Up top I want to thank everyone for past information I've gotten without even needing to register.
I am looking for a home vape that I will share with my wife who only smokes a hoot or two a week. We will use it in a private location with accessible power. I am about to buy a third vape and wanted some insight. I am hoping to pay between 100 and 150 dollars. I've got some history I'll share and I hope it results in some considered responses. If any vape dealers feel like contacting me the forum rules seem to indicate that you have to request permission somehow to do that, I am a fan of this.
My wish list.
1) price up to $200 but $150 is my comfort zone.
2) whip, are long whips bad?
3) temperature control
4) appearance. (those Hotbox look cool..)
5) ability to vape small amounts. My WISPR is great for this. My junk box isn't.
6) durability.
7) Canadian vendor
I have been smoking hand rolled(as well as bongs and pipes) for 25 years. For about the last decade I've smoked around 5/8th of an oz per week. I kind of got used to it. I am looking to smoke less and my current vape, a WISPR is great for it for me. It has some drawbacks for really heavy use(any hand vape would I think).
18 years ago I paid a lot of money for a super fantastic "vaporizer", it sucked. It was a soldering iron propped upwards with a herb bowl screwed into the top and a massive jar to capture massive plumes of vapor. It got used a few times and always ended in doobies and a jar that stank very weird. I gave it to a buddy who thought it looked cool.
I eventually tried a volcano next. I got passed a big silver balloon and I didn't really enjoy it. The bag was the issue I think. I just didn't enjoy the experience. It didn't replace the smoking feel to my satisfaction. The owner loved it. I don't want a bag system unless it also allows for a whip. I only actually name the volcano because temp control would be great to have.
Recently a friend got an iolite. Between hockey periods(20minutes) we vaped a chamber's worth. It was really cool. I could taste a stickiness in the back of my throat, it wasn't smoke but I really liked it. She was complaining about some things i've read since. I was most concerned with using a butane device.
I ended up preordering a WISPR to give myself for Fathers day from the wife. It cost a lot. I waited almost four months to try it after some failed release dates and customs(look ma, 40 buck customs). It was precisely what I wanted. I ran it all day for two weeks. It had a nice slope and kept me sizzled from about 9 am until 3 am. I swore off smoking completely. It was discrete enough that I could step outside, blast, and no one was wiser. I didn't stink! Wife kept sniffing my hands, smiling. Anyways it was a new life. I had removed Otto's jacket.
Two weeks later during a fill, the little butane injector valve bent and that was it. It stopped working. I don't blame the WISPR. In dog years I had already used it 100 fills. It didn't matter though, warrantee from the original vendor was easier than the factory one. The RMA took 45 days. I got it today.(I timed travelled you there. Get out of the Delorean. Stuff happened in meantime)
I had sworn off smoking. It turns out that no one likes the not stoned me. I smoked the next day. Broken WISPRs, failed promises. My wife was guilt mode on it, since she had authorized my self shop, somehow she felt she had failed me by not stopping my selection. She went on eBay and found a 40 buck junk box that seemed easy to hide in our locked bedroom that she bought to ease what I was told would take 9 days. The black shiny junk box had a long whip(20 inches, I converted that for your USA pleasure.) and a dial.
It was a junk box. The dial said 200-400. It vaped at some settings. It smoked at others. Since I had it two days later I didn't care. I figured it out and get consistent massive clouds of vapor I could fill that jar with. Occasionally it does seem to shift ranges though so I just don't trust it.
3 weeks ago the dealer contacted me and asked for a 15 dollar reduced shipping charge. Duur.
I picked up The WISPR today from post office. They sent me a completely new one without mentioning RMA customer return or warranty return on the box.(look ma, 40 bucks customs). My wife loves it but thinks for heavy mileage I should get a desk vape that works and was on eBay, I said...let's let FC give some input.
Ok...I like you for reading that. Get back in the Delorean. We need to deliver actual vaporizers...back to 1985!
