heating up Titanium Nail with Electricity!!??

Kinda like a herb iron but a nail. The one thing that has always put me off buying an oil rig other than the amount of bud reuired to ake up a great big batch of oil, is the price of the fuel used just to heat the thing up, and then having to trek out and buy some more.

Originally Posted by tip top toker

Kinda like a herb iron but a nail. The one thing that has always put me off buying an oil rig other than the amount of bud reuired to ake up a great big batch of oil, is the price of the fuel used just to heat the thing up, and then having to trek out and buy some more.

ya but with like clip on leads so you could take them off to put the dome on but ya same idea!

I just recently switched kicked myself in the butt and got an oil set up. I gotta say ive gone a few days with out smoking flowers, doing dabs is kind of addicting! If you do decide to go that route you wont be disappointed. I got my torch at walmart for like 30 bucks came with a can of butane and a self ignitable torch. I then went to home depot and bought a tank of MAPP gas. The tanks are quite big i haven't even run out of the first tank yet been using it for over a month

i use a can of butane a month to fill my torch that is really expensive

Heating coils heat up so well because they are made of resistance materials - materials that electricity will but doesn't like to travel through. For instance resistance wire made of Nichrome has a resistance factor of 112.2x10^-6 ohm-cm whereas titanium is 43x10^-6. Shape also plays a large aspect in resistance with longer thinner filaments providing more resistance and larger thicker items providing less resistance:

The electrical resistance of a wire is greater for a longer wire and less for a wire of larger cross sectional area. The resistance depend on the material of which it is made and can be expressed as:

R = ρ L / A (1)
where
R = resistance (ohm)
ρ = resistivity coefficient (ohm m)
L = length of wire (m)
A = cross sectional area of wire (m²)

I have a feeling it would take a dangerous amount of electricity to heat a thick titanium nail. Of course I really have no idea of what I'm talking about.

What if you just vaporized the oil using the electrical arc itself?

“You know, uh, I never thought I’d say this to anybody…but you two smoke entirely too much reefer.”

Originally Posted by Gastanker

Heating coils heat up so well because they are made of resistance materials - materials that electricity will but doesn't like to travel through. For instance resistance wire made of Nichrome has a resistance factor of 112.2x10^-6 ohm-cm whereas titanium is 43x10^-6. Shape also plays a large aspect in resistance with longer thinner filaments providing more resistance and larger thicker items providing less resistance:

The electrical resistance of a wire is greater for a longer wire and less for a wire of larger cross sectional area. The resistance depend on the material of which it is made and can be expressed as:

R = ρ L / A (1)
where
R = resistance (ohm)
ρ = resistivity coefficient (ohm m)
L = length of wire (m)
A = cross sectional area of wire (m²)

I have a feeling it would take a dangerous amount of electricity to heat a thick titanium nail. Of course I really have no idea of what I'm talking about.

What if you just vaporized the oil using the electrical arc itself?

i went cross eyed half way through your post. I aint no electrician or mathematician so im just gonna keep heating up my nail with MAPP GAS until something more convient comes along....

I just use my propane torch that I got for 30$. And the tanks are like 5$ and last about a month.

i also use a smallish propane torch that i got at Ace Hardware for $15. it can take the Coleman propane refills for camping stoves and such. i dab about a gram a day, and at that rate the $2.59 propane refill lasts a month and a half on my Ti nail.

but on the topic of alternative heating methods, about a year ago i came in late to a Ti nail thread on a different forum site where someone had posted a video of them heating their Ti with induction. the video had been pulled from YouTube before i had found that thread, and so i literally missed seeing it by one day... about a week prior to missing that video link, i was watching a "How's It Made" episode (ya, i was baked) and they showed how chains are made. the part where they showed the machine using induction to heat and fuse the links gave me the initial notion of using that approach for nail heating... maybe someday someone will carry it out to market.