Where can i buy stainless steel drip tips

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Marcella

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Vapure has currently got really nice stainless steel 510 ming-vase style tips, regular price of $5.00 which is best I've found anyplace. I bought one and just placed an order for 3 more of the same. Really excellent quality IMO.

Kind of hard to find on their website though..... it's the very last (12th) drip tip in the photo of 12 different colors available. They also have the imitation wood grain that costs more from most other vendors
 

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you may already know this but no one else has said it...if you are putting it on an atomizer, metal drips tips can get hot when used with an atty

you might want to stick with delrin

??? I dont know about all that, Stainless Tips are all I use and Im a 100% direct dripper on a 510 atomizer... I use them on a VV mod cranked up high.. I have never had heat issues...
 

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I like this straight 510 drip tip.

510/901 Stainless Drip Tip

I thought it was stainless steel but a quick look at the bore with a jeweler's loupe showed me that it is nickle plated brass. It's still my favorite drip tip though and will probably last for many years.

I'm quoting myself on a post done nearly six months ago.

I love the shape and wider bore of the drip tip linked above. However, the nickel and/or chrome plating was apparently very thin in the bore of this drip tip. The plating failed and I could taste brass with every draw. The brass would corrode like mad, too. I clean drip tip bores every day with a Q-Tip and every day I'd see green on the swab from copper oxide.

Wish I could find a stainless replacement tip with the same shape and bore size.
 

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A SS drip-tip is going to perform nearly identical to an aluminum anodized drip-tip of the same size and dimensions. Save your time and money and if it's going on an atomizer, use standard plastic or delrin. As was already mentioned, they do get quite hot.
I've used nickle plated brass, solid stainless steel and solid aluminum drip tips.

-The best conductor of heat from these three choices is aluminum. It heats faster and cools faster by quite a margin.

-Stainless steel has the least thermal conductivity of the three. It heats slowest and cools slowest.

-Brass falls into the middle of the two above.

The most heat conductive choices would be silver, followed by gold.
 
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I've used nickle plated brass, solid stainless steel and solid aluminum drip tips.

-The best conductor of heat from these three choices is aluminum. It heats faster and cools faster by quite a margin.

-Stainless steel has the least thermal conductivity of the three. It heats slowest and cools slowest.

-Brass falls into the middle of the two above.

The most heat conductive choices would be silver, followed by gold.

Just be glad they aren't making them out of copper, as well.
 
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