Also, do I wish to be vapourizing kief, or would you suggest saving for a j
Little late to this, but you absolutely want to vaporize kief when you have a few hours to kill. Can't comment on whether or not you need to take a t break from smoking or whatever, but vaporizing kief sends me to outer space.
As to your questions re: the DV, a full "session" for me is 4 - 6 hits with a TI tip. Typically I'm doing something like
, e.g. starting at the tip and working my way down in thirds when I no longer see visible vapor. It ends up being like 1 - 2 hits at the tip, 3 - 4 in the middle, and 1 - 2 at the "base" of the cap (near the digger outter). I never do the start/stop bit with the lighter or heat past the snap as I'm not trying to blast through an entire tipful in a single hit, but certainly if you want to get good and proper baked its an option.
As someone else mentioned I get 1 or 2 tokes per heating at the tip, but eventually 2 - 3. I think someone linked their cleaning video, but its pretty easy. I just take the o rings off the condenser and put the condenser and tip in some iso alcohol (I have some 99% that I picked up on Amazon). Soak it for a few minutes, rinse well with water, and reassemble. Its pretty simple.
I don't notice the mouthpiece getting hot and I usually just hold onto it, but certainly once the cap cools you can set it down. Lots of folks use magnets to set them on and dissipate some of the heat in the cap in between hits. Dynastash's have them integrated, I just don't have one yet as I've been eyeing the options at Futo.