Yay...new toy day

[mousiemaximus]

My 2.1 Mini came in this week and I just got a chance to play with it last night. Like most, I am very impressed. Fit and finish is killer and the flavor and vape is great with the RM2. This was my first ever build and wasn't too bad. I did have some problems with the wick and I will need to find a better way to do that part of it, but for all it's fugliness, the coil is working quite well. It came out at 1.5 ohm using the 28 guage. Phone pics, hard to focus.

Any recommendations for my next build to make it easier/ better let me know. THis pic is after running a couple tanks through it.

Thanks REOs!

 

[Bigflyrodder]

Congrats on the new Mini and welcome to Reoville! Real beauty you have there.

Super X Drifter has a ton of vids on Youtube that show how easy it is to build. My first suggestion would be to wrap your coils around something solid like a small screw driver and then wick with either cotton or Ko Gen Do cotton. Much easier!

You'll get it, don't worry a bit.

 

[SITS]

Congrats on the REO. Ko Gen Do cotton makes a wonderful wick and is a breeze to wick with. Russ/Super_X has a video on his youtube channel about using it. Check it and his other videos out if your looking for REO information.

 

[Raynman]

Welcome to the mad house of happy vapers. Congrats on the Hammer Tone Reo.

 

[Mrs C]

Congratz, Welcome to the neighborhood

 

[redeyedancer]

Welcome and congrats mousiemaximus

 

[Filthy-Beast]

congrats and Welcome to Reoville. Play with coil placement, a 1mm change can have a big impact.

 

[PapawBrett]

Welcome to REOVille. Best place for Vaping there is !
Micro coils wrapped tightly around a small drill bit are the way to go. I always shoot for 1.5 ohms on my Grand, so you did really good first try ! Lift your coils up off of the deck, so e-liquid and air can flow cleanly around the entire coil. And never be afraid to ask questions. Very nice people, these REONauts.

 

[K31Scout]

There are some great threads here (use the advanced search feature) on best build for an RM2. I was a pro right out of the gate reading those threads. If you don't want to wait for the mail order Ko Gen Do cotton, go to Sally's Beauty Supply shop and get the big blue box of Rayon (Cellu Cotton) which is a super wicking material as well.

 

[pwheeler]

Congratulations on picking up that beauty! Love that hammertone! I know you're going to love it.

 

[mousiemaximus]

I did a pretty good job on the coil, actually and it functions well. I was getting very good results from my initial ugly wick job, which was 2.5mm silicone wick from REOs. It is very difficult to work with, hence why it was all over the place. I re-wicked with some cotton and getting even better results now, albeit you have to squonk a lot more often. Next build I will go with a smaller coil and tighter winds. This one was 8 winds on my jeweler screwdriver tip. I have no idea the dimension but would guess 1/8".

Does anyone have any experience with using the silicon braid wick material or should I just put that in a "didn't work" shoe box with all the other stuff from the past? I can find no way to get the wick into the coil. The first one I did I wrapped the coil and wick at the same time so that the wick was "built-in". I can't re-wick the stuff without contemplating some kind of needle/thread and tearing apart partial strands = screw that.

Thanks

 

[Distroshack]

Welcome and a nice looking REO. My advice, dump the silicon. Use cotton or rayon. So much easier to thread and tastes better. I build my coils using a 1.5mm drill bit and leave it in place when fitting the coil

 

[caup]

Same here, I personally do not like silica and prefer cotton, especially ko gen do, which is very easy to use and gives best taste.
During my "wick finding" period, I worked with different silica types (but decided to stay with kgd):
Rob wraps the kanthal directly around the silica, building the coil this way.
If you have a prebuild coil, I saw others "screwing" a piece of silica wick into the coil.
If you have silica with small diameter like 1 or 1.5 mm:
Use some inches of kanthal, bend it to a Loop and slide the kanthal loop through the coil.
Now insert the silica wick halfway into the loop and pull the kanthal loop (holding the silica) back through the coil.
Finally, cut the bend/uneven ends of the silica
Worked great for me.

 

[ancient puffer]

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Does anyone have any experience with using the silicon braid wick material or should I just put that in a "didn't work" shoe box with all the other stuff from the past? I can find no way to get the wick into the coil. The first one I did I wrapped the coil and wick at the same time so that the wick was "built-in". I can't re-wick the stuff without contemplating some kind of needle/thread and tearing apart partial strands = screw that.

Thanks

I vape unflavored so I usually have no need to rewick, just dry burn and go. However, you can rewick, or wick after coil build, by slipping a doubled over piece of wire through the coil, then insert 3-5 "strands" of the silica and pull it through, and trim. Sort of a "needle threader". I've also used floss threaders to do the same thing.

 

[mousiemaximus]

a fish wire.. duh =- great idea. I am cotton for now. .

Thanks

 

[Docsgt68]

That and a lot of silica and the readyxwick I believe as well are both hollow, you can insert a pin or nail and wrap your coil around it that way if you want to try, I will be honest though I've been on organic cotton for a long time, and kgd sometimes because it's fantastic but I find I have to re wick my coils more often, so I don't recall all that well.

 

[mousiemaximus]

I am heading to the city this week, so maybe I will hit up a vaper mortar shop and get some (or a sample wick of the good cotton. I used household stuff, and it was a little jinky for the first few hits, in spite of boiling it....works great though! Next build I may try the silicon again. Does anyone know if silicon is safe? It seems an odd material to me...kind of like fiberglass.....

 

[caup]

I don't know about household cotton, I went for japanese cotton, that is sold in pads of roughly 2 x 3 inches.
This cotton is absolutely clean, with just a very faint "pure cotton" taste (that I actually like).
And the cotton fibers are aligned within the sheets, which is great for juice flow.
superX has made a nice video Micro Coils 101 - Part 3 Update - Wicking With Koh Gen Do Japanese Organic Cotton - YouTube

 

[super_X_drifter]

I don't know about household cotton, I went for japanese cotton, that is sold in pads of roughly 2 x 3 inches.
This cotton is absolutely clean, with just a very faint "pure cotton" taste (that I actually like).
And the cotton fibers are aligned within the sheets, which is great for juice flow.
superX has made a nice video Micro Coils 101 - Part 3 Update - Wicking With Koh Gen Do Japanese Organic Cotton - YouTube

Thank you. He's actually made 2

http://youtu.be/iZcY7539wRM

 

[caup]

Thanks, superX, thats the one I was actually looking for but couldn't remember...