Teardown process
First, I removed all the attachments: The mouthpiece, battery cover, battery, oven tool, and the ring around the air path.
Next, I opened the only visible screw at the bottom. This screw goes all the way to the top cover and holds both aluminum pieces together.
After playing around with the cover for a couple of minutes, I was finally able to remove it and separate it from the body.
Inside is the metal housing that holds the stem. This is where the glass stem sits when it's inserted. It has a built-in screen at the bottom and a glass cylinder around it.
We're left with the heating element and another glass cylinder around it.
Finally, I removed the bottom cover from the walnut body and exposed the electronics and the heating element.
Heating element
The heating element of the Tinymight 2 is a thin sheet metal spiral that's wrapped around itself like a spring.
The air comes through the bottom and passes in between the thin layers. This design maximizes the surface area of the heating element and is super efficient in terms of heating up the air that passes through.
Air passes through a lot of hot metal before getting to the herb. This is the heart of the Tinymight and what makes it so unique and powerful.
Vapor path
Now, I put the airpath back together without the body so I can take a closer look at how things work.
The glass cylinder goes over the heating element, then the metal screen, then another glass cylinder, the metal housing, and, of course, the stem itself.
The herb sits at the bottom of the stem, placing it right in the center of this contraption.
We know that the Tinymight 2 is a “pure convection” vaporizer, meaning the herb is heated only with hot air and not by direct contact with the heating element.
So air comes from the bottom, passes through the heating element, and gets pulled into the stem. The glass pieces are there to retain and store some of this heat, kind of like how quartz balls work on “ball-vapes.”
TM2 vs Venty & Solo 3
If I take a second and compare this to the heating elements of the Solo 3 and the Venty, you can see how different the approaches of these vapes are.
The Venty has the heating element wrapped around the bottom part of the bowl. Some heat radiates into the bowl, but the extraction happens mostly with convection air that heats up when it goes through this cylinder.
The Solo 3 has a heating element embedded into a ceramic cylinder that wraps around the bowl. Similarly to the Venty, it radiates some heat into the bowl but mostly heats up the air around it before it is pulled in.
The Tinymight's heating element offers the most powerful convection heat out of the three. It excels at heating the air that passes through.
PEEK vs. Glass Airpath
Another siginificant diference between these vapes is that the Venty and Solo 3's airpath is made mostly from PEEK.
PEEK is “a semicrystalline thermoplastic with excellent mechanical and chemical resistance properties that are retained to high temperatures,” according to Wikipedia.
The Tinymight's airpath is made almost exclusively from glass, or ceramic zirconia, and stainless steel. Both PEEK and natural materials like glass or ceramic have their pros and cons. Some users will prefer natural materials for their purity, but that also comes with the side effect of being more fragile, which is actually the #1 complaint people have with the Tinymight.
Tinymight 2 vs. Purple Heart
That's exactly what Tinymight addressed with this new version of Purple Heart. They said to have “replaced the quartz glass construction with zirconia ceramic, and the support rods of the heater are more than double strength compared to the earlier design,” according to their website.
So I can definitely see that the glass that was on top (around the stem) was replaced, and is now zirconia ceramic instead of glass.
Also, the lining of the heating element, which is this glass cylinder in the picture above, is now zirconia ceramic instead of glass.
Tinymight says on their website that the heater was updated as well, and I'm going to take their word for it because I'm just not ready to chop up this $425 new version (view in store) to compare the differences.
When they refer to the support rods being stronger, I'm assuming it's these in the image above. They hold the entire spiral coil together. So a lot of the updates between the versions address one the Tinymight's biggest weakness- durability.
Bottom Line
The teardown of the Tinymight 2 reveals its standout features, like the unique glass and ceramic airpath and efficient convection heating element.
The new “Purple Heart” version addresses durability concerns with stronger zirconia ceramic components.
At $350, it offers impressive performance and thoughtful design changes, making it a solid choice for on-demand vaporizer enthusiasts.
