How to properly use a TI nail

You are building stupid amounts of reclaim because you aren't smoking any of it. You are sucking the oil right into your rig.

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Let's see some pics.

 

Yeah, it sounds like you may be just sucking a good amount of it into the rig unvaporized.

 

You're an idiot.... i wont even try t help anymore since you are just disregarding my actual advice that is right. You are sucking it right int your right. Learn how tl use a nail, because we are all laughing at you

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Cheeez. Dude he's just trying to learn how to do it right. Help him out. Only reason I'm on here is to learn, and I've been consuming since 1960. You may know everything about it, but a lot of us don't know as much. If you don't want to help out, tell us where to find out and we won't bother you.
I tried to get help with seasoning a nail once. Where were you then? No one ever helped me season that nail. I had to figure it out myself. I thought the idea behind these forums was to spread the knowledge. Doc
I'm not trying to spread hate and discontent, just trying to spread knowledge. >>>Don't take offence.<<<

 

First what brand of nail is that? The color looks off. You sure it's ti? Are you heating it evenly?? Maybe you are letting it cool too much? Ti cools much faster than quartz. Also a banger has the tube part to collect the claim where the ti nail goes straight into the claim catcher. Is it getting you high off the ti?

 

Here is what I do when I use my Ti, which is on the daily btw. It's ancient and I have had it for a few years so I know it well.

I get my torch on one side of the Ti nail until it is glowing red hot on that side. It takes about 15 seconds or so. Then I count to ten like "one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi" etc, etc. then I take my dab tool with a preloaded dab on the point of the tool and slowly touch it to the inside of the side that I was blasting the torch on. I keep on hitting for 5 seconds or so after the dab is gone from th end of the dab tool to collect what's left of the dab as the temp lowers. Even then there is just the slightest wisp of vapor as I back off from the rig. I count to 5 or so and exhale. Rinse, repeat, $!

As far as dropping my loaded dab tool into the hole / stem of the domeless Ti itself, yes I have done just that. Kind of like a nectar collected in a very basic, ghetto kind of way. Here is my take on what happens and why it is NOT a good idea. When you touch a dab to the side of the domeless nail, it allows air to mix thoroughly with the vapor of the wax you're hitting. There is room for the air and wax to do this properly. Where as in the confined space of that narrow downstem the vapor stays condensed. That causes it to cool into larger particles with in the water. You end up with more of the concentrate into the water in the form of reclaim. I found this to be the truth because the water was far more "dirty" in between the time I Normaly change the water.

If you have ever hit really oily water you will know what I mean. It's viscous, it's colored or tinged yellow to orange and it does a piss poor job of cooling the dab you're vaping through the rig. It tastes off, you choke and you cough. That's my personal experience though so your own mileage may vary.

When I first started dabbing a number of years ago, my bro had a rig where the nail was a Ti tube about a 1/4" in diameter, four or five inches long and was coiled like a pigs tail. You got it red hot, counted to 5, inserted the dab tool into the end of the tube and hit it. It worked fucking great for what it was. But in the end, it was a bit rough and harsh. I think it was because the vapor that's created doesn't get enough oxygen mixed and it is just a little to thick. Who knows though broski,......I'm a mother trucking stoner!

Good luck man

 

Yes this may be your problem. Your letting it cool too much. I heat the moat evenly till the center tube starts to glow red. Then I wait about 10 secs. Run the loaded dab tool all around the moat then cap it. When done right it won't start producing much vapor till its capped. Lately I just hold my hand above it till it feels right then dab it.

 

I think that's happening after you set your tool down, not during the actual dab. I am not a fan of that tool shape. Too much surface area.

 

You can always take another tool and scrape that off if you are worried about losing it.

 

I ran a stainless steel wire through carb cap hole. Put oil on end of wire, and put cap over nail, no vapor loss

 

I use a stainless steel dental tool and I don't touch the tool to the Ti domeless if I can help it. Also, I do have a tool like that and it doesn't matter the tool or how it's shaped really, that just happens. It's something to do with the property of heat energy moving through a conductive material. Li,e using flux when you solder and the like.

When it happens, I just scrape it against the top flat edge of the nail and most of the excess comes off. It gives a beefy dab and there is little loss. You could also warm the tool with a lighter and wipe the excess oil on the out side of a doobie. That works pretty well too as long as you don't pack the doobie to tight.

Now that I have a system down, I don't even need a carb cap. There is still the lightest wisp of vapor I don't get at the end, but it lets me know I'm in the ball park as far as temps go.

 

OP, your room is so dirty that even out of focus I can tell its trashed....

Clean your room lol!