SamsonsRiddle
New Member
Puff It Up! has a new fan - e-mailed Randy and got a response very quickly. Within the same day I e-mailed the guy, it was in the mail! $55?!?! Can't beat it.
Pen Imag Plus
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subway13029
Well-Known Member
Yeah and you will receive it 2 days..if not soonee..lol
The IMAG+ really impressed me for the price. It will fit perfectly in my collection.
I passed it around a few days ago and people were impressed they were blowing clouds.
I put a slightly domed screen on the bottom of the chamber with dome facing up because I feel the stock screen sits against the air holes too much and will get clogged if I tamp down to hard. The stock screen stays there, I put the dome screen right on top.
I also go with a domed screen on top but I invert that one with the dome being pressed against the load.
I find this very effective.
I passed it around a few days ago and people were impressed they were blowing clouds.
I put a slightly domed screen on the bottom of the chamber with dome facing up because I feel the stock screen sits against the air holes too much and will get clogged if I tamp down to hard. The stock screen stays there, I put the dome screen right on top.
I also go with a domed screen on top but I invert that one with the dome being pressed against the load.
I find this very effective.
OF
Well-Known Member
Yep. Ain't that just the truth? I like to boast of the time Randy got a unit in my hands in just under 24 hours! Even using the Post Office. He shipped within an hour and it was in my hands the next morning.
Then again it only had to come about 400 miles, most of that downhill, but it's the PO we're talking here......they can loose stuff between their office and my door.
I feel good about giving Randy my business, even when everything goes right it's a good feeling to have him covering your back.
OF
subway13029
Well-Known Member
I could agree more of..it's nothing short of amazing with the post..he must have like v.i.p post office membership..they are like uh oh here comes randy..everyone please step aside randy is here and he comes to front of line and then they load his stuff in the private jet and off it goes..to vapers all around the world..lol
flotntoke
thoroughly vaped
Friend of mine - not an FC member - tried my new imag+ on Thursday afternoon. He liked it so much we ordered one for him from PIU around 5pm on east coast. Was on his doorstep by noon on Saturday with free shipping!! Randy is a postal God, as well as a great vendor and all around good guy!
jefferson111
Member
Hi all.
First timer here.
I bought the imag plus based on reviews here and there. A week after that I bought another for the wife. This was our first time vapeing. We are mid 40's, used to smoke nicotine but havent for 8 years, full time MJ smokers.
In short time, we both prefer, BY FAR, vaping. Whole new world has opened up
Now, reason for posting: problems with both these units (the metal chamber, v6 I believe- $74 at the hated site) the USb charging slot was very tight/sticky/ hard to get a usb charger into. I thought, ok must HAVE to use the included charger cord (i thought USB was a standard) instead of my cell phone chargers or other usb chargers. NOPE, after getting harder and harder, I went to unplug my IMAG the other night (green light just came on) the usb male end of my included charger cable came apart- half was in the imag, the otehr half was still on the cord. I grabbed pliers and was able to gran the bit of metal sticking out and then pull teh rest of the plug out of the IMAG (i have pics if need be).
The other thing I noticed over the few days this developed was a sticky coating- reminds me of contact cement- the kind you can roll into a ball in your fingers- on any charger that came OUT of the imag. After chargingh, I'd look at the end of the charging cord (any one of them) and this sticky substance would be on it and I'd have to work hard to rub it off the metal of the charger.
Now this morning, my wife says from the other room, "there's something sticky on my charger and it's inside the hole". I look at hers and same thing....this substance is inside the charger hole on the imag. It appears that it is leaking downward from further inside??? She is also having charging issues. She now has to twist, contort the charger to get it to light up and charge.
Today when I get home I'll open a new ceramic model I ordered from PIU on Sunday and get to compare both models. Really curious to see if this one has these issues. FWIW, that hated vendor where I got my first 2, they arrived in 3 days for the first and 4 days for the second one. As a customer, they were fine.
I have contacted them about this so we shall see how their support is.
First timer here.
I bought the imag plus based on reviews here and there. A week after that I bought another for the wife. This was our first time vapeing. We are mid 40's, used to smoke nicotine but havent for 8 years, full time MJ smokers.
