Recent content by Hippie Dickie

what is your triglycerides? my HDL is 85 and my triglycerides are 45. vaping has had no impact - diet is the key.

i didn't realize how addictive sugar is until i gave it up for 30 days. now i use sugar very sparingly - mainly to tamp down ketones if overstimulated. i think animal fat is okay if well raised - grass fed, pastured, organic, no RNA, no GMO, etc. yes to butter/bacon/red...

on demand is tough - that's what a BIC does so well for a joint. i can get the heater to 400°F in 10 seconds - still 10 times slower than a BIC ... but the heat transfer to the herb is too slow ... the herb needs a 2 minute heat soak at just below vape temp so that a draw can cause the final...

DMSO is supposed to deal very effectively with burns or other skin conditions. A Midwestern Doctor on substack has been covering it a lot recently. Amandah Vollmer also. Mercola reposts AMD. i got some DMSO and still reading the instructions/recommendations for use - but i would put it on a...

i feel for you. i save most of my injuries for the wood shop - tried to remove three finger tips when a dull 1/4" drill bit seized a piece of metal shim and pulled out of my hand and then sliced it. severed a non-essential tendon and some nerves - been several years now and the nerves still...

i use a dremel tool with a 0.7mm diamond bit to drill borosilicate - just submerged under water. there is a physical property/effect that allows drilling or cutting glass underwater without fracturing. videos on YT show drilling through the bottom of a ceramic mug under a water film.

@highvaper - is that nichrome60 or nichrome80 in the pictures?

i use slightly narrower nichrome ribbon - at 1/8" (3mm) - and it is about 0.3 ohm for 13" length. make sure the battery can deliver the amp demand. looks like you will pull >10 amps with shorter heater ribbon. could work with a single battery like LiFePO4 - mine can deliver 70 amps. also, i...

the corning references were concerned with liquid in the vial in contact with the borosilicate glass causing delayering/fragmentation. dry herb in the vial is certainly a different situation. although the vapor is "wet" and does attach to the glass surface. i had read before that borosilicate...

@Elku thanks for the bump. reading @vap999 's post got me to doing some analysis with copilot. and, yeah, borosilicate glass is not the holy grail i thought it was. it appears the main flaw in my design is the edges of the holes in the bottom of the borosilicate vial. i think i should flame...

pretty sure that heater coil is nichrome ribbon - probably 60 rather than 80. the ones i have seen will corrode from thermal cycling and nichrome80 doesn't. i used the heater ribbon from my car cigarette lighter in one of my first vape designs. even got a camping 12v battery to power it. my...

just to put the topic of spallation to bed ... i've been trying to remember why this term was stuck in my head. and i remembered that several years ago (original thread may 17, 2010 - search spallation) i chanced upon a medical article about spallation in tubing used for dialysis and i...

i use borosilicate glassware for my vape and absolutely love it. however, @envyxoa question brought back memories of a discussion about spallation. so i asked copilot: explain for borosilicate glass. can thermal cycling up to 450°F cause spallation? Borosilicate glass is known for its low...

still Nordic Track skiing ... my feed (gotta love the AI) now is showing me a bit more VO2Max comments. saw a short clip of Peter Attia saying how longevity is ruled by VO2Max. i turned on my smart watch heart rate monitor to get my overnight low - and it is 50 at about 6 am not bragging...

now, some interesting new performance results ... i am thinking the cold solder joint has been there for a long, long time. now, i am getting about 20°F overshoot on warm up. and the temp climbs about 2 degrees with a strong inhale. haven't seen this since earlier units. looks like the PID...