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Great to see the spirit of tinkering and sharing alive and well in the vaping community - here's my 2c worth for anyone looking for a very simple, non-destructive and effective method to improve your Solo airflow without futzing with grommets or pvhes tubes...the "smile mod" Summary: Try a...

(sounds like you might want to invest in a log vape - but that's getting off topic)

The pv provides a lower resistance draw by permitting external unheated air in to mix and cool down the properly heated air before it hits the herb. People are free to choose that but it's not how I want my vaporizer to work. Some options at...

I wasn't saying it was going to keep robofarting, but when thermal grease is made, there are likely some volatiles in the goop - I'm thinking they will outgas relatively fast until they're effectively gone - probably well before the 3rd 12 minute @ 7 cycle everyone recommends before use. And...

You'll find a dab of thermal grease around the thermostat nestled under the heater plate too - that (IMHO) is another possible source of that wierd robofart taste/smell of a new Solo - most likely silicone based.

Interesting. Looks to me like it kind of starts to get at the physics of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countercurrent_exchange ? An old idea but a good one to make heat transfer more efficient - why not make the path longer for even more surface between incoming and outgoing air for...

Can you really tell the difference between sucking on the hacked stem and a stock stem ? I doubt it because of the physics - the rate of flow of a gas through a tube is given by Volume flow rate = pi*(pressure difference)*(pipe diameter)4/[128*(pipe length)*viscosity) So for constant...

Definitely not user replaceable like a flashlight battery, but it should work well for maybe 1000 cycles - that's about 3 years if you charge every day. Not bad for a consumer gadget and definitely not soldered to the circuit board like some. OTOH it's a beautifully engineered object, designed...

Funny, but the battery can be unplugged and removed on mine. Do you think I should send it back and insist that the battery be properly soldered to the circuit board ? With all due respect, I'd recommend reading this whole thread. Every darn page of it. There is plenty of discussion on...

AFAIK the mass of herb fitting into the volume of the business end of a stem will likely increase if it's a) very finely ground b) packed down really hard or c) if it's full of moisture (water is heavy but cheap so some unscrupulous dealers add it for extra profit...) - I use uber-dry bud and...

Greetings all from sunny Melbourne. Good to know there are others around here into vapour rather than smoke....

Mine regularly does 6 or maybe 8 stems @ #2 or #3 and about 10 minutes each between charges - might do more. You might get 6 hours of fun out of 6 or 8 stems, but I do not believe you could possibly get 6 hours of non-stop use on the stock (or any other dual lipo) battery pack. 6 hours...

The instruction manual (if you got one) sucks, but I assume you know you need to push the up arrow a couple of times once it's been turned on to set the temperature to the level you want - make sure the (single) orange light reaches 2 or 3 which should work fine for good dry herb. Otherwise it...

Mine had a tiny amount of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease around the thermostat in the heater block, which is a good thing for temperature control, but I'd guess that may give off some odour until all the volatiles are gone. The grease is likely to be stable at non-combusting...

When short of bud, I've used this method with some ordinary plastic shopping bag as a temporary storage for the first few hits and I can confirm that it works for me - seems to improve the amount of THC I get from a given quantity of plant material. When I do this I still see some vapour coming...

Solo temperature control seems really good to me, and I'm betting the restricted airflow is carefully tuned to match the heater output. Bigger holes = bigger airflow = less temperature stable. OTOH, variable air flow into the heater cup would be a really great upgrade for people who dislike the...

Solo air flow is deliberately restricted to those 4 tiny holes you can see in the base of the heating element - jamming the stem right down can more or less completely block all air flow with the standard stem and the 4 larger holes in the stem itself don't look like they're going to impose much...

Amen to all of that. I use minor variants of the above, 1/2" screen, ~0.15g uberdry herb, setting 4 sometimes going to 5, keep it mostly upside down, a few mouth puffs until I see the first vapour, then long slow draws. I get very even toasting without any need to stop and mix. One (of many...

Agreed that sub-topics would help hugely for me - 450 pages and counting is getting totally out of hand - even if you've managed to read every page. Sometimes I find the search function really helps. OTOH maybe a wiki is a good way of systematically curating the collective wisdom distilled from...

Lithium polymer batteries don't seem to need much special care - just lots of respect in terms of their ability to catch fire on those new dreamliner planes... I even read some suggestion somewhere that deep discharge recommended to prolong your nimh rechargable AA's might actually be slightly...