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Not nit picking, but trying to avoid making it too complex......glass is not a solid as we normally think. It doesn't have the necessary atomic level ordering to qualify. It's an amphibious solid, it lacks order like crystals have. It's molecules are random, not ordered, in places...

You're correct, glaze can't be 'spot fixed' after firing. It has to do with expansion of the base (ceramic body) and the glass coating. The problem is they change size at different rates with temperatures. In a fun way, glass at room temperature is really still a liquid seen from some...

No charge. OF

The last 1/4 inch or so is a screw on cap that holds the screen. Hold the plastic part with one hand and pinch the cap and twist off CCW. If it's not clean either heat it or put a drop of ISO on to dissolve fouling.....or both. OF

Brother @KeroZen seems to have identified the smell to be the adhesive on the insulating tape in the furnace. Some seem to need more 'burn offs' than others. The last one I did ran the battery flat at Full Blast (428F?), something like 10 sessions before I couldn't detect anything. Then, as...

Personally I like ceramic, provided it's glazed. That makes it glass where it counts but allows for taking advantage of precision molded ceramic parts. I think properly finished aluminum is cheaper and tougher, cosmetics aside I'd start 370 or so and go higher than normal, perhaps to 450 or...

Bummer. Yes, I had a crack on my original one. I didn't drop it but wondered if maybe I wasn't careful about tipping it when I took it off? Lucky for me I bought it from Randy at PIU, I emailed him. He'd never seen it (Aura was fairly new, at the time 'nobody' had MPs) so I emailed him a...

I'm not 100% sure what you're talking about but I think it's the edge of the bowl? This is the version with the LED in the mouth? That light goes through the clear silicone section just under the threads where normally the 'nose' of the MP fits? The white lip you see below that is the...

I'm running a screen in mine, I don't like those big holes. I cut a 5/8 screen to size (a bit over 3/8 inch square, enough so it's a snug fit 'edgewise'. The trim the four corners off making an 8 sided 'stop sign'. Then form it into a dome, drop it in 'dome up' and force it flat with a...

My take on the herb pod is there's too big a penalty in volume and extra stuff to heat to be competitive with loading the bowl directly. You get a bit under half the volume of herb and less wall area to heat it with. And you need to draw the heat needed to make vapor through that metal wall...

Sure, FastTech shows nearly 20 versions of that (different colors, shapes) in stock for about the same price, check out the pull down 'models' on the upper right: https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10015234/2806400-mini-glass-e-hookah-dry-content-e-solid-vaporizer You can also get them other...

No, not that I've been able to find. The 'rub' is the temperature control part, it's just not a popular feature at this low a power level I think. Nothing really suitable for the DC I think past the ones mentioned here (and on the DC site), iStick, Invader and VTC. If you're willing to...

Always comforting knowing what the future holds...... I recognize the bubbler, have one right here. They don't make them anymore, right? OK here as long as Ataxian keeps his distance. I wonder when they become collector's items....... OF

Store it at about 60 or 70% charge, say step 5. Keep it at 'room temperatures' and you'll be fine or years. Avoid fuller charge. You might check it every few years? Many of us have them stashed away for just that rainy day. Ironically the suckers seem to last forever, and when batteries do...

Indeed. And now it comes with a pair of pods to play with as well, one herb, one concentrate. IMO a mighty handy thing to have loaded and ready to go in your pants pocket when you're out. Instant reloads or even shifts to concentrate....... OF

As the Brits used to say about 'the sun being over the yardarm' (late enough in the day for a beer), "Surely, somewhere in the Empire, the sun is over the yardarm". I suggest the same rule applies here? Somewhere out in Sololand it's time to be heating up the unit and loading a stem......and...

Excellent point, I assume it wasn't opened/inspected? We tend to forget, that little as it does smell we're 'nose blind' to it and it stands out to those not used to the smell. Ever know a cigarette smoker who knew his clothes closet reeks to non smokers? Or a non smoking parent that didn't...

Thanks. I obviously agree with you agreeing with me but in my case there is no doubt......I'm old. Old enough to hear of (and actually see first hand) how badly such Customs adventures can turn. Chances are small, but 'they' are known to take the effort to destroy lives with trivial evidence...

Excellent point. IMO the 'break' between combustion and vaping is tied up in mental issues. Like Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to smoke and getting high. Our brain associates them closely and must 'learn' that it's possible to get THC without the junk in smoke. It takes from a few days to a...

Sure, there are reports of this from time to time but they generally lead nowhere. Take stock: It's effective ("gets you there"), extracts the THC (ABV correct) but doesn't give the visual vapor you want? Perhaps that goal (visible vapor) is misplaced? What if you could see 'big clouds' but...