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As usual when vaked a post I was typing started to get really long and off topic so here it is in its own thread. I was asked why I said I preferred the globe setup to the swing.
Things that suck about the bong/swing setup:
1 - I hate how it is difficult to see your dabber on the swing. The sight lines are just all wrong. On the nail rigs your nail is right there in front of your eyes. Its an easier geometry to me. Imagine trying to maneuver a dry earwax extract that is balanced barely on your dabber into that thing by feel. I'm not bloody Luke Skywalker.
2 - dabber angles. The angle of the dabber is slightly upward or near level when on the griddle. This makes it easy for molten oil to run down your dabber and make a mess. On the thick glass griddle dabber you can see in the picture where it ran down the glass rod. Yucky. It was actually a lucky thing I had hexane in the house from making oil, because I frequently got drips on my floor and that shit doesn't come out easily.
3 - Heating angle. Lots of angles today. It was always hard for me to find an angle to heat the skillet that didnt also throw heat at part of my glassware or my curtains or eyebrows or something. The nail setup is just easier - I use the thing in bed and have never felt awkward or like I was going to hurt something. With the swing, I always felt like I had to clean off the table and make people stand back before I used it.
4 - The nail seems to heat faster. I suppose the corrolary is that it holds less heat, but I'll take lower heating time any day.
5 - When you are using the device, there are hot parts exposed on the swing. When you use a nail vape, there is a glass dome around the hot parts. This makes it safer. You're not going to lean up against it and melt your jacket or burn your hand. If you drop a vapor swing, there is a good chance it melts or burns something. With a globe setup it is all protected.
6 - I like how nails are interchangable. You can invest in only one TI nail and use it on multiple rigs with only swapping the nail (which is meant to come off all the time). All swing style vapes I have seen have a more or less permenently attached skillet. At any rate, they are not made to be normally or quickly detachable. I don't like having to long term tie a nice piece of metal to a specific piece of glass or vice versa.
7. Globe is more compact. No curvy thing hanging out there waiting to catch an elbow.
8. If you look at the swing you can see a ton of condensed oil on it. It just catches a TON. On the globe setup (which has the same amount of uncleaned use on it) you see none on the glass and just a little on the nail. And the nail only is dirty with one hit worth of condensate because it cleans itself when it heats up.
9. For optimal smoothness and taste vapor should have as little chance to expand as possible before it reaches your lungs. I think vapes should really have a minimal vapor pathway that gives it to you thick and warm. It is hard to find approproriately small bongs and bubblers with the glass on glass joint needed to attach the swing. Most stuff that small is just blown not ground. The ones they had for the cannabis cup did come with a perfect little glass on glass bubbler, but I have been unable to get my hands on one.
Damn, that got long. Some things I don't like about the nail/globe rig.
1 - You have to set the globe somewhere while you are heating the nail. On the table, in your hand etc. This is annoying since you might forget where you put it, or drop it. Also the globe gets a little residue on it and when you set it down it picks shit up cause its sticky yo.
2 - It fucks up normal glass on glass stuff. Note how the piece terminates with a MALE 18.8 mm joint? Guess how many useful attachments are made in 18.8 (or even 14.4) female? None. I have yet to find a bowel to put on that. Or even a double female joint. No vape whips. Grr. Why couldn't the globe be made on a male joint so the bubbler could be more generally usefull!!!!
Things that suck about the bong/swing setup:
1 - I hate how it is difficult to see your dabber on the swing. The sight lines are just all wrong. On the nail rigs your nail is right there in front of your eyes. Its an easier geometry to me. Imagine trying to maneuver a dry earwax extract that is balanced barely on your dabber into that thing by feel. I'm not bloody Luke Skywalker.
2 - dabber angles. The angle of the dabber is slightly upward or near level when on the griddle. This makes it easy for molten oil to run down your dabber and make a mess. On the thick glass griddle dabber you can see in the picture where it ran down the glass rod. Yucky. It was actually a lucky thing I had hexane in the house from making oil, because I frequently got drips on my floor and that shit doesn't come out easily.
3 - Heating angle. Lots of angles today. It was always hard for me to find an angle to heat the skillet that didnt also throw heat at part of my glassware or my curtains or eyebrows or something. The nail setup is just easier - I use the thing in bed and have never felt awkward or like I was going to hurt something. With the swing, I always felt like I had to clean off the table and make people stand back before I used it.
4 - The nail seems to heat faster. I suppose the corrolary is that it holds less heat, but I'll take lower heating time any day.
5 - When you are using the device, there are hot parts exposed on the swing. When you use a nail vape, there is a glass dome around the hot parts. This makes it safer. You're not going to lean up against it and melt your jacket or burn your hand. If you drop a vapor swing, there is a good chance it melts or burns something. With a globe setup it is all protected.
6 - I like how nails are interchangable. You can invest in only one TI nail and use it on multiple rigs with only swapping the nail (which is meant to come off all the time). All swing style vapes I have seen have a more or less permenently attached skillet. At any rate, they are not made to be normally or quickly detachable. I don't like having to long term tie a nice piece of metal to a specific piece of glass or vice versa.
7. Globe is more compact. No curvy thing hanging out there waiting to catch an elbow.
8. If you look at the swing you can see a ton of condensed oil on it. It just catches a TON. On the globe setup (which has the same amount of uncleaned use on it) you see none on the glass and just a little on the nail. And the nail only is dirty with one hit worth of condensate because it cleans itself when it heats up.
9. For optimal smoothness and taste vapor should have as little chance to expand as possible before it reaches your lungs. I think vapes should really have a minimal vapor pathway that gives it to you thick and warm. It is hard to find approproriately small bongs and bubblers with the glass on glass joint needed to attach the swing. Most stuff that small is just blown not ground. The ones they had for the cannabis cup did come with a perfect little glass on glass bubbler, but I have been unable to get my hands on one.
Damn, that got long. Some things I don't like about the nail/globe rig.
1 - You have to set the globe somewhere while you are heating the nail. On the table, in your hand etc. This is annoying since you might forget where you put it, or drop it. Also the globe gets a little residue on it and when you set it down it picks shit up cause its sticky yo.
2 - It fucks up normal glass on glass stuff. Note how the piece terminates with a MALE 18.8 mm joint? Guess how many useful attachments are made in 18.8 (or even 14.4) female? None. I have yet to find a bowel to put on that. Or even a double female joint. No vape whips. Grr. Why couldn't the globe be made on a male joint so the bubbler could be more generally usefull!!!!
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