Purple-Days said:
NO, compression and disks of herbal material make no sense at all. Surface area is the key to vapor production.
Yea, exactly what I've always thought and what any ounce of common sense dictates. But still experiments are showing otherwise. I guess it is in a sense similar to vaporizing very crude hash, not soapbar crude obviously...jesus. I destroyed some leaves and various off cuts with a makeshift pestle and mortar, pressed them and tried it out so not to waste any valuable goods. Even this produced thick returns.
...were my original thoughts. However, it is not true that just finely grinding the materials and packing them in tight will produce the greatest surface area, far from it. The alternative is to pack a little more loosely, this helps but it can be improved.
In a theoretical setting we would have a length of compressed crystals, forming a malleable ribbon that is for example 1 crystal deep, 10 wide and however long. Such a ribbon could be manipulated into the design of your choosing to maximize the surface area, the result would be a honeycomb structure.
This ribbon would be 1 crystal deep as i say, so clearly in the real world is impossible. But pressing, as you would in the first step to making hashish, will form a workable length of material, similar but much thicker than the ribbon I described.
What do you think?
Ignore it if you want, if you've got nothing better to do though there is no harm