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1DMF

1DMF

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@kellya86 It saddens me to hear you not getting good results from a Solo, but also excites me think about the hit I might get from your EQ :brow:

I get spanked by my Solo as has every one I get to try it, OK, they all have gone back to combusting afterwards, but they all agree, it got them totally shit faced.

Yes, it was through my bongs, have you tried a Solo with a WT?

I've seen people post in the AEQ thread that they don't get a hit from it, so could this simply be personal preference?

Now I'm torn between getting another portable (Haze or GH) or getting a desktop to find out what I appear to be missing out on? :hmm:
 
kellya86

kellya86

Herb gardener...
So glad to get home and have a proper vape, the warm fuzzyness in my head.

I'm certain I did get a true view of the solo. It performed well. And I did put my herb through it.
I haven't used a water tool at all.

But I'm sure your missing out @1DMF, eq + ff adapter+ssv wand/or ddave kit, and you will be blown away.

A 1 hit single extraction from my eq has got me higher for longer than 6 draws on a solo on level 6. And I used the solo first at about 3 o'clock, So that had the upper hand.

If the solo is the best of the portables then I'm afraid portables are not for me.

Edit.. @ataxian I just saw your post, I'm not looking for the punch in the face during the day. Which is why I think my flowermate will do. I only use it once a day, battery has been going a week now.

I do not play video games, I have 5 kids and a job.

My needs are semi medicinal, hence the need for a portable in the first place.


I jus thought from reading posts that the solo was capable of making me incapable.
 
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Buzzbomb Almighty

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Fill the bowl half full of pot then put a couple of little scoops of kif from the bottom of the crusher, then some more pot packed on top to hold it in. The kif takes a while to accumulate below the screen but I scrape it from around the edge of the leaf chamber, (it's only slightly coarser. I've had my Solo for about 2 months, was resigned to vaping being a mellower stone and only started doing this this morning. I think you'll achieve the desired result with this 'spike'.
 
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Jethro said:
I will often vape pure kief bowls through my Solo... use the pre-domed screens and sandwich the kief between them. No flower necessary!
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Caution is strongly encouraged doing this, Members have reported 'meltdowns'. If the trichomes are potent enough (no/few 'old maids') they can melt more than the empty hulls can 'soak up'. No doubt works fine for some but this is not a given for the next guy.

If resin does melt into the cup it's just a hassle to clean up, if it gets down a hole there basically no way to recover that. This is 'thin ice country', notice the maker does not encourage anything by 'botanicals'. Concentrates of any sort carry this risk I believe.

The safe way seems to have a buffer of herb (or cotton) in case of accidents.

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ataxian

ataxian

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OF said:
Cool. A 'better safe than sorry' deal I think? I bet that would harsh your mellow like few things can. Well, maybe things without badges and guns.......

OF
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What's a sandwich?

If it means what I think it does?

I think I would throw-up if I mixed a concentrate with flowers?

You would think that with the different Melting Points besides the medical effects the Flowers would become stale flavor wise?
 
Buzzbomb Almighty

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ataxian said:
What's a sandwich?

If it means what I think it does?

I think I would throw-up if I mixed a concentrate with flowers?

You would think that with the different Melting Points besides the medical effects the Flowers would become stale flavor wise?
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He just means don't put kif right against the screen (or holes if you don't use one) so you don't wreck your vaporizer if it liquifies. The chopped up pot is the bread, the kif is the beef.
 
Dr. Soxhlet

Dr. Soxhlet

SOLO Vaporized Cannabis is my Best Medicine
Buzzbomb Almighty said:
Awwww (scuffs toe in sand). What temperature settings are you using? Mine may as well have been welded on 6 since I got it.
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I used to use mine at level 6 when I first got it. But I gradually went down to level 4, tastes better and lasts till the end of the 12 minute session. If I cough, I lower it to level 3.
 
Buzzbomb Almighty

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Thanks for all suggestions. The main challenge is still determining when it's done but that's getting better. Overall the transition from smoking is going very well; I quit tobacco about 16 or 17 years ago after smoking for over 30 years, and smoked pot since about 1971 but now take it for pain so using the appropriate sticky strains. Do you let it heat longer to get a fog at 4 or 5? I cut down a little screen for the bottom of the bowl so have to pull fairly hard after the first 2 or 3 draughts.
Edit: Upon re-reading I see Jethro answered my question about heating duration.
 
