Payday is close enough...
Just ordered a flat coil for my gimido e-nail, SiC dish, sapphire insert, v1 base, carb cap and ball point dabber.
When the next batch of Quartz halos come, I'm going to snag one of those and the HE infinity Ti.
Can't wait!
I'm about to have a shot at the quartz halo now
Just hit my new Sapphire Halo for the second time (but first time with THC in play) dabbed some THC Bomb rosin onto the sapphire halo at 605f or so (which is slightly too low temp for sapphire, leaving some trails) and am most stoked with the taste. It is like being back to my infiniti with conductive sapphire insert again, except I can dab as much as I like at a time without risking the dab melting on metal instead of sapphire
Now I will point out that the vapor is not quite as fine and dense with sapphire compared to SiC. Furthermore, I believe the lowest reasonable dabbing temp without significant, lasting trails on this is going to be about 625f or so. I'll update if I notice any problems at this temp. Still, whilst my dewaxed OL ACDC non decarbed nectar doesn't seem to taste as good on sapphire as SiC (I had noticed this in the past on sapphire inserts too), all of my other concentrates taste SO MUCH BETTER on sapphire. The THC bomb rosin has a very earthy flavor on SiC, whereas on sapphire; it is a clean, beautiful hashy flavor.
I have yet to try out my quartz halo, but will have a shot at that soon. Also got some additional analogue dnails so I can use my flower adapter and SiC/Sapphire/Quartz at the same time too
- also to do something else rosin wise which I'll update everyone about in the respective thread.
EDIT: Ok, so I've tried out the quartz halo now. It seems to require higher temps in the same order as how much hotter sapphire must be run than SiC.
It tastes delicious. I can see people preferring this over SiC for taste. That machined dish really gets the job done spreading your dab around. The taste is super clean. I run this one at 662f. The flavor is not necessarily nicer, but smoother, less dense vapor than using the SiC dish. I can see people preferring this in accordance with taste.
I am not clearly in favor of one or another yet. Obviously before we get to flavor, SiC has massive thermal and durability advantages.
Sapphire definitely seems considerably tastier than the quartz. I do wish I had more different material to sample right now to really try some different tastes and see how they fare.