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Just for a bit of clarification: I am not and have never been an official or unofficial tester for the MUSA and I'm certainly not the one, Tobias originally built his MUSA for. I bought my MUSA regularly from Tobias, like anyone else here.
Tobias started his thread here back in 2016, as you can see from his initial post and I fired up my DIY 'Cork Bomber' thread only in April 2018.
As we both live in Germany, a fruitful conservation between Tobias and me ensued after I bought his vape, in which he explicitly allowed me to use his basic design for my experiments with a halogen based Log. However, those very first Halo Logs of mine, which you see only at the first two pages of my thread (apart from a one shot, I did later on), were rather amateurish attempts compared to the original MUSA and as my knowledge and skills grew and some other Log makers and DIY folks chimed in with advice (e.g. Underdog's Dave, HI's Alan and also Lazylathe), I soon switched to building more traditional Logs, powered by cartridge and resistor based heaters. The final model, the 'Misty' is largely inspired by Alan's original design for the HI/Heat Island Log... and well, like the HI itself, it hasn't a shred of insulation for the wiring
However... as you can see from the pics, I don't use a side connector, but have the resistor/cartridge soldered straight up onto the jack, so that the heater is one stiff solid piece now, which is user replaceable and gets threaded in from the bottom and then connects to a right angle plug (not in the pics). Once it's in place, accidentally turning it is nigh impossible, even when you remove the plug, due to the plug's 90° angle and the recess in the wood, the plug rests in.
For the MUSA, two bits of insulated wiring (the coper wiring doesn't even get warm, so far away from the bulb and with the clamps in between) and a drop of glue to fixate the DC jack more securely in the wooden shell should suffice as an improvement and if I get that correctly from the discussion here, Tobias already agreed to do that for new units.
Tobias started his thread here back in 2016, as you can see from his initial post and I fired up my DIY 'Cork Bomber' thread only in April 2018.
As we both live in Germany, a fruitful conservation between Tobias and me ensued after I bought his vape, in which he explicitly allowed me to use his basic design for my experiments with a halogen based Log. However, those very first Halo Logs of mine, which you see only at the first two pages of my thread (apart from a one shot, I did later on), were rather amateurish attempts compared to the original MUSA and as my knowledge and skills grew and some other Log makers and DIY folks chimed in with advice (e.g. Underdog's Dave, HI's Alan and also Lazylathe), I soon switched to building more traditional Logs, powered by cartridge and resistor based heaters. The final model, the 'Misty' is largely inspired by Alan's original design for the HI/Heat Island Log... and well, like the HI itself, it hasn't a shred of insulation for the wiring
However... as you can see from the pics, I don't use a side connector, but have the resistor/cartridge soldered straight up onto the jack, so that the heater is one stiff solid piece now, which is user replaceable and gets threaded in from the bottom and then connects to a right angle plug (not in the pics). Once it's in place, accidentally turning it is nigh impossible, even when you remove the plug, due to the plug's 90° angle and the recess in the wood, the plug rests in.
For the MUSA, two bits of insulated wiring (the coper wiring doesn't even get warm, so far away from the bulb and with the clamps in between) and a drop of glue to fixate the DC jack more securely in the wooden shell should suffice as an improvement and if I get that correctly from the discussion here, Tobias already agreed to do that for new units.
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