In short time, we both prefer, BY FAR, vaping. Whole new world has opened up
Now, reason for posting: problems with both these units (the metal chamber, v6 I believe- $74 at the hated site) the USb charging slot was very tight/sticky/ hard to get a usb charger into. I thought, ok must HAVE to use the included charger cord (i thought USB was a standard) instead of my cell phone chargers or other usb chargers. NOPE, after getting harder and harder, I went to unplug my IMAG the other night (green light just came on) the usb male end of my included charger cable came apart- half was in the imag, the otehr half was still on the cord. I grabbed pliers and was able to gran the bit of metal sticking out and then pull teh rest of the plug out of the IMAG (i have pics if need be).
The other thing I noticed over the few days this developed was a sticky coating- reminds me of contact cement- the kind you can roll into a ball in your fingers- on any charger that came OUT of the imag. After chargingh, I'd look at the end of the charging cord (any one of them) and this sticky substance would be on it and I'd have to work hard to rub it off the metal of the charger.
Now this morning, my wife says from the other room, "there's something sticky on my charger and it's inside the hole". I look at hers and same thing....this substance is inside the charger hole on the imag. It appears that it is leaking downward from further inside??? She is also having charging issues. She now has to twist, contort the charger to get it to light up and charge.
Today when I get home I'll open a new ceramic model I ordered from PIU on Sunday and get to compare both models. Really curious to see if this one has these issues. FWIW, that hated vendor where I got my first 2, they arrived in 3 days for the first and 4 days for the second one. As a customer, they were fine.
I have contacted them about this so we shall see how their support is.
OF
Well-Known Member
First off, howdy! Welcome to the Forums and all the fun.
I agree with you completely, it's a great place with good folks with first hand experience and advice eager to share with each other as well as the curious. For many of us it's all about informed decisions WRT vapes, how they might 'fit with individual needs/wants'. Vapes can be very personal, what is ideal (or nearly so) for one guy (or gal, we're blessed with several of those....) might be a bad fit for the next. Or the other way about.
However, I'd like to point out that this Forum is chock full of such threads. From popular vapes to ones not yet available. Also vape related issues (cooking with cannabis, legal, concentrates, new vape developments, DIY, glass and so on), you just won't find discussion/support of smoking. We're all planning to use vaping to get more goodness from our herb (on average cutting weed bills to say 1/3 what they were when blazing?)......and reaping the health benefits and thus live longer to enjoy it.
All in all a great place, this thread is only one of hundreds such ones. Welcome, please set aside some time to explore that?
Hi all.
In short time, we both prefer, BY FAR, vaping. Whole new world has opened up
Now this morning, my wife says from the other room, "there's something sticky on my charger and it's inside the hole". I look at hers and same thing....this substance is inside the charger hole on the imag.
Today when I get home I'll open a new ceramic model I ordered from PIU on Sunday and get to compare both models. Really curious to see if this one has these issues.
And howdy to you too! Sorry you're having troubles, but rest assured that the one from PIU won't have this or Randy will sort it out at speeds that rival Superman. If the worst happens he'll have the replacement in the mail the day you notify him based on history. Best advocate I can think of. Worth a few bucks.
It could be a design issue with that model, but I don't recall anyone else posting about it in this thread. In my checkered experience this sort of stuff can happen from breakdown of glues and other materials for a host of reasons. The fact that your two units share this points back to this as they no doubt came from the same lot?
You're absolutely right, vaping is the key. Or as Ataxian is fond of saying 'the holy grail'. You might take some time and explore different vape options. Solo/Air comes to mind as a easy to use, powerful vape with an excellent history and lots of fans. A bit larger, and uses glass stems, but there's a lot more choices of temperatures and the taste is clearly superior in 'side by side testing'......not that there's anything really wrong with Imag+ of course, just for 'flavor snobs' (and IMO there's some of that in all of us) it has advantages. This stuff is all tradeoffs and compromises. The market gives you lots of good choices, these Forums give excellent information and advice.
Welcome, come on in, sit a while, soak it up. Soon you'll be helping the new guys out too I bet?
Regards,
OF
Rob Allen
Member
Yup!
I haven't smoked at all in more than a year and a half. And I have been using for almost 40 years. I have actually been vaping for about 10 years, but still also smoking up until about the beginning of 2014.
At that point I actually couldn't smoke anymore, I think I was getting allergic to it, made me cough all the time and hurt my throat. Vaporizing has saved me.
But even with all these new fangled devices, I have to say, even though I haven't had one in a couple years, the original Vapor Doc type vaporizer with the glass whip and the heater that you plug into the wall socket still can't be beat. They really set the standard for all of this over 10 years ago.
I haven't smoked at all in more than a year and a half. And I have been using for almost 40 years. I have actually been vaping for about 10 years, but still also smoking up until about the beginning of 2014.
