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It's Alumina. Almost certainly, the base for high tech ceramics for those not willing to pay the big bucks for Zirconia. "Industry standard" sorta stuff. http://www.britannica.com/science/alumina What did you think it is? OF

No, let's keep it simple, keep to the original challenge: testing it? Can you even suggest a Lab to do this? I assume you agree that if no gas comes off what the source of the material is is simply argumentative? I've stated my opinions and the background for them. I await your proof I'm...

Go for it! Prove me wrong. Either by peer reviewed science or actual test? Please don't characterize me as being dishonest unless you have something to back it up. FWIW, my take is based on long professional experience with such stuff, on what is yours based? OF

I'm kind of astounded too, but not that this hasn't been done but rather that folks would see any reason to think it's practical. You want to know what sort of gas is being evolved at 400F or so from a part that was baked at over 2000F for a very long time to make? Mullite and cristobalite...

It's still glass, more temperature tolerant (harder to break with 'thermal shock') but it will still shatter just fine given the chance. Ataxian doesn't even acknowledge a difference, he claims it all breaks really well....... OF

As well you should. No sense on some senseless accident devastating all those women, now is there? OF

No problem, having a bit of fun, the original question was a good one. Yes, aside from reducing the load size, heat retention is the idea. Spacers don't work quite as well at this as the glass flowers (since they are better distributed through the load and have more surface area to rapidly...

I'm not sure I'd say it's better in the pure sense, in fact since both a normal ('candle flame') lighter and a similar size torch use the same gas amount of gas the same amount of energy is liberated by both. The advantage is that heat is all produced in a very confined area with the torch with...

Great, glad you're getting up to speed. Yes, contamination in the heat exchanger can be a problem, oddly enough the solution is more heat, lots more heat. On the VG web site you can find the procedure, basically you use a shop vacuum cleaner to suck a torch through the exchanger until it...

Great insight!!! I seriously doubt they bought one from Canada with cheaper ones 'down the street'. If they got one like the counterfeit one I bought from DHGate the seal in question is entirely different. Where Air has a very stiff, short 3 rib seal (often mistaken for 'o-rings'), the...

I guess I misunderstood. When you said "Maybe it's a matter of producing them then gauging or testing and saying one range fits Solo and another fits the Air" I thought you meant they should sell two versions, rather than the interchangeable ones others do. I hope you can see how I got that...

Can't get which back in, please, the heat exchanger or the retainer ring? TIA OF

Yup. Uniform and basically the color you decide on. In the end heat is heat, it makes no difference how it gets from one place to another. It's how much and where it ends up that counts. If the design is right, the distribution (and therefore result) is uniform. Actually I find I have much...

Remember, loose stems in Solo is not a fault, according to the maker, it's part of the design. Do they replace Solos with loose stems under warranty? I agree somewhat about how a product should be developed. They should indeed test the product to see if it works before offering it for...

Go for it. Otherwise you'll just be wasting money on rent, food and stuff like that. Be sure to pay the electric bill, of course, the Mini battery is smaller....... OF

That may indeed be the way those stem fit your Air(s), but I thought the question was 'are Solos easier to fit a given stem in than Airs?'. That is 'these fit Air fine but not Solo'. I tried stems in both Air and Solo and found Solo more tolerant. Yes, I have both calipers and micrometers...

Not all conduction vapes are failures I think. FM, Solo/Air, and Vapman all do a bang up job for me. It has to be done 'right' of course, convection is easier to do that with I guess, but it also eats up power much faster doing so. And delivers more hot air to the user than needed in...

Great point. The key is the chamber, the rest is packaging it. And changing features. Such efforts have some added value, of course, but do so only for a subset of owners. I like the Mini because it's small and easy to use, not because it's better than it's larger brothers overall. More of...

Actually I think I might be innocent this time. The bottom of the bowl is not heated. The walls are. There are no heatsinks in the classic sense in play, really, heatsinks remove heat from the system (like the heatsink in your computer that draws heat out of the processor and transfers it to...

I'm finding that strange I guess. I have a few of each and generally find Solo to be an easier fit with marginal stems than Air? Especially with out of round ones...... I don't have the stems in question, so am basing this on what stems I have (stock, PVHES from PV and the Gong from PIU). I...