Shnuffles
Rising Star
Always burning your dabs, but don't have money for an electric nail? I did the math so you don't have to!!
All you have to do is heat your titanium nail up to the point it is glowing "Blood Red" (As opposed to "Faint Red" ) and wait 20 seconds. That's it!! No more simple guesswork using your hand to feel the heat! All you gotta do is count!
The math shows that it takes about 26 seconds on average for a titanium nail to cool from 1075 F (Blood Red) to 329 F (just above THC's boiling point). This means that as long as you wait less than 26 seconds, it will still be hot enough to vaporize THC. So, if you wait 20 seconds, it will end up around 10-30 degrees hotter than THC's boiling point, so hot enough to vape but not hot enough to burn. Give or take a second or two if ambient temperature is outside of the 60 - 80 F range.
This Technique was developed mostly aimed for use with vaping distillate or high purity THC concentrate more efficiently since it burns easier than more diverse concentrates. My number for the time it takes for Blood red to cool to Faint Red comes from rough estimates in my own experiments, performed at an ambient temperature of 83.5 F. But as the math shows, the difference between times between 60 F and 80 F are nearly negligible.
I used Newton's Law of Cooling to make this estimate. I plan to do the same with ceramic and quartz nails, however I must do further research and experimentation to find out if the same method can apply given the proper information is available. This is more or less a proof of concept that doubles as a method for me to stop burning my distillate with my current equipment without having to burn more and guess based on feel to dial it in.
All you have to do is heat your titanium nail up to the point it is glowing "Blood Red" (As opposed to "Faint Red" ) and wait 20 seconds. That's it!! No more simple guesswork using your hand to feel the heat! All you gotta do is count!
The math shows that it takes about 26 seconds on average for a titanium nail to cool from 1075 F (Blood Red) to 329 F (just above THC's boiling point). This means that as long as you wait less than 26 seconds, it will still be hot enough to vaporize THC. So, if you wait 20 seconds, it will end up around 10-30 degrees hotter than THC's boiling point, so hot enough to vape but not hot enough to burn. Give or take a second or two if ambient temperature is outside of the 60 - 80 F range.
This Technique was developed mostly aimed for use with vaping distillate or high purity THC concentrate more efficiently since it burns easier than more diverse concentrates. My number for the time it takes for Blood red to cool to Faint Red comes from rough estimates in my own experiments, performed at an ambient temperature of 83.5 F. But as the math shows, the difference between times between 60 F and 80 F are nearly negligible.
I used Newton's Law of Cooling to make this estimate. I plan to do the same with ceramic and quartz nails, however I must do further research and experimentation to find out if the same method can apply given the proper information is available. This is more or less a proof of concept that doubles as a method for me to stop burning my distillate with my current equipment without having to burn more and guess based on feel to dial it in.
