Sliding into the Slider

The Slider range actually started life as an idea a few years ago. Someone asked the question we'd been turning over in the workshop for a while - Why are insertable electrodes always one fixed length? You buy a Flange, you get the Flange's neck. You buy a Moaner, you get the Moaner's neck. If you wanted a different gap between the two contact points, you bought a different electrode. That's it.

It's not how anything else works. You wouldn't buy a separate camera body for every focal length. (I might, but then I am mad and into cameras.) The honest answer is that fixing the neck is the only sensible way to make a range work. We could offer the Flange in five neck lengths, the Moaner in five neck lengths, the Bobble in five neck lengths - but here's the catch. Whatever sizes we picked, we'd have guaranteed the size *you* want isn't one of them. And the logistics of keeping every size of every electrode in stock would be a nightmare. So everyone settles for "close enough," and that's how insertables have always been.

We wanted to do something different with the Slider. One electrode, one head you've already chosen, and a neck that moves to wherever you want it.

But what is it?

Two sizes. The Small Slider carries the one-inch head our Flange customers will recognise straight away. The Large Slider steps up to an inch and a half, picking up where the Moaner left off. The same heads people have loved for years. But with new trick up the sleeve.

Is it Magic?

The trick is the neck. It slides through the base of the electrode and locks at any length you want with a small hex key on the side. Three neck lengths cover the full range - Long at 75mm, Standard at 55mm, Short at 35mm - and all of them slide from a 3mm minimum upwards. The Standard ships fitted. The Long and Short are extras you can swap in when your play asks for it.

Like virtually all of our insertables, you can take the Slider apart for cleaning. Head, neck, base washer, body, locking screw - five pieces, every component, every time.

How it feels different

If you're coming from a Flange or a Moaner, the head shape will be familiar. The Slider lands in your hand the same way. What changes is what happens after that.

A fixed-neck electrode has one feel. The contact points sit where they sit, and the sensation that produces is the sensation you get. The Slider gives you a dial on that. Bring the head and base closer together and the current path through the body shortens — the sensation tightens up, sharpens, gets more concentrated. Open it up and the same intensity setting feels broader, more spread, a longer sweep through the tissue. Same Slider, same powerbox, same gel. Different play.

It's texture, not just intensity. The dial on the powerbox controls how strong; the neck position controls *what kind of strong*. Two parameters, not one. That's the Slider's job.

How to set it

Set the neck length with the Slider in your hand, before you go anywhere else. Loosen the small lock screw with the supplied key. Slide the neck where you want it. Tighten the screw back, again a quarter-turn. The locking screw has a nylon pad on the end that grips the neck without scoring it, so firm contact is what locks it, not force. Test it with hand pressure before you start. That's the routine.

You can adjust mid-session if you want to. Easier to slide the whole electrode, in our experience, but it's there if you want it.

Choosing the right neck

The Standard ships fitted because it does most of what most people want. 55mm of slide covers a useful range out of the box.

 

The Long is for when you want full extension — more depth, more scope, more of a stretch in how the electrode sits. If you've found yourself wishing the Standard went further, the Long is the answer. If this sticks out too much at the back, then consider the Short Neck.

A line on compatibility

Two 4mm banana sockets in the base. Standard E-Stim Systems cables plug straight in, both connections needed for the bipolar circuit. Works with any of our boxes - the 2B, the ElectroHelix, the ElectroPebble, the ABox, the Remote - and most third-party powerboxes too, with the right cable or adaptor.

The full operation manual lives at e-stim.info/manuals/sliders. This article is the why and the how-to-choose. The manual is the how-it-all-works.

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