After using the vape and getting to know it fairly well so quick. I have a few idea's about making it better for me......and maybe everyone else.
First thing for me is about the bowl. Being able to get into the load and stir is very important to me. Just shaking it up only does half the job. There is a lot of material that sticks to the screen and the outer edges of it and the glass. Shaking can not get this off and you need to scrape with a poker. The poker tool they give you is awesome and my favorite one now. I put a small piece of foam about the same diameter but longer than the glass ball on the end... and now I have much more control over it.
It would be nice to be able to separate the heater from the bowl easier and then also faster to put it back on and continue your sesh. Being able to keep the heat up is helpful here with the stirring process. The sic clip is great for keeping the joints together but sometimes not easy to take off safely and quickly for most it seems to me. How many times have you pulled the clip off and almost tipped the water unit over or more so dropping the hot ass heater piece on something? So maybe some sort of hinged arrangement between the heater and bowl would be cool, wither that would be a clip hinge or glass banger type of hinge. Preferably a clip for me to keep it simple and cost effective.
The other big part I see is directly the design or making of the bowl. I did not notice it at first, but when revisiting some pics on the Elev8R page I saw some differences in bowls. I am not sure if these in the picture are exact to what is being released currently or they were taken during development periods?
The exit hole area of each bowl above is different in size. I would love to see it wide as possible like minimum of #2. Even wider with a redesign. I was using a 18 to 14 adapter that worked well for a make shift bowl. It is about 2mm shorter from top to screen placement and has a bigger outlet hole in it. This allowed for quicker extraction and that is important with chugging down so much butane....lol
So the blue lines above represent the distance the heat has to go to get to the load. There are some minor variances in the above ones and I would like to see that distance be shorter than it is by maybe say 4 or 5mm.
Also, one little tweak if they can do it to the sanded area of the bowl top will help some. If they can make the sanded are only where needed to grab the heater well, and leave the rest clear finish. Then I could inspect the load so much better after doing a shake stir only.
Also, I just assumed these bowls came as 14mm....so I wonder how they differ in 18mm?
That with one other addition to this vape would send it off the charts would be a larger
@Pipes IH heater! Yea...freaking mind blown on that thought huh!!!
) I dont think it is that much better option than quality boro. I've cracked more 4 mm quartz bangers than 2mm thick Simax glass gn0mes for sure. Quartz tubes/sleeves cost 5-10 times the price of boro. As far as heat retention it both are really close,the wall thickness has much more to do with it than the type of glass used. Anyway i guess we will know soon enough when 7thfloor come up with it. I wonder mainly how much more expensive will it be than the boro. Quartz is really expected to have better thermal shock resistance then boro,but boro also gives the opportunity of fixing small hairline cracks yourself by holding the flame for a prolonged period at the place. Since quartz has a bit higher melting point it is hard to reach it with regular butane torch ,therefore once you crack it it is lost.
AWAITS!