I guess the VV units are still in limbo?
He looks like he is stuck! Yep, just like the Vv units! Good call! LOL
VV REO Grand II
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He looks like he is stuck! Yep, just like the Vv units! Good call! LOL
I kinda spent most of my money for the VV Grand on a Silver Vein Grand yesterday. I couldn't help myself, it looked sweet!!! Got to work some OT to try to get me a VV. 
I kinda spent most of my money for the VV Grand on a Silver Vein Grand yesterday. I couldn't help myself, it looked sweet!!! Got to work some OT to try to get me a VV.
I saw that listed! It really looked sharp! Congrats!
I kinda spent most of my money for the VV Grand on a Silver Vein Grand yesterday. I couldn't help myself, it looked sweet!!! Got to work some OT to try to get me a VV.
Congratulations on your purchase , every $ spent on a Reo is so so well worth it ,( vv or not vv really dosent matter ) depending on ones own needs and vaping voltage / watts . A Reo is a Reo
wishing you well
warm regards
Sahil
I kinda spent most of my money for the VV Grand on a Silver Vein Grand yesterday. I couldn't help myself, it looked sweet!!! Got to work some OT to try to get me a VV.
Congrats! So happy for you. You'll be very happy with it. Im very happy with mine
There's a reason Rob calls me 'the Samsonite Gorilla of mod testers'...I had a minor mishap with my VV Grand that I'd like to share about.
Mine has been in a lot of hands, especially with the chalice prototype on it. But I think once or twice it's been oversquonked and had some juice escape and get in the button area.
Sigh. E juice congealing around electronic components: the bane of my existence when I was in my Darwin phase. The two meeting is never a happy event.
Rob quickly fixed the problem, and my VVG should already be on it's way back to me.
This shouldn't be a problem for the vast majority of VVG owners, as that mod has a very deep juice well and a recessed area for the button, but it needs to be kept in mind.
The modmaster himself suggested one or two simple preventative measures for myself and other messy Reonauts: the first is a rubber band around the top of the mod to catch any errant juice so it can be intercepted before finding it's way to any electronics. Something else that can be tried is a piece of tape over the button area...should keep juice out but allow the button to be pressed.
Again, just something to be aware of.
Mine has been in a lot of hands, especially with the chalice prototype on it. But I think once or twice it's been oversquonked and had some juice escape and get in the button area.
Sigh. E juice congealing around electronic components: the bane of my existence when I was in my Darwin phase. The two meeting is never a happy event.
Rob quickly fixed the problem, and my VVG should already be on it's way back to me.
This shouldn't be a problem for the vast majority of VVG owners, as that mod has a very deep juice well and a recessed area for the button, but it needs to be kept in mind.
The modmaster himself suggested one or two simple preventative measures for myself and other messy Reonauts: the first is a rubber band around the top of the mod to catch any errant juice so it can be intercepted before finding it's way to any electronics. Something else that can be tried is a piece of tape over the button area...should keep juice out but allow the button to be pressed.
Again, just something to be aware of.
I would have done the same thing if it where the copper vein.
I kinda spent most of my money for the VV Grand on a Silver Vein Grand yesterday. I couldn't help myself, it looked sweet!!! Got to work some OT to try to get me a VV.
I believe your talking about J-fro Justin haven't seen him around either
I kinda spent most of my money for the VV Grand on a Silver Vein Grand yesterday. I couldn't help myself, it looked sweet!!! Got to work some OT to try to get me a VV.
Congrats on your new smexy Reo there is still time to save for VV Grand
Thanks for sharing. Sorry you had to be without your VVG for any length of time.
I'm wondering if the VVGs can be cleaned, at home, using 99.9 alcohol like many other electronics can be cleaned? My first experience cleaning electronics and even immercing them in soapy water was with the old IBM keyboards. (That's when keyboards cost over $100 and more.) You opened them up cleaned with soapy water, then distilled water rinse, then finish rinse with 99.9% alcohol, then air dry.
I don't have a VVG in hand, only VVW, so just going on speculation. Of course I wouldn't consider doing such with a VVW but wondering why a similar cleaning wouldn't work, using only the purest alcohol but no water, unless the chip area is not user openable if one needs to get to the chip to do some "scrubbing" of that area. I would think the alcohol would remove almost any sticky, though, with just a soak and/or swishing, and/or injecting with syringe into tight spaces, without having to open the chip area.
