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thanks gvape...sorry if I confused your posts with someone else's.
Agree with Gvape.
The Bholt is garbage.
Lets start with initial impressions of my review unit:
This is an ecig, a downstem or some glass piece hacked together with some glue and heat shrink tubing. The product lettering is a vinyl sticker, these jokers cant even afford a silkscreening setup. (probably too difficult) Do you like your vape's glass pieces looking like they were cut with the rusty blade of a third world countries farmer? Then assembled haphazardly by his mentally challenged son? Thats what you're getting with the BHOLT. Not a single atomizer was straight on its mount.
Using the BHOLT: Does it work? Yes, it atomizes oils well, like the dozen pens ive used and the others i own. Does it interface to my water pipe? Sure does. Does it drip down? Nope. Even better, it drips up along the glass, which the suggested fix is to use a heat gun to reclaim good oil? What a dumb solution. Trim the fiberglass better on the $8 pens you're importing and you wont have that problem, Aaron.
The ecig and charger sourced are of the lowest quality. Not one of my atomizers made it past a week before they cracked or stopped working. This thing is completely outclassed by a $20 glass globe pen which is basically the same thing but superior if you ignore the fact you cant hook it up to a wp.
In my opinion, this is a group of young individuals or kids just trying to slap something together to justify upcharging for a very inexpensive e-cig. Their lack of understanding about how to put something together well means that this is not a good candidate for the health conscious people here. THERE IS GLUE IN THIS UNIT. There is heat shrink near something that gets really hot.
$70 for a review unit that is sitting, broken, useless. Cant imaging having gotten screwed out of double that for this thing. Stay away.
Hey gvape, I reread your posts once more and started wonderin. How much did you load into your bholt? Also was your concentrate winterized? I ask becaus I have found both of these to be important.
Loading a little at a time, and 'burning' off anything left before loading more seems te be the trick...at first I would have dirty glass near the atomizer within one day of use. Then I tried to get the atty clean in between loading. I would hit it till most vapor was clearly vaped and would then keep in pressing and releasing the button till nothing came of anymore and it was basically clean again...only then will I load anew...
And winterezed extracts def help too with keeping the device clean.
Just my two cents...
Hope you will still be able to make it over to the camp of 'happy customers'...
Hey Tepictoton, I would load a small dab in one at a time, never overloading it, I loved the clean taste of it that way. My concentrates are not winterized, although I have had some, I do not normally. Im sure it would help, but that is a lot more costly and time consuming and I dont think that it would be that significant of a difference. If it was easily accessible, maybe be a different story. I just dont see that most the people who have a BHOLT are using wintereized.
I wouldnt load another dab until my vapor started to thin off, usually 2-3 hits off each dab I loaded. If I hit any more then that the taste would be foul and almost produce no vapor. It would leak down the joint because the wick was pressed against it.
Again though I have not used this vape in months and BHOLTS horrible customer service just ignores my emails still. Im not no longer getting any responses from them, its a bit of a joke that they dont care to fix my problem. I wish I could say that the company was good and I would support it, but they sure dont care about a customer, just making money.
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As far as that video, I find it pretty funny how it says No Mess, No WAST (yes WAST, not Waste) yet Im pretty sure I got LOTS OF WASTE. The thing had a ton of oil build up all over the joint and then you have to use a heat gun to melt it out which was now all in contact with wires and glue. I turned the video off after that....
I saw your website and there is some nice improvements: the shotgun and the solar charger!
And I would like to try the new atty but I needn't a new one (I have 5 of the earlier bholt)...
GVAPE, I think that Aaron make like others manufacturers, if you use the vape, if it works, you can't get a refund (I have many issues with my FV, I don't like it really much but they don't want to speak about a refund, just replacements and customer service, and I understand this...)
Now perhaps it's time to stop to complain....
I sure wish this lil device was further developed to incorporate an actual nail & cup rather than just another cup with a wick & coil winding !
Hate quoting myself.... but a week later and not even a reply nor acknowledgement ? come on now..... help an early product adapter out eh ?
Have you at least looked into using a Ti winding &/or perhaps lowering the wick/coil deeper down into the glass ? (sorry if I missed mention but I didnt see anything in regards to this in the 2.0 version development.
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Cut the guy some slack! lol. He's making continual enhancements to his new and popular product while attempting to establish a better web presence and make videos...I'm sure he's up to his eyeballs. Your comment wasn't phrased as a question, so it would be easy to miss as far as something requiring a response.
No offense intended at all...just feeling bad for @bholt. This forum must be an intimidating place for a small manufacturer (and not always easy to keep up with!)
GVAPE.
i have offered before and i will do so again Personally i think that seeing how i did help you out with "broken" and/or "not working" atomizers with 2 replacements that a refund is out of the question. i didn't question you on this. or ask you to return them before i sent new ones... i just sent them.. within 1 week of your FIRST complaint! on top of giving you a deep discount on a demo unit, and the fact that it did actually work great (your words) i really dont think its fair for me that you saying the things that you do.
i have tried to explain to you that the BHOLT is a very low temp atomizer and if you overload it and do not keep it clean like any real vaporizer it will eventually die or quit producing thick vapor like the one in the video... i get 3 months min out of my personal atomizers and about 1 in 20 or so is a DOA or just little weak... but if a customer that has a problem with one or a DOA i usually send them 2 to replace it, Just like i did for you shortly after you said you had a "broken" unit. I gave you my personal cell number and my home office number and told you to call at your convenience so to work this out. i never received a call or a message with a call back number from you.
i am willing to send you another BHOLT atomizer tube and battery cause i know my product is solid. and i know that it works very well.
in the last 11 months i have come a long way with the design and overall quality. thanks to the many folks who helped me by reviewing the BHOLT and helping me find its weaknesses. But if a new BHOLT is not what you want well when i release the rebuildable atomizer soon i will send you 1 with a few replacement coils to put to the test. so its up to you
FC members,
i try my very best to provide my customers who i also consider my friends with the best product i can and the best service possible, sometimes it takes a few to get back to you, as i am trying to run a production line and all the office work mostly by myself... but i dont just ignore anybody.
I saw your website and there is some nice improvements: the shotgun and the solar charger!
And I would like to try the new atty but I needn't a new one (I have 5 of the earlier bholt)...
GVAPE, I think that Aaron make like others manufacturers, if you use the vape, if it works, you can't get a refund (I have many issues with my FV, I don't like it really much but they don't want to speak about a refund, just replacements and customer service, and I understand this...)
Now perhaps it's time to stop to complain....
PPN I will GLADLY Send you one of the New rebuild-a-BHOLT addys to help me test out... i have been using the prototype for 3 weeks now and still have not replaced the coil.. this is going to be a REALLY GOOD product i cant wait !! the replacement coils will be super affordable and even the glass is replaceable if it gets broken. I really think this is the BEST atomizer for both the customer and for me as well.. production will cost me a bit more but the time is about half AND!!
GVAPE there is NO GLUE WHATSOEVER AT ALL.. NOPE not a drop in these new ones... and none in the latest 2.0 model ( none inside the vapor or air flow chamber ) or 1.0 model the only adhesive is external to the atomizer and also none of my atomizers are assembled with any soldering or toxic anything. The short atomizers were the only ones i used very expensive aquarium glass adhesive, completely inert after it is cured.. much like the epoxy the dentist uses inside your mouth for cavities, but i no longer produce them due to the difficulty of keeping them 100% straight every time.