got some new accessories for my anvil today they are a must have imo!
the ring magnet is very strong and diametrically magnetized strongest magnet i have used so far it's amazing unscrews the bowls no problem way better than the anvil utility case.
The metal rest is also great to put your hot anvil on when refilling bowls.
they can be found at
vapenorth.ca/ for canada and
sneakypetestore.com/ for usa
Did Sneaky Pete just appropriate chopstick rests and re-purpose them as a vape accessory? Hilarious, but a great idea!
Got my XL bowl coming today, question to anyone that owns one:
Do you need to heat or pack differently or does it “just work”?
After a few initial mishaps, I'm finding it pretty similar to the regular chambers, you just need to compensate for the additional time you'll need to extract the larger volume of material. Using the same flame as you do with the regular chamber could potentially result in additional heat being delivered from the reservoir than you're used to, resulting in a darker roast. I found using a slightly smaller flame enabled me to heat pretty much anywhere from the battery to the upper band and get good results. I've been using the same grind that I use with the regular chamber and generally set my airflow to wide open and I'm not noticing any significant difference in the draw required. Overall, I really like it, but it also has the side effect of depleting my stash super quick.
On a side note , does everyone with the Anvil have the entire top half wobble on them when trying to adjust airflow ? On mine anything passed like half closed and I get wobble and it’s really annoying and honestly for the price paid this should not be happening when it’s advertised that it has adjustable airflow . It’s defective and I reached out to Vestratto on it and was told it would be fixed but this is over a month ago. It seems they are more interested in getting more units out than fixing a known issue . Don’t get me wrong I love the Anvil and think it works great but I’d like to be able to adjust airflow properly .
I don't know for sure, but it seemed to me from reading impressions here and elsewhere that a good number of the people who were having some difficulties also seemed to have parts that had some fit issues. I can say for sure after having a Founders, the replacement Users Edition and a second wait list-purchased Users Edition, that none of my 3 units have any wobble whatsoever when assembled. There's some jiggling of the clicker in the chamber and the spiral filter when you shake it, but there definitely isn't any wobble when trying to adjust airflow. There was also some talk about offering up individual replacement parts and even a Founders Unit upgrade kit, but none of that stuff has materialized yet either. I'm interested in the Founders upgrade kit myself and have been keeping an eye out for it.
Hey man, what kind of torch is that?
@Justpassedu : Not totally sure what you mean, but after watching one of the videos that John put up he mentions that your supposed to be able to turn the body and the airhole will open or close. I asked a few pages back about this, because mine doesn't do what his did in the video, but I didn't get a reply. On mine, you can't turn the body to open or close, you have to pull the oven up or push down, but since there's only a few mm's of play there, it's fairly difficult to get it at anything but all the way open or all the way closed. It's really not a huge deal for me because I think most people would probably want it all the way open anyways. Sorry, if this had nothing to do with your post, lol.
I find the airflow is kind of weird in the way it works. What you're actually trying to do is change the position of the Airflow Valve that connects the main body to the Copper Core oven. The idea is you grip the oven with one hand and the body with the other and as you turn the body, you hold both sections together so they don't separate as you turn. The act of turning the body this way while the Copper Core Oven grips the upper o-rings should have the effect of threading or de-threading the airflow valve so that it moves up and down between the body and oven section depending on whether you're turning clockwise or counter-clockwise. I don't mess around with the airflow all that much as I've been really happy with the results I get with the wide open setting. I've been meaning to test air flow settings a little more extensively, but I never seem to get around to it.
You can "manually" adjust the airflow by unscrewing the airflow valve separately and setting the level before you put the copper core oven on provided that you know how far you need to screw the air flow valve in. I think the mechanism could definitely use some refinement, but I don't usually change my airflow settings once I've reassembled the device so it hasn't been a huge issue personally.
