Did a few bowls outside the bar last night.
A few random impressions in no particular order.
This is not a replacement for carts. Even live resin or live rosin carts.
It's easy to clean the bowl after a hit. Dry swabbing with cotton swab, was enough for the next bowl.
First bowl was on red, a bit much.
All other bowls were on green. Was easier on my chest.
The Pivot mouth piece does smell after use. Iso soak for 20 minutes made it smell less.
20 minute iso soak for the bowl, and there is still a smell, significantly less, but still present.
Much less prep and cleaning while on the go, than a Pockety (completely different experience).
The silicone mouthpiece does impact the taste (waiting on a Simple Human mouthpiece).
This will be part of my rotation for portable devices.
Interesting, do you mean that the silicone has a smell you can detect from a distance or if you hold it up to your nose?
I have yet to soak any of my mouthpieces and have only done dry swabs of the chamber and once with a 99 ISO soaked qtip I wiped the chamber and up in the top-inner housing of the silicone early on when I was a bit messy from inhaling too hard. Mine have a light scent up close that you'd only know if you do this but no smell. I leave them out on my dresser too regularly while charging for long periods including overnight and my super smeller wife has not said a word.
Are you getting a lot of oil up into the silicone? If so, you're pulling on it too hard. I haven't had more than a spec or two beyond the bottom of the ring that sits above the chamber since the first week so I wonder if that has something to do with it? Either way I hope you figure it out or I continue to stay lucky.
I can even leave both of these out loaded with most strains I have on hand without a detectable smell (until they start heating up, that is).
I saw Simple Human added a bubbler... I am trying to figure out if that's even a need for this device... I guess if you want to live in the red and white but I've gone back to green with a boost here and there and, with that and Granny mode on blue, I'm one relaxed and happy camper.
What's different about hitting it direct vs using with glass and the adapter (or the SH bubbler attachment) if you are consistently using up most the oil in a session and staying comfortable on heat? I have this potential hole that wants to burn in my pocket but it doesn't have enough fuel for the fire yet....