From an engineering standpoint, you want to be pretty conservative about your safety factor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_of_safety) here, and PTFE as an insulator in this application is concerning.
Wrapping an oven whose max temp is 500F in PTFE is a safety factor of, at best 1: the...
Cracked female glass seems like a very common failure mode.
I've been considering fitting a champagne cork down to fit as a cap in the hope that it would cushion the glass a little. I wonder if it helps.
great. I'd seen basically this approach in a bunch of videos but wanted to make sure i was thinking about it right.
I got my milaana with the press-fit semi-adjustable basket screens pre-fitted to the stems, and immediately found them pretty annoying. This sounds like a way better way.
To clarify: let's refer to the stem by "mouth end" and "oven end", and let's assume we're talking about the stock stems (for the moment)
You're describing a situation where you press-fit a flat screen (sized to fit an 18mm ID) down the mouth end to the beginning of the ground glass section...