Top 10 Enail Accessories You Shouldn't Live Without

You made the jump and you purchased your first e-nail, now you're excited to try new things, grab up more of those top tier experiences. How can you make your dabs even better? How can you take things to the next level?

These top ten enail accessories are commonly overlooked, but they make a WORLD of a difference. Your new e-nail is just the base for your new setup, combined with these additions you'll never look back on another dabbing device again.

Carb Caps

This is a super inexpensive simple upgrade, carb caps help to retain heat, regulate airflow, and they work with different dab inserts to improve your efficiency. A carb cap is just a cap that goes on top of your dab nail or quartz banger. They come in all different shapes and sizes, like bubble caps or flat top carb caps, different airflow functions like spinner caps, and directional caps. The list goes on and on with new innovations being introduced pretty frequently.

Carb Cap Section - break down of which carb caps work with which inserts and which bangers.

Hot Knife

Hot knives are also another relatively inexpensive addition that will make your life a whole lot easier. This goes for an enail or any other dabbing device. These are battery powered dab tools that utilize a heated tip to make the loading process of your dab easier and cleaner in the long run. Hot knives help to minimize waste that can happen when your dab doesn't fully come off your dab tool, causing it to get stuck and then sticky.

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Terp Pearls and Other Dabbing Inserts

Dabbing inserts like terp pearls and terp pills work to increase your dab vaporization and similarly to your quartz banger or dab nail, they also retain heat. As terp pearls/pills spin, they push your dab around the hot surface area of your dab nail so that your dab is vaporized fully instead of your dab just sitting in one spot of your dab nail.

It's important to remember that once your dab touches your banger or nail surface it instantly starts to cool your banger or nail in that specific spot. Like placing an ice cube onto a stove top, yes the ice cube will melt, but the cold temperature of the ice cube inevitably changes the temperature of the stove top in the spot where it is making contact making it cooler. Think of your dab the same way.

Now if the ice cube is slid around the stove top, the temperature change from the cold ice inst is as drastic as it would be when the ice is sitting in one single spot. As the ice slides around the stove top has a chance to reheat the spot the ice cube slid across back to temperature.

Terp pearls and pills, allow for your banger or dab nail to remain at a constant consistent temperature, while dispersing your dab (ice cube) across the heated surface of your banger (stove top).

Certain dab inserts are made for specific carb caps and bangers, like terp pearls work better with spinner caps. Terp pills or pillars are made mainly for terp slurpers, which are paired with marble caps. Bucket inserts are best used with opaque bangers as a stop gap from intense heat and burning of your dab.

There are no rules in dabbing. You are free to experiment in whichever way you choose with inserts and caps, but if you are questioning whether one item will work with the other you can always contact our live chat for extra guidance!

Iso Station

An iso station is an absolute godsend, these small glass cup looking accessories hold all your small cleaning items (that are necessary for dabbing) in one place. The most basic iso station has a compartment to store isopropyl alcohol in while the cup looking section holds your cotton swabs. A cotton swab dipped in iso alcohol is the easiest and quickest way to swab out your banger in between dabs so that your left over half burnt dab doesn't affect the flavor of your future dabs.

You'd also like to swab it out in between dabs because you don't want your leftover residue to get reheated and burnt into or onto your quartz banger or dab nail. In the long run this will cause your banger to look cloudy and covered in black oily substance that is impossible to get off.

Some more intricate iso stations will include a carb cap or dab tool stand, or even a pump to pump your iso alcohol out of. You can go simple or go for a more substantial one depending on your needs and your setup!

Recycler Dab Rig

Recycler rigs are a given whether you're dabbing with a torch or an enail. The reason why they're recommended for enail is because they tend to be a little taller in size because of their two chamber system and they offer the best filtration without over cooling. Size is really a big deciding factor, when looking for a dab rig to pair with your enail, this is because it needs to have an extra sturdy base with a little bit of height to support the weight of an enail coil.

Enail coils are made out of metal like stainless steel, and as you could imagine, they do have a bit of weight to them. While glass, especially smaller size dab rigs, are usually pretty light. With the added enail coil hanging on one side, smaller rigs will topple over. You'd like to avoid this at all costs, lol especially while your enail coil is burning to temperatures over 500 degrees.

As mentioned before, recycler rigs have a two chamber system with a series of tubes that pull your water and dab vapor up to the top chamber and then back down to the lower chamber. This is a “recycling” function which recyclers are known for and named after. These types of dab rigs only need a tiny amount of water to accomplish this filtration process. Less water means you have less cooling of your dab vapors but the two chambers filter everything appropriately, keeping your dabs nice and smooth with minimal reclaim left over inside your rig.

