Winegums

I make things from wood
Accessory Maker
I think the wrapping (cotton thread?) looks great. I'd do it just for aesthetics let alone the added support it gives the end. Nice one @Winegums!
Thanks!

Yeah, it's just simple cotton thread, I had some spare stuff hanging around for the longest time.

I made this whole piece with a pocket knife and I encourage others to make their own. Just pay really close attention to getting the right diameter piece.
 

almost there

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I love my bamboo stem that I made a month or two ago. The trick is finding that perfect diameter piece so that the tip fits. I wrapped mine because it was starting to split. The flavour from one of these is excellent, something about the bamboo makes it so much tastier.
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it looks so much like a flute, play us a tune @Winegums, delight us with some click-click-clicks :rofl:
 
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Whissmu

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I love my bamboo stem that I made a month or two ago. The trick is finding that perfect diameter piece so that the tip fits. I wrapped mine because it was starting to split. The flavour from one of these is excellent, something about the bamboo makes it so much tastier.
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Is the bartolo flute?

Bartolo had a flute!
With a hole alone ,,,
,,, And everyone gave the tin with the flute of bartolo!

Bartolo had a flute!
With a hole alone
And everyone gave the tin with the flute of bartolo

BIS
BIS
 

DirtyD

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Thanks!

Yeah, it's just simple cotton thread, I had some spare stuff hanging around for the longest time.

I made this whole piece with a pocket knife and I encourage others to make their own. Just pay really close attention to getting the right diameter piece.
Thanks man, once again learning so much around here. Never thought about wrapping with thread..the bamboo is going to crack, you just need something to keep it in check. Digging around for thread now. Peace in the Middle East, D.
 

ArthurJ

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#1 My latest @Winegums piece arrived and it is a beauty!! I took it out for a quick stroll.

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#2 So a few years I bought a pen for concentrates that totally sucked and never worked, but it came with this case that I still had laying around. I can fit two @phattpiggie stems plus my latest piece, a lighter and a little stir tool, and I think I have room for a doob tube as well. So I am pretty pleased with this discovery!

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stardustsailor

Well-Known Member
Accessory Maker
Restoring a cap's looks to almost " brand new "
aka
How to restore the mirror polish of your cap.


You will need a Dremel or any clone of a Dremel .
And then you will also need those :

1 ) https://www.dremel.com/en_US/products/-/show-product/accessories/422-felt-polishing-cone
and
2 ) https://www.dremel.com/en_US/products/-/show-product/accessories/401-mandrel
and lastly
3 ) https://www.dremel.com/en_US/products/-/show-product/accessories/421-polishing-compound

Start the dremel tool at lowest speed with the cone part attached to the mandrel.
Dip carefully the cone lightly to the polishing compound.
The latter will melt and stick to the cone.
Don't worry about covering the cone fully with the paste.
Actually,better don't.Just dip the cone to the compound until you see the white rotating cone
become reddish .That will do.

Start -still with the lowest speed possible- and work the cap slowly.
Do not apply much pressure ,there's no need for it.
You're cleaning the cap ,not sanding it.
Be careful near the edges of the cap ,as they may "bite" quite easily
with the rotating fiber cone.

And either destroy the cone or make the cap fly away from your hand .
Or both,at worst case scenario.:freak:
But there's no possibility of damaging the cap ,by the act of polishing itself.
The compound is of a very fine grit ( more than 5000 ) -so fine ,that it will take hours -if not days-
to grind away the thin steel sheet of the cap.
When you're happy /satisfied with the results wash out any polishing compound debris
and leftovers with ISO and a soft scrap of cloth .
Wear protective equipment.Gloves and goggles,at least.
Cap is sharp ,flying polishing compound partcles are quite hot and
become hard when they solidify inside your eye.:myday:

I'm not going to post any pre/post pics.
:uhoh:
That one you gotta see for yourselves !
Brand new ! (ok ..almost ...)
;)

Cheers.
 

needalift

Well-Known Member
#1 My latest @Winegums piece arrived and it is a beauty!! I took it out for a quick stroll.

