Sucks to hear about your PC. Hope you can get it sorted out quickly.
My video card has been dead since mid December, but they wouldn't do any shipping for warranty/exchange until 1/3/13. I'll finally be getting the piece back from UPS on Monday.
There have been issues with a few of the Solo's, where the battery lasts much shorter than it should and has other odd quirks/issues. Hopefully it doesn't happen with yours, but the battery is covered under the warranty so if it does happen there's nothing to worry about.
I'm away from my kit at the moment, I'll try to get some pictures up for you once I'm home later today. Here's an MS Paint I whipped up, if that helps.
http://imgur.com/TFYac
Difficulty of reclaim is one issue with the wood. You basically have to scrape the oil/resin off the walls of the wood, meaning you can't really get a 100% clean for airports/etc.
One mod/tip/trick I saw was inserting a glass core/mouthpiece into the airpath, allowing you to take that out and...
I don't think you'd want to vape milk residue, that would be pretty gross. It's an edible, just drink it.
The stock stems will connect to a 14mm joint but the stem is pretty long and it wobbles in the joint unless you wrap some rubber bands around the stems.
Consider the PVHES stems or Ed's...
You can dremel out the 4 hole section or order a Turbo stem and them put a screen at your desired bowl depth. The stems with the bore change look like they would hold a screen there really well.
I'm not sure how you could have that much difficult with putting the screen in.
Try setting the screen with it slightly bowled so it's sitting evenly on the rim of the bowl, then slowly pressing with your pinky with the edges of the screen sliding down the walls of the glass, a reasonable...
Got a "highdea" the other day. After using it for a few days with my 14mm PVHES Turbo I'd say it's a keeper (for myself anyways).
Basically, I wanted a way to have an easily adjustable bowl size and high enough microns to keep bud from getting pulled through.
After putting the default screen...
I understand that, but the addition of multiple moving glass parts makes the setup less portable and more susceptible to damage.
The female joint would also provide a "bong style" mouthpiece for those of us who use the GonG stems as a direct draw instead of a water piece.
Have the fine folks at PlanetVape ever considered a female jointed version of the Solo GonG stems? Oil rigs are usually closer to the ideal vapor setup than a piece designed with combustion in mind.
I've never really felt the need for a Shorter bowl, packing less bud has always worked fine for me. You could even adjust the screen height if you really wanted to micropack your Solo.
The O ring is in the vapor path. Think about the grooves down the length of the PVHES stems, those are there to facilitate stock stem airflow, and the O Rings touch the hot glass.
Planet Vape's proposed F-Bomb will be a bubbler attachment with like 1mm clearance between the Solo and the glass, although it's still only an idea/concept.