Not at all man, your first post came across a little snarky but I'd abandoned any such notion as we continued talking and realized I'm sure you didn't mean to come across as such
I made no bones about deliberately being late to the ecig/cart portable oil game because until recently: the quality of pen carts has not been sufficient for me to want to put my meds inside any of the candidates.
I should mention I will not ever bother with rebuilding carts since I use pens so very very little, 0.05% of my usage is not an exaggeration!
I can't justify fucking around with atomizers and wires for something that I barely even touch in my day-to-day. I prefer to pay more for someone else to do the building of the cart because my time is better spent making more full melt than building carts
Of course, the above means that I am happy to look into any example cart that has a low cost (which is all of them in my view
). I'll check out the DT since you recommend it so, alongside a few others (Lynx hypnos zero, Kandypens etc) because why the hell not!? So long as there are no unsafe materials etc used in any of them (I'll have to look into this closer with each admittedly). I really need to find a vendor that stocks all of the popular coil-less parts and get one of each to save on shipping lol
BTW man IMO white ceramic never cleans perfectly unless it is directly heated. Torchable components is nice in a cart though and I'm interested to see the DT for this aspect you describe. One issue might be that to take apart and reassemble the respective parts could conceivably be more fucking around than I'm prepared to put into it. 4 minutes to rebuild a cart is not really something I care to do.
I have a different standard of cleaning to most I will concede. I want something that I can look at under a microscope and it still looks the same as when I bought it after heavy prolonged use. Like my sapphire or SiC stuff. For me, white ceramic is a compromise.
BTW bro, I suspected before you even said that you'd have had shitty experiences with quartz put you off nail use. It is so common because most people have never seen the advances beyond quartz bangers and barrel coils personally. Almost everyone I know who swears by pens have never experienced proper use of next gen enails.
Quartz bangers of this kind are so inefficient and you are preaching to the choir on that pooled material in the bottom of the quartz, that is some nasty tasting shit! In fact, residue from old hits on white ceramic reminds me of this taste. The uneven thermal distribution of quartz vs SiC and Sapphire also means that you'll have nice and not so nice tastes hitting your airways at the same time as material gets variously under and over cooked at the same time.
When you try a Silicone Carbide or Sapphire e-nail, you'll quickly understand why we dabbers see pens as inferior. The flavor is incomparable to anything else off of these materials (which btw FFS why have pen manufacturers not looked into using these materials too?!
). They clean like brand new. You can blowtorch silicone carbide until your torch runs out of butane without damaging it. Sapphire qtips cleaner than quartz because it gets the heat around more efficiently to every nook. If all else fails, while you can't torch sapphire, you can bring it up as hot as your e-nail coil can safely go (900-1000f is not uncommon) for a sustained period electronically for cleaning. No pen can do that!
BTW there is a definite distinction between oil and full melt in terms of how the two behave when heated. Full melt bubbles very violently and this can cause a small load to swell above the air intake holes.This is quite problematic in the design of the puffco+ and my major complaint aside from ease of cleanability being very lacking compared to e-nails (but this is true of pens generally IME).
Full melt also generally requires a longer wait for vapor production unless you slightly increase temps as the melting/bubbling stage has to take place before the material vaporizes. Full melt contains whole resin glands, including the secretory cells and outer membranes. These do not melt (contrary to the name) and leave residue in the nail.
I still think that for portable use that pens are not ideal for full melt, I'll continue trying other carts and see though. The latter hits of full melt in the Puffco+ do not taste anywhere near good enough. In coil based carts you can't even use full melt and ever get it clean so the Puffco+ performance is still an improvement in that way for full melt. Hopefully something else will do the job better. Otherwise I'm gonna probably bite the bullet and grab a firefly 2 for portable concentrate use