Quartz Saucer Nail Male Domeless

The Quartz Saucer Nail Male Domeless is a must for anyone that enjoys extracts. Not sure if this is the right nail for you? Here’s what the catalog name means:

Quartz: Quartz is more thermally shock resistant than borosilicate (Pyrex). By nature, the use of extracts is higher temp than non-extract (leaf) use and the nature of peoples behavior dictates that while your piece is made of boro, the nail part cannot be made of boro because most people simply BLAST the nail with the full flame of the torch instead of ‘feathering’ the flame to give the glass a chance to expand slower and not crack. Secondarily, some torches these days get hot enough to melt borosilicate to deformation temperature, and that’s no good. Titanium, even type 2 Ti oxidizes and off gasses far more than Quartz, so, at this point, Quartz is the most demanded nail material. Here’s a little Quartz Wiki

Saucer: This term refers to the look of this nail – a Cup and Saucer. The saucer is the large dish underneath that is heated to cause the extract to vaporize, the internal ‘cup’ is the vent where the vapor is drown down into the pipe from.

Nail: A reference to the first extract appliances that were longer and thinner that looked like a screw or a nail.

Male/Female: refers to whether the joint on the nail goes into the joint on the pipe or vice versa. A pipe with a ‘male’ joint welded into it’s belly is referred to a ‘rig’. This type of configuration requires a female nail and vice versa.

Domeless: Older ‘skillet’ style pipes provided poor downward airflow into the pipe, so, a dome was placed over the skillet, then, in later models, the dome was placed over the Ti nail. These days, domes are a thing of the past, but the lack of a dome has remained part of the description, hence, ‘domeless’

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