flouris, my opinion is a tite kit will not help you. If you are experiencing low heat/no heat. tightening the heat port will not help. Get in contact wilt me and we will see what we can do. I would like to get you into a new CRZ somehow. A 2009 purchase was a while back but will give you some points here at Zapville towards a new CRZ if you are interested.
TheDude, collegerower:
Matching wood for a bubbler holder sounds cool but will not happen. The wood we get for Zaps is in the form of blocks that have been cut and pre-bored(for thorough drying)specifically for Zaps. The wood used for bubbler holders, if that is what we decide to do, will come from our own woodlot. We have some very nice wood around here, including Western Red Cedar and blued White and Ponderosa pine that would work very well. The holder has to be big enough to hold a bubbler with water which will require more wood mass than regular stem holders.
While I am on that subject, since we are finding no charring and very good wood 'survival' and the softer woods are performing very well, we will be trying some CRZs from our own woodlot soon. We have some drying now. Lots and lots of Blue Pine and Western Red Cedar around and a little bandsaw mill to cut them into blocks. Almost full circle as when we started over ten years ago, we tried some blue pine for Zaps but it was too soft and smelled of pine. The new design should save the wood and eliminate any wood smell. Time will tell on this plan.
Blue pine. I'll get a shot later of a hutch I made for Pat that shows it much better.
Lots of this stuff sounds cool from a customers perspective but we also have to get it out there at a reasonable price. We are also a production shop. We do not have the talent or the time to do exceptionally trippy pieces of matching this and that in the high art category.
We're the simple ones that just keep making very close to the same thing as always only mo better in function and durability. Getting one is simple too. Order it and get it in a few days(most of the time).
Had the family over yesterday for St Pattys day. Very good family day with all the grandkids(4 of ours+1 almost granddaughter) and lots of corned beef and cabbage. A very good day. Today, the Zapville depot is open again. I will be getting more units completed to ship tomorrow including a couple that have been waiting tooooo long. Sure am glad I have some of those heavy GonG tubes to help make up for my scatteredness. I will also get those heavy 14 mm GonG tubes up on the website later today.
Thanks for all the bubbler comments from all you pros out there. We are listening. The elimination of the top tube in our design was not just for better cleaning, etc. We also considered the 'FLOW' as NYC mentioned. Remember what I call IT? The Master Flow.
