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  1. Hippie Dickie

    What is your daily driver out of your arsenal?

    for me there is only one ... The Herbal Cube ... all day, every day
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    Favorite Vaporizer Wood Types

    i love cherry for the grain, how it deepens in color with use, and how well it mills in the CNC router. i want to try oak and maple
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    The Convection Thread

    yes, i think this is what is happening. i tried a test: half loaded vial, packed/compressed downward, toothpick to make a hole in the middle of the pack and force the herb against the vial walls. started a session ... at 60 seconds when i normally see whiffs of vapor, there was a lot more...
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    The Convection Thread

    my heater coil is 0.3 ohm, so it hits 120 watts max with the 6v power pack. this is throttled by pulse width modulation - an "app" built into the PIC 12F683 architecture. air path is isolated from everything - except herb - by glass. very clean taste. to stay on topic ... i think my design...
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    The Convection Thread

    i always wait 90 to 120 seconds before taking my first hit - specifically to allow the vial and the herb to "heat soak". As an assist, the vape software waits 90 seconds from the time the heater measures at the setpoint temp - usually 10 seconds to get to 400°F - and then signals "take a hit"...
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    The Convection Thread

    i agree with the need for temp control and PID - has been my passion since 2009. what i have found is that if the battery is sufficiently high current - i.e. LiFePO4 can deliver 70 amps - it is not possible to drop the temperature regardless of the inhale speed - the PID is rock solid. before...
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    The Bud Toaster - (currently: Model 14, version 3)

    finally (re)found the magic upload button where i usually store the photos ... now, if i just don't forget the process again ...
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    The Bud Toaster - (currently: Model 14, version 3)

    i appreciate the offer. the case is leather covering matte board. i use a Cricut Maker to cut all the leather and matte board pieces. i use my cnc router to mill four faces of the cube, both sides of the cover, and the inside of the front bezel. so i think i have it covered - except for...
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    The Bud Toaster - (currently: Model 14, version 3)

    here it is, finally, the unobtainium ... side view: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlxoNk_X9bMCgk5viCoROerPZAJv end view: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlxoNk_X9bMCgk0-2PB4PMK0-PeL i set a goal of creating an easy way to form the case stiffener on jan 17. two nights ago i succeeded. i created a forming tool...
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    What's your main go to temperature for vaping?

    i currently like 420F/215C - this delivers the amount of vapor that i want each hit with not too much wasted in exhale ... the herb in the vial is about 50F lower, and rises to 420F during the draw, then drops back down.
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    Athlete Vaporists?

    my feet are fine ... i should have mentioned the NordicTrack is the Pro cross country ski machine - zero impact machine. i gave up road running several decades ago to spare my knees. we have an elliptical but i don't like it or use it - well, i used it about 20 years ago for a while when i...
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    Athlete Vaporists?

    it dawned on me the other day that i have been doing aerobics for 40 years - started with 20 min/day, now 30 min/day, 5 days/week. added strength training 8 years ago for 3 to 4 times per week for an additional 30 minutes those days. i find it hard to believe i have been this committed to...
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    Image Attachments

    is it up yet? i had no problem posting to my thread with images yesterday. just noticed the image attachment message today. did i break it? pretty small JPGs.
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    The Bud Toaster - (currently: Model 14, version 3)

    June 23, 2021 ... i remember it like it was just yesterday ... sitting on the balcony at 3:30 pm, a wednesday, vaping - no orders pending - pandemic business has been shit, as for everyone. being high, i look at the few clouds in the sky - a fucking beautiful day - and thought to myself (my...
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    Vaping and dental/oral health

    funny you should mention that. i study so many medical websites that i get ads promoting medical jobs. also, my ad feed in FB is biochem & med research oriented ... so now i am lusting for a nanopore dna/rna sequencer and a desktop cell sorter, and they aren't that expensive, and ads for mRNA...
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    The Nova FX by Ardent

    the FX is awesome, imho. anything i can clean this easily and this completely is just great design and engineering. NOVA proved to be a little flimsy for my regular use. i wish the article had given a shoutout to the design & engineering team.
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    How many times throughout the day do you vape?

    i am firmly committed to doing 1g per day, so that is usually 8 sessions in the Bud Toaster ... which works out to 1.5 to 2 oz per month.
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    The Convection Thread

    good question! i just tried this for a full 7.5 minute session ... no detectable color change for Qtip and not even warm. This does remind me that after about 1 minute from start up there will be thin wisps of vapor rising from the vial - terpenes, i guess - lower temp volatiles. also just...
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    The Convection Thread

    small geometry? the heater surrounds the vial, and radiant heat waves are redirected/focused by the cylindrical stainless steel heat shield back into the vial. it is all pretty tightly/closely contained - two 1mm glass walls and 0.5mm air gap separate the heater ribbon coil from the herb...
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    The Convection Thread

    my 2 cents about a couple of your topics on convection vaporizer ... okay, i claim my cube is mainly convection, although i acknowledge there is also radiant heat, directed into the herb that helps maintain the heater temperature throughout the herb with little of the herb being in contact with...
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