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#2 So a few years I bought a pen for concentrates that totally sucked and never worked, but it came with this case that I still had laying around. I can fit two @phattpiggie stems plus my latest piece, a lighter and a little stir tool, and I think I have room for a doob tube as well. So I am pretty pleased with this discovery!

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That @Winegums piece is amazing . He really upped his game on that one !!!
 

kellya86

Herb gardener...
Im 5000 miles from home, in colorado, with my vapcap...
Im a happy lad right now...

Im loving the new gen tip too... Definitely an improvement on my old gen2....

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Loaded with some purpley sativa sour diesel, and a blob of 68% agent orange budder...

Now im heading up pikes peak..

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ClearBlueLou

unbearably light in the being....
Is it possible that there is some condensate build up on the inside of the cap where the bimetall disks are? Somehow i can't get it to taste real clean after cleaning in iso - does iso even remove click-missing combustion byproducts?
I continue to find all this concern about 'off-flavors' and 'combustion by-products' and 'can metals be cleaned' to be bewildering: your - or ANY - metal cylinders can be simply and quickly and thoroughly cleaned, as has been laboriously repeated by dozens of thread-members. The ONE real variable is the attention you lavish (or don't) on the process.

ISO, or ethanol, will dissolve anything deposited by your material, combusted or not, in the cap or not; the de-luxe finishing touch is to wash it all in soapy water following the soak, rinse and dry, then run an alcohol-wetted q-tip all around the inside of the bowl, top to bottom, and up the condenser end, wiping the throat of the tip (under-chamber) on all sides. For an assembled tip, this should be all you need to do to keep the thing sweet. For 4 months of heavy use, this has been entirely adequate to keep us all clean and happy.

The washes will remove any and all 'flavor components'; the wiping will remove any traces of physical residue. If that won't turn the trick for you, I recommend adding a round of Oxyclean soaking between the alcohol soaking/wiping and the final wash/rinse. If THAT doesn't work, I'd advise stripping off the o-rings, popping out the screen(s), then go back to the initial soak & do it all again, this time using a small brush or extra-thick pipe cleanr to ensure that the screens and inside of the tip are completely clean. At some point, you'll find what YOU need to do to be happy with your gear. Don't forget to grease up your o-rings!

Re: the cap itself, if you fill your bowl to the point where the material is touching the inside-top of the cap, then you WILL get a tiny bit of sticky deposit, prolly with a little ash or herb stuck to it, but you're not going to get "build-up" even then: the design of the machine, so to speak, works against a significant deposition there. If the soak alone won't take care of it, the wipe w/ the q-tip after, will.

FTR I have combusted - not lots, but still...yet I've never had a bad taste or even a bad smell linger. IME, those are characteristics of TAR building up, and tar is LOADED with nasty combustion products that will wreck the taste of ANY pipe, which is why we clean them, yes? Even with the occasional burn, there's just not going to be a buildup of combusted materials & byproducts unless we're combusting (nearly) every load.

I soak-then-rinse my condensers and tips without further disassembly, just as in the minimal version of the protocol I laid out; I do it every 2-3 weeks, because I want to harvest the still-potent resin before it becomes laden with tars & degraded byproducts. As a result, I have none of these issues because I get virtually no build-up and so no nasty flavors or smells. It keep my 'Caps clean with minimal hassle, & they keep chugging away, with minimal hassle.

I do expect that at some point, this will allow enough crevice-filling that I'll have to strip the thing down to its components to really have it clean again, but at this rate that could be a year from now, or more....and I'll use this same protocol to do it...unless I find a lower-impact, less-bothersome method than even this one....

Really do hope this helps: I learned the basics of these principles raising a family (and cleaning up after them) and they hold solid here.
 

Zow237

Well-Known Member
Im 5000 miles from home, in colorado, with my vapcap...
Im a happy lad right now...

Im loving the new gen tip too... Definitely an improvement on my old gen2....

nGRIe9G.jpg


Loaded with some purpley sativa sour diesel, and a blob of 68% agent orange budder...