His_Highness

His_Highness

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Lately I've been preheating at level 6, then dropping to level 4 for the actual hits. Once I get a steady light at 6 I drop to 4 and get happy.

I've always done a heat pre-soak. I'm just now experimenting with higher temps for the preheat because I don't feel the need to wait for the heat to penetrate as long as I did with level 4 alone.
 
Jethro

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Buzzbomb Almighty said:
Do you let it heat longer to get a fog at 4 or 5? I cut down a little screen for the bottom of the bowl so have to pull fairly hard after the first 2 or 3 draughts.
Edit: Upon re-reading I see Jethro answered my question about heating duration.
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Yeah and the time can change a bit depending on how cold the device its to begin with. If it's sat near the window and it's cold I will let it heat a bit longer for a draw. But normal room temp I'll let the heartbeat skip a beat 3 times before a draw. Usually that's only 20 seconds more or so after it comes to temp.
 
nondarb

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Got a VG coil and I've been neglecting the solo a bit as the coil is proving quite the monster for snaps. I came across some odyssey kush and it was so flavorful I could really taste it even through water so I loaded a stem dry in the solo at level 3 and WOW. I definitely favor high temp vaping through water, but I can't help but submit to the allure or flavor chasing on occasion!

I'm loving this hybrid, very sweet flavor and it really helps alleviate my pain without konking me out.
 
Buzzbomb Almighty

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Well that's it, I'll start bringing the numbers down, beginning about 15 minutes ago, 5 tonight, maybe 4 in the morning making a conscious effort to preheat. I suppose the reason I've been short of breath is from hitting the thing too hot as well. On 6 the taste is great only for the first pull and a half and this cheese hybrid is really aromatic (the smell that wafts out of the stem while it's heating is nice) so maybe I'll get more taste from toning down the heat.. The learning curve is accelerating.
 
1DMF

1DMF

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I tried the domed screens last night, and to be honest, I'm not impressed.

OK, the little cup does mean you use even less herb, but because it removes a lot of surface area from touching the glass stem, it has halved if not quartered the amount of vapour I would get from the same amount of herb using a flat screen.

The first time, I just poked the dome screen into the end, so not even the bottom of the screen touched the bottom of the chamber, kind of making it more 'Convection' than 'Conduction' and the vapour production was very poor (OK subjective when talking Solo!), but it wasn't as thick and milky as I am used to.

So the next session, I pushed the dome all the way to the bottom of the chamber so the base of the screen touched the glass, and although it did improve the vapour production, it was only marginal.

I can put a pinch in the chamber with a flat screen and seem to get more vapour and longer sessions than with a domed screen.

Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?
 
OF

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1DMF said:
Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?
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Well it's not typical....who knows what's normal these days? (Almost) everyone seems to like them a lot. Yes loading smaller amounts can mean less vapor, but I think domed screens (popular long before Sinclue discovered these for us) do better with less than other schemes. The hold a larger percentage against the hot walls than otherwise happens. I think the ideal shape is really more like a Puritan's hat. That is brim keeping the sides open to the bottom, and flat top facing the cup. Many of us used such screens from another vape (who's name escapes me.....), modified to fit. They, however, fouled very quickly, were easily damaged in cleaning and fussy to fit.

I see it as getting nearly the same production level on a fraction of the herb for a shorter time. I still get out all the THC I put in, nothing extra is lost. And they are less prone to fouling, easier to clean and install and last much longer. Attention to getting herb as far down ('next to the screen') helps I think. One of the reason the 'Pilgrim's hat' screens worked so well.

They, like most things, are not for everyone.....but up to now it looked like it might be.

Nothing is really wrong anymore......or so they tell me. For sure you should use the technique that best suits you.

OF
 
1DMF

1DMF

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Fair enough, it was my first time using them, and my observations weren't exactly scientific.

I will play a bit more and measure exact amounts so I can do a more controlled experiment.

Not sure what I was expecting really, just wasn't expecting less vapour than normal, but like you say what's normal!
 
Jethro

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Just confirming, you are inverting the dome, yes? So the bottom of the cup faces you? That's how I like to use it, I feel it allows more surface area of the material to be heated. I also like how it reduces the size of the bowl. But who knows, what works for one may not for another.
 
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