Discontinued Pax Vaporizer by Ploom

[weedemon]

yeah totally. then just wash the metal plate that sits in the bottom and wipe the bowl with a qtip. very easy!

 

[dudeeitsbrian]

im gonna be starting a test like JoeKickAss was performing, pax is fully charged will be keeping track of how long the battery lasts with a stopwatch today

 

[willieR]

This vape is on backorder for a month or so, I guess? Interesting how that happens with some of these vapes.

 

[weedemon]

damn just like the ipod on the back it says "designed in san fran, assembled in china". gotta fire the factory back up i guess

 

[willieR]

It's Chinese?

 

[tranceporter]

^ Its assembled in China. Like many quality products.

 

[mephisto]

My Pax is dead! Will not recharge, regardless of how it sits on the charger. Dead, No response from
Ploom since yesterday. The unit shows red as it sits on the charger, then flashes red while still on the charger. It would appear the unit cannot get even the slightest charge back into the battery. Sure would
be nice to have a response from Ploom. "We are sorry that your first unit is a turd, Please return it to us
for an exchange to a fully working unit. We understand $250 is a lot of money for a dead blue vape."
That would be a good start.......

 

[tranceporter]

My Pax is dead! Will not recharge, regardless of how it sits on the charger. Dead, No response from
Ploom since yesterday. The unit shows red as it sits on the charger, then flashes red while still on the charger. It would appear the unit cannot get even the slightest charge back into the battery. Sure would
be nice to have a response from Ploom. "We are sorry that your first unit is a turd, Please return it to us
for an exchange to a fully working unit. We understand $250 is a lot of money for a dead blue vape."
That would be a good start.......

Being that it is the weekend, I am sure someone will get back to you on Monday. Sorry that your Pax is malfunctioning and I hope you get taken care of ASAP.

 

[willieR]

Will all the attenton to al all medical grade vape path, you'd think they could see the marketing advantge of a US made item. Say what you will, I avoid Chinese products.

 

[dudeeitsbrian]

Will all the attenton to al all medical grade vape path, you'd think they could see the marketing advantge of a US made item. Say what you will, I avoid Chinese products.

the fact that it was made in china means nothing... i bet the computer you're using right now was made in china.

edit: the parts used to make the computer that is, not saying it was necessarily assembled in china

 

[willieR]

Do people favorably compare the PAx to the ThermoVape?

 

[willieR]

the fact that it was made in china means nothing... i bet the computer you're using right now was made in china.

I don't smoke my computer. My point has always been that I'd prefer to pay more for a US item. Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program.

 

[Jurassic]

lol i'm with ya willieR, it's one of the reasons I prefer the Canadian made and assembled Inhalater over the Pax, plus all the reliability issues and problems i've been reading in this thread.

 

[willieR]

The Inhalator has plastic in the air path, so that makes it a non-starter for me. Personally, I'd rather have the stainless pathway assembled in China

 

[MoneyCheeba]

My Pax is dead! Will not recharge, regardless of how it sits on the charger. Dead, No response from
Ploom since yesterday. The unit shows red as it sits on the charger, then flashes red while still on the charger. It would appear the unit cannot get even the slightest charge back into the battery. Sure would
be nice to have a response from Ploom. "We are sorry that your first unit is a turd, Please return it to us
for an exchange to a fully working unit. We understand $250 is a lot of money for a dead blue vape."
That would be a good start.......

Since it's dead play with it, I mean give it a shake, place on charger, shake again on charger, maybe you got to give it a push, wake it up sort of.

 

[tranceporter]

Designed in China and assembled in China are two vastly different fhings.

 

[kushcabbage]

The Inhalator has plastic in the air path, so that makes it a non-starter for me. Personally, I'd rather have the stainless pathway assembled in China

Um I don't know where you get your info, but the 'plastic' is g10 resin or derlin. Which there is less 'plastic' in the vapor path than in the inh004 over the pax.. And no polyimide doesn't count. There is a difference. The pax mouthpiece is the same Derlin material, def not g10, if not truly plastic. Read up on things mate.

 

[zmurder]

Um I don't know where you get your info, but the 'plastic' is g10 resin or derlin. Which there is less 'plastic' in the vapor path than in the inh004 over the pax.. And no polyamide doesn't count. There is a difference. The pax mouthpiece is the same Derlin material, if not truly plastic. Read up on things mate.

Delrin maybe? And it's polyimide isn't it? "Read up on things mate", hilarious

 

[JoeKickass]

T____T I just skimmed through all of the last 80 pages in this thread. I didn't see a cobalt photo anywhere. There was a nice amethyst video, but I was looking for cobalt.

You're right, I must have been thinking of the purple one, we'll have to keep bringing it up until someone with a blue Pax wants to take a pic...

not intentionally. a little bit may have though...

I dipped the pipe cleaner in iso then gently squeezed a little of by running it though my fingers then i just ran though the unit.

the area under the mouth piece looked clean to me so i didnt' do any intentional cleaning on there.

Yeah it usually stays pretty clean. When cleaning the stem I hold the Pax upright and feed the cleaner in from the oven at the bottom, just let it poke a tiny bit out the top.

Will all the attenton to al all medical grade vape path, you'd think they could see the marketing advantge of a US made item. Say what you will, I avoid Chinese products.

Your house must be very sparsely furnished then... like many have said, this vape is assembled in China, that's where the the most economical labor force is. The vape costs $250, if you paid to make it in the US it would be exactly the same but would cost $300+

Do people favorably compare the PAx to the ThermoVape?

My evo hasn't seen use since my Pax arrived. In fact, nothing has seen use since my Pax arrived...

And just so people know, Thermovape has a plastic mouthpiece in the airpath too. Plastic doesn't matter as long as it's far enough away from the heat source...

 

[willieR]

Um I don't know where you get your info, but the 'plastic' is g10 resin or derlin. Which there is less 'plastic' in the vapor path than in the inh004 over the pax.. And no polyimide doesn't count. There is a difference. The pax mouthpiece is the same Derlin material, def not g10, if not truly plastic. Read up on things mate.

I avoid plastics. What can I say? So you're saying that there's plastic in the Pax airstream, also. My mistake. I thought I read it was all medical stainless (with the obvious exception of the mouthpiece)

 

[kushcabbage]

I avoid plastics. What can I say? So you're saying that there's plastic in the Pax airstream, also. My mistake. I thought I read it was all medical stainless (with the obvious exception of the mouthpiece)

The air path is stainless steel mate, everything from the oven to the end of the device is stainless steel. But after that is where most vape manufactures use plastic resins or such away from the heater. The vapor will be traveling through the click out mouthpiece, just like vapor flows through the derlin plastic tips of the thermovape or revs/darts. You don't taste it because it's not hot enough air flowing over it to cause any kind of reaction.

 

[willieR]

The Inhalator doesn't use polyimide as the heating chamber?

 

[zmurder]

The Inhalator doesn't use polyimide as the heating chamber?

The Inhalator uses polyimide as the herb chamber, so same difference. The polyimide in the Inhalator is going to be exposed to the same heat as the herb, whereas the hot air will have cooled somewhat when it hits the Delrin mouthpiece of the Pax

 

[willieR]

Ah. Thanks for the clarification / confirmation. Back to the Pax, seems pretty solid. I hate the lead times on thee things, but that's a new product for you.

 

[pakalolo]

In response to several PMs asking for my Pax vs LB list, and other requests that I start a thread, interested parties can read:

Pax and MFLB: A subjective comparison. Be nice.