Now im heading up pikes peak..

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Welcome to Colorado!!!! Check out the new sungrown place in Denver. Called ascend cannabis co. Went there the other day and yesterday. Wow is all I can say. Great selection and great staff members with the owners there pretty much everyday. Bomb ass product! Veganic and "organic" pesticide free apparently. Some of the tastiest nugs I've ever had. Try out the "sweet dreamz" it's there house strain sweet tangie with blue dream. Just awesome! Come on over and rip some buds an wax
 
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Winegums

I make things from wood
Accessory Maker
FTR I have combusted - not lots, but still...yet I've never had a bad taste or even a bad smell linger. IME, those are characteristics of TAR building up, and tar is LOADED with nasty combustion products that will wreck the taste of ANY pipe, which is why we clean them, yes? Even with the occasional burn, there's just not going to be a buildup of combusted materials & byproducts unless we're combusting (nearly) every load.

I find that having some resin in the vapour path sorta stops/traps the smoke smells when I combust. During cleaning the resin is black on top but golden under that layer, which is probably why the smell is so easy to get rid of.
 

exime

Well-Known Member
Im 5000 miles from home, in colorado, with my vapcap...
Im a happy lad right now...

Im loving the new gen tip too... Definitely an improvement on my old gen2....


Loaded with some purpley sativa sour diesel, and a blob of 68% agent orange budder...

Now im heading up pikes peak..

Hey I was just in Boulder too:

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Make sure to go up flagstaff in Boulder and you can hike around and see some sweet views. Or you can stay at the bottom and hike around Chautauqua park.
 

ArthurJ

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I'm always looking for things in my collection (I'm prefering to think of this as a collection and a hobby now) that pair well together and then thats ok, I'll use this for that. It seems my new @Winegums stem fits just about perfectly with my mflb orbiter. I'm using a single jet torch, low on the cap so its very directed and it takes longer to click, 18 - 20 seconds, in fact I sometimes stop short of the click if I've counted past 15, and this is giving me HUGE clouds! I can't finish it all in one draw, I draw and fill the orbiter, pull the whip away from my mouth and then sip at it 3 or 4 more times. I think we have a winner. And notice how the copper accents complement the orbiters metal support arm (which may also be copper)
This is a splendid pairing!
I'm very excited about this develipment!!

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I got my OG Vapcap (V2 with 2 carb holes) earlier this week but haven't used it as I'm waiting for a three flame torch lighter to be delivered later today. Is there anything different I need to know about the V2 as compared to the V1? I figured if I like the OG, I'll eventually upgrade to the M. Thank you in advance.

V2 looks neat, but I never found having both open were beneficial. I think I use it similar to a single hole though. I cover both carbs on the first 2-3 seconds of the draw and feather both holes for a few seconds.
 

Derrrpp

For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky
Nice cup, dude! :rockon: Nice stem too, I agree, pairs real nice with that orbiter. :drool:

I'm curious if anyone has dropped one of these in their lap or car seat or coffee table? I assume they get very very hot could burn skin easily.

Yes they do get hot, like 400 degrees hot. (Gotta be hot to boil those actives!) I've burned myself numerous times... :doh: And there's at least one picture in here of a hole burned through someone's pants...
 

Zow237

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Nice cup, dude! :rockon: Nice stem too, I agree, pairs real nice with that orbiter. :drool:



Yes they do get hot, like 400 degrees hot. (Gotta be hot to boil those actives!) I've burned myself numerous times... :doh: And there's at least one picture in here of a hole burned through someone's pants...
I am super clumsy so this is the only thing keeping me from getting one haha
 
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Alegre

Pobre payaso
I'm so glad I started my vapcap experience with the M......I've dropped it so many times and the only thing that happens is that the cap will go into the tip hard, needing a bit of force to get them apart.

Last night I had a weed and kiff sandwich and was floored after just two hearing cycles.....the vapcap just hits that hard!

I need to find the equivalent of the vapcap in electric or battery operated.....something that hits as hard and quick.

Any suggestions?
 
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