Tinymight

Convection air on the original Tinymight passes through a stainless steel basket screen and straight up into the glass tube, so the oven stays comparatively clean while the cooling unit inside that tube takes almost all of the resin. Most of the buildup lands there as the device cools with spent herb still sitting in the stem.

1. Brush the chamber after each session: Turn the vape upside down, pull the glass tube out and sweep the basket screen and the base of the tube clear while everything is still warm. That habit stretches the gap between deep cleans.

2. Push the cooling unit out: With the tube off the device, drive the cooling unit out of the glass using the stir tool or a long wooden skewer. Press on its solid sides rather than the mesh, the same rule the manual gives for sliding it deeper to enlarge the chamber.

3. Split the cooling unit: It unscrews into two halves with three nuts and two washers stacked inside. Lift the two red o-rings off first and note the stack order, nut, washer, nut, washer, nut, because it has to return exactly that way.

4. Soak glass and steel only: Tinymight permits the glass tube and the cooling unit parts in hot water with detergent, or fully submerged in isopropyl alcohol. The o-rings stay out of solvent, so wipe those with a cloth. Give the metal a few hours, rinse, dry, then brush both screens clear.

5. Strip the tube holder if it is badly gummed: The threaded ring in the top panel unscrews anticlockwise and releases an o-ring, a metal tube and the screen holder. Clean them away from the vape: the heater sits directly beneath that screen and nothing wet should reach it. Refit with the screen holder's wider flange upwards and leave the ring only lightly tightened. The mesh goes back inside its holder every time: loose, it can drop onto the element and short it, which is why Tinymight tells first generation owners to stay on the v1 dosing capsule rather than third party trays.

6. Burn off: Reassemble, start session mode and set the dial to 9, since 10 puts the vape into on demand. Run it empty once before loading.

The stained oak body only wants a wipe and an occasional thin coat of beeswax, sold by Tinymight in a small pot. One maintenance trick belongs to this generation alone: if output has faded, back the large rear Torx T20 screw off a millimetre or two, work the aluminium end panels against the wood to refresh the internal contacts, then retighten firmly. Tinymight warns that doing the same to a Tinymight 2 destroys it.