Authorized Disorderly Conduction dealer · Venice, CA
A torch is cheap, portable and runs out of gas at the worst possible moment. An e-nail holds one temperature all night and never leaves the table. Most people end up owning both, but only one of them should be the thing you reach for.
The reason this question keeps coming up is that torches hide their cost. The torch itself is cheap. The butane is not, the guessing is not, and neither is the quartz you crack by overheating it. An e-nail is the opposite shape: one purchase up front, then nothing.
E-nail or torch, the short answer
Get an e-nail if you dab at home, more than occasionally, and you are tired of counting seconds and waiting for a banger to cool. It heats once, holds the temperature, and every dab after that is the same as the last one. Get a torch if you dab rarely, you move around, or you are not ready to give a rig a permanent spot with a plug near it. If you already own a torch and you are wondering whether to upgrade, the honest test is whether you have ever ruined a dab by mistiming the cooldown. If yes, the e-nail fixes exactly that.
What actually changes
Temperature control is the headline, but consistency is the thing you feel. With a torch you are estimating: heat for this long, wait for that long, and hope the room temperature and the thickness of the quartz are the same as last time. They are not. An e-nail removes the whole variable. You set a number, the coil holds it, and the fifth dab of the night tastes like the first.
The second change is that nothing is ever glowing. A torch puts an open flame on your table next to glass. Once the coil is doing the work there is no flame, no butane to store, and nothing to refill at the worst time.
What you give up is portability and the plug. An e-nail needs an outlet, so it belongs where the rig already lives. That is genuinely the whole downside.
Coil sizing, which is where people get it wrong
The coil has to fit the banger, and this is the part that ruins first orders. The coil wraps the outside of the bucket, so the measurement that matters is the outside diameter of your quartz, not the joint size. A coil sized for a standard bucket will not sit properly on a slurper or a thermal tower, and a loose coil heats unevenly, which puts you back where you started.
The Cobra Coil comes in six sizes precisely for this, covering buckets, slurpers, towers and QCB. If you are unsure which yours is, bring the banger in. That is a thirty second answer in person and a long guess online.
One coil, two, or four
Disorderly Conduction build the controllers in California and the difference between them is simply how many coils they run at once.
The single heat station is the one most people want. One coil, one rig, compact enough to leave set up. The dual runs two coils independently, which matters if you run two rigs or two different bangers and do not want to keep re-sizing. The quad is four, and it is built for the setups where more than one person is going at once.
The Cobra Cup is the odd one out and the answer to the portability objection. It is a cup style e-nail that gets you torchless dabbing without a full station, which makes it the crossover piece for people who liked the torch for its simplicity rather than its flame.
Which one, in one line
| Get this | If |
|---|---|
| Torch | You dab occasionally, you travel with your rig, or there is no outlet where it sits |
| Single heat station | One rig, at home, and you want every dab to be the same |
| Dual heat station | Two rigs or two bangers, and you do not want to keep swapping coils |
| Quad heat station | More than one person is dabbing at once |
| Cobra Cup | You want to lose the torch without committing to a full station |
Living with one
Two habits keep an e-nail setup honest. Wipe the banger while it is still warm, because residue lifts then and sets later, and the same rule that governs everything else in cleaning a dab rig applies here. And treat the coil as the wear part. It is the piece doing the work and the piece to replace, not the controller.
Beyond that there is very little to it. No gas to buy, no flame to manage, nothing to time.
In stock in Venice
- The range. Single, dual and quad heat stations, the Cobra Cup and Cobra Coils in six sizes, all under e-nails.
- Authorized dealer. 1321 is an authorized Disorderly Conduction dealer, so everything is genuine and warranty backed.
- Bring your banger. Coil sizing takes thirty seconds in person. 1321 Venice Blvd, open every day 11AM until midnight.
- The rest of it. Torches and lighters are in lighters, tools in dab tools, and if you would rather skip glass entirely the e-rigs do the same job in one piece. The brand page is here.
Questions people ask
Do you still need a torch with an e-nail?
No. Once the coil is on the banger and the controller is set, the torch is out of the process entirely. Most people keep one around for travel rather than for daily use.
What size Cobra Coil do I need?
It depends on the outside diameter of your banger, not the joint size. The Cobra Coil comes in six sizes covering buckets, slurpers, towers and QCB. Bring the banger in and it takes about thirty seconds to match.
Is an e-nail better than a torch?
For consistency, yes. An e-nail holds one temperature so every dab is the same, with no flame and no butane. A torch is still better if you dab rarely or you need the rig to be portable.
Single, dual or quad heat station?
Single for one rig, which covers most people. Dual if you run two rigs or two different bangers and do not want to keep swapping coils. Quad for setups where several people are dabbing at once.
What is the Cobra Cup?
A cup style e-nail from Disorderly Conduction that gets you torchless dabbing without a full heat station. It is the middle option between a torch and a station.
Where can I buy an e-nail in Los Angeles?
1321, at 1321 Venice Blvd in Venice, CA 90291. We are an authorized Disorderly Conduction dealer, the whole line is in stock, and we are open every day until midnight.