Whip Convection Vaporizer

Step 3 Preparing your heating core.

Step 2.
Break open your soldering iron.
This will vary based on the model of soldering iron you use. On mine there was a metal tube which holds up the tip and heating core. I opened this up by prying at the seem using needle nosed pliers. The handle need to then be cut open. Remove the little grip piece first. I sawed perpendicular to the handle. This meant that I needed to cut the wires to the soldering iron in order to remove the heating core. This increases how much of a fire hazard your vaporizer will be. You could alternately cut parallel to direction of the handle and then pry it open. This wouldn't require you to cut the cord to the soldering iron core, but it may be more difficult.
Step 2b.
Tape up the soldering iron leads. The core, as you can see, is a core with two wires running off of it, these wires then hook to the plug cord. There's exposed wire where the two woven leads meet the plug cord. This is to save radio shack some money (that's what that little yellow thing in the iron was for). Don't worry about the specifics of the iron, just make sure that before you plug anything in you've put electrical tape over any exposed wires. If you cut your iron cord, fix it up now. Solder it, or use the twisty caps, and then make sure you put some electrical tape over it!

Comments

[J_M_Ped]

I was wondering, did you stick a different piece of wire inside the heater core, because it looks like you did.

[syphex]

ay?

[syphex]

Why even bother stripping it down? Can't you just take the screwdriver-like end out? Cuz I stripped my second iron down to the wire coil and it looks like I might as well have left it as it is and just taken out the tip.

[qpmarl]

hey man, just cut the plug off the cord - then get a replacement plug at a hardware store - fire hazard thwarted.

[THeff]

dude i like the thermometer idea, it should work fine, and i like the dimmer switch idea, i am currently waiting for my bud to get paid so we can buy parts, then i will put everything together and getcha some pics

[THeff]

good thinknig man, way to save my ass in the future , im currently looking for a way to put in a temp dial

[vapoking]

I thought about buying a regular kitchen thermometer and bending it 90 degrees, sticking it in the back of the bottle so the probe side of it went down the neck, and gluing the face of the thermometer to the inside of the bottle. You could then control the temperature with a dimmer switch. I control the temperature on mine by moving the heating element closer or further from the front of the bottle. If you really must have a digital temperature dial readout, you should use one of the expensive soldering irons with a temperature readout built into it. Another possibility might be adapting a thermostat. Good luck! Tell me how it goes. If you want I can give you access to post pictures of yours when its done.

[THeff]

there was no seam on mine so i got a lil confused cuz i was high, but i used a saw to get to it, thanx man

[vapoking]

You might consider buying one of those wall timers so that if you leave your vaporizer plugged in by accident it will only run as long as you set the timer for. That way when you get stoned you don't accidentally leave the vaporizer on and burn down your apartment/house/shanty ;) I'm going to get one ASAP. Tell me how your vaporizer goes!

[THeff]

could you give more info like steps to taking it apart and pics deffanatly pics, please.

[vapoking]

Do you mean steps to taking the soldering iron apart, or the whole vaporizer? The vaporizer is essentially a striped down soldering iron resting in half of a bottle. All I would have to do is pull on the plug and the soldering iron core would fall out (the cord should probably be fixed to bottle to prevent this but I haven't gotten around to it). If you mean pictures of taking the soldering iron apart, I'm sorry. I didn't take pictures of that. If you have questions about how to do it, I'll do my best to explain.

[THeff]

i ment taking it apart, cuz when i took mine apart it didn't work to well, i mean i got the plastic handle off and then the rest was metal that wouldn't budge

[vapoking]

Do you have a radioshack soldering iron? on mine there was a plastic handle and a metal tube. There was a seem on the metal shaft. I used a small pair of needle nose pliers to pry open the seem. It was not a delicate job by any stretch of the imagination. Just tear the thing apart and try not to break the cords. The cords on the inside of the radioshack soldering irons are delicate. Good luck.