I am looking for a home vape that I will share with my wife who only smokes a hoot or two a week. We will use it in a private location with accessible power. I am about to buy a third vape and wanted some insight. I am hoping to pay between 100 and 150 dollars. I've got some history I'll share and I hope it results in some considered responses. If any vape dealers feel like contacting me the forum rules seem to indicate that you have to request permission somehow to do that, I am a fan of this.
My wish list.
1) price up to $200 but $150 is my comfort zone.
2) whip, are long whips bad?
3) temperature control
4) appearance. (those Hotbox look cool..)
5) ability to vape small amounts. My WISPR is great for this. My junk box isn't.
6) durability.
7) Canadian vendor
I have been smoking hand rolled(as well as bongs and pipes) for 25 years. For about the last decade I've smoked around 5/8th of an oz per week. I kind of got used to it. I am looking to smoke less and my current vape, a WISPR is great for it for me. It has some drawbacks for really heavy use(any hand vape would I think).
18 years ago I paid a lot of money for a super fantastic "vaporizer", it sucked. It was a soldering iron propped upwards with a herb bowl screwed into the top and a massive jar to capture massive plumes of vapor. It got used a few times and always ended in doobies and a jar that stank very weird. I gave it to a buddy who thought it looked cool.
I eventually tried a volcano next. I got passed a big silver balloon and I didn't really enjoy it. The bag was the issue I think. I just didn't enjoy the experience. It didn't replace the smoking feel to my satisfaction. The owner loved it. I don't want a bag system unless it also allows for a whip. I only actually name the volcano because temp control would be great to have.
Recently a friend got an iolite. Between hockey periods(20minutes) we vaped a chamber's worth. It was really cool. I could taste a stickiness in the back of my throat, it wasn't smoke but I really liked it. She was complaining about some things i've read since. I was most concerned with using a butane device.
I ended up preordering a WISPR to give myself for Fathers day from the wife. It cost a lot. I waited almost four months to try it after some failed release dates and customs(look ma, 40 buck customs). It was precisely what I wanted. I ran it all day for two weeks. It had a nice slope and kept me sizzled from about 9 am until 3 am. I swore off smoking completely. It was discrete enough that I could step outside, blast, and no one was wiser. I didn't stink! Wife kept sniffing my hands, smiling. Anyways it was a new life. I had removed Otto's jacket.
Two weeks later during a fill, the little butane injector valve bent and that was it. It stopped working. I don't blame the WISPR. In dog years I had already used it 100 fills. It didn't matter though, warrantee from the original vendor was easier than the factory one. The RMA took 45 days. I got it today.(I timed travelled you there. Get out of the Delorean. Stuff happened in meantime)
I had sworn off smoking. It turns out that no one likes the not stoned me. I smoked the next day. Broken WISPRs, failed promises. My wife was guilt mode on it, since she had authorized my self shop, somehow she felt she had failed me by not stopping my selection. She went on eBay and found a 40 buck junk box that seemed easy to hide in our locked bedroom that she bought to ease what I was told would take 9 days. The black shiny junk box had a long whip(20 inches, I converted that for your USA pleasure.) and a dial.
It was a junk box. The dial said 200-400. It vaped at some settings. It smoked at others. Since I had it two days later I didn't care. I figured it out and get consistent massive clouds of vapor I could fill that jar with. Occasionally it does seem to shift ranges though so I just don't trust it.
3 weeks ago the dealer contacted me and asked for a 15 dollar reduced shipping charge. Duur.
I picked up The WISPR today from post office. They sent me a completely new one without mentioning RMA customer return or warranty return on the box.(look ma, 40 bucks customs). My wife loves it but thinks for heavy mileage I should get a desk vape that works and was on eBay, I said...let's let FC give some input.
Ok...I like you for reading that. Get back in the Delorean. We need to deliver actual vaporizers...back to 1985!
the da Buddha is on my short list. Glad it got suggested first. I have found a Canadian distributor for it so not paying customs on it twice sounds great. I will look into this mini chamber, that is new to me.
