I have a question...what material is the plastic lid of the MFB made of?
Also, I have some comments which were brought about by your comparison to the Iolite and descriptions of butane. In particular "nasty gasses," "butane sucks," and (the funniest of all) "If I were to take the IO (going rate is $250 right?) and attempt to make it retail $90...then you would have the magic flight launch box."
(the last comment was actually made by someone who has raved about the Iolite Beta unit he used, saying that it is much better than the original Iolite which is virtually identical, and expressed concern about inhaling electricity
--sorry hennessy...it is all true, right?). Maybe think before you comment?
I agree that the MFB is interesting, affordable (once available afaik), portable, and easy to get power for (if you can find the batteries it works best with), but feel your comparisons are vague and biased.
Please feel free to answer my question about the material of the plastic lid that you use to cover the herbs in
this thread and any comments related to the Iolite in an
appropriate thread). In particular, how is the Iolite's use of butane "nasty" and why do you feel "butane sucks"? Maybe we can clear this all up...
edit: Thank you for your clarifying what you meant (politely and honestly), duh
. I hope that this next comment doesn't come off as a shill, but the MF products look VERY promising (pocket-sized, relatively cheap, and runs on one AA
), and I respect their interest in R&D (as well as their involvement with the community) a great deal.
I would love to see a glass unit like the MFbox for which you could get cheap/replaceable guts (so you could vacation with it, toss the guts and return home with layovers anywhere despite laws--or even possibly just a MFbox with a wooden lid for plasticiphobes--can always slide paper under the plexiglass until then
). I definitely think that the box vs the tube show that the potential for future MF progress is high (and you all know about how I feel about progress
) PS: I should have read about lid material (there were 4 posts with the word lid and plexiglass in them--my bad
). PSS: To see the boogieman, just keep refilling and repeating until he spontaneously appears.
edit2: Thank you for the clarification Henn. Sorry you took my comments as a punch. I was merely inquiring about your 'comparison' of the units and providing some context for my skepticism. I agree that we should keep IoL talk out of this thread (but you started it
) <---that wasn't very mature of me...lol