Egzoset
Bluelighter
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- Feb 23, 2013
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Hi again W01fg4ng,
Yes, drag sounds right, but nah: this only adds more length to my cannabic path which is full-featured already. No glass to break as a bonus, not to mention the excessive pulse stretching...
So my challenge these days apears to reside elsewhere, in finding an optimized sweet-spot configuration relatively to local-market butane lighters (...), among a few other items.
Once "Plan-B" can no longer benefit from further revisions i'll most probably need/want to rejuvenate the LavaDisc idea, considering i could get my hands on a Curie-effect IH cooking pan many months ago, to evaluate (butane-less) superheated steam compared to VG's clean butane burning as the release/transport agent. Too bad i got no laser cutter to make LavaWand UFO Elements out of it! So i'll have to go with a simple LavaDisc test instead, glass or metal, to complement my IH pan and create a vaporizer offering inlet auto-conditioning as an option. Etc. Which all remains hypothetical at the moment.
That would be most welcome if you could illustrate such alternative structures for me and the reader, i've been curious about Health Stones for a long while though i never managed to get a clerk to show me one in any local store i visited. Actually i've asked around for replacement SiC pucks too at some point but then i ended up buying more VG Classic pipes... Maybe the offer will improve some day, though i'm nearly done with the customization process.
Honestly, i began to think i must start collecting impressions soon so i can post a review as conclusion in 2015.
My metal disc was a bit of a concern until i gained confidence in making sure there would be sufficient SiC material between it and any flame, to tame down radiative heat: i mean past 4 mm in thickness the SiC Front Puck becomes "opaque" to light... Which translates in lesser exposure of such metal disc to high temperatures, i believe. It would have been nice to avoid the need for a Top-of-Bowl SiC puck but quite frankly none of my single-puck attempts seemed to suggest i might get satisfied with that, because of concentric/uneven heating in my cannabic bowl.
Relatively to the distinction between flower vs oil that doesn't feel much challenging as i do flowers routinely and although i'm no oil user i do vape sticky screens with little effort as well. IMO it's only a matter of appropriate screen cell-size selection, making sure it's not totally blocking airflow of course. Other than that the operator chooses what heat amount enters the hybrid core according to an expected range of temperatures, no digital precission here; personally i like it to be gentle (aromatic) at first and finish trying to include high-temperature compounds in a more balanced effort. Otherwise i seem to experience allergy-like signs, as if i require those later goodies while i'm motivated by aroma/taste. Briefly put it's an intuitive process using my own limitations as a radar, to help identify one possible avenue of remedy which may prove useful to persons as myself. YMMV.
In that case i can't but find great relief in this most stimulating comment, because i consider coïncidences like that can only mean it was the right track to follow all along, except i feel nobody ever mentioned superheated steam from clean butane burning being mixed with hot dry air in a VaporGenie Classic pipe ever before. Which is what opens the door to butane-less solutions compatible even with purist expectations, since otherwise there's a potentially steep learning curve involved that would lead to incidental soot generation and combustion, etc., sometimes (hence my initial need to customize), etc.
In fact i gave a moddified unit as gift a few weeks ago, hoping to get some "guinea-pig" feedback from a smoker, eventually; no strings attached. Maybe the guy will adapt, or he just sold it for the money, or thrown it into the next garbage can out of ignorance/indifference, unware of the opportunity, etc.
2016 will tell i guess.
Sounds familiar! The thing is, even if i had known what topology to use exactly, i still needed to cumulate observations from numerous errors. Those limitations constituted my "radar" and without it was practically impossible to feel this much confident that i've really tried my best to find a solution for the cough-cough syndrome and more... To say it works wouldn't have sufficed in retrospective, i had to endure a hot mouthpiece, condensation in my extension tube, overheat buildup in my sphere, allergy-like signs from low-temperature terpenes or else, hot-spot cooking, accidental combustion, skin burns, etc. For all i know, without all this frustration my project couldn't have seemed as satisfactory (on a personal basis) near the end.
So i thank you for providing a nice opportunity to write it down consecutively to an authetic dialog, i couldn't imagine any better favour for the Christmass season!
