Opal LOC - Carta 2

✌️😁 The ZHD Opal L.O.C 🫶 (lift off cap)

What makes this different than other joystick caps? 

The others have 2 Maria’s (bumps) on the noodle so that the grommet seats in the crevice between them. when you gyrate the cap, it won’t sling out for that reason, or get pushed down through the grommet into the crucible (lose ability to gyrate) 

Glassblowers put those two notches in - in order to prevent that. The one downside to this style cap is that it makes it necessary to take the entire flux cap grommet off of the crucible to clear your piece. This can interfere with the fluidity of your dabbing( fiddling with the grommet to get the cap back into place), and also causes wear and tear on that silicone sleeve. 

 My cap has just the one maria (bump).  When you adjust the grommet as demonstrated in the attached video, as long as your putting some minimal pressure down on the top of the cap when your gyrating it, no matter how hard you get at it, it wont sling out. 

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 How to Clean

• wiping the outside of the cap with some 99% isopropyl alcohol cleans it almost completely
• You can submerge the entirety of the cap  beneath the bubble ( area where the opal is trapped) in Iso Alchohol
• You can soak the entire cap in hot soapy water. rinse out all of the soap suds. If there is any excess water in the cap trap, you can blow it out / suck it out 

The size of the opals will determine how big the cap top will be

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This model is a joystick cap that is meant to be used with @tufftethers flux cap grommet available at tufftethers.com

By pushing in the center of the flux cap as demonstrated in my video (so that bit is poking out) - you can gently twist in my cap, get to work, and whenever you want to clear your piece, just twist the cap up to take it off vs pulling it straight up, and twisting it back on vs pushing down ----This guarantees the flux cap grommet stays exactly the way you first set it after loading your ___

The Carta Max LOC size is compatible with the voozr grommet/chamber -  although you would want to insert the LOC in the same way demonstrated in the first video- when I was using the flux cap grommet