Whip Convection Vaporizer

Step 5 Assembling your whip and bowl.

Clean everything (almost).
Your bottle needs to be cleaned to remove any glass particulate.
The copper tubing needs to be cleaned to remove any grease and/or copper dust.
The brass pipe fitting needs to be cleaned to remove any gunk on it.
Don't clean your heating core, doing so will probably destroy it.
you screen doesn't need to be cleaned because it should have been clean enough when you bought it.
Flange one side of your 1/4 copper tubing.
Do this by sticking a small enough pair of needle nose pliers in the end of the tube and twisting.
Take your brass fitting (mine's from lowes and its labeled 3/8' flare x 3/8' FIP), and slide it over the copper tubing from the not flanged end, down the copper tube, and to the other end of the copper tubing. Make sure the larger side faces outward. The flange should be big enough to not allow the brass fitting to slide completely past the flanged end of the tubing. Put your screen in the open end of the brass fitting. your plant material will go against the screen inside the large side of the brass fitting.
Pro tip: Is should be flanged as far out as will fit in your bowl. Since this is the vessel through which the air will pass, if it's too narrow your plant material will not vaporize evenly. It is not flanged enough in the picture.

Comments

[J_M_Ped]

One thing to keep in mind about the fittings is anything brass or copper it would be a great advantage to you to soak them in two parts vinegar and one part hydrogen peroxide to remove excess lead.

[THeff]

how safe is vinil?

[vapoking]

even though they use it on commercial vaporizers, it's not safe in my opinion. If you must use it make sure you don't expose it to any heat at all. They say its only safe somewhere under 200 degrees. Vaporizers go well above that. Brass tubing works fine. I know it's pricey but lung cancer is way more expensive ;).

[THeff]

thanx, i found steel its short but its the flexable joint kind used to house wires, and i think im gonna use that

[vapoking]

Make sure not to expose that to the high heats. My original vaporizer used steel pipe around the soldering iron and when I heat tested it it smoked :( I'm uneasy about steel. Make sure to still use a copper or brass bowl. You might even put some copper pipe off the end of the bowl between the bowl and the tube to cool the vapor some more before it gets to the steel. And make sure to wash it super well ;)

[hcold]

Steel is just iron and carbon, and seeing as your bodily function depends on iron, and you are (presumabley) a carbon-based life form, it shouldn't do you too much harm, although all bets are off when you are introducing hot substances to your delicate lung tissue.

[flaq]

yeah, but you're assuming that the manufacturer made the steel with 100% pure iron and carbon which unless you're paying a high price i don't think you're gonna get usually fresh water pipes are copper for drinking purposes and drainage/waste are steel (or other material) cuz they're cheaper

[yallrfags]

How about the fish tank tubing... I think it is made of silicone

[THeff]

i thaught steel was what they used in metal pipes? either way im gonna make shure it doesn't get to hot, and thanks again for the tip, you have been really helpfull

[therefplosion2440]

they do use steel in most regular smoking pipes, not in vaporizers though. with a regular pipe the metal is only heated for a few moments while the lighter is on it and while what ever you just lit up is being burned.

[THeff]

what i think you should do is make a bubble whip, that usualy equals perfection, but lessens the stealth of it