The Pyrex SS hybrid Wick

[perlionsmitnick]

i couldn't find what christmas light bulbs are made of but some of them do have those tiny fuses that may be pyrex.

 

[cyclotron]

Then you would have created a .....light bulb.lol

Seriously are those bulbs quartz?

I actually consider using a lightbulb as a heating element. Then I started thinking about lasers and then sharks with lasers and then jubbles with guns in em, it went down hill from there.

 

[gdeal]

So I could not wait for my order of the thin walled pyrex from Walmad. I took a 5x20 4amp fuse from Radio shack, liberated the end caps and shorten to ~9mm with a dremel diamond wheel. I rollled a #500 170mm mesh and then added ~30mm of mesh to the wick section that the glass covers.

I set up a new, never used AGA-t and wrapped a 28g 1.9ohm coil:






I fired away at 4.2v (14.2 watts). Here is the first test run.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2845/9pyhqrksnfkpfyyfvuyryy.mp4

Observations:

Start up time is consistent with Scubadatan. It take a few second to get going. Vapor production is good. The fuse glass had no problem handing short run red hot coils. On my third consecutive burn, I notice the coils started glowing. Visually, there was no damage to the glass tube.

Vapor quality is good but inconsistent. The stock AGA air hole is too low. Turning the hole as Dan suggested did not improve vapor quality with the AGA. With the AGA, having the air hole directly on the coils worked best. Probably due to how high the top of my tube is in the vape chamber. Hands-down, when this thing peaks, flavor is much better than coil on mesh.

The vapor feels more consistent and full. The distribution of heat by the glass from the coils make a smoother true to flavor vape. There is no burning of juice, it just feels very even, if that makes sense. With air flow optimization, this vaporization method will be is superior to coil on mesh.

I am only 2mls in on this set up and I see huge potential.

 

[Big Screen D]

Then you would have created a .....light bulb.lol

Seriously are those bulbs quartz?

Quartz. Nah, the whole string of 100 was about $5.

Could work though if the glass can take the heat since most all of the heat, both conductive and radiative would have to pass through a wet wick to dissipate.

 

[Tat_skull]

You guys are gonna make me go yank the fuses out of the Chevy(stores to far ATM)

 

[mre777]

So I could not wait for my order of the thin walled pyrex from Walmad. I took a 5x20 4amp fuse from Radio shack, liberated the end caps and shorten to ~9mm with a dremel diamond wheel. I rollled a #500 170mm mesh and then added ~30mm of mesh to the wick section that the glass covers.

I set up a new, never used AGA-t and wrapped a 28g 1.9ohm coil:







I fired away at 4.2v (14.2 watts). Here is the first test run.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2845/9pyhqrksnfkpfyyfvuyryy.mp4

Observations:

Start up time is consistent with Scubadatan. It take a few second to get going. Vapor production is good. The fuse glass had no problem handing short run red hot coils. On my third consecutive burn, I notice the coils started glowing. Visually, there was no damage to the glass tube.

Vapor quality is good but inconsistent. The stock AGA air hole is too low. Turning the hole as Dan suggested did not improve vapor quality with the AGA. With the AGA, having the air hole directly on the coils worked best. Probably due to how high the top of my tube is in the vape chamber. Hands-down, when this thing peaks, flavor is much better than coil on mesh.

The vapor feels more consistent and full. The distribution of heat by the glass from the coils make a smoother true to flavor vape. There is no burning of juice, it just feels very even, if that makes sense. With air flow optimization, this vaporization method will be is superior to coil on mesh.

I am only 2mls in on this set up and I see huge potential.

Nice work i may have to tear my AGA apart now

 

[orion7319]

so we do not know the shipping cost of the second company correct?

btw, in the ihybrid thread, the maker is discussing a anodized aluminum tube that he is making currently that would take the place of the glass/quartz that we are using. It might heat up faster and not be prone to breaking.

thoughts?

I had the same thought a few hours ago... Went so far as to cut an aluminum ink cartridge for a ball point pen.... Stopped that idea when I got tired of scrubbing ink off of my fingers..... If only I had gone looking for a small telescoping antenna first...

 

[Big Screen D]

Married 32 years. Having spent all yesterday afternoon building all 5 of my chids to perfection with the spousal unit giving that rolled eye look as a sat at the table with my magnifying headgear on, wonder if I make it to 33 years if I start taking apart the Christmas lights on Thanksgiving? Oh well, she'll get over it

 

[Mrephunk]

can someone bring forward the links to order the glass from. having trouble finding them. oh and what size would we need for an IHy?

 

[perlionsmitnick]

Fused Quartz Tubing

We're not sure how much shipping is. It could hurt.

 

[orion7319]

i couldn't find what christmas light bulbs are made of but some of them do have those tiny fuses that may be pyrex.

Um..... No! But that would have been too good to be true, wouldn't it?

 

[boardopboy]

Fused Quartz Tubing

We're not sure how much shipping is. It could hurt.

These guys are a 15 minute drive from me!

 

[mre777]

Um..... No!

lol wow what did you heat it with a torch?

 

[lexi60]

Maybe they could get these multi hole capillary tubes in round, then we could possibly eliminate the wick.
Technical Glass Products: Multi-Hole Capillaries Specialty Quartz Tubing

 

[Blaine]

Ok not sure what I did wrong, but the taste I get from this method is terrible lol and are the coils supposed to glow at all? I wrapped them as tight as I could on the glass and they still glow... Hmm
I'm confused


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[perlionsmitnick]

Um..... No!

Wow your fast.

 

[orion7319]

lol wow what did you heat it with a torch?

Lighter, they are made out of plastic apparently

 

[perlionsmitnick]

lighter, they are made out of plastic apparently

dooh ! ......

 

[orion7319]

Wow your fast.

I was just really hopeful that it would work! Lol!

 

[MeltingGlass]

Heat temperature isnt necessarly the only factor when it comes to thermal shocking. It also depends on annealing. It only takes one bad batch of poorly annealed glass tubes to be bought up by one of us and literally have it blow up in our faces. One example I can think of is say your pv is in the car on a cold winter day. You come in the house and fire it up. So along with a bad batch of un annealed glass along with the extreme temperature change chances are you'd have extreme thermal shock.
I'm not saying this is not a great idea Dan. I'm just saying we should use quartz tubes. Here is my supplier I use to buy my quartz tubes.
Technical Glass Products: Fused Quartz Tubing
Bedazzle

Well if you look back a couple of pages at the glowing red coil on the pyrex atty I did 2 1/2 years ago, juice was suirted up the center and never had one crack due to thermal shock. So from my experiance I am not concerned as the coil should not get that hot to begin with.
Dan