Recent content by formicae

All of my dogs are hottest about 3/4" down from the top -- where the upper ring touches the body, like you said. Makes sense to me, it's a bit of a heat bottleneck (by design, I imagine, since it's also where the fresh air intake is) and you'd get direct conduction from the ring to the body. I...

It never gets old seeing how long you can whitewall glass with the tiny amount in a NonG, what a great hit. When the time comes to clear the chamber, I just lift the NonG with the log on top of it, there's plenty of room above the taper to grab without touching the steel. I used to do it like...

They're generally ready to take a hit or two after maybe fifteen minutes, there's enough heat in the core by then, but I tend to have a much nicer experience after about a half hour, when the wood is toasty to the touch. As for the voltage, I can't really answer, but I've never had an Underdog...

Strongly agree. No wall wart, the knob feels good, the housing doesn't get hot, seems to feed Underdog cores really cleanly. Over the last couple of years I've gone from straight wart to wall, to dimmer+display dongle, to Travel VVPS, to the new adjustable, and while the Travel VVPS is...

If you can get what you need at 13.5, it's running hot enough, for you. :) I run my full-size dogs around 5.5v when I'm not in, turn 'em up to 11.4v when I get home, and they're ready by the time I settle in, ten minutes tops, and they're good all night. The Micro does heat up quicker from a...

Okay, took some quick readings on the new variable power supply, but I've also been getting to know my new Micro for the past hour or so...so... At the 'on' click (which is around 2 on the dial on mine), I read 3.2v, so I was wrong in thinking it 'kicked in' around 4 on the dial (but that's not...

Definitely don't assume that. The useable range is somewhere between 4-6 on the dial, maybe 4-7, and that span covers 3v-12v. It's very stable though (compared to the old skool dimmers). I can give you a rough idea of voltage readings on mine a bit later, I checked it when it arrived this week...

Yeah, don't 'pack' it at all, just suck up enough to barely fill the screen basket. It becomes second nature pretty quickly. Less is more! As for the heater core, if your log is pretty much visibly hollow, that's an Air Core. If there's a star/saw washer around the heat tube, you've got a...

It's a chubby o-ring that sits around the heat tube, about 8mm from the top; in older Underdogs it created a positive stop for glass stems. Especially Air Cores, as they were pretty much tube all the way down, on the inside. With the Mk2 cores they're not necessary, but some of us are old and...

Damn it, order incoming. :D I'll make a note in the comments to pop an o-ring on.

This seems as good a time as any to ask, are Micro-Dogs compatible with o-rings? Do their tubes have a waist? (if so, what with this sale, I'm running out of ways to talk myself out of a Micro... :))

Seconding the FC-188 recommendation, it's a wonderful piece to use with an Underdog. The percolator has more numerous, finer cuts and holes than the D020, which makes for just the right amount of resistance when you draw, milks up nice and thick. It's also a breeze to clean with isopropyl or...

I don't know that this is true for more recent dogs. My SC2 zebrawood glulam and re-cored, last-of-the-OG-standard-core walnut dog both do nicely at 10.5-10.7, through water. 11V is getting into 'doesn't taste so great' territory, verging on charring/combustion. With a direct-draw stem, I bump...

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One please.