At that point I actually couldn't smoke anymore, I think I was getting allergic to it, made me cough all the time and hurt my throat. Vaporizing has saved me.
But even with all these new fangled devices, I have to say, even though I haven't had one in a couple years, the original Vapor Doc type vaporizer with the glass whip and the heater that you plug into the wall socket still can't be beat. They really set the standard for all of this over 10 years ago.
SamsonsRiddle
New Member
The IMAG+ Ceramic came in the mail today and has left me with a question.
First off I unpacked and was very happy with the packaging and materials, but I don't understand why the charger cable has nothing to actually hook it into (wall charger or car charger). I have a cell phone wall charger I plugged it into and it works fine, but I would have expected at least a wall charger. Anyways I charged it for 8 hours to make sure it was fully charged.
When it had been 8 hours, I decided to run it a few times to purge anything that may be inside of it and got some robot farts (makes sense now). The thing is I have repeated running it on the "Red" setting for 7 times and it still has about the same odor as it did when I first started purging.
Does it take a lot of times of doing this for the smell to go away? Should I worry about the smell?
First off I unpacked and was very happy with the packaging and materials, but I don't understand why the charger cable has nothing to actually hook it into (wall charger or car charger). I have a cell phone wall charger I plugged it into and it works fine, but I would have expected at least a wall charger. Anyways I charged it for 8 hours to make sure it was fully charged.
When it had been 8 hours, I decided to run it a few times to purge anything that may be inside of it and got some robot farts (makes sense now). The thing is I have repeated running it on the "Red" setting for 7 times and it still has about the same odor as it did when I first started purging.
Does it take a lot of times of doing this for the smell to go away? Should I worry about the smell?
OF
Well-Known Member
Like a lot of other vapes these days it uses a USB port as a power source. Normally a computer (or tablet), but can also be a mains or auto powered USB adapter (five VDC supply with the right jack). Or a Power Bank (worth considering here IMO since there's no battery meter and fixed internal battery). I'd say about half of them supply the cable only (like my new Flower Mates)?
The trade off is sort of like the one with the charger for 18650 vapes. 'I already have several of those, I don't want to pay for more'. That is most of us, I think, would rather have the package a bit cheaper and buy the exact charger we want in the rare case we don't (like you) have a suitable unit already?
Enjoy your Imag+.
OF
SamsonsRiddle
New Member
This did not help out at all. I understood the trade off and was only listing one of the negatives i had encountered so far, kind of like a beginning of a pro/con. The real problem was the second part of my post (hence the "question" that had arisen).
How many times do you have to run it empty to get rid of the nasty smell? Is the smell going to effect the taste?
The vape seems awesome, very sturdy. A little larger than most pen vapes I've encountered, but this is the first I've seen that doesn't BURN the material. Now I'm just trying to decide whether to prove this fact or not; the smell is pretty nasty and strong
momofthegoons
vapor accessory addict
I think the amount of time and what you have to do to negate the smell depends on how sensitive you are to it. And it would appear that you are quite sensitive.
One member (also sensitive) stated that after running a load of herb through it, the smell went away for them. Others said it went away after a couple of burn offs. And some, like me, didn't have a problem with it at all.
I think that the answer to your question is somewhat subjective. My advice would be to try the load of herb suggestion (even if the herb you put through is peppermint).
SamsonsRiddle
New Member
Thanks, mom. I feel a little better, so I'll just go ahead and try it. I smell it still and so does my wife (who can't ever smell anything), but after 10 purges I don't expect much else to change. I should have a review in a couple of days based on my experiences.
OF
Well-Known Member
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was obligated to answer both your issues. I foolishly tried to answer the first, more objective, one leaving the second (quite subjective) for others since we've been through it so many times before.
I chose to answer the new point, the one I don't think anyone has brought up before? Folks have brought smells up many times already, it's pretty routine, it's no doubt covered many times in the prior posts in this thread.
You said you didn't understand why, but apparently really did? I was trying to explain why.......
As 'Mom' says there's a huge spectrum of sensitivities. Some folks can smell very strongly things others can't detect. And in many cases the 'hot smell' is not in the vapor path but from other, less important, areas. Any answer in this area is, I think, very subject to the guy giving and the guy getting it.
Again, I'm sorry I bothered you with answering a complaint just meant to pad the gripe list? I didn't know you weren't serious about it. You're welcome for the effort anyway, I'll try not to bother you again.
Best wishes finding a vape you like.
