Speaking of efficiency, something I enjoy doing with my solo is extracting the condensed oil on the stem with ethanol and a ball or two of cotton, waiting for the ethanol to evaporate and then vaping the oil filled cotton ball, it works surprisingly well.
Has anyone figured out a relatively easy way to collect the oil, gunk etc to later vape? I know the mouthpiece is plastic but s&b mentioned you can use ethanol for under an hour. Does anyone think that repeating this quite a few times a year will damage the mouthpiece? Does plastic like get removed from the mouthpiece with ethanol? Like is some of it dissolved or something? Which would then lead to vaping plastic?
I mention this in relation to efficiency because OK, maybe the mighty does keep cooking the herb when on, as does the solo probably, but like the good stuff doesn't just vanish does it? Doesn't it just condense around the mouthpiece or screen (stem for solo)? If so it's not technically waste as hopefully it can be harvested for use later on, in the form of oil/reclaim
The way I see it, and I very well might be wrong so please correct me if I am, is that vaping is more
efficient on at least 3 different levels:
1. No (or at least a shit load less, donno chemistry) pyrolysis occurring. That's when the goodness is broken down by heat if I understood correctly.
2. AVB
3. Reclaim from stem/mouthpiece etc. depending on unit.
Asking this cos my friend is getting a mighty and also cos someone here was asking about efficiency.