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5drive

Do the two wands look any different, or do you just have to get frustrated to tell? At least it does have the quick change design.

I can see it now that I know where to look-sitting at about 5 o'clock.

Nice to know that it hits like its big brother. DB sounds like a winner. More affordable but still customizable.

 

toastybiz

Thanks for the report, great info.

beezleb878

Thanks for the review, it is appreciated.

tokinGLX

yup, you can see the difference. the bad wand has a much wider bubble where the screen sits.
the bad wand is on the left, the arrow is pointing at how it should look.

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krazydude

Alright I got my DB in yesterday and I have to say it was much smaller than I expected (which is awesome). I am new to vaping and had never even tried a friends as I have no friends that have one. I had no problem getting it to work and honestly can't believe how insanely awesome it is!

3 quick questions:

1) I had it turned on to about 3 pm and it was def putting out a decent amount of "smoke" but the stuff in the whip was just turning yellow and never burning. Is this correct or should I have it turned down a little?
2) What color will it turn when it is cached? and how do you make sure you use up every last bit?
3) how full do you fill the whip? I actually just put enough to cover the screen after i had ground it pretty well. Should I be putting more in? I did find I didn't need very much at all to feel really good.

I will def say that I will never go back to smoking because this is the absolute best. Saves a ton of product. Taste is WOW! Small burn vs. constant hacking and burn. High is so much better vaping!

 

tokinGLX

1- remember now, youre using a vaporizer, that is not "smoke" you are dealing with unless your plant material catches on fire and actually burns, producing the smoke we are all familiar with. youre just getting that nice thick vapor that these vapes are known for.

definitely turn it down a little. vape a bowl at that temp, and see where it sets you, you might prefer that high to the high you get with a raised temp. perhaps not, but what will it hurt to experiment¿

2- it will be a brown color, through and through. if it is black, that is too dark, and you should consider dropping the temp a notch. you know you got every last bit when you try to take a hit, and get nothing.

towards the end of my bowls, ill take a long draw, and at the end of that i will begin taking "straw sucking-like" hits, doing a quick, short inhale, quick exhale through the nose and repeat 3 to however many times is needed to kill the bowl.
then, to get EVERY last bit of goodness in there, i save all my vapash and cook with it.

3- load as much as it takes to get you where you need to be. putting a bigger bowl in there will give you fucking massive hits, but when you chop it up finely, it will be harder to draw through the bowl, obviously because there is more of a plant material barrier for the warm air to pass through. once again, the strawlike hits will help you vape these full bowls when they get hard to hit.

if youre just toking by yourself, there is no reason a .1 or a .2 bowl will not be enough to get you where you need to be. the efficiency of vaping really blows your mind when you stop and think about it.
welcome to our wonderful world of technology
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krazydude

Thank you so much for your help. I plan on taking your advice and just keep experimenting. Last night was a lot better at a little lower temp (between 1 & 2 pm on the dial). One thing I keep doing is after I have no visible vapor I just slowly turn it up and it seems like i get some more visible vapor. So I start low work my way up and then by the time I realize what I am doing I am so gone anyway :-0....

I will keep experimenting and perfecting the system you have been such a help thanks a lot and keep up the work!

dabu

Great SSV vids tokinGLX. I'm not a big toker, but I solely use a gravity bong. I was thinking of getting a volcano or herbalair, but I think I'll start with a DB thanks to you. Just a couple questions:

1. Notice any difference between the nug+scissor vs. ground
2. Instead of slowly increasing the temp from the first hit to the last, why don't you just keep the temp at the top end throughout?
3. You have any experience with the Ice chamber or Water Filter? I'm thinking it might be more comfortable to inhale cooled down vapor...BUT maybe using either will cut down on the potency of the vapor.
4. Given the cleanliness of the vapor and how potent it is, I got the idea that maybe instead of blowing it out (after holding it in ur lungs for a while) maybe you could blow it into a bag and shotgun that shit right back to yourself. You ever tried that? I guess to maximize the herb, you could make an effort to always blow the vapor into a bottle of alcohol like you showed.
5. How the hell did you manage to stay lucid enough after that SSV marathon?

much appreciated

tokinGLX

1. yes. the most noticeable difference is in the time. while steve bob joe is grinding their herb, my nug is in the bowl and im taking a hit before they are even ready to load it in the bowl. also, typically when people grind their herb, crystals aer lost. some crystals stick to the grinder, most will be lost when you empty the grinder onto your table/desk/whatever. the loss is not major, surely not noticeable per hit, but there certainly is a loss compared to the nug.

2. the bowl goes down a little bit smoother that way. there is not a definitive reason not to keep it at the higher temp unless you simply would prefer your bowl to last a little longer. keep in mind tho, that different cannabinoids vaporize at different temps, so some people actually prefer the lighter cannabinoids, and others the hotter. and that is why more than anything else, i stress that people play with the temp, find out your personal sweet spot.

3. ive never used either. theres really no point in cooling the vapor, it is not hot down the throat like smoke it. if i did get one of the two, i would get the ice chamber and instead of filling it with ice, i would fill it with nugs, to let them get vapor-resinated, similar to what we used to do with the fat centered metal pipes. once again tho, vapor is not so harsh on the throat that a sip of water/juice/milk/beer will not make any irritation go away.

4. i have a girlfriend, and instead of blowing it into the alcohol, or a bag like you suggested, i just shotgun most of my hits straight to her(and she does the same to me). very effective. so much so that yes, i would recommend a good sized plastic bag to get the most out of every hit.

theres also something else that i do to maximize my hits. after my hit, ill exhale a portion of it, about half. then ill inhale some fresh air and repeat exhaling a quarter to half of my lungs and sucking in some more air for...4 or 6 more times. until i stop breathing out vapor.

5. plenty o practice. some people see that and they get the wrong message, they think that vaping a gram is necessary to be high, and that it always takes that long to get high. let me assure you that this is not the case!! i call the video the "one gram challenge" because it was something of a challenge to sit there and make it through all of it while maintaining cognizance. i believe that everybody that owns a vape should put themselves through it on a day where they have nothing better to do.
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after the vid, i didnt vape again for 7 hours. i was pleasantly high the whole time.

dabu

5drive, tokinGLX...I think you two should do a HerbalAir / SSV swap for a week. You guys both seem to love your respective vapes, but it'd be interesting to see each of your impressions using the other for a good period of time.

Goddamn I can't wait to get mine. I think I'll try blowing the vape into different types of liquid. It'll be great to take a thermos of something inconspicuous, like gatorade, along on roadtrips.