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  1. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Well thanks for the excellent vape gear in return! 🎉✨😵 Though I have to say I've started to find the downsides of the TA! I'm getting far too blasted far too early in the day, cos I'm finding it hard to resist trying yet another go to refine technique, and also because it's simply nice to...
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    The Screwball by Vapvana

    I've not put any actual thought into it, but I think it may be possible to design a simple clamp/clip that could slide into place on the opposite side of the bowl/head from the heater handle, such that it would hold the mating surfaces together for better thermal contact, but be very easy to...
  3. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Oh yes! All ready to stick on a stem and toke away (well, a bit of weed added helps too! 😉)! You only need to give it a pre-heat with an empty bowl, to ensure no manufacturing oils left over from the cleaning process. Won't be much there (wasn't on mine but best to be safe than sorry), and only...
  4. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Obviously I've no idea what you've tried (a beta maybe?) or what you've in mind (i.e. I'm not trying to patronise) but if not, maybe better to see how the boros work first before considering what to change to? Give better idea of what type and size of replacement to choose? I'm in the UK, and...
  5. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    First off, the bowl, have you tried resetting it? It comes at about ½ to ⅔ size. If you gently but quite firmly push the dowel down on it, it should gradually slide further down, you can stop at any point, or continue until it stops, leaving a small gap beneath it and the bottom of the bowl...
  6. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Ah! Interesting. I work from the other side, inserting it into the 'front' of the wand. I just had another try, but this time didn't go quite so deep into the coil*, by maybe 2 or 3mm, and this seems to have worked better, but still needed a little flame after running to timeout @ 590℉, but only...
  7. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Oh! Sorry, I should have worked that out! All I did was get it as hot as it was likely to get, gave it a good few minutes, and gently blew out through the stem to shift any mineral oil vapour. I can say I hugely heated it, probably no more than an average hit temp at most. Detected little if...
  8. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Unless PP doesn't like showing off? 😂 I honestly don't know, I can work out what I may have first tried, but I'm not very practical, so all those problems that make designs have to change, I'm less familiar with. My guess would be that if there's a standard grade of Ti alloy that has enough...
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    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Not sure what you mean by dry burn? You mean get it close to combusting? If so, the method I've started with (above) takes it close, but not yet as close as I ideally want (softly softly catchee monkey! I'll get there!), but tends to be on the toastier side of toasty than not toasty (huh? wtf?)...
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    The Screwball by Vapvana

    Dicking about with unknown gear without screwing it up is a skill I learned long ago, that prevented me being kicked out of many a server room! 😁 Oh boy did I back out! 🤣🤣🤣 Personally I'm not a big fan, I think probably because I get much better entourage effect with the lighter cannabinoids...
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    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Yeah, pretty sure that's what PP said (about Ti), but Ti don't induct, so something else has to be there. just like the Tempests outer sleeve, but I reckon it's got to be internal. I wondered whether the screw holding the airflow vents could be long enough and act as the inductor target, but I...
  12. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Personally once I got a Wand for the Tempest (first time using an IH) I much preferred it to the torch. It may not be designed for an IH specifically (although the whole design of integrating the induction sleeve with the air vents shows this was considered at an early stage in development, I'd...
  13. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Thanks for posting that, I have seen it, but maybe took a different view on the vid itself (which is why I didn't realise you meant that one). Firstly, I'm certain he's heating it for a while before the vid starts, so the timing is unclear, and whether he held it in that position for all the...
  14. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    May have misread me, I'm getting fantastic results with a torch!!! 😵🥴🤪🙂 (On reflection, a bit too good! By the time I was trying my fourth attempt, I could hardly see straight! 🤯) The Wand needs much more experimentation to get the best from it, but I've fairly specific criteria (impatience not...
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    The Screwball by Vapvana

    Cool, it wasn't until I twigged the pid display works differently, and there actually was some considerable heat oscillation from any change in conditions (e.g. using it!) that doesn't display on the pid. All I can really say is for me it seemed to produce more repeatable results, and whatever...
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    The Screwball by Vapvana

    On the heat soaking, I give it maybe 20 seconds or so, then remove the heater a minute to let it come back up to temp, then give it another 10/15 seconds soak, then pull. Just from the results, it seems to reduce the walls of the bowl stealing the heat from the hot air, and leaving an outer ring...
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    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Absolutely! But it's almost impossible to judge how different it would be from my tempest, being all I've used on the wand. I knew it'd take a while, but until someone brings out an IH more suitable for these higher capacity vape heads, something nearer 400w or 500w. In addition, I was having to...
  18. General Disaster

    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Well so far with the TA3, it seems James Bond was right, The Wand Is Not Enough! [sic] It just doesn't seem to have the power to be a realistically useful IH, on TA3 at least. I've had it going for something like 90/100 seconds, and it's still barely there. Which is interesting as the Tempest...
  19. General Disaster

    The Screwball by Vapvana

    Now this is, I have to admit, something of a guess, and it would take proper analysis to really know, but often the darker reclaims are darker because more of the terpenoids have been heated beyond a certain temperature, whereby they start to break down into smaller components, maybe only two or...
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    Thermal Accumulator by phattpiggie

    Sorry, David Bailey I ain't, but should give an idea (but doesn't do it justice). https://ibb.co/GQvCbH5 https://ibb.co/2FMJ0yP That shouldn't be allowed! Stem porn! Even the lighter looks sexy! I'm just off to the bathroom for a minute, won't be long! (15 seconds later ... 🙈!🙉!🙊!). They are...
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