I could do with 1 ft sections, I just couldn't do with the $20 shipping. Hell, we're both in Ohio, cut it down into 8 6 inch sections, give it a few wraps of bubble wrap, and jam it into a padded mailer.
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Me too, but after thinking about it, 15mm would ensure the tube is stabalized in the wick hole with a minimal amount protruding into the juice, leaving most of the ss or whatever wick exposed in the tank. But will definately post something when I get a MOQ for a coop. I'm so excited (as we all are) to come across all of this!
Not certain, but I think USPS has certain rules on how glass can be mailed - I don't think bubble wrap and a padded mailer would qualify. Besides, if your mailman is anything like mine, you would end up with a lot of 15mm pieces by the time you got it!
That's cool and everything, but I would want to make sure this is going to work first before getting feet of it. Jack seems a nice guy. I'm sure it's all about sales though...
Unless someone has tried and has concluded an inner coil/outside mesh or cotton wick surrounding a glass tube is destined to fail, I'm going to give this a try.
Plan is to wrap the 1.5 mm tubes shown below with either 325, 400, or 500 mesh I have on hand and extend the tube surrounded by mesh into the dud tank.
To get current to the teeny tiny diameter coil that I'm going to attempt to stuff inside, I am going to connect an insulated wire to the bottom end of the coil, come out of the end of the tube that is down in the tank, then up and out the fill hole to ground. May do a similar connection for the positive, but I may be able to get away with just the Kanthal up top.
Thinking is maybe this approach will help with getting air to the vaporization surface in a more traditional genesis configuration, and if I can get away with only one or two wraps of wick around the tube, it should greatly improve response time. May even have some volcano action from the capillary tube to help wet the wick. Or flood it.
OD, 1.5 to 1.8 mm; approximate wall thickness, 0.2 mm. Length, 100 mm (ends open).Sold in vials of 100
Plan is to wrap the 1.5 mm tubes shown below with either 325, 400, or 500 mesh I have on hand and extend the tube surrounded by mesh into the dud tank.
To get current to the teeny tiny diameter coil that I'm going to attempt to stuff inside, I am going to connect an insulated wire to the bottom end of the coil, come out of the end of the tube that is down in the tank, then up and out the fill hole to ground. May do a similar connection for the positive, but I may be able to get away with just the Kanthal up top.
Thinking is maybe this approach will help with getting air to the vaporization surface in a more traditional genesis configuration, and if I can get away with only one or two wraps of wick around the tube, it should greatly improve response time. May even have some volcano action from the capillary tube to help wet the wick. Or flood it.
OD, 1.5 to 1.8 mm; approximate wall thickness, 0.2 mm. Length, 100 mm (ends open).Sold in vials of 100
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That seems like a doable approach, except that the coil would have to somehow poke out of the wick to make contact with the neg post. Same basic priciple of isolating the coil, but a PITA when it comes to changing wicks.
Regarding the discoloration of the tube.
I know nothing about the qualities of heated glass other than my wife's cooking. Pyrex will stain if stuff gets baked on
I know nothing about the qualities of heated glass other than my wife's cooking. Pyrex will stain if stuff gets baked on
USPS Flat rate 13-5/8" x 11-7/8" x 3-3/8" box $11.35. Several pieces could be put in it in a diagonal if necessary. 15mm pieces are going to be someones nightmare cutiing for a coop.
Or go 8-5/8" x 5-3/8" x 1-5/8" flat rate box for $5.35
Big Screen, your attachment didn't show up.
Long day. It's there now
At least it's cheap. Kimax(r) Glass Capillary Tubes, Melting Point: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
I don't think that TBinAZ meant the 15mm as a co-op, he was just going to help people get started with experimenting by passing them out at that size. The co-op idea is for larger pieces. TBinAZ, correct me if I'm wrong.
Unless he mails them in a regular envelope the shipping may be the same as for a protected package of longer lengths.
Big Screen what if instead of a tiny coil you could find a nice fat gauge of wire with the right resistance in say a 1/2 inch to fit inside that capillary tube. No twisting just slide it in. It would be like an insulated toaster element.
Long day. It's there now
At least it's cheap. Kimax(r) Glass Capillary Tubes, Melting Point: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
Are these plain glass, Big Screen? You might not want to use them unless they're Pyrex or fused quartz. Big time heat fractures.
At that size, 15mm, taped to a piece of cardboard, a regular envelope should work. If by some chance it were to break, the tape would keep the pieces from scattering.
Edit: Somewhere on the envelope it should say "Do not machine process" or something similar to that.
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I'm not sure if that's even pyrex. Could be those regular glass tube we used to melt in high school chem class. Just be sure you know what your using. i did see some that are pyrex of similar diameter for trying an inner-wick tube.
Didn't post my quote, but just reiterating what Dsy5 said.
Didn't post my quote, but just reiterating what Dsy5 said.
Same as Pyrex dsy5. Kimax is just another brand name.
That said, I expect them to be quite fragile as the wall is .2mm.
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