roughstack
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Oh my god, I can't believe I wasted money on this piece of shit. People on here were curious about it when I was researching it, but let me tell you, stay away from Divine Tribe and other brand donut atomizers.
Let's delve into exactly why. We can call this a review, I guess.
First and foremost this thing is packed with design flaws. The biggest and by far is the lack of a splash cap, and combined with the lack of a raised heating element (it's recessed), wastes an extraordinary amount of concentrate.
With a raised heating element, you can take a dab tool and scrape all the concentrate that splatters all over the globe / mouthpiece, and then rub all those scrapings right off on the coil, so you can recover some of that wasted product. I was able to pretty much scrape huge hits out of the sides of my atomizer's mouthpiece and directly apply it to the coil. With the donut, this is impossible, even more so with the deep chamber version of the donut.
Because of the nature of how sticky the concentrate is, and because there is no edge thats reachable to scrape it against on the donut, you need a dab rig or some other atomizer on hand to scrape all that into, because you can't apply it to the donut's heating element. You can basically only drop in stable shatter that's been rolled up into a ball and then push it lightly into the chamber with a clean dab tool.
Second design flaw, it splatters more than anything I've ever seen, which would be fine if you could apply it back onto the heating element easily. Open this thing up after a session and you'll see that there's no actual product on the donut except maybe a thin layer, and the sides and mouthpiece will be absolutely covered with product.
Design flaw the third, once all that splattered concentrate cools and hardens, removing the mouthpiece becomes a test of strength and technique. I've actually ripped the base right out of the threading, with the mouthpiece still attached to it, because of how glued on that mouthpiece becomes. I was able to put it back together, but the seal at the bottom wasn't the same, now I have to be extremely careful when removing it, in fact, I can't even remove the mouthpiece without warning up the thing so that the oil un-hardens because the base will come off again otherwise.
Fourth design flaw, inherent leaking. There are airflow holes in the chamber right next to the donut's heating ring. After the concentrate (in my case, shatter) becomes liquidy, it'll seep into those holes unless you "cold clear it by continually drawing a hit after you release the power button".
Even with doing this, it still leaks. It leaks so much that Matt (divine tribe owner) told me to only use tiny pieces of shatter at a time, only load it up one hit at a time basically. Well, that kind of defeats the purpose of a portable vaporizer if I have to constantly stop to top it off. It's Not very discreet to open a wax container and use a dab tool to apply a small ball of wax every three hits. If you don't do this, after unscrewing the atomizer from your battery, there will be oil everywhere in your threading and in the air holes. You'll need to use isopropyl to clean it all up before screwing it back on.
Never have I been so frustrated and disappointed with something I've purchased in my life. And get this, I ordered two of them so I know it's not just a defective unit either. They both do this.
Really good concept that needs to be worked on immensely, for now I'm going back to coils and globes, or learning about dissolving shatter / wax into propylene glycol. Any suggestions about doing the PG thing would be appreciated. Thank you
Let's delve into exactly why. We can call this a review, I guess.
First and foremost this thing is packed with design flaws. The biggest and by far is the lack of a splash cap, and combined with the lack of a raised heating element (it's recessed), wastes an extraordinary amount of concentrate.
With a raised heating element, you can take a dab tool and scrape all the concentrate that splatters all over the globe / mouthpiece, and then rub all those scrapings right off on the coil, so you can recover some of that wasted product. I was able to pretty much scrape huge hits out of the sides of my atomizer's mouthpiece and directly apply it to the coil. With the donut, this is impossible, even more so with the deep chamber version of the donut.
Because of the nature of how sticky the concentrate is, and because there is no edge thats reachable to scrape it against on the donut, you need a dab rig or some other atomizer on hand to scrape all that into, because you can't apply it to the donut's heating element. You can basically only drop in stable shatter that's been rolled up into a ball and then push it lightly into the chamber with a clean dab tool.
Second design flaw, it splatters more than anything I've ever seen, which would be fine if you could apply it back onto the heating element easily. Open this thing up after a session and you'll see that there's no actual product on the donut except maybe a thin layer, and the sides and mouthpiece will be absolutely covered with product.
Design flaw the third, once all that splattered concentrate cools and hardens, removing the mouthpiece becomes a test of strength and technique. I've actually ripped the base right out of the threading, with the mouthpiece still attached to it, because of how glued on that mouthpiece becomes. I was able to put it back together, but the seal at the bottom wasn't the same, now I have to be extremely careful when removing it, in fact, I can't even remove the mouthpiece without warning up the thing so that the oil un-hardens because the base will come off again otherwise.
Fourth design flaw, inherent leaking. There are airflow holes in the chamber right next to the donut's heating ring. After the concentrate (in my case, shatter) becomes liquidy, it'll seep into those holes unless you "cold clear it by continually drawing a hit after you release the power button".
Even with doing this, it still leaks. It leaks so much that Matt (divine tribe owner) told me to only use tiny pieces of shatter at a time, only load it up one hit at a time basically. Well, that kind of defeats the purpose of a portable vaporizer if I have to constantly stop to top it off. It's Not very discreet to open a wax container and use a dab tool to apply a small ball of wax every three hits. If you don't do this, after unscrewing the atomizer from your battery, there will be oil everywhere in your threading and in the air holes. You'll need to use isopropyl to clean it all up before screwing it back on.
Never have I been so frustrated and disappointed with something I've purchased in my life. And get this, I ordered two of them so I know it's not just a defective unit either. They both do this.
Really good concept that needs to be worked on immensely, for now I'm going back to coils and globes, or learning about dissolving shatter / wax into propylene glycol. Any suggestions about doing the PG thing would be appreciated. Thank you
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