That is unless the VVG became inoperable due to the juice accumulation.
I have one other bottom fed wood mod, not a REO, not VV, but no chip, that is notorious for leaking inside so that the juice actually comes out of the firing button that is a similar button to the Woodvil. That mod is mostly retired from use but while I was using it it was only a major annoyance and didn't cause any problems with using it.
Did your VVG actually stop working? Did Robert replace the chip or other parts or did he just give them a good cleaning.
Which reminds me..... I have a tube mod, one of the original Roughstacks. The button is mounted on the top. When the atty/carto leaks out juice gets down into the mod via the button hole (or maybe the atty/carto fitting - can't remember) and leaks onto the electrical chip that is right under the atty/carto fitting and button (it is not a VV). I haven't used it in a while because it is lost somewhere around the house but I did open it several times to clean the chip and cap area with alcohol before it had any issues. (The Roughstack has a new version chip/button combination that is different from the original so I don't know if the leaking is an issue any more.) In saying this, there are replacement chips that can be purchased for the Roughstack. I got one but never had to replace the original but I imagine the juice onto the circuit board ruining the circuit board may have been a common issue.
Hugs, Feisty Alice
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Thanks for your concern. I'll hopefully get it back tomorrow :fingerscrossed: so no worries. My satellite blinding Grand was put to good use.
I'm not sure about cleaning, and I sure thought about it, but followed the ModMaster's instructions to mail it back to him ASAP. Clyde's law no. 2: "When you
up a mod, the first thing to do is to not it up any further."Put an email in to Rob to ask what the problem exactly was, and if it could have been fixed by careful, diligent cleaning. Gonna get me a rubber band in the meanwhile, uh-huh! But by the way it acted, I think juice got in the button area and kept it from making contact.....it lost the reassuring 'click' that it had prior to the mishap.
Where on the rubber band? I took it as the juice went over the catchcup and migrated to the button on the outside. Is this inside?
No, he suggested as a stop gap measure having the rubber band around the outside of the body over the button indentation. That way, any juice escaping the catchcup would stop at the band and be wiped off there before it could get to the button.
I guess I'm kinda confused How did you overflow the big catch cup That's like a crap ton of juice :what:
Sent while Hyper Vapin my VV Reo
Sent while Hyper Vapin my VV Reo
Let's just say it wasn't easy...
Probably a combo of many hands being on my mod combo, possibly from trying to do a Harlem Globetrotters style upside down squonk....
...look it just happens sometimes, okay?!?
Probably a combo of many hands being on my mod combo, possibly from trying to do a Harlem Globetrotters style upside down squonk....
...look it just happens sometimes, okay?!?
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He did say he kills mods. I'm glad this happened really, but not that he had to send it in. Its all part of beta testing.
Let's just say it wasn't easy...
Probably a combo of many hands being on my mod combo, possibly from trying to do a Harlem Globetrotters style upside down squonk....
...look it just happens sometimes, okay?!?
I'd be interested if others who have already received the VV Grand has had this issue or if it was just unique to Clyde
I'd be interested if others who have already received the VV Grand has had this issue or if it was just unique to Clyde
Well, in this house, it hasn't been an issue. Speaking for Wayne because he is on the road and is unlikely to answer anytime soon.
In fact, I've had less juice in the cup on this mod than any other of mine.
Well, in this house, it hasn't been an issue. Speaking for Wayne because he is on the road and is unlikely to answer anytime soon.
In fact, I've had less juice in the cup on this mod than any other of mine.
Kinda figured since all comments so far has been positive. Im sure the VV Grand will be the very same great performer as it's older VV Woodvil brother.
+1.... Possibly some kind of gasket might help with this. I can see it being an issue. A totally non-elegant temporary fix might be a stick on disc, similar to a flexible tape disc band-aid, would perhaps work as a stop gap. That would be more pleasing to my eye than a rubber band.
There is a probability that it will happen to more people if no permanent fix is applied. Many VVG will be exposed to all kinds of substances dry to wet and that doesn't include normal accumulation of oils and dirt from clean to dirty hands.
And that's what Beta Testing is about. Again, Clyde, sorry you have to be without your "Precious" for a while and I'm glad that occurred while in Beta Testing. It's obvious that the testing has given Robert some valuable information that will prevent many headaches for him and REOnauts in the future.
BTW... I'm watching "How It's Made" right now; magnets are certainly more complicated to make than I ever imagined.
Hugs, Feisty Alice
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