I also cover a bit over half the screen with a thin layer, then put a screen on top.Alright, I sandwich it as well. I use a small sharp tool to cut thin slices of hash and cover about 60-70% of the screen. The vapman is amazingly efficient with hash! Can't wait to get a heating station as well at one point!
Man, I wish I lived somewhere with old history like that.@M0J0 Professor Willy Pedersen is one of the best people fighting against ignorance and prohibition in Norway, so I'm glad to see him recognized internationally as well. I grew up under 100 meters from a centuries old ropewalk, so hemp has been big in Norway untill the effects or William Randolph Heart's mental illness reached our shores.
I actually put large loads (like a full crucible, I don't really use screens) in the bowl of very melty sticky bubble hash and find that yes, the vapman gets very gunked up, but so long as you clean it regularly this is no problem.I also cover a bit over half the screen with a thin layer, then put a screen on top.
This works best for me, too.
I have done the really liquidy stuff with 2 screens under/1 over, but it gets a little sticky anyway. Just use less the messier it is.
I did that in the beginning, but I got toO much hash in the middle section.
Glad to have inspired, my friend@herbivore21 I've switched to using only one screen for any concentrates. And based on your suggestion, I've used black tar and kiefkief without a screen and prefer that now.
OK, now some poeple should not be allowed to buy a vapman!
A friend of mine literally Torched his vapman to death and broke one of the air tubes as well!
No matter how much I explained to him how to use it, he ended torturing the poor thing. It used to be a beautiful Two-Toned Pear.
I had him send me the vapman and I did some major reconstructive surgery on it. I had to re-crimp (re-flange) two tubes and replace another one because he somehow broke it off... Notice the hole in the bowl next to the tube (on the right hand tube) in the 1st pic. I also cleaned the crucible the best I could and straightened out the springs.
Oh, even the middle section was cracked from being burnt excessively.
There's just no need to overheat a vapman in this way. I have not seen another one this bad...
I know accidents happen, but my buddy just brutalized the hell out of this vapman. It was so "charcoalized" that I almost could not fix it.
I told him that if he messes it up again, to just tell me someone stole it from him.
Here are the before and after pics (notice that the inside of the body is Really Wide now, and I could not make it perfectly round). Oh, and these pics are After I already scraped quite a bit of charcoal from the inside of the body!
I almost told him he was not getting it back! hahaha
Ye gods - did he get the special 'hammer' style torch lighter? Possibly your friend is blind and his dog was heating this for him? Or maybe he missed the station so much he tried heating it on the ring of his stove?
Give it back, but pin a medal to it, for 'service above and beyond'