I've been meaning to post again, but finally got around to it.
Anyway, I've had mine for a month, and have absolutely fallen in love with it, despite a couple setbacks.
First, my power supply gave out on me, but I was able to find another 1000mA one, and although it was 12VDC not 12VAC, it still worked fine. However, I noticed the plug fit a bit loose in the socket of the PD, but with some re-adjusting of the inner clip which comes in contact with the outside of the plug, I was able to get a nice snug fit. Before this, I had noticed that sometimes it seemed to give less hit than it should; my brother who owns one as well noticed the same. However, this readjustment seems to have solved it.
Mind you, I've dropped mine many times to say the least. What has happened all too often is I trip on the cord and it goes flying hard into the ground.
I've found that the tubes fit
perfectly into a 14.5mm (standard/smallish) size joint, so I took advantage of the large, very nice water pipe I was left with by a friend and started hitting it dry (i.e. no water, although I've tried that too) with the PD. Absolutely AMAZING. I would kill most of a bowl in just one large rip, filling the entire massive chamber with very dense vapor before clearing. Now, it is hard to hit this - my brother found it too difficult to use - it just takes a little patience and very steady very constant inhalation, but the rewards I think are definitely worth it. Now, a tragedy happened last Friday - I bumped it over and despite it's 7mm thick glass, it landed right on the female joint, and now I'm $200 dollars poorer and a broken bong richer. However, I've just glued it back and am going to see how it looks when it's dried tomorrow.
Finally, I had a little problem concurrent with my original power supply failure, which Tom told me was a simple problem, and after a short time it went away, and still hasn't returned (let me know if you read this, I was planning on e-mailing you otherwise).
Something else I've found - hash can easily be made from the tube cleanings. I re-use the rubbing alcohol I use to clean them by pouring it back in the purple bottle once I've cleaned it, then do this the next 4-6 tubes before I evaporate the rubbing alcohol, leaving some good old hash. This stuff is amazing in the PD - I'll get 10 hits easily off such a small amount, and in addition to the smokeability of the vaped product, I get more out of my herb than I ever thought possible.
A small complaint I have is that in my power supply failure dilemma, it would've been VERY helpful to have the old purple light indicator on the front.
To end my post on a good note, when I first got mine I can't say I was terribly impressed with the wood itself. However, after some multi-coatings of wax and good old TLC, I've noticed the wood get much much deeper and fantastic in its definition. Again, I love this thing to death, and I've hardly combusted since I got it.
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more steps to go including hot soapy water to remove manufacturing oils.
. However, the two plugs have exactly the same size plug, and I'd noticed the looseness earlier when dealing with the original one as well.