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Checked it for you today. Removed the heater cover... no significant heat stress on the wood (oak) and the bulb holder is still secure. Used the opportunity to tidy up the visual appearance of the heater well base with a 0.3mm ss disc. The 2 amp sockets should be fine if you're using a 12v...

Great job Bloke. That cherry wood has come up very nicely :tup: So do you need a vvps with a 10w cartridge heater?

Amazing work @livingsteel Would love to hear more about it. Strongly suggest, however, that you change your picture hosting site. That one seems a bit dodgy :o. I use Postimage and it works fine. Here's FC's advice on posting pictures and host site suggestions...

Hi Duck These are the ones that you want: https://sinolec.co.uk/en/low-voltage-g4-gx53-gy635-gu4-and-gu53-lamp-holders/1211347-g4-ceramic-ceramic-lamp-holder.html See @blokenoname post #856 Probably worth you checking for a German supplier. They have VDE certification and it's printed on the...

@Cheebsy - excellent work. Also, the continuing research you mention sounds really interesting. Be sure to keep us posted. Those Sinolec bulb holders are definitely the ones for this job - see below. @blokenoname and @Megaton - thanks for the kind words :tup:. Here are the matched-up...

Completed work on another log yesterday. Here's the before and after: It was one of a pair of blackthorn blanks - the other one was posted here in mid November last year. They are a almost contiguous - there's about 1cm of branch missing between the base of the first one and the top of this...

Life's a beech :tup: Here's the latest output from the log lab at Castle Brainac :). Beech is not the most inspiring wood for logs but this one's got some lovely grain and the shape gives it more visual interest too. I got the 'foot' effect by leaving part of a branch stem in place. I've...

Excellent find Bloke :tup:. I'll grab myself some of those.

Just an endnote on that QWISO run. The vacuum flask purge works well. Good ventilation is, as always, required. Well... brown goo again - but more on the amber side of brown, and more sticky than gooey :tup: I'm happy with the quantity and the quality is excellent. To vape this sticky dark...

Thanks Tommy. That's an option well worth looking into.

Yeah, that was me I'm afraid. And it ain't necessarily so. As Bloke says batches can vary even from the same seller. I bought a batch of the BlueXP ones you linked to and was not entirely convinced that the wire coating is teflon. So I messaged the seller and he/she absolutely assured me...

Here's what worked for @Stu

The aim of my post was not to reinvent the standard QWISO method. It's purpost was to offer a simpler means of keeping the ISO/herb mix temperature at a minimum without resorting to half frozen salty water and lots of ice cubes. It also outlines a sllghtly better method of evaporating the ISO...

Got a bunch of trim still hanging about from last year's grow. Most of it's earmarked for edibles but decided to use some for QWISO. I've done it before and ended up with brown goo. It's OK if you're not too fussy (and I'm not :)) but thought I'd try to do better this time. Read a lot on the...

Willcommen Duck. Das ist genau richtig :nod:. Ever find yourself short of a pick for the roasting tube tips ? Dropped that toothpick somewhere and can't find it ? Here's a DIY solution: Just a 14cm length of plum twig, sanded and conditioned. Left a little of the bark on at one end. At...

Very tidy bit of glasswork there :tup: Do you need to wait til the neighbours are out ? :D. A friend of mine suggested, a few weeks back, that rolling pins could be used for making log bodies. Then, few days ago, he handed me a couple that he'd found in a charity shop. They didn't look very...

Those two part slide in tips look highly versatile and the improved air seal is an added bonus :tup:. Is there any problem getting the screen to fit between the sections? And I like the reflecting foil on the halo unit. Might as well put all that spare light to a good purpose :nod:.

@blokenoname best of luck with your Xmas project . It'll be interesting to see what you do with the apple blank. All I've done to the exterior is to remove the bark. The plum WonG blank is totally au naturel - still has the bark on. Indeed it does :nod:. The Rustic halo ash is pleasantly...

@TommyDee Here's the ss tubing I use for the HC: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CBNLWHX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I'm afraid I have no idea if they ship to your part of the world. Note that it's 10mm OD x 9mm ID so the ID may be too large for your purposes...

@blokenoname Thanks. I'll certainly try that out :tup:. Anything that makes heater cover construction easier has got to be worth a go :nod:.