I know this is really random, but.....Am I wrong for charring my bud....and liking it?
Oh yeah, wheh he talks, listen.....words of wisdom
@SSVUN~YAH. Thanks man.
Nothing wrong with that at all if that's how you like it! Mine sometimes gets pretty dark if I'm not paying attention and squeezing all I can out of it. Not really crazy about where the flavor goes when it goes past coffee brown colored, though. As
@CarolKing mentioned, flavor doesn't seem to get as funky as in other vapes, but I can still find that point where that burnt popcorn taste is too prominent for my liking. Plus, my ABV is usually going somewhere else before the trash so I don't mind leaving some actives for later.
Both items broke on my first attempt to use them. The stem fit on then broke when taking it off. This all happened within the first 5 minutes of opening the package. The power cord was still sitting in the shipping packaging. Obviously I didn't intend to break my brand new stuff and I am not the only one having these problems. The glass honestly feels like sugar glass it's so fragile. Whomever they buy their glass from needs to be replaced because this glass is cheap as hell. You've got good glass, your lucky. You are right, I probably should have waited another few days to get replacement shipped to me but it really doesn't matter given how quickly the glass broke, the heat from the nano would have cracked the glass from expansion regardless. I have no problem waiting for my replacements, which I had to do regardless. I am just disappointed in how crap the glass is that ships with this vaporizer is and I'm clearly not the only one having problems. If they know that their glass is not great, why would they not check the items before sale? That is just bad business in my opinion, shipping defective items. I completely understand they are busy, and I would have rather waited to get some parts that were tested to ensure they fit and work. People who are having these problems are stuck with unusable devices regardless, and now they need to pay more shipping to send out replacement parts. As for the work arounds with using a silicone sleeve to hold the pieces together, I'd rather not put that directly on the heater personally. The last thing I want to be doing is heating and inhaling that.
My two cents aways
OK then. But seems that others who had the same problem are now vaping and waiting, instead of just looking at their unusable "paperweight" and not vaping while waiting. Others before this have made it work pretty well, too.
The silicone was only one suggestion. It works well (I used silicone similarly to adjust screen height sometimes long before adjust-a-bowls) and I'm pretty sure at least one popular log used it exclusively for stem connection for a few years. You could probably still use a piece of silicone to rig something up with a little creativity. I get you in not feeling comfortable with it, though I think the heat tolerances are well within spec if Epic is still using high temp food grade silicone.
Haven't seen your glass in person, and it may well be "sugar glass" as you call it. But, have no doubts mine would break too if trying to force on or off a metal tube. This can put much more stress on the glass than even dropping it. When you "wedge" glass it breaks very easily - even if wedging with the exact same type of glass. Wedging the inside of a glass cylinder with metal? It isn't going to take much force to break pretty much any borosilicate. Also find it interesting how sure you seem the heat would've caused the glass to crack when you broke both pieces of yours without even pulling the cord from the box!
Again, I totally agree it should fit and work well right out of the box, and shipping defective items is a poor way to go. But, think the first suggestion I made was to butt the glass up against the metal as best you can and make adjustments to heat and screen as necessary (along with a suggestion where to look for more info).
There are way too many cases of this issue IMO, but IIRC you're the only one to actually break glass because of it (
EDIT: Correction, think there was one other). And, I'm pretty sure from other posts here that you're the only one who now has an unusable nano. They may not be working optimally or even as intended, but others are making it work and are vaping while they wait for replacement glass.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but to do it twice in less than 24 hours (or is it now within 5 minutes?) sure seems like a bit of user error. How does that popular Einstein quote about insanity go again? Maybe you just got a really bad one (missed trip to kiln or whatever?) and it was weaker than what others received and are making work. But two? Strikes me as odd that others are having the same issue, but we haven't seen any other reports of breakage. And, they're actually vaping with their poor fitting glass. Yet, somehow you got two weak pieces that broke instantly. Maybe it's just bad luck? Probabilities aren't always right, even Mr. Spock admits that, but the greatest probability is that they will be.
You may be better off getting one of Ed's TNT wood stems. It has a stainless steel end and no glass at all, and from what I have seen would be pretty difficult to break.
@frostyrod , yeah... that's part of it. I'm one of the biggest fanboys on here for the nano, and do hate to see people down-talking it or Epicvape. As you've seen, I'll usually jump up in their defense pretty quickly. What gets me in this particular case is that the person was aware of poor fitting glass, tried to put it on like it wasn't, and now is going on about how poorly made the glass is. It's not always the best. I've bought glass from Epicvape on more than a few occasions over the past couple years, and honestly haven't seen two from different shipments be exactly the same. Some is better, some not so much, but fortunately all functional and never so much as a crack in any of it.
As I just kind of said above... one piece being that poorly made is something that could definitely happen. Or, everyone's glass breaking because the current pieces are so poorly made would be understandable (though very poor on Epicvape's part!). Either would make sense. But for one person to happen to get two different types of glass pieces (and therefore unlikely from the same production batch) and break them both before even plugging the nano in - even though they knew neither fit well, reported it here, asked for suggestions and received them about what to do - is a bit different.
. The glass stem fits mostly fine, but its hard to get on and off. The 18mm GonG won't fit at all. Suggestions?