Good day, have fun!!
Yes, drag sounds right, but nah: this only adds more length to my cannabic path which is full-featured already. No glass to break as a bonus, not to mention the excessive pulse stretching...
So my challenge these days apears to reside elsewhere, in finding an optimized sweet-spot configuration relatively to local-market butane lighters (...), among a few other items.
Once "Plan-B" can no longer benefit from further revisions i'll most probably need/want to rejuvenate the LavaDisc idea, considering i could get my hands on a Curie-effect IH cooking pan many months ago, to evaluate (butane-less) superheated steam compared to VG's clean butane burning as the release/transport agent. Too bad i got no laser cutter to make LavaWand UFO Elements out of it! So i'll have to go with a simple LavaDisc test instead, glass or metal, to complement my IH pan and create a vaporizer offering inlet auto-conditioning as an option. Etc. Which all remains hypothetical at the moment.
That would be most welcome if you could illustrate such alternative structures for me and the reader, i've been curious about Health Stones for a long while though i never managed to get a clerk to show me one in any local store i visited. Actually i've asked around for replacement SiC pucks too at some point but then i ended up buying more VG Classic pipes... Maybe the offer will improve some day, though i'm nearly done with the customization process.
Honestly, i began to think i must start collecting impressions soon so i can post a review as conclusion in 2015.
My metal disc was a bit of a concern until i gained confidence in making sure there would be sufficient SiC material between it and any flame, to tame down radiative heat: i mean past 4 mm in thickness the SiC Front Puck becomes "opaque" to light... Which translates in lesser exposure of such metal disc to high temperatures, i believe. It would have been nice to avoid the need for a Top-of-Bowl SiC puck but quite frankly none of my single-puck attempts seemed to suggest i might get satisfied with that, because of concentric/uneven heating in my cannabic bowl.
Relatively to the distinction between flower vs oil that doesn't feel much challenging as i do flowers routinely and although i'm no oil user i do vape sticky screens with little effort as well. IMO it's only a matter of appropriate screen cell-size selection, making sure it's not totally blocking airflow of course. Other than that the operator chooses what heat amount enters the hybrid core according to an expected range of temperatures, no digital precission here; personally i like it to be gentle (aromatic) at first and finish trying to include high-temperature compounds in a more balanced effort. Otherwise i seem to experience allergy-like signs, as if i require those later goodies while i'm motivated by aroma/taste. Briefly put it's an intuitive process using my own limitations as a radar, to help identify one possible avenue of remedy which may prove useful to persons as myself. YMMV.
In that case i can't but find great relief in this most stimulating comment, because i consider coïncidences like that can only mean it was the right track to follow all along, except i feel nobody ever mentioned superheated steam from clean butane burning being mixed with hot dry air in a VaporGenie Classic pipe ever before. Which is what opens the door to butane-less solutions compatible even with purist expectations, since otherwise there's a potentially steep learning curve involved that would lead to incidental soot generation and combustion, etc., sometimes (hence my initial need to customize), etc.
In fact i gave a moddified unit as gift a few weeks ago, hoping to get some "guinea-pig" feedback from a smoker, eventually; no strings attached. Maybe the guy will adapt, or he just sold it for the money, or thrown it into the next garbage can out of ignorance/indifference, unware of the opportunity, etc.
2016 will tell i guess.
Sounds familiar! The thing is, even if i had known what topology to use exactly, i still needed to cumulate observations from numerous errors. Those limitations constituted my "radar" and without it was practically impossible to feel this much confident that i've really tried my best to find a solution for the cough-cough syndrome and more... To say it works wouldn't have sufficed in retrospective, i had to endure a hot mouthpiece, condensation in my extension tube, overheat buildup in my sphere, allergy-like signs from low-temperature terpenes or else, hot-spot cooking, accidental combustion, skin burns, etc. For all i know, without all this frustration my project couldn't have seemed as satisfactory (on a personal basis) near the end.
So i thank you for providing a nice opportunity to write it down consecutively to an authetic dialog, i couldn't imagine any better favour for the Christmass season!
Good day, have fun!!
