So I did some concentrate w/ cotton testing last night
Started with a few crumbles of headband wax.
Small cotton over the whistler
Got some good hits, but not quite as fully dense as Im used to. This is likely due to the fact that I had the cotton too tightly stuffed, could tell instantly on the draw. Still not bad clouds, this was "leftover" from a hit
Because of the added draw restriction due to the packed cotton, the session went pretty long. I was up to 8 decent rips before I started getting thinner hits, but still satisfying and full of medicine. I could have kept going and gotten a few more, or what I should have done is loosen up the cotton and go for big, instant.
This is the result cotton that I pulled out after 8+ hits. The cotton was pure white going in, still lots of light brown there that I would normally roast to dark brown.
I also didn't really touch the wax, so there was some bigger pieces and smaller pieces, ideally they would all be small crumbles spread out.
That was my only session of the night. I got busy with house errands, but I was totally medicated.
I would normally do 2 sessions on a free night. I usually mix flowers and concentrates and use up a lot of material. Obviously this is just a discipline / routine thing.
The "Evo curse" in general is it's a really fun item to use. It's a great "Adult (non-sexual) Toy" and the extraction of flowers is so big and instant, I often keep taking hits off the Hydra tube before the effects kick in.
This particular flow happened last night, I was 5 hits into the wax and wondering "I'm not getting anything, this wax maybe is garbage?" Nope, just took another 5 minutes to sink in. And then the standard "test". Talking to my un-medicated girlfriend, and noticing that I was all smiles and giggles and she was doing the thing where she makes fun of my eyes being half closed
Then we watched some Adventure Time and King of the Hill, and I had confirmed the medication was deep, and strong. 3 hours later and I still had effects!
Based on this first pass, I have some tweaks to try tonight to see if I can get major dense clouds and a quicker session.
My thoughts on making this work even better
- Cotton should be loose enough not to impact draw speed
- concentrate should be evenly distributed in small pieces.
- Cotton should cover the material, no exposed concentrate to the ELB
- Cotton should be placed with the majority of the material in the lower half of the ELB (away from cap)
- Max dial temp start to finish, zero risk of combustion.
As a comparison I did cotton / concentrate in the SOLO a few days prior and got somewhat similar results in terms of color of ABV cotton, but the session was 24 minutes+ long and the hits were not as dense.
If I can get it working even smoother, this could be a dedicated concentrate beast for me. I would definitely consider buying an Evo 1.2 and having a 2nd unit dedicated to flowers.
Oh, I'm not worried about breaking it, I just must feed off of OG Ticker vs Evo comparisons until mine arrives 
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