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.