I do wish they made the tool a lot smaller. I kinda feel like they didn't research that part of it and just went to the corner headshop and bought a generic dab tool for reference.
Mine lands today!
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I EAT CROW!! I WAS 100% WRONG ABOUT THIS. After using this for a few days, the tool really is VERY well designed.
This is the first MTL dab I've ever had and I just realized thats what I was doing. But my wax pen experience is limited to Sia and always with a bottomless banger. I can't imagine doing a hot MTL dab, oof.
I think it will leave a plant material's reside on the oven... the Cricket is for full melt stuff imho....all the dark colored hash will leave residue..
I was re-reading this thread and came across this post. I bought a Muad-Dib the day it was available. Before that I had just used crappy wax pens where you vape straight off a hot coil. Well, the Muad-Dib really wasn't any better. With no temp control I think it just ramped up to max temp every time I pressed the battery. I do think that the trench would glow red hot. Maybe I was meant to pulse the battery or something. Either way, the vapor was harsh and tasted like burnt metal.Have you ever dabbed off a Terp Slurper?
I just don't see the current connoisseur market really resonating with metal vapor surfaces. Even the better prefilled cartridges are doing away with metal contacting the oil. Plus there's already another Evolv powered concentrate device (MVS) which uses ceramic crucibles.
At the end of the day it's still a load-as-you-go device, which makes it more of a home-portable than something I would actually carry around in my pocket.
In my experience the brainless-simple crowd isn't really the connoisseur market and is far more likely to just buy the live rosin pod for $40.
It seems like somewhat of an emulation of a round bottom banger.
But I can't say the energized trench is necessarily new, basically a temp controlled Muad Dib. Though the Magic Flight used a stainless steel mesh basin rather than a solid titanium one.
This is very disconcerting. Is the silicon in the mouthpiece at any risk of flaking off and falling into the chamber and getting burned? I haven't noticed any black flaking so far but I haven't done a deep clean on either of my Crickets.
The mouthpiece I will say seems fine, which seems, to me, to be because of its distance from product, heat, and alcohol. Whereas the silicon under the chamber is repeatedly heated and cooled rapidly, wiped often, let alone with alcohol. I’ll add as I don’t remember if I did before, that the most degradation is taking place under the wells on the long edges. Seems to see the most friction, most temp fluctuation, and most solvent. That being said, I have had black smear from the silicon piece that hold the bottom of the glass vapor path in place.
