18mm quartz injector style housing beautifully loaded with around 205 sapphire pearls. It fits into a 20mm hot hole coil. This always comes with a post and coil guard with glass insert to make a very comfortable setting.
This vape is surely on its way out given the website’s presentation. Probably the fragility of this wonderful creature made that occur.
This unique vape is truly a joy to look at. It works great but so do all the good ball vapes. Time is an enemy for this vape as quartz will only stand so many expansions and contractions even with immaculate care.
With this pid that I am used to. I had not used this vape in quite a few months. I am liking 544 degrees using the bong and about .016. 544 degrees produced a moderate amount of vapor.
At first I thought it was some kind of mistake, but then I read your post in the thread about microdoses.
That’s impressive. I didn’t think such a large device could effectively vaporize such small amounts. Before I saw this, I considered myself a very light user with my usual .02 – .04 doses.
The phrase “quartz will only stand so many expansions” implies an inherent, unalterable mechanical clock inside the material. In reality, pristine fused quartz doesn’t care about the expansions.
The structural degradation is a function of chemical purity and manufacturing method. A dry, high-purity material like GE 124 resists devitrification and outlasts standard commercial quartz housings because it minimizes the phase transformations that actually trigger the fracturing.
Fused quartz does not experience this type of wear under normal conditions because it has one of the lowest coefficients of thermal expansion of any material on earth (approx 5.5 X 10-7/C). Because it barely expands or contracts when heated and cooled, the internal mechanical stress generated by thermal cycling is practically negligible. A pristine piece of fused quartz can be cycled thousands of times without fracturing from expansion alone.
When a quartz housing fails or fractures after repeated heating cycles, it is almost never due to pure expansion/contraction. Instead, it is caused by a chemical change called devitrification (the transition from an amorphous glass back into a crystalline structure).
I am not sure what type of quartz we are dealing with here. It could be natural and milled which means it is susceptible to thermal shock i read about fused quartz and it is impressive and very stable for sure.
