Clear-glass bottom feeder RDA?

[Yiorgo]

Is there any talk of designing a bottom feeder rda for a Reo or a Pdib that has an *acrylic (or GLASS , if it can be screwed down tight so that it doesn't use o rings=leaky) tank portion that would allow us to view the performance of the sqounk, the wick saturation and evacuation of the juice without looking for glimmers of juice through airholes. Maybe a 2 or 3 post design with a concaved ceramic deck where it's cupped in the very middle and further cupped to a level step up where the wick would lay flat, room between the posts and the wall of the tank providing good circulation and keeping the wick saturated while lands and groves would evaluate juice efficiently .... A diameter that doesn't hang over the edge...... like the Odin. NO offense, I know there are ppl that love it........ just doesn't match up well.

Is there something like this out there? I was watching a Rip trippers YT video about a new rda *The Lancia that is glass but one of the cons is that it leaks from the o rings...... It looks like a dream of an rda except for the leaking issues the price and it isn't a bottom feeder...... And $150 OMG no. The airflow comes from below the coil and out the side like the magma the really unique aspect is that it has 15 removable hollowed out airflow post poles varying in diameter to fine tune your intake....... pretty cool.

But basically...... I'd really like a see through RDA with a ceramic deck!

 

[built4feel]

Rob has a clear top cap for the Igo on his site...

Pretty soon you will be able to visualize it all in your head to perfect the art of the blind squonk! It comes with time... you wont even need to look...

edit:

the cap's for the igo-w, here's the link
http://www.reosmods.com/index.php?p...category_id=32&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=3

 

[Yiorgo]

Rob has a clear top cap for the Igo on his site...

Pretty soon you will be able to visualize it all in your head to perfect the art of the blind squonk! It comes with time... you wont even need to look...

Lol....... I don't like anything Igo..... Also glass with ceramic combo.

 

[built4feel]

If one of those like you described existed/was created, Im sure it would be neat... I'd buy one .. sounds pretty cool. I don't know of anything like that.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

The problem would be glass threads for use with the RM2 base - very finicky and fragile work, that - and I'm not sure if I've seen another RDA with a ceramic base that would work.

It is, however, a solution in search of a real/lasting problem. Within a day, tops, you'll have your squonk down and won't need the visual aid. That might sound glib to you now, but it's true. It's like a golf swing - unintuitive, hard to describe, and you can put your back out if you do it wrong - but unlike a golf swing, you'll get results on the very first day.

 

[BockinBboy]

Threaded glass is tricky business for our gear. It would also require airflow from the bottom (prone to leakage and/or gurgling) or would be a single air hole size in the glass (couldn't modify) for side airflow. It would be a pretty narrow market of vapers that would buy it once you introduce some of the inherent limitations of glass - OR I guess you'd really have to think outside the box to work with glass on and RDA. Acrylic or similar would be a more viable option in that regard, but as with tanks, those materials have limitations as well when you consider cracking due to flavorings, and possible inhalation of breakdown substances due to the heating of polymers.

Just my thoughts off the top of my head - I could certainly be overlooking a more simple solution. I just haven't seen a glass rda with threading. I know nimbus/patriot/Igo-W have blown glass caps out there, but you are limited to the glass drip tip as part of the cap and whatever sized air holes they end up with - not even consistent size.

- Bboy

 

[Vapeaholic]

There is this one that I purchased with the intent to convert it to bottom feed, just for the novelty.

The air intake is however below the deck with a hole in the center pin for air. It was going to require way more trouble than I was willing to take on. I sold it to Chowderhead and I believe he is eventually going to convert it. He's very busy at the moment and I don't think this is a high priority so it may be a while. No ceramic deck though.
Also with all the coil popping and squonking going on, I don't think it would be very clear after a few hits.

 

[Yiorgo]

There is this one that I purchased with the intent to convert it to bottom feed, just for the novelty.

The air intake is however below the deck with a hole in the center pin for air. It was going to require way more trouble than I was willing to take on. I sold it to Chowderhead and I believe he is eventually going to convert it. He's very busy at the moment and I don't think this is a high priority so it may be a while. No ceramic deck though.
Also with all the coil popping and squonking going on, I don't think it would be very clear after a few hits.

Well I would want to see what's going on BEFORE that beauty got angry and started hissing and spitting at me..... But Yup this is almost my exact dream rda why novelty? Where did you buy it?what's up with the dimples on that bottom ring does it click into place for airflow control! This is it!!!!!

 

[Vapeaholic]

Well I would want to see what's going on BEFORE that beauty got angry and started hissing and spitting at me..... But Yup this is almost my exact dream rda why novelty? Where did you buy it?what's up with the dimples on that bottom ring does it click into place for airflow control! This is it!!!!!

I was referring to the glass as a novelty. Here is another pic.

The problem with converting this atty is that the air intake is through that long slot visible at the bottom. The entire center pin is the air intake. Air comes in through that slot and then through a hole in the center pin below deck and out through the same pin above deck. If you look at that pin above the deck you can see the air hole in the side. That pin is attached above deck to that block connecting it to the positive post. Somehow the entire center pin would have to be replaced with a hollow tube without a hole below deck for the juice. Now you are left without any air intake at all. Where do you put that? Drill holes in the glass?.....not me

BTW it's called the Aris by Council of Vapor

 

[KurrptSenate]

you could modify a Lancia for Bottom feeding

 

[Yiorgo]

you could modify a Lancia for Bottom feeding

That's the form factor I like also the one shown above has great potential........ but if you watch the video a major con is that it leaks from o rings and the side airholes so I dunno? I have a magma and love the reduced chamber 2 post deep drip well design but I do not like the way it leaks from the airholes...... It seems to me if you go a little thicker on the wall of any RDA and drill the afc holes on an upward 45° angle all the through inner being on the low side of the the afc pathway, ORRRRR maybe going halfway through the afc pathway then taking a different angle to mess with the gravity of juice just flowing out of a str8 horizontal hole?