Thanks for posting it!!!
It is indeed a whole new beast and I think it's going to be on my desk for a long time.
I wrote up more details and supplies
here.
My SSV has had more use-time in the last 5 days than it had in the last 12 months thanks to the glass ball trend.
Jeebus! Amazing that it has increased both the surface area of the (already quite powerful) heater, and the thermal mass..... and by a lot!!!
Well done on that thought there!
Feels like there's a bit of magic going down with heat evenness and turbulence also, but yeah calories too!
It seems to me they gave you the biggest wand for flavor disc and I must say Troy your airhole looks big! (The vent in your heater cover).
If I'm correct, I wonder if that's why you found it a bit airy before and would love to know how you had felt about a regular spherical ground glass wand set up.
But it looks like you've found the sweet spot now! Holy...!
And I love your SSV graphics, that unit will be worth a fortune in years.
This mod might work just as great for really small loads in the wands too. Thanks for sharing it around!
Can't wait to try.
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I did a few micro dosing type mods to my SSV last week I had fun, and learned a small bit about hot spots and even roasting in the end.
*If you're wondering why I'm going to the bother, it's because the EU postage adds up on the parts needed to run the Ddave mod, almost nobody stocks the heater covers over here, I spent all the budget on a portable vape, and I have all these bits lying around here!
The first one is just an insert into the regular spherical wand and it worked very well for me.
It protrudes a bit at the end so the wand movement gets limited, but it's handy for sucking in a new load too.
It's made from a broken Arizer solo stem that I cut down and polished before, a Mighty CU Oring, a homemade basket screen, and some bent SS mesh to hold it steady in the wand.
Then, I must have been holding this other broken Solo stem and thinking hard,
and I'm very lucky that there is no glass screen crap in this one because it's an old easyflow? one from Germany.
And there's a carb hole, and it's in the right place, and the Solo stem fits on the SSV as a heater cover!!
So then all I had to do was get a bent Solo stem as a wand,
and sand the edges smooth so they would make a perfect seal.
(I actually "lapped" that shit, like valves in a car, with DIY grinding paste!)
Heavenly fuck it works pefect! Tiny loads huge power, very fast.
Best draw from a Solo stem ever! Like Arizer on drugs.
I just placed a piece of S&B capsule at the top to help with evenness but this also had the heatsink effect that Troy found so it calmed things down and gave me more control.
Before this I had to operate at minimum temperature and draw hard to keep the heat down!
The only funny part with this last one, is you need to draw before you flip the bent stem over.
Next I'll try Troy's new mod with my first insert idea, that should be great, or maybe the stock wand will microdose well with the glass balls added too.
Great vapes, great elements, great ideas! Now future proof!
Enjoy the holiday break everyone.
