I received two 30mm opaque-bottom bangers from
www.710coils.com a week ago, and have been using them almost every day for the last week.
I must say that I'm impressed. Don't get me wrong, I don't have much experience beyond cheap $20 bangers from the local headshop to compare them to. So, it is what it is. I've never owned one of those insanely priced ($150 - $200) name-brand ones, and I know that I'd never be willing to spend that much money on a banger. That just seems utterly ridiculous to me.
That being said, these opaque-bottom bangers have a thicker bottom than almost anything I've ever seen, and have thicker sides than almost any thick-bottom, gavel-style banger than I've seen as well. This thing handles heat so well that I had my heat-up-time & cool-down-time for a perfect dab down by the third dab, and it's been perfect temp dabs ever since. All I can say is that these bangers seem to dumb-down getting the heat right, to the extent that they would make the whole torch-heating process even easier for an amateur vaporist.
I'm in love with these bangers, which are ultra-easy to q-tip to sparkling clean after every dab.
All that being said, I also want to show some more love to
@710Coils themself, as they seem to be the type of interactive and community-friendly type of person that we'd want to be doing business with. I say this because after ordering my first 90degree 30mm opaque-bottom banger, I messaged
@710Coils the next day with a pic of my newly shattered 45degree banger (that I'd picked up from my local headshop the day before, and then dropped it and broke it the first time I used it that day), to ask if they would be stocking 45dgegree bangers anytime soon (they weren't available on the website at the time), and they said that they would be soon, but not yet. But they said that they had a 30mm opaque-bottom 45degree banger that had a minor flaw around the top edge of the bucket that they could send me at no charge. I was happy to be getting something free, and then 710coils messaged me back to say that they had a defect-free 30mm opaque-bottom 45degree banger on it's way to me, totally on the house.
I've been using that 45degree 30mm opaque bottom banger with a little banger-hanger that I picked up from an instagram glass-blower recently, and I am very happy.
I do think that, as it is advertised, the opaque-bottom with it's pattern of pock-marks does help the material vaporize quicker, and it does retain heat fantastically. Also, I appreciate little things about the quality of the details of the glass-work on these bangers that I usually only see in the over-priced bangers available elsewhere.
As long as they have the style I want,
https://710coils.com will be my source for new bangers now and going into the future.