The Tempest by Mad Heaters & Phatpiggie

[ep3eddie]

Question regarding balls, is there a way to visually determine if the balls I have are quartz or boro? I got them with the unit on the exchange, and I do have incoming with my T2, but uncertain what exactly I have on hand right now.

Separately, loading up the T1 head with SiC right now (also don’t know 2.5 or 3mm), what’s everyone recommended setting/procedure on the wand?

 

[JohnYork]

Hello here, my first post.

I just got the tempest V2 and I am having some issues. Two things really:
1: I can't get the half bowl setting to work - Should be a groove (which there is) but the screen will not stay in it, pushes down when I load it - in the end I have used 2 screens and trapped some quartz balls between to act as a spacer.
2: The beads in the head will not stay in! I dropped it on the second day of owning and now (day three) I cannot get the beads to stay in the cap - I think they are in there, tapping on my hand & shaking, then all of a sudden (when you think its good) they all fall out?

Anyone else had these issues if so how did you solve them?

Cheers

 

[Minsc_NBoo]

Hello here, my first post

Anyone else had these issues if so how did you solve them?

Cheers

The screen has got 3 little fins that screw in. You need to line them up with the notches on the head, and give it a firm clockwise turn. And make sure the F marker on the screen are the right way up

Check the number of balls. If there are too many the screen might not screw in. I think I have 42 3mm rubies in mine, which is 2 less than the zirconia that were originally installed

For setting the bowl I've had good results pushing it all the way down, and then pushing it up from underneath the bowl. A dynvap condensor works great for this. Do it slowly and it should click in place.. Make sure the screen is flat too. I've had to reset my screen 4 times this week for... reasons, and each time it clicked in to the medium bowl setting first time

*edited to remove imgr ink that wouldn't load.

 

[Krayban88]

Sorry since this has probably been asked a bunch so far but I couldn't find a stickied/pinned message, but when will the next round of Tempest 2 orders open up on madheaters?

I saw a pic oft the Tempest 2 with the wood sleeve and I had to have it.

EDIT: Nevermind I somehow missed it saying end of August on the website

 

[MariaJuana]

FYI If you are fast enough, there are two T2 available right now in the shop (black & green)!

EDIT: They're gone

 

[JohnYork]

The screen has got 3 little fins that screw in. You need to line them up with the notches on the head, and give it a firm clockwise turn. And make sure the F marker on the screen are the right way up

Check the number of balls. If there are too many the screen might not screw in. I think I have 42 3mm rubies in mine, which is 2 less than the zirconia that were originally installed

For setting the bowl I've had good results pushing it all the way down, and then pushing it up from underneath the bowl. A dynvap condensor works great for this. Do it slowly and it should click in place.. Make sure the screen is flat too. I've had to reset my screen 4 times this week for... reasons, and each time it clicked in to the medium bowl setting first time

*edited to remove imgr ink that wouldn't load.

Thanks dude. Yes this works :-)

 

[sternit]

Question regarding balls, is there a way to visually determine if the balls I have are quartz or boro? I got them with the unit on the exchange, and I do have incoming with my T2, but uncertain what exactly I have on hand right now.

Separately, loading up the T1 head with SiC right now (also don’t know 2.5 or 3mm), what’s everyone recommended setting/procedure on the wand?

You can identify them by size. Quartz are 3mm and boro are 2,5 mm. just compare them to the preloaded 3mm zirc balls in the t2 (or to the preloaded 2,5mm zirc balls in the t1 head). or just roughly count how many you can get into the head. 2,5 mm should be ~80 balls; 3mm should be ~40 balls.

 

[SleepyGhost515]

Three days in and I‘m still loving this thing. Stock stem was too bulky so we switched it out.