Toasty Top Tube Design

anybody that knows Alan Gray knows that he takes his work seriously and that he's relentless in the pursuit of perfection Alan made the Toasty Top a really terrific a little Vape and he's been studying the tube and gone through many many changes i feel very proud to have evaluated some of these tubes and gotten to look right now you see me working with one of the final models of his tube, and its got the long tip on it but i'm about to put a short tip on it and you will see the actual final production model of the tube he is using right now every time he sends you tubes he sends you every type of screen that you might be able to use with it but not only that includes silicone and varying lengths of slip over tips so that you can change things around an experiment a little few more the tubes this is his original towards the end he sent me tips to make the original longer .....you see that original the original fits right down into the toasty top nicely and i still use it very often i liked it a lot but there were a lot of changes in between the very first original and the end and you see the changes here and you see an interesting one with a little red band to the left of the screen and that's all there are about to take a look at that you see that was his next design using different piece of silicone ... you see some of the silicon pulling off the tip well that's what seals it against the heat port and there's a ring of silicone there to help you seal it if you use a downstem on a *** as you see here now we're gonna start taking a peek at the sandwich type of tube that he's come up with what you see here can be removed and i can actually make it not the sandwich type and put one of the original tips on you'll see me doing that right now but i'm going to explain the concept behind the sandwich piece that in my left hand could be used and then you take it apart to change to empty the weed out of it you can spin it around and put it in the other way okay so you've got a thing here with the screen in the dead center all right being held in sandwiched by that actual silicone and there we dump the weed and we put it in backwards an Alan's concept here was to make it so that no side got a chance to build up too much okay that was an interesting one to experiment with okay here's the underdog style that he made he put a beautiful piece of glass into a silicone and he used the glass as a backstop for that screen here we come closer to his end designs still using the sandwich type you see how it moves when I push with my finger okay and of there is the sandwich design with the lilac wood here is the final one this is getting very close to the finished product he started out a little bit long but using the technique see how it sets in there it doesn't quite make this seal using the shorter piece he sent here we go there it is it'ssits perfectly and there's the variety of tips of that size and that brings us to the end result that brings us now to the very finished product the right size for that and now I am going to change out my Lilac stem and i'm gonna put the right size short tip on there and that brings us to the finished product uh... this is the most beautiful stem around i'm gonna show if you would offer a few seconds here up close that you can really get a good look at it because the colors on it are remarkable Alan found this in an old dead Lilac Bush found the branch and decided to make a stem He makes stems from piano keys and anything else that you can find around so watch your wood piles guys and here is my favorite stem from the toasty top in it's finished form Thanks Alan... you have been a great pal letting me help evaluate and I appreciate everything you do for Vaporists!