Vauen's "Edgar", what will they think of next?
A Pipe With A Heat Sink
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I actually think it's kinda neat looking but a simple rusticated or blasted pipe should increase the surface area by similar amounts and have the same effect.
It's a basin for washing your heats.
J/K
It's basically anything designed to remove heat from one system and transfer the heat to another system at a different rate.
Here you can see a metal heat sink on top of a CPU processor ship:
The metal rapidly absorbs/removes heat from the chip it is attached to and radiates it away (with the help of a fan in this example.)
As would a good smoking technique. Nothing beats dry tobacco lightly packed and slowly smoked.?
The two primary methods for transferring heat is convection and conduction. Convection cooling is accomplished by a flow of fluid (air, water) across the heated object. Conduction cooling is accomplished by a cooler object touching the hotter object (heat sink on a computer motherboard, the baffled looking aluminum on a lawn mower engine).
The briar itself is a heat sink, you're transferring heat from the tobacco to the briar. In general, that seems to be fairly effective. Not sure how much more is needed.
The briar itself is a heat sink, you're transferring heat from the tobacco to the briar. In general, that seems to be fairly effective. Not sure how much more is needed.
Like this? ?
Me either. Just seems like they are playing on new smokers desires to more quickly enjoy the pipe versus just slowing down.
AKA a “gimmick”. I can’t imagine that would really do anything as it’s 100% external to the smoking experience. Unless somehow the metal pieces protruded into the chamber.
Might as well fashion a small aluminum foil hat for your pipe.
It looks like just something to talk about rather than actually being effective.
Unless the heat sink portion is a better conductor than briar, I just don't see this making a big difference
What about a clip-on heat sink for pipes with thinner walls. I have a couple that get hotter than normal.
This was the only good one because it looked like an Airstream. It was called. The Streamliner.
Any lattice meerschaum is a heatsink.
If a pipe needs a heat sink it needs a redesign. That said I have a Vauen 4161 with a heavy lacquer coating that is a HOT smoker. I dry my tobacco, I don't smoke like a steam engine and I've tried several different blends, but you can't hold it by the bowl when smoking. It's the only pipe in my collection with a heavy lacquer so I can only assume that has something to do with it as my other Vauens are terrific pipes.