Alrighty peeps, I've got some Tinymight Load Reducer working prototypes I'm really excited to share and get feedback on. My curiosity was such that I've been through 3 iterations since Wednesday, and really love how they work. Like, really really love how they work and the layer of functionality they give my TM2.
Ordered left to right in version:
V1 is just a straight tube that works with between .065g and .1g. Straight tube design that keeps the base screen in the stem as it's own screen. This works best when full, giving 3 "TM sized clouds". Full and even extraction. I noticed that putting very little in didn't extract so well. I didn't tamp things down which could have affected that, but having the material deep down inside with small amounts gave poor results that I felt like improving on. Also, getting the spacer back out of the stem required a pick tool wedged underneath to yank it out.
V2 has a small ledge partway down to fit a screen, reducing the full load size to about .05g. It's fantastic in this amount, giving one "massive TM sized cloud" to completely extract the load. One and done, with complete and even extraction. In this, I introduced gaps around the bowl portion, as well as a ridge near the rim. With this, you can get your fingernail in the small gap and pull the spacer out without tools.
V3 is the same as V2, but with the screen even higher, accepting a full load size of .035g. As before, you get OHE with bit smaller "massive TM sized cloud". The rim on this version is more pronounced, making it easier to fish out of the stem.
Both V2 and V3 can be run without a screen to give operation like the V1, with up to .1g load sizes.
I'll be making and listing a small batch of these in the next week, with discounts and consideration given to those who have already purchased a TM stem from me. In the meantime, what do you all think?
i think some things to keep in mind here are the thermal properties of the insert. In my tinymight experiments I have been playing with glass, metal, and wood stems. I have a scruffy stem for both the oem dosing caps and the s&b dosing caps. The s&b one has very thin walls in the bowl area, so thin that its at the limit of what they feel comfortable producing and selling. The thin walled bowl works much better with loose herb than the thicker oem stems (in my like 2 data points, i should do more but it immediately because my loose herb sipping bowl). I assume that the thicker walls suck the heat away from the sides of the bowl much faster, but i'm also using titanium rather than stainless. So if you are going for ohe micro's with the TM2 maybe a thin metal insert surrounded by an insulator like wood would let the bowl heat up quickly and not leach the heat?
Thank you for this! The TM has a powerful enough heater to not really be affected by this, and the properties of SS are such that they don't heat up and transfer heat as fast as Ti (which is one of the reasons I use it for my stems). That being said, isolating the bowl in some way, plus reducing the mass, is a great callout.
I appreciate your detailed reply on this, as well as comparison to other products which you have unique experience with. I incorperated it into the design of this spacer.
Isolation here is both via airgap, thinner walls on the main bowl portion, and Flourine (Viton) orings.