to the OP - i can't even look at threads like that anymore. Now I do get the device I use (obviously REO) isn't for everyone and i shouldn't proclaim it the high and mighty. but really. I love the NT forum but so many threads pop up on a daily basis of people experiencing trouble with their device. Then there are pages upon pages of suggestions, clip the wire that way, tuck the wick this way, use this amount of cotton, don't screw this part too tight...on and on and on and on and on. I got a KFL prior to the REO - over 30 pages of amazing people helping me. if I could take it all back, have gotten the REO first, saved the money I spent on the KFL clone and protanks, and avoided troubling those amazing people with 30+ pages of advice that I'll never again need or use, you bet I would.
just seems to me the people continually having trouble would be doing themselves a favor by NOT buying more and more mods and tanks, and just buy one REO. (quickly followed by the second, third, fourth...lol)
before I get flamed--no I'm not suggesting the REO is for EVERYONE or my way is right and theirs is wrong. just sympathizing with the OP's point, that's all

those threads (and devices/tanks) give me a migraine