to give the Grand the weekly bath. I was able to completely clean up any drips and spills from filling the new bottle or if my SS feed tube loosened. I liked to wash the contacts and springs before putting a little De-Oxit on them.
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If I'm not mistaken, there is a washable replacement (delrin?) coming soon for the one part we can't now wash -
right, @earthrocker*72 ??
I'd probably want one - I don't often need to, but I would prefer the option to give it a bath...
right, @earthrocker*72 ??
I'd probably want one - I don't often need to, but I would prefer the option to give it a bath...
Why can't you do this will the P67? I don't own one but I have Minis and I love this about my choices in bottom feeders - able to dunk the whole thing in water and swipe off and go...
This bit, unlike a grand, has the positive contact kind of "in a frame" and is made of WOOD!!
No soaking!
No soaking!
Over-harvested the delrin trees?
Seriously, did Rob say why he went with wood in the P67?
I don't know that he ever said. But just making a guess: So that he could make the inserts 'in house' with his mill; instead of subbing them out to an injection molder.
I remember something about the insert in a video that rob made, where they kept breaking on him.
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Post number 509 at about 8 min in he starts to talk about the insert
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The reason for the wood insert was purely cost and time effective only. The new one I posted about was the Ultem insert that he sent Russ for his P67. Those should be coming shortly and I believe Rob was machining those himself.
I have 2 grands at the moment. The first was bought in Feb 2014 and the other was from a trade in Nov 2015 and neither has had an actual bath to this day. They have been wiped out a couple times and blown out with the nozzle from the air compressor, but thats it. I think the biggest reason for not bathing them is I am very OCD about them when they get a little dirty and clean them on the spot. I will also clean the insides when filling the juice bottle also. I recently changed all my contacts in both to solid silver and haven't put any De-Ox-It at all on them. Haven't needed to as yet.
I'm the same way about my REOs. In addition to my Woodvils, I have 4 Grands and 2 P67s. I've yet to bathe any of them. I've never had reason to. If I have a leaking juice bottle or tube, I look for the source right away and clean it up. I actually haven't had a leak of any kind since converting the Grands to the new 510s. I used to get a drip every once in a while in my black ano, at the tube connector, prior to having it converted. I clean the contacts every once in a while, put Deoxit on them, and that's about it. I rarely even pull the tube off.
So you don't buy much from the classifieds I take it then...
No, I've never bought anything from the classifieds.
I've had silicon covers over the bottoms of my buttons for years, making the push a little lighter as it places the positive contact closer to the battery. I imagine the heavy duty contact in cahoots with the new 510 might need a bit of a break in, but lord knows that goes quick for a guy like me. I just got in contact with Rob. I'll be sending out one Reo at a time, starting ASAP for the new 510's.
Good to know! Thanks for the info!
PM'd my dude.
Also, since we're all sharing... He's my current set up. Nothing fancy.
So, I'm the only one that once a month I take the delrin off and put the REOs in a hot bath? I can't stand the thought of having eliquid under that delrin just sitting there getting nasty. If you have bought a use REO - you never know if someone else ever cleaned it out or not...and trust me - until you see one with 2 years worth of gross...eewww can't talk about it.
I rinse them a few time a week but I do dry them/leave the over night on a towel to air dry. Glad I haven't bought a P67 yet then.
I rinse them a few time a week but I do dry them/leave the over night on a towel to air dry. Glad I haven't bought a P67 yet then.
Good Morning Reonauts. Another day begins anew...
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If I bought a used REO from someone else, I certainly would take it apart and give it a good cleaning, inside and out. No doubt it's a good idea.
I looked around and probably found the same results as you did. I can't find a single place world wide that is selling the mouthpiece. If there is a clone out there, or anyone having found a "this also fits" no one is identifying or reporting it that I saw.
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