Vape Donkey 650
All vape, no smoke please.
Cody, some good points still. Let me help you look at it from another perspective: do you know exactly what's in the oil you're loading on your V3? Like, potency % in THC and related cannabinoids, and maybe even terpene levels? Is your oil made from whole nugs, or from trim leaves? Because unless you have distillate, it's most likely much lower than 99%. Those 2 things I mentioned, most people would consider to be the only "desireable" parts of your concentrates to inhale or consume.
The rest is just generic plant gunk; fatty oils, chlorophyll, CBN broken down from THC, and lots more stuff I can't list. Most of this stuff is only going to make a cloud if heated to temperatures well above what is required to vape the THC or terpenes, and might even burn the good parts if you raised it that high.
Typical shatters and sugar waxes range from around 60-80% THC, a pittance of other minor cannabinoids, and maybe a few ~ % more in terpenes. So that means at least 10, maybe up to 30% or more of your concentrate is just generic crap that doesn't get you distinctly higher any different from generic toxic chemicals being burned.
I used to think that in dabbing, everything would just magically vaporize and disappear, unlike bubble hash vaping, but I eventually learned that's not really true, and the more that I learned about reclaim, I have become more willing to swab up and discard the most marginal portions of my reclaim oil.Wasteful...depends on how you want to define effective use. If you're ok with that crusty pool burning up on you as you cap it an inhale it, and you consider the smoking part of traditional dabbing as well as the true vaporization part as part of effective use, then yes, the "proper dab rig" will be more effective. You can also run your donut at 600F and be left with very little reclaim and more thin hard crusts, but that's not advisable.
As for the reclaim that cakes up and accumulates inside the dab rigs themselves, that has more to do with the habits of the owners.
On my fleet of DT-only dab rigs, the low-temp dab water doesn't really get that nasty at all, not until after alot of use. So I try to change the water every day or so, after a couple sessions maybe. But I guess with the hotter e-nail vape having a bigger temp differential with the cool water than most people's donut vapor temperature, I guess you can have bigger losses to condensation? Especially if you only compare dry mouthpiece reclaim / splatter accumulation on the DT vs glass dab rig reclaim...
Yes, even before I spouted off these reclaim and temp-centered essays, it looks like you're picking it up. Hopefully you can fine tune it to your satisfaction and you feel like you get the most out of your oils. But even with immaculate donut loading and use, you still need the cup underneath.
Always gonna be some minor splatter and dribble, you don't want to let it get to the posts more easily.Ha, good luck with that bonus crucible gift.
Don't think anyone has it yet.I'm far from KC, MO, so I can't share my dab rig with you, but I would recommend you try some glass to enhance your vape game! You may not be in Oakland, Humbolt, or amsterdam, but you're learning to better use your V3, and can rep some cutting-edge vape gear in the heartland, and you don't need to spend hella money to do it!
The rig that Matt sells seems like a winner at a decent price. If you want something that's even more compact, there's nothing better than the PPWT. You can also get these for under a dub, and they offer good airflow and decent bubbleage. All other small bubblers I've seen can't compare. The PPWT won't reach the levels of a large hydratube, but it still works fine, and I'd prefer that over a dry hit any day.
If you already have a regular dab rig that you want to use with the v3, or prefer that style of glass over a hydratube, you can look at many of my old posts to see how to make a simple glass / silicon elbow adapter to hook up your V3 to your rig using Matt's small glass adapter too.
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Not so good for finding the ideal temp where reclaim doesn't taste so gross and get crusted or combusted more, but still makes a good cloud out of it and vapes the last drops, right?
I would be bothered by the posts sitting off-level like on yours, it has happened to a few of mine, so I adjust it, but no breaks for me. At least you're crafty enough to fix it temporarily. I'm sure that Matt will send you out a new part as soon as you tell him what happened. 
...like how low on the e-nail banger? 480F? 500? Enough for multiple capped off hits before it gets all crusty-ed? Some of it still gets carboned up as waste, right? so it's not much more effective in that sense? Or is it? 
I think Matt is working with longmada on an atomizer, I hope it will look better than that?
