Since many of us using Pure Gold (or attempting to) in our portable vapes, I thought that it might warrant a thread all it's own. Since it's arguably the most pure, and easiest to fill carts with, there are some obvious pluses. But many people have reported difficulties in using it. In my own case I started with a brand new O-Phos, brand new 2.4 cart, and .5 gram of PG. The first hit I took was huge with hints of orange peel and walnut, slightly floral, etc. You get the picture. Heaven. And there basically was no second hit. After the first hit, in order to get any smoke at all, I had to keep heating the cart until my lips were burning from the heat at the tip of the cart. I heard pops, etc. like there was a clog, but no smoke would come out until I got the cart blazing hot. I tried it heating slowly, and waiting. I sherlocked it. I tried everything I could think of or had read about. There was quite a bit of leakage onto the heating element. When I cleaned it with a q-tip and alcohol, there was a lot of unburned PG, but not .5 grams, so I kept trying. In short, I got one hit out of my new system. Vapor Brothers is sending me a new cart, but I'm clueless. I followed the instructions precisely. Unless the cart just doesn't work (it's a hollow tube with a heating element and the heating element is working?) then I have no idea. Anybody?
Here's my actual question: with a new O-Phos, new 2.4 ohm cart, and .5 gm.s of Pure Gold freshly loaded, shouldn't I expect to be puffing thick clouds of burnt orange peel tasting smoke in 3-4 seconds?
Hey thanks man! Have you tried the same combination? For me there was a definite learning curve. Because I stored the O-Phos standing upright in a hot room, all of the gold soaked through the wick and settled in the little cavity underneath the air tube, but still inside the cart. Once the oil got in there, it wouldn't burn so, after receiving advice from the Omicron Gurus, I flipped the the cartridge upside down and heated the bottom side with a lamp, which allowed the gold to slowly soak through the wick and back into the cylinder. I've learned that the gold is so thin and viscous that I have to store the unit on its side, and basically every hit has to be loaded by drawing it with your breath carefully into the tube. But, when you get it right, you know it!!!! I hear that Omicron is coming out with carts designed to work better with thin oils like pure gold. And that might just be The Holy Grail I've been looking for!
First .5g goes great, then you need to baby it. G is testig the Hercules cart right now and is having great results. I've no doubt we'll soon have carts that last 6 months to a year.
This has been my experience as well. Hadn't come across the tip about flipping the cart upside down but I'll try that! Really, thanks to some advice from OF on here, I have been storing the cart on its side, and making sure to take some "cold" pulls through the cart after usage (cold meaning I'm not running the heater.) This combo seems to have mostly stopped leakage.
I use PG in my TV Rev Daty and let me tell you, Ive managed to make a gram last 6 weeks, hitting it several times a day.
Hi all, was curious regarding what the odor of vaped pure gold was like? Distinct at all? Similar to other EO concentrates? I find those to still have a slight cannabis odor when vaped, so was mostly wondering if PG differed. TIA.
Good point. If you took a 5 gram dab of pure gold and put it on a hot plate, all it would make the room smell like is orange/citrus. It's the smell of "d-limonene", which is what "Orange Essential Oil" is mostly composed of, (like 90%+)
