Yeah I had a bad break in the beginning of quarantine lockdown last year, one of a kind green RBT drydrotube from china factory, stood up with it in my lap like a week in and I was relying on it for my TM! But I have since been much more careful paying attention to what's on my lap before standing up, and then I fell down the OGB custom rabbit hole and so on lol now have Phineas vigreux female tube finally too Otherwise my Tubo got knocked over off a counter and broke the long bent stem, and that PIU thermal banger recently... Old Chinese beaker tree perc combustion bong broke when I was cleaning it to use for vaping in the early days LOL
Anyway popular glass replied to me about the black brown marking in the tubes of the diffusion pump, as expected they are just burn weld marks from when they were working it, not a big deal at all, overall very happy with the quality of this piece, despite the amount of time it took to ship, full price not such a big deal either honestly! Just psychologically would have been nice to pay 50
Had fun using the TM with it last night, but this morning I discovered the FW7 maybe even better:
Looking forward to the log experience, and dabs of course, but I also just got a blue hopper io that will be going through it next I presume...
Oh and for the record, I don't know if anyone remembers I mentioned emailing CaliBear about cosmetic imperfections with my straight fab FOL, well they never replied this time, so I will tell you one was just a small little tiny black mark on the outside of the milk blue female joint, likely from being worked as the others, but the real weird thing that is more troubling: there is literally a hair encased in the base of the bubbler! Like I'm not even sure how, it's in the middle of the base so you can see it from top and bottom, fused inside the middle of the glass, like not a big deal certainly not functionally and hardly noticeable superficially, but like the idea of it is kind of disquieting, no??