Gemini RTA

[Rivas]

for some reason the posts came apart from the base so I need to open the base so I can fix everything

how to open it?

 

[Mikhail Naumov]

You don't. There's an L shaped piece in the deck. You're going to need a flashlight and very thin tools. Since Vaporesso has no fucking idea how to design shit, they put the center airflow block in the deck but didn't mill it to the positive post. So instead of the positive post splitting off at the bottom like an L and having the 510 pin go through the lower part of the L down to the thread base, 100% straight, they've done something stupid. The negative post is held in place with a.. phillip's head fucking screw, you can access it once the 510 pin is removed. The positive post has a long leg on it, you can literally pull it out, it's a shotty press fit. The leg on the positive post goes down vertically, then there's this L shaped piece inside the airflow chamber. The leg of the positive post goes down into this piece, the long line of the L, then it splits off and at the bottom, the horizontal, lower line of the L, the 510 pin goes up and threads through it. Kind like.. this

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The top two lines are the posts, the single bottom line is the 510 pin, the middle horizontal line is the lower L, the middle vertical line is the long vertical slant of the L. You'll have to thread the 510 pin up through the bottom of the L, then get the top portion to press fit back into the leg of the positive post. This is a real bitch to do. Then, you tighten the 510 pin until it starts giving you resistance. STOP. Leave it alone, if you keep screwing it in it'll release and you'll have to start over. These RTA's are, shit. Simply because of this, if you tighten or loosen the 510 pin, it fucks up. If you pull a coil build secured in the posts upward, it pulls the positive post out of the L piece and fucks it up. If you thread it too tightly onto a mod, it can put tension of the LONG (too long, this is why this happens) 510 pin and also fuck it up.

 

[Rivas]

the L shaped part is also free completely .. what to do

 

[Mikhail Naumov]

I literally think I'm the only person who knows how to fix a Gemini when it fucks up, as I had to on mine. There's no way you remove the deck from the base. You'll have to use a thin flathead or needle to find the L-shaped piece and carefully fuck with it until it's standing up inside the base. The top of the L pointing up. Then you'll, again carefully, have to try and thread the 510 pin into the lower part of the L. If you're lucky and the 510 pin is still threaded into the L piece, you're in a lot of luck. Once the 510 pin is threaded into the L piece (only thread it in a little bit, don't keep going) get a flashlight and look through the airflow holes in the base slots or on the deck, and rotate the 510 pin to turn the L piece until the hole on the top of the L lines up with the positive post leg, then push upward. If it press fits in, just turn the 510 pin until there's tension/resistance, then stop. Don't keep going.

This is a bitch to do, it took me two hours to fix mine.

 

[Rivas]

okay first I am holding the base and reading Gemini RTA the negative post (that has the screw) is on my left or right?

 

[Mikhail Naumov]

That.. depends entirely on how you're holding it. The positive post will be the one with the white insulator under the post. The negative is held in with a screw. You can literally just grab the positive post with pliers and tug it out, it's a press fit, no screw.

A good comparison for fixing a Gemini RTA in this state is like, building a ship in a bottle. With toothpicks and pubic hair.

 

[Rivas]

I told you I am holding it that I am reading GEMINI RTA at the base above the pin

 

[Mikhail Naumov]

Take a light and look into the base, through the hole where the 510 pin goes. Where the phillip's head screw is, that's the negative, where the thin leg extending down is, that's the positive. I think the negative post will be on your right in this manner, I'm not sure. I no longer own or use Gemini RTA's. I gave mine to my fiancee because he's a fragile little twink fucker and there's no worry of him every fucking it up like I did four separate times because of threading it on too tightly to mods or working too aggressively with builds on the deck. I am a man of many things, but I am not a man of patience. It's far too frustrating to fix this 25 times for me to use it.

 

[Rivas]

both posts are are completely apart ....so by "this manner" you mean I seeing GEMINI RTA above the pin the negative post will be on my right?

 

[Mikhail Naumov]

I don't remember, I think the negative post will be on your left. Just look at the top of the deck. The post with the white square (insulator) around it is the positive. Or take a light and shine it through the 510 pin hole and look for a leg, then a screw. Positive = leg, negative = screw. I know the posts are spaced, I just don't have a Gemini to look at right now.

 

[Rivas]

please tell me when you know by my manner ..okay

 

[Mikhail Naumov]

Dude, shine a light into the damned base and look. I don't have a Gemini next to me to look at to tell you, it literally takes five seconds to find this out.

 

[Rivas]

thanks I figured it out

 

[Rivas]

there is a black cylindrical thing inside that is hollow what to do with that?

 

[Mikhail Naumov]

I have no idea what you're talking about now, but it sounds like an insulator for either the 510 pin or the positive post.

 

[Rivas]

you are not alone now