DIY E-Nail

WarMachine

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hahaha damn!!! Check out domeless.com

http://www.domeless.com/products/product-details/#cid=621466

$75 is so cheap for an enail!!!
The problem with all the cheaper ones that are $100-$150 they are one setting heat and tend to be on the lower end of the scale. The one you listed goes to 6xx mine is adjustable lol. I was going to get that one you listed until the temp was to low, $75 is a steal. Mine was only $15 :-)

I'm not saying mines the best or anything, just saying it works lol.
 

WarMachine

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I would love to know how the one that domeless listed was made. It seems so simple and obviously low priced so must be low cost to build. Maybe I would be able to kick it up in heat.
 

Fadedawg

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I made my own ghetto e-nail using a laptop charger and nichrome wire . Works well but obviously not like what you guys all working with!
Hee, hee, hee............Old engineering proverb WM. If it works, it isn't stupid.

We whomped up this out of thangs lying around, except for the Oil coil, just to try it out, and always planned to eventually design and build something more main stream, but we stay pretty busy and never got any further than figuring out how to easily use it in a circle. Now that we figured out that secret, we will just make ourselves a purdier stand, so we can give Pete his pin vice back.

The nail is an original KO domeless nail, which was donated for testing a couple three years ago, sitting on an original Skunk Pharm dab pipe. Our newer V-2 KO domeless nail is too large for the coil and has a belled entrance.

We just set the coil over the nail and leave it there until we are ready to use it, and then lift the coil off and pass the pipe with no cord attached. When it returns, we set the coil over it again, which rapidly brings it back up to temperature.

Controls are a Mypin PID and a Fotek SSR, in a scrounged box.

Lazy, yes, stupid, not thinking so.

We like it better than one on a cord.
 

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Fadedawg

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Hee, hee, hee, I love to watch fertile minds at work and love simple!

Probably should include a shield for the exposed 120V wires, or a ground fault interrupter, to limit the jolt.
 

budbro18

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torturekiller420

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14awg wire? I thought 16awg was to thick so people were using 18awg? Im going to order a wire spool kit(desired wire size in different colored spools). I would hate to order the wrong stuff.
 

Fadedawg

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As I recall, my Oil coil, cost around that price. The PID was $16 and the SSR less than $10. We scrounged the can and wiring.
 

jbigdawg79

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Ok guys a have a xmt-7100 controller I have everything wired and connected. I have power to the unit my coil is not heating up. Is there setting on the temp controller that you have to set up before your cool heats up? If so how do I set up the settings?
 

jbigdawg79

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Hellllp Lolololol God it sucks having everything here to use it and don't know how to set up the pid lol sucksssss
 

Fadedawg

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Ok guys a have a xmt-7100 controller I have everything wired and connected. I have power to the unit my coil is not heating up. Is there setting on the temp controller that you have to set up before your cool heats up? If so how do I set up the settings?
Not familiar with that PID controller, but you sound lonely and in need of a dab from your nail.

Did the PID controller come with an instruction sheet written by someone whose native language is English?

You will need to set the temperature that you want it to heat the coil to. Have you done that?

If you have, is the red led on the face indicating that the controller is calling for heat lit? The destruction sheet should tell you which light it is.
 

jbigdawg79

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Not familiar with that PID controller, but you sound lonely and in need of a dab from your nail.

Did the PID controller come with an instruction sheet written by someone whose native language is English?

You will need to set the temperature that you want it to heat the coil to. Have you done that?

If you have, is the red led on the face indicating that the controller is calling for heat lit? The destruction sheet should tell you which light it is.
http://www.berriman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/xmt7100.pdf
 

jbigdawg79

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Cmon my fellow smokers the more I play with it the more I feel like I'm messing it up more. Lol just wanna take a dab again without lighting my dam torch!!! Lol
 
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