So my ZX had been shelved for a couple of weeks. Such a hardship to have to use the z8 for a while
! It's coil had an intermittent fault that was getting more frequent and started to annoy me lol. I ordered a replacement coil from AliExpress and whilst I was there for some of those camera mount bars with clamps that I placed to use for my "hot hole" build for the ZXXL.
It arrived a few days ago and yesterday I decided to get the ZX back up and running. I removed the old coil (it had been stretched as I first used it on a 1.7 iirc) which was very tight and went to fit the new one. The new one didn't have a tight enough friction fit to hold the head securely so, after being inspired by
@kimura in the '24 most reached for thread, I thought about using it as a "hot hole" for the ZX. I had another dead coil in my spares that I was keeping to use with making custom handles that I've not got around to yet. Remembering that other people had used old coils for wireless head handles I broke out the Dremel and cut off most of the coils and fitted it to the head. It needs a little more straightening to be perfect but works well already.
Wireless is great and all, I liked the lack of torque from the attached cable but for my setting it's not that big of a deal. It did make moving my tiny rig totally effortless though so I'll have to see if I learn to love it even more over time. I can imagine passing to another person in a living room type setting would be marvellous to have the wireless head. I also ran my z8, at a much higher temp than I usually vape at, to heat the zbowl for a bit of extra night time ooomph which worked out quite nicely really. Almost like a wireless heated bowl! I'll be playing around with temps for that and the head and it's great fun playing with the different options. I might need to get another of those camera clamps though lol.