My First Experience

[PsychoActive]

Hello.

First i just want to mention how helpful this forum is. i just started my vaporizer research/interest about 2 weeks ago, and am now at the point where the first thing i do when i sit down is type fuckcombustion.com in the URL bar Love the simplicity, organization, and huge database of answers.

Using these forums, and a few others, i feel its time to get a vape.

Ive narrowed it down to: PD, SSV, DBV.

I do realize a lot of you own more than one, and a popular combination is the PD and SSV.

I plan on getting the PD first, hopefully sometime this week i will place my order. i am thinking to get either an SSV or DBV pretty soon after - unless i just really cant put my PD down.

I do know im the kind of person that can live without big "vaporful" hits, which is why i am still contemplating a little if ill even need an SSV or DBV. its a really nice thought having them both around though.
Im not planning on buying them both (SSV and DBV) - so thats one thing im still figuring out.
Most likely would go with the DBV over the SSV for money reasons.

Anyway, i guess im mainly just posting to let you know how much i like this site and that theres probably hundreds of other people that look/have looked at it for hours - just didnt register.

Since im to this point though, i suppose i could throw some newbie questions and curiosities out there.

- How often would i need to clean/change the screen in the PD tubes - if at all?

- Ive become extremely interested in kief/kif after reading so many things about it. Any recommendations for the best grinders with the best kief collection? After i grind, should i just go ahead and sprinkle the kief back on to the ground material in the bowl, or would it be more beneficial to just save a lot of it for something else.

- Inhale technique... i know its a broad and debated category, but for a first time vapist - what do you recommend to atleast start off trying?

- Ive seen plenty of posts about things involving water. What exactly is all that about? ive always been as old school as you can get until, well, i started vaporizer research 2 weeks ago.

- Storing herbs. if i had a bag i was going to take about a month or two to go through, is it all right to just leave it as it is, in a ziplock bag, or after that amount of time, would the herb thats not used yet overtime, especially when i got to the end of it, be diminshed in THC, etc. and not be as potent as when i first got it?

- Seeing as the PD holds an average accepted amount of about .025 grams per bowl, and some people report not getting big hits, if Tom and Pam were to widen the hole more and widen the bowl size to be able to put more herb in, and create more airflow, would that cause bigger hits? im guessing it would still be as efficient since thats in the design. Not really sure where this question came from, just wondering for some reason.

Well ill go ahead and finish up my boring post

Thanks for reading.

 

[whereami]

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[HoneyAir]

You get a small bottle with your PD purchase for cleaning your tubes with. I filled it with some rubbing alcohol and soaked the tubes in there, its clean within 24 hours. Very easy.

Whip vapes allow you to combine air draw with vapor draw... allows for easy inhalation... bowl needs frequent stirring to try and milk the most out of your stuff though as the air flows around your herb but not necessarily into the center of mass.

With the PD there is no part of the herb that escapes being vaporized... it is all vapor draw, no extra holes or tubes to allow for mixture with straight air. This is why it is so efficient... at first it can feel like trying to suck up through a nearly frozen milkshake straw, but you get used to it very quickly and don't feel the need to inhale so hard.

 

[Frickr]

- Seeing as the PD holds an average accepted amount of about .025 grams per bowl, and some people report not getting big hits, if Tom and Pam were to widen the hole more and widen the bowl size to be able to put more herb in, and create more airflow, would that cause bigger hits? im guessing it would still be as efficient since thats in the design. Not really sure where this question came from, just wondering for some reason.

you would be suprized on the size of the hit the pd is capiable of. ive been choked up a few times by it and still had a hit or 2 still left in it.

 

[PsychoActive]

Thanks for the replys.

Does this seem to be a good grinder?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280316488634

 

[Hennessy1414]

^ bottom line get a Chromium Crusher 4pc. grinder...i posted pics of it recently in the grinder thread man...go check it out
http://fuckcombustion.com/viewtopic.php?id=19&p=19 on post #465 i give a mini review with pics

this shit is dope as hell man..dont fuck with some BS shard-stone



edit/// oh yeah your original topic...get a PD no question...as a second vape its nice to get the HUGE hitters so its safe to stick with a vapor warez or a SSV if you really want to drop all of that money....if your handy at all and have some tools you *could* be able to build your own SSV...I did and it worked wonders for a budget home-made vape

but other than that a PD and possibly a vapor genie would be a cool combo if you wanna save some weed $ and be able to vape anywhere

oh yeah and the extreme vape aint a bad choice either the way I have heard that thing described is that its a multi-tool of the vape world...with any swiss army knife(multi tool) it can do it all!!! but its not specifically stellar on all of its functions...it has many features on the unit so it balances out the negatives....the end product is simply a QUALITY VAPORIZER with tasty customer service..hell I own one so that might tell you something

not saying the E is a poor hitter when it comes to creaming those FAT clouds...but vapes that specifically focus on one thing will do it better than the multi tool...my but oh well

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[Ven]

Well...if you got the cake to invest into an SSV but don't need 'those big hits', considered an Extreme as henessey mentioned? You may never use the bag feature but its great for groups, and the remote is really convient .

 

[PsychoActive]

Just ordered my PD today. Along with a grinder and a scale.

Thanks again for the posts. Helped me out a bit, i still have a few questions if thats ok.

Im not at the level of understanding that id like to be about the actual storage and preparation of the herb before vaporizing.
Ive read some places it needs to be moist to vaporize best, and some places ive read it needs to be sand dry.

If it works best dry, what would you recommend doing before hand?
Grinding up the herb, placing it in a jar with rice for a while? maybe?

If it works best moist, then i guess the well repeated, fruit in a jar trick should work?
Not grinding it until right before you vape?

Thanks.

edit:

Any one have any experience with these?

http://www.a1refreshindisk.com/

Seems kind of strange, lol.

 

[Hennessy1414]

dude I cant stress this enough....DO NOT PUT ANY fruit in your bud stash! It only brings bad taste/MOLD!!! who the fuck wants mold on your gold I sure as hell dont


if you show me the grinder you got I could help you more with preparation and all of that. I usually only vape dry crushed up buds. Gives more space to load the bowl+it vapes faster. Im sure your going to want the max amount of vapors in every hit right... of course you will.

Ill get some nugs...if they are too moist ill let them dry out in my billy-bowl for a night...after that ill grind some up some greens in that grinder I showed you. a semi dry nugg breaks up the best while still keeping a lot of the flavors intact. I'll vape a "fresh" nug from time to time...fresh as in opening my glass mason jar of 'moist' buds(not so much vapor ready) and throwing a pinch of two in the vape bowl of choice....gives an AWESOME flavor but the vapors lack due to the moisture being evaporated at the start of the hit...thats why I only do it from time to time but you choose what you love most. in the end we all get VAKED!

i like that link you posted up there^ one of my idiot homies will put a fucking orange peel in his jars...makes it taste like...like un-natural bud. with vapors the flavor of your hit is borderline supernatural. the different kinds of taste you will have in your mouth will soon be mind-blowing...epically if your grinder has a keif catcher



keep them questions coming....I remember being like you with all the mixed vapor info I had in my head...not saying your wrong...mis-guided is more like it

but in the end its just my so treat it like that

 

[lwien]

Well said, Hennessy. Well said.

"in the end we all get VAKED!" Great line...........

 

[Hennessy1414]

^ thanks man..I have just been noticing how picky some are on their path to vapor perfection!!! im one of the picky ones

I just hate it when people dont like to vape because of their inferior methods...and give their opinion on vaping like "it sucks because smoking is simple and I dont want to use more effort" fuck that and fuck combustion

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