This is a cool Idea. I have a buket of oil in garage from a friend that grows outdoors How much did you have invested in this and How much to ship to
Iowa? I would think about it!

The biggest cost is the CD/DVD spindles, which is Memorex. I called Memorex and they won't sell me the empty spindles, so the cost will depend on whether you have a use for blank CDs/DVDs. The base unit uses one 50-pack and one 25-pack. Yes, this is a conspiracy to get stoners buying blank media.

I have spindles I record cds for my truck, woulden't take bought cds in my truck
I guess this comes from starting my music collection with albums and how much care you had to take keeping them in good condition
You sid all this can be bought at radio shack?
I'll have to go back and make a list of parts and go cheack at radio shack!
Thanks dude I'm going to have to try this! If I canget the time!
peace man

you should do this in an actual step by step format, something like you would find on Instructables - The World's Biggest DIY & How To Show & Tell they only have a crappy vaporizer how to on there... i know i would understand it alot better if i read instructions

this needs a bump. wheres iso?

Agreed. This is a great machine.

If someone could put similar brainpower and creativity to use making a better honey oil extractor (ideally one that doesn't require me to evacuate a large amount of explosive gas in a short period of time), I would ignore all my other to dos and get to building!

Hey, not sure if ur still there but anyways, i've been readin wondering if you happen to know the guage of that filament? because I found some kickass "60% nickel/16% chromium alloy resistance cable, precoiled in 0.125"

Here is my two cents Iso.
Once the oil is vaporized how do you inhale it? I don't see a hose or anything?
And when the vapor comes in contact with the cold metal and batteries and such doesn't it condense and leave a film on everything internal.
If I made a version of this I would make everything but the bulb holder and filament part external and like natmoon said I would add a way to plug this into a power transformer. Also do you really need a switch or does it heat up quick enough that you could just use a momentary switch?

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nice work the G3 looks realy nice and portable

@Isochroma

I have a couple of questions for you as I had made something similar, but even more DIY then this.

I was wondering how you calibrated the temperature, did you use a trial and error method?

How do you clean it? The vapours may be cool, but wont the vapours floating around inside and hitting the cool surfaces condense, so after extended use, everything will get sticky? I had this problem with mine after using it a lot, but I used a glass coffee jar and I would wash it out with rubbing alcohol.

Otherwise this is brilliant, I am going to use this concept and make a portable one. It'll be way cheaper than mine.

@sjfrocketdude

My design that I made a few years ago used straight nichrome wire, but I had it coiled around a small ceramic thimble.

It worked pretty well too. Although it would obviously take longer since the ceramic also had to heat up. But it was easy to clean! Nichrome is also dirt cheap on eBay, I paid $5 for 100ft spool of 32ga, I only used like, maybe 6 inches, lol.

It used about 500mA to get it to 200C. If I had used it in the method that isochroma did, and coiled it first, it would've been around 350mA. It also ran off 12V (since I had a spare wallwart to use).

I think I might try it again, but use a different kind of nichrome wire.