herbivore21
Well-Known Member
So, it is time I told just how impressed I have been with vaping and especially my experience on this message board.
First of all, some background. I am almost 30, I have combusted herb since I was way to young to, which luckily has not interfered with my functioning or adult life at all, but is strongly not recommended.
This constant, long term and well conditioned toking had me build up quite a tolerance. I was a joints man. I often burned down 25+ very lightly mixed (7:1 ganj:tobacco) doobies a day.
I got older and realised I probably couldn't continue smoking this amount forever, and that the tobacco had to go (very close to 1 in 2 tobacco smokers die from something smoke related)! So, with cigarettes out of my system for months but still smoking the same number of joints, I bought a PNP due to reviews here and a video demo from VapeFiend UK.
It arrived, I immediately enjoyed both bullets on setting 1/2 and loved it! Felt so much better on my throat (although a little dry), baked for longer and clearer. However, settings 3/4 and 5 with the FMJ were too harsh without some cooling. I ordered a PNWT and got to using that and enjoyed the experience even moreso! I was off combustion for good... I thought!
The PonG issue cropped up. I got multiple melted/chipped PonGs, nasty plastic tastes a couple of times and a chip of plastic on top of my AVB after use one time. It was not so nice. At the same time I was learning more about glass (from this message board mostly!) and knew I needed a bigger perc piece to get the diffusion/hits I wanted. I made a thread here asking what would be best and was not only given loads of very useful and carefully detailed advice, but was also pointed to the classifieds where I found my current Luke Wilson Leisure 15 Arm Tree Perc. I got a combustion slide so as to be able to use something while the PonG issue was resolved (by myself and with the help of this forum!).
I got into the PNP thread discussion about damaged PonGs on higher heat settings. Members there have managed to detail enough data for us to determine some common usage cases where this kind of thing can occur (using the piece upside down with plastic makes metal bullet touch plastic, melt plastic, heat setting 5 with full size bullet may also bring too much heat too close to PonG etc etc...). However after my 3rd set of plastic PonGs started changing shape and chipping away, I knew it was time for a better solution. A member here pointed me to a glassblower to make me a custom GonG adapter for my PNP. I got this made and received it a week or so ago. It is incredible. It tastes amazing, it unlocks the highest vaping setting to me which I am using to vape as I type this! I learned how to reclaim from my glass here too to I can keep it all spotless (crucial for those with a lady or someone else to keep happy in the house!).
People here gave me enough info to work out how convection works and that if I finely grind material and pack it loosely, it will vape amazingly. That helped me load up my current chamber of QWISO and orange cheesey buds (appropriately mixed and layered to avoid resin in the heating element). This got me baked enough not to miss the high I got from an ounce a week of combustion plus tobacco mixture. Also probably put many, many years onto my still relatively early life!
So here's a photo of the rig now, before my E-Nano (again bought on advise and gushing of members of this forum!) gets here.
Cheers!
First of all, some background. I am almost 30, I have combusted herb since I was way to young to, which luckily has not interfered with my functioning or adult life at all, but is strongly not recommended.
This constant, long term and well conditioned toking had me build up quite a tolerance. I was a joints man. I often burned down 25+ very lightly mixed (7:1 ganj:tobacco) doobies a day.
I got older and realised I probably couldn't continue smoking this amount forever, and that the tobacco had to go (very close to 1 in 2 tobacco smokers die from something smoke related)! So, with cigarettes out of my system for months but still smoking the same number of joints, I bought a PNP due to reviews here and a video demo from VapeFiend UK.
It arrived, I immediately enjoyed both bullets on setting 1/2 and loved it! Felt so much better on my throat (although a little dry), baked for longer and clearer. However, settings 3/4 and 5 with the FMJ were too harsh without some cooling. I ordered a PNWT and got to using that and enjoyed the experience even moreso! I was off combustion for good... I thought!
The PonG issue cropped up. I got multiple melted/chipped PonGs, nasty plastic tastes a couple of times and a chip of plastic on top of my AVB after use one time. It was not so nice. At the same time I was learning more about glass (from this message board mostly!) and knew I needed a bigger perc piece to get the diffusion/hits I wanted. I made a thread here asking what would be best and was not only given loads of very useful and carefully detailed advice, but was also pointed to the classifieds where I found my current Luke Wilson Leisure 15 Arm Tree Perc. I got a combustion slide so as to be able to use something while the PonG issue was resolved (by myself and with the help of this forum!).
I got into the PNP thread discussion about damaged PonGs on higher heat settings. Members there have managed to detail enough data for us to determine some common usage cases where this kind of thing can occur (using the piece upside down with plastic makes metal bullet touch plastic, melt plastic, heat setting 5 with full size bullet may also bring too much heat too close to PonG etc etc...). However after my 3rd set of plastic PonGs started changing shape and chipping away, I knew it was time for a better solution. A member here pointed me to a glassblower to make me a custom GonG adapter for my PNP. I got this made and received it a week or so ago. It is incredible. It tastes amazing, it unlocks the highest vaping setting to me which I am using to vape as I type this! I learned how to reclaim from my glass here too to I can keep it all spotless (crucial for those with a lady or someone else to keep happy in the house!).
People here gave me enough info to work out how convection works and that if I finely grind material and pack it loosely, it will vape amazingly. That helped me load up my current chamber of QWISO and orange cheesey buds (appropriately mixed and layered to avoid resin in the heating element). This got me baked enough not to miss the high I got from an ounce a week of combustion plus tobacco mixture. Also probably put many, many years onto my still relatively early life!
So here's a photo of the rig now, before my E-Nano (again bought on advise and gushing of members of this forum!) gets here.
Cheers!
