Nice setup Skoll! I wonder if you've tried dabbing with that glasstafarian bub? The only time I've used BHO through water was through a small little Dosa rig...very small and very little diffusion. To be honest, the hit really got to my chest so I can imagine that if I were to start dabbing (don't see it in the near future) a more highly diffused piece would be a little more approachable. That said, I can't imagine I'd want to use oil through a highly diffused piece for an extended period of time, lots of reclaim and taste loss to contend with.
Been thoroughly enjoying my new pick-up. Got two pics below, the first to just better contextualize the size of this thing, it is really small
One of the things that this piece has made me think about is what I'm after in pairing a piece of glass with my vaporizing habits. First and foremost this little piece offers the best taste of any of my other pieces...I think this is due to the small size, the dry chamber and the relatively low level of diffusion (I actually think this design would excel as an oil unit/rig for these reasons exactly). Having said that, I'm not sure that this piece offers the smoothest hit, probably for the same reasons that taste is preserved; personally I'm very happy with this trade-off.
Again, using this piece last night and today has made me think about why I love to vapor-bong so much...the water cools down the vapor and filters out the particulates. The second picture below shows the 'elbow' of the nano after just a few PD stems (3-5 I'd say) in a single session: the result is a small but very noticeable amount of particulate and vapor condensate. This 'elbow' seems to catch most of it before the vapor enters the 'dry chamber' but definitely some does make it into this bottom chamber (it gets misty more than anything). In this way, it doesn't seem that much if any particulate reaches the water chamber, a sort of natural diffusion it seems.
The other thing the elbow and dry-chamber has reminded me of clearly is that vapor is usually pretty hot! As I'm sure others with stemless pieces have noticed before, after a couple quick hits the stem/elbow of your piece gets very warm to the touch, the dry chamber of this Itza nano and the elbow get much warmer in/right after use than my other pieces (due to the size and nature of the dryness I think). I'm not sure if the vapor that I'm getting with this piece is necessarily hotter than my other glass, but it has made me realize all over again how pivotal cooling down the vapor is to my preference.
Sorry for the rant just some things that have been on my mind since using this. In the end I'm very happy with it...use a little higher water level than my other trees to remind myself there's water in there (you can use soo little water in here and the pull is soo 'chugless' if that makes sense, not the same as saying that there's no 'resistance' really here). I'll put up a quick vid when its not so grey out and I have some better light in here.
(I don't like to post dirty pics but I waited til after a session to take a pic of this to show how much particulate gathered so quickly.)
Will post up a vid if the light is right. Not sure I can do much better than the pics that I received from the Itza camp above but maybe can put the size into context a little better.
