Here's a tip about cleaning the cooling coil: Do not put it in a pot of boiling water.
I beg you.
After cleaning that mess I stumbled upon similar advice in tubing thread. Posted four years ago!
As
@max said, it melts, diffuses throughout the boiling water, leaving a lovely sticky micro film everywhere. Disposed of my tongs.
Let alone the stank! The horror, the horror
Anyway, think I'll stick to Iso and rock salt. Give ends of coil good twisting scrub with piece of Iso moistened clean eraser. Then plug ends with nifty silicone mini stoppers from
@Ratchett . Then can shake it like a percussionist in a salsa band. Rinse, repeat every week perhaps at my rate. Been workin' on this railroad all the live long day.
Also wanted to show you folks a revealing picture. To me, at least.
I only intended to take a shot of the voids left when you use a small load.
Had no idea this would happen. Or, rather, not happen.
You see, I always thought that herb would go "flying around in a whirlwind" without some screen or liquid pad sort of holding the herb. I've read it on the internet, so it must be true.
Nope. Don't have to be a CSI to see that the herb particles were not doing a whirling dervish dance. Looks like a particle at the eight o'clock position did a backflip, though.
Of course I can keep the plenty stable and upright throughout the session with my "altered use" -- not really a mod. And at least with my draw speed. I like nice slow even 6-10 second pull, same kind of
work your diaphram would do to inhale a cig. Of course using the Plenty, with its greater flow, my lungs will be fuller than with an equally timed draw from Crafty, and therefore less dense.
But wait, there's more!
With a Crafty sized load, around 0.18g, even if I could train my draw to exactly match the volume of inhaled gas, the Plenty sample would be less dense (vapor density, sometimes confusingly referred to as an air/vapor ratio)
It's geometry. Plenty design emphasized a large surface area, a short cylinder. Great idea, except when load is less than around 0.25-0.3.
As you can see by either pic, there are many voids. (I use fine mesh BTW) Inhaled hot air just flows right through those voids with nary a hyped up heated molecule interaction with our herb. Density just went down. You're still gonna get your goodies with these small loads, just noticeably less dense than Crafty, and session time increases with more draws. Hell of a lot more enjoyable draws, but that's a different tale. (also, if I draw rapidly just for kicks, have noticed clumping and more voids in ABV layer)
Here's where the story takes a sad turn:
I've read of many frustrated Plenty users. They are not getting consistency, or vapor just isn't flowing, etc.
Even with liquid pad, bet with a Crafty sized load, pad would not secure herb particles from shifting. With a slightly sticky liquid pad from use, the particles actually stick in clumps in craggy nooks of the pad -- makes the voids even larger.
But we rarely have the skill and patience to carefully lift liquid pad after a small load session to check for shifting, as just lifting pad shifts it. Then after a couple times you discover the liquid pad stays wedged all by itself it the upper black chamber. Great, you think. Nope. That means the pad is a tiny bit further removed from your diminutive layer of herb.
For many of these users, I fear that the herbs were shifting either just before or during session, leaving voids, leading to less density, frustration, and then because vapor getting less, think it's spent, oh, no, ABV unable to reach its full giving potential ... Sorry ... I'm getting verklempt ... Talk amongst yourselves, topic: ABV color vs extraction ...
OK, better now. Gotta keep on schedule, my locomotive awaits.