OK, time to make some wild guesses, ask more silly questions, and make some observations. Here's
a the picture of the Cera again. Click on it to make it a little bigger:
Let's speculate about the mouthpiece. Interesting tiny "nipple-like" end. I wonder if this part is the actual mouthpiece or not though; pretty small to suck on. I wonder if it's ceramic too (since it looks the same, and Tim has mentioned that the entire vapor path is ceramic). And just below that (to the left of the mouthpiece in the above picture), an interesting "cap" part; looks like that's where the load goes. Wonder if it unscrews or is just a press fit. Look carefully at it; does it look like maybe it's tapered such that it would fit directly into a glass piece for use with a bong? Yet if it's ceramic, that doesn't make for as nice an airtight connection as Delrin/PTFE/O-Ring though. And speaking of O-Ring, note the channel around the circumference near the right end of the "cap" and to the left of the mouthpiece; is that maybe for a fat O-Ring so that the Cera will make a great connection to one of the TV glass pieces (like my T1 glass mouthpiece) or a bong?
Before we move on from the "cap" part, I wonder if the actual heating chamber is mostly below the cap and the inside of the cap part is mostly for the load. And I also wonder if there is any external visible difference between the herb and concentrate versions of the Cera.
Anyway, moving down (left), hmmmm, four sets of two holes at 90° from each other. Air intake, for sure (?), but why is the top hole smaller than the bottom hole in a given pair of holes? And then there's the button. I assume the power button. And Tim mentioned something about the rating for the "non-illuminated" version of the button; does that mean there's an illuminated version as well? And a safety interlock for the button? Where? Or is the bottom somehow involved as OF speculates? Maybe Tim will illuminate us with actual on/off/safety instructions, once he gets some sleep and gets a break from working in the shop.
Moving down (left), there's a nice taper for the hand (Hi Jam
) and a metal bottom, also appearing to be threaded into the main body. Is this the way to change batteries? (Unscrew the bottom metal piece and get access to the battery). And look carefully at the very bottom (all the way to the left in the above picture). What's that all about? It's obviously a smaller diameter from the rest of the metal part of the bottom "cap". I can't even begin to speculate if it's only cosmetic or if it serves some greater purpose that we can't discern from the single picture we have.
And for an actual specific "Tim" question, can you give us a brief description of the advantages and disadvantages of the stainless steel versus titanium Cera. I know that the weight and thermal characteristics are very different, but don't know how that impacts the Cera. And I don't recall if there's a version with all ceramic, and (essentially) no stainless steel or titanium.
Isn't this fun!
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I'm glad you mentioned it
