Rudy Rudiger:
Screen report...
I have used this now for a few weeks 4-5 times a day. I don't think the screen needs any cleaning yet. There is some need to do a cleaning to the top of the unit though, because I am starting to get a gurgle of "vapor resin" when drawing hot (Not sure what you call the gooey stuff that emerges from vapor. But I checked the screen just yesterday and it did not seem to be in any need of cleaning. Perhaps if I throw a new screen in, I will have something to report. But, if with a new screen, I still get the gurgle, I suppose it is just a bit of the resin stuff covering the very tip of the top, where the straw connects and vapor exits. (The gurgle, is similar to what you get when you drink by a straw, and get to the bottom of the drink.) I experienced something similar with resin in the Iolite too. Except that resin stuff caked into the top and eventually cooked in. ..needing some serious scraping to remove. We will see what I get when I do my first cleaning on No2. I expect the gurgle to disappear once I clear out the resin stuff that has made its way to the top exit point.
As for cleaning material from the unit. It is easier than the Iolite. Let me explain.
Iolite 1. when opening to clean, You better hold unit upside down, or else when you lift off the top, stuff will spill out.
Vapir No2 1. when opening, you can twist off the top with unit right side up.
Iolite 2. When cleaning out the stuff, you must scrape the top screen clean, which is about the size of a dime. It is also at the bottom of the metal bowl that makes up the top. If this is being done when unit is hot, you may get branded slightly by the touch.
Vapir No2 2. When cleaning out the stuff, if you use ground material and it was not spongy moist to begin with, it usually falls right out. I don't bang on it at all. It just falls out and requires, if you feel it needs it, a couple swipes with the bottle cleaner tool and clean! The screen connected to the top, is usually coated with material, however, when you remove the top, it is exposed like a nipple to easily brush off. Not scraping. If you have spongy material, sure the stuff can stay in place inside the bowl, which needs only to be 'touched" by the little spoon that comes with the unit. Upon touching it, it crumbles allowing the material to fall out. I would then just use the bottle cleaner tool to take a couple strokes inside and give it a blow of breath to clear out any residual powder. Good to go.
Overall, removal of the material is quicker than Iolite if it goes in dry and ground well. Not because in either one you don't have to flip the two units to get you material to drop out, its just that in the end, the Vapir screen does not require scraping like the Iolite screen, and the brushing action of the screen is more like brushing off a nipple, rather than scraping the bottom of a cup. The removal of anything in the bowl of the Vapir 2 varies from dropping out and a couple strokes of the bottle cleaner too for dry ground material, to seeing spongy moist material sitting in place in the bowl and needing only to be disrupted by something. This is not a 'scraping" process, it is like I said, touch it and it crumbles into material that will fall out. Two strokes of bottle cleaner tool and ready.
Since you dont own one of these, AND your comments are speculations about screens and material dump, I find it hard to take your general statement "..for a product they know is inferior.." seriously.
I mean, I guess it all depends on what you are comparing it to... But like I said, tell me more about anything portable which is better and I will honor your understanding. And if push comes to shove and the No2 screws with me, I will not only report it, but I will move onto your suggestion for a better unit.. (which better not be the Iolite!)
lwien:
I figured that you would feel proud at some moment to point out how little I have posted. Let me do some general update points... just to lay your "suspicions" to rest.
One reason I have had nothing to post is because the unit works wonderfully after a few weeks of activity. I continue to compare the unit to the Iolite, however, the Iolite experience (which you would have not put up with for as long as I did) is beginning to fade from my memory. This is in part, because I am realizing my dream with the Vapir NO2. I am getting stoned beyond my wildest dreams without inhaling combusted fumes!!! Not that the Iolite was bad once it was lit, but this lights up (for me) every time without fail. Not so with the Iolite and THAT can be FRUSTRATING.
I continue to be SOOOO pleased with the dense vapor of Vapir no2, often times more than I can handle in a session.
I have found that when you load it to the 3/4 full, it puts out the densest vapor. Enough to share imo with another person. Filled half full, does not provide as dense a vapor and is probably best for one person.
I have also been taking this unit with me on the 1/2 day hiking trips I do for sport. Keeping the unit in a small carry case I bought for 2 bucks.
So far nothing negative to report in using it on the go like this.
Loading the unit with the spoon that the unit comes with, is easier than the loading I did with the Iolite. One reason is because the unit stands with its bowl ready to receive the calculated amount, with a curved edge that slopes down to the hole for the bowl. The spoon can even cover the actual hole that opens down into the bowl, allowing you to drop it right down in there. Or you can be a little sloppy and drop the stuff in and if some material doesn't go directly into the bowl hole, it is sitting on the sloped edge and is easy to just push it into the bowl hole with a finger.
The joy of steady starts, and steady vapor, and no smell of butane either lit or unlit, is heavenly.
I have also started using Vapor.CA tips to only turn it up to 170c. Fully enjoyable at that temp. And I just save my AVB for use at a higher temp, if/when I run out.
Basically the reason for my lack of posts, is because this unit is running well so far.. and until it starts to act up, I don't expect I will post much more.