Dab Station - silicone dab station and enail dab station

An enail dab station is a little “extra” when it comes to using and operating an enail, but they DO make your life a whole lot easier. Most enail dab stations come with a section to place your controller box into and separate sections for dab tools, carb caps, terp pearls, cleaning accessories and more. Think of it as an iso station for your enail, keeping all your necessary equipment in one place and within reach.

If an enail dab station seems a bit much for you, but you like the idea of keeping your things in one place, you can also look into purchasing a silicone dab station. Silicone dab stations sort of look like an astray with a series of holes around it to hold your dab tools, carb caps and pearls in!

Silicone Enail Coil Tie

An enail coil holder is the most overlooked, most valuable enail accessory around. This tiny little addition will save you from breakage and give you an extra set of support and security for your enail coil.

A silicone tie wraps around your banger neck and the enail coil “arm”. The reason why this keeps your banger from breaking is because it helps to hold up your enail coil without forcing all the weight to the bottom of your banger, keeping it evenly distributed. This is especially true for bigger enail coils like the 35mm-40mm. Bigger enail coils obviously are made with significantly more metal than smaller enail coils which puts unneeded stress onto the bottom of your banger.

The constant heating and cooling along with extra weight pulls down the bottom of your banger and weakens the weld over time, sometimes causing the bottom of your banger to fall off. Yep, it's totally possible! And pretty unfortunate especially while you are in the middle of a dabbing session, talk about buzzkill! *wink wink*

Reclaim Catchers in general Silicone Reclaim Catchers for titanium enail - or adapter

Reclaim catchers are a life saver with or without an enail, I know that some of you reading this might be thinking “why would I want an extra piece of glass? It’ll just give me more to clean in the long run”. Nope! It's actually the opposite, reclaim catchers are exactly as their name implies, they catch your reclaim before it makes its way into your rig.

Sometimes your unvaporized dab will get pulled into the neck of your banger, it'll continue to travel down eventually going into your rig. Over time as this continues happening it creates a ton of waxy looking buildup inside your rig, causing your percolator slits to clog up which makes inhaling incredibly labored. Reclaim catchers sit right underneath your banger or dab nail, so that when your dab gets pulled into the neck of your banger it ends up in your catcher instead of your rig.

Most reclaim catchers will have some sort of spout where your unvaporized dabs will start to collect and then drip right down into a silicone jar. You can reuse this reclaim if you are running low, or you can use it for other applications like cooking or simply just get rid of it. In the long run your rig will actually be cleaner, and deep cleans won't nearly take as long as they used to!

Silicone reclaim catchers in specific are incredibly useful when it comes to titanium dab nails. Titanium heats up to super high temperatures, with that said although your enail coil might be far from your dab rig joint, the heat transfer will make its way to the bottom of your nail causing your dab rig to crack at the joint. At the very least you should use a silicone adapter as a safeguard between your titanium nail and your glass rig.

Unfortunately, most dab rigs are made out of glass and not quartz, if you don't know glass will easily crack and fracture when met with intense heat!

Cleaning Kit

Okay, so we previously mentioned keeping an iso station handy when dabbing with an enail, but having an overall cleaning kit on hand is also just as important. The cleanliness of your banger/dab nail, dab rig, and your other accessories really will affect the flavor and the efficiency of your dabs.

You don't want to be stuck with a dirty dab rig you can barely get a pull from, a dirty banger that tastes like you're smoking a piece of charcoal, or a nasty sticky dab tool with god knows what on it!

Most of the enail cleaning kits here at e-nail.com include everything you need to keep your setup clean and functioning perfectly. The most basic kits will have swabs and iso alcohol which is the minimum requirement, but our most extensive kits will include cleaning crystals, forever bong water, cleaning plugs and more!

Forever Bong Water

Dr Buzzkill’s Forever Bong Water is our inhouse favorite recommendation, this water is made with minerals to break down reclaim as it enters your dab rig. If you are going to opt out of using a reclaim catcher with your enail, you can at least count on forever bong water to keep your dab rig clean and free of debris.

With enails people also tend to take larger dabs which can sometimes result in a lot of reclaim. Especially if you are a newbie trying to figure out low temperature dabs or dab size in general. Like a reclaim catcher, forever bong water cuts down the time needed for more extensive cleaning and removes any sort of bad taste you might experience with dirty rig water.

These are just OUR top recommendations to make your enail experience even better, but you can pick and choose which set of options are most important to you! If you're big on flavor, def go with an iso station cleaning kit combo. If you're looking to improve efficiency, go with a carb cap dab insert type of deal, and lastly if organization if your main concern pick up a dab station or iso station to improve your overall cleanliness of your setup!