OF
momofthegoons
vapor accessory addict
Now, now.....
Let's not make me break out the whip on a holiday... 
Let's not make me break out the whip on a holiday...
Oh @momofthegoons .Now, now.....
Slow DrawI can take it! Even while holding my IMAG+
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stark1
Lonesome Planet
Been using my iMag+ as an ultra light Air; with a stem from a woody RockZap, it's uber portable.
Thus transformed into a heater, it does not look like some dork puffing on a huge Cuban.....
Works for me. (When I am not sipping on a Haze.
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Won't have some mom getting on my butt.
Thus transformed into a heater, it does not look like some dork puffing on a huge Cuban.....
Works for me. (When I am not sipping on a Haze.
)Won't have some mom getting on my butt.
momofthegoons
vapor accessory addict
flotntoke
thoroughly vaped
This did not help out at all. I understood the trade off and was only listing one of the negatives i had encountered so far, kind of like a beginning of a pro/con. The real problem was the second part of my post (hence the "question" that had arisen).
How many times do you have to run it empty to get rid of the nasty smell? Is the smell going to effect the taste?
The vape seems awesome, very sturdy. A little larger than most pen vapes I've encountered, but this is the first I've seen that doesn't BURN the material. Now I'm just trying to decide whether to prove this fact or not; the smell is pretty nasty and strong
Think @momofthegoons was alluding to my post a page or two ago re: burnoff. Know you're new here - and welcome! But, always a good idea to read back at least a few pages in any thread and learn to use the search function (top right of every page).
Most FC'ers always anxious to help and answer questions, but hope you can understand how it may become a bit frustrating with issues that have already been covered quite a bit in the last week or so in the same thread. No worries! People new to FC or a particular vape come on and do it all the time. But, you'll get your answers a lot quicker and help not having basically the same things every page or two if you poke around first. There is an unbelievable amount of vaping and vape specific info on FC.
Meach
Well-Known Member
For those having issues w smell in the new units..if you've already down burnoffs and cleaned the chamber w iso..next step take some abv load the chamber halfway pack a lil plant in the middle then top off w abv..run about 3 red sessions then let the material cool about 15-20min..this will season your chamber and get the majority of any smell out of it
SamsonsRiddle
New Member
Well, so far the only thing that really limits the perfect experience is the 3 minute session time. Still testing and will keep everyone updated. Love the true vapor experience out of a "pen" style vape!!
Can't wait to finish reading the other 1147 posts in case i might again ask or write the wrong thing again!!!
Can't wait to finish reading the other 1147 posts in case i might again ask or write the wrong thing again!!!
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flotntoke
thoroughly vaped
I dunno.... for $55, I'd say the sometimes annoying 3 minute shutoff is fine. Maybe not "perfect", but pretty damned close.
No one said to read the whole 1,147 pages. And, I wouldn't. But, you might want to look at the past 5 or 6 and learn to use the search function.
And, don't think anyone said you asked or wrote anything wrong. There's a big difference in gathering information from the vast wealth of it here, then asking questions. And, popping on whenever you have a question without even looking at anything - especially on something that has been discussed a good bit over the past week - and expecting prompt, polite replies. Once you're here for more than a week you'll probably understand a bit better.
It's a forum - and a damned good one - where no one gets paid to cater to whoever may think they're entitled - not even the mods. So, IMO probably a good idea to look around and see how things work for the most part.
OF
Well-Known Member
I too was first 'turned off' to the abnormally short time out. FWIW my new Summit has an even shorter time out. After some reflection I see them as being designed for different duty than I normally think in terms of? It's not intended to be a 'session vape'?
OTOH, if the idea is to whip it out, quickly grab a hit or two (or 3....) and get it back in your pocket (or purse) the routine makes a lot more sense I think. You don't even have to worry about shutting it down, hide it away and get on with it.
FWIW Summit handles it a bit differently. Aside from being only 90 seconds or so it reverts to standby rather than powering off. You have to again hold the button down for 3 seconds to power off, or it will go from standby to off on it's own 30 minutes later. What this means is a quick tap on the button resets the cycle, more vapor is ready after no further action. At the heat range you're using. Imag, OTOH, needs 3 presses then possibly be 'stepped up' in heat levels (always starts out in Granny Gear) should you want a higher range which almost mandates watching the display?
Still I think the 3 minutes is logical and useful. And it saves battery life. I agree 'a lot of vape for $55'. It has it's quirks, but so do most? Life is a compromise, so too are vapes.
OF