Greetings Fuck Combustion! I've known about your forum and have used it as a resource for more than half a year now, and it truly pains me to start off my posting career here with such negativity.
Anyway, on to my problem: I entered the world of vaporization 8 months ago when I bought a used Da Buddha. It served me well without any technical hitches until the heater cover came loose this summer. Initially I was worried, but after half an hour or so of fiddling I was able to get everything sturdily into place again so I forgot about it for the time being. But the heater cover was never quite as firm as it was before, I was forced to take extra care putting in and removing the wand and the incident repeated itself a several times although I was always able to set things to rights relatively quickly.
This Thursday the heater cover came free again under the weight of the wand, but this time I was unable to get it to stay in place again through an entire wand-fill's worth of use. I tried every configuration I could think of in hopes of solving the problem, but only succeeded in ruining all of my rubber bands and breaking my heater cover when I tried to force it. Luckily I had a spare, since I and the friends I allowed to use it had combusted a fair amount while learning to use the vape and the visible stains of it never came out with isopropyl alcohol so I ordered a replacement and kept the old one. I mentioned this part here just to reinforce how surprisingly delicate and stressed the glass of the heater covers really is. NEVER do what I did and use your full strength on these things because they're very expensive to replace.
Despite this setback, I was able to find out the major instability was not with the connection between the heater cover and metal cylinder that goes around the base of the ceramic heating element, but between that metal cylinder and the thick aluminum "floor" of the open area that surrounds the heater. At this point this cylinder usually "sticks" to the metal pieces that hug the inside of the heater cover when I try to pull the heater cover out. And while I can make it click when I put it in the correct position around the base of the heating element, a small amount of force (less than the weight of the wand + whip) is enough to tilt it dramatically. In addition to putting force on the heating element, when this cylinder tips it disrupts the normal airflow pattern and renders the vaporizer nearly impossible to use.
Hopefully that explanation was clear enough, and if I'm lucky you've seen similar issues before (although there's practically nothing relevant on Google.) My first question is, do you think it would help for me to replace this metal cylinder? If so, how can I do that (7th Floor doesn't sell replacements for this part)? Second, do you think that gluing the metal into place on the aluminum "floor" would be any help? If so, what kind of glue would be strong enough to support the weight of the heater cover, wand and whip while under the heat that area experiences?
I also have one more side question: Do any of you know of a video or series of pictures that shows visually how you're supposed to connect the heater cover to the metal cylinder? I thought I understood how that worked with the shims and the curved rectangle (my names for these things must sound really silly to those of you in the know) but since I just broke a heater cover from forcing it perhaps that was overconfidence speaking. I'm going to order a new, clean heater cover in any case and don't want to shatter it the day I get it.
Thanks a ton for reading this long post, and even more if you respond to it. I went to 7th Floor first, but I'm still waiting on their response and would love to get on to the next step of fixing my Da Buddha as soon as possible. The problems it's come upon lately are probably connected with my using it daily for most of a year.
Your prompt responses will be rewarded hugely in the next life!!!
Thank you. Those are the types of tips I need/want 
