@biohacker and
@Mr. Me2 ... Your posts at least make me feel like I'm not alone here, thanks for chiming in... Something is up, and it can't be my technique, as I've tried EVERYthing. And I can't say I "never" get milky clouds, but when I do, it's nearly always above T4 - rather, I can say, now I NEVER get clouds below T4. I used to get a couple of decent milky clouds on T3.5 - and that's even during a (long) first draw.
I am thinking of asking GHL to take a look at it,
after I get my grey Ti back and working fine. Nothing to lose but postage. I feel for our friends who are overseas where postage is crazy to get to CO.
Those must be the elusive "bonus hits"! Thanks for the TIP, i'm going to go pull on both my hoppers on 5 with an empty chamber now. I pretty much only exclusively use my hoppers upside down with a water tool so hopefully this is it!
This is incredible! I have found that if I leave the chamber completely empty, I get hits all day long! This is saving me a LOT of money!
EDIT:
As before, zero bonus hits of any sort. Maybe somewhat of a taste, but zero visible vapour. Regardless, after more testing it appears that everything is as it should be. It was a combination of technique, not loading enough material, and lighting that were my issues! Sometimes I think it's just a contact/conduction thing, and you need to twist the temp or backend.
Speaking of twisting the Temp dial...
This is what I'm noticing.... there is
play in the Temp dial. I have gone over this in my (medicated) mind, and I can definitely feel that there is almost exactly "one hash mark" of play in the dial. So if I turn it to T5 all the way, and back off towards T4, it is
at T4 that I feel the dial "engaging" with that familiar crappy friction. If I continue to turn the dial all the way toward T1, and then back towards T5, it is at T2 that I feel that friction again... and so on back and forth. At any time in between, there is that same "gap" of one hash mark.
I have no basis other than experience with knobs, if you will
, to know that this dial is inferior to the new backend they'd sent for my grey Ti (which I still sent back for the unresolved issue). But that backend felt smooth and like it was always "in play".
I wonder what GHL would say about this... Any thoughts?