So you're going with quartz? Do you think its possible to use the 20mm coil with boro and not having it crack? I know you said the boro/quartz shouldn't effect the flavor too much, due to the spheres having the most impact, but I would like the boro. Id probably buy 1 quartz and 1 boro to compare.
I definitely think with proper coil fitment it's possible to use borosilicate. Since my vape was designed with a coil arm to secure the coil to, the coil shouldn't have to be fitted so tight to work that cracking the housing is really an issue. Now when I broke my 20mm prototypes I didn't adjust the coil at all, and I knew from experince with my bangers that it felt too snug going on, but I really wanted this vape to work without needing any coil adjustments like people were doing with the elev8r; so I just ran with it anyways to see what would happen. Due to the nature of glass and everything being made by hand though, some initial coil adjustment may be inevitably necesarry.
It should be no problem getting the housing made in both quartz and borosilicate if people want to experiment with that. Cool thing about quartz is it could very likely turn this into one hell of a torch vape....
You will be selling parts separately correct? I've got a lot of the items already to make this vape.
Absolutely! The goal of this vape was always to be modular, other than my custom heater housing everything else is modular. Even though I still plan to do custom bowls, if someone breaks a bowl they can always use a F to M adapter in the meantime. Or use coils from whatever PID they own. Or change the entire convection core. This vape was designed for all of that.
Also about the bowl, not much discussing about it. I re-read your post about wanting the custom glass bowl because of the untapped crumbs. Is the "flared lip" located where the screen goes?
If so, there are adapters (bowls) online that don't have that. Probably would be cheaper / faster than doing another custom part.
Yeah I ordered some of those off the shelf adapters to try because they look suitable, but they haven't shown up yet with all the COVID stuff going on. If the off-the-shelf parts don't work as well as I'm expecting, it's likely I'll design a 18F-14M adapter where the midsection reduces to ~.5" for a half inch SS screen; instead of the current 3/4" screen being used. That should concentrate the heat even tighter and improve extraction even further.
Also I noticed the very first post says your using a 25mm coil. Thats a typo correct? It uses 20mm barrel coils from any company. Just wanted to confirm.
That was my first proof-of-concept which was basically @Stu and @Buildozer Evo On A Stick with 4mm sapphires pearls, and I used a 25mm barrel coil to heat it since the adapter I used had a wider flange. Buildozer's original version used a 20mm barrel coil, as does my current prototype. But technically, this vape is designed around the 710coils 20mm "tall" coil since it's just a little longer which seemed like a good thing.