I have many of the heavy hitters and a ball vape yadda,yadda - so definitely was not expecting anything crushing from the vapman -but- what I wanted was some pure flavor chasing and maybe even a light buzz out of it?
I picked up the olive wood 2.0 to fill this purpose. Mine also has no branding, no 'made in Italy' either. Not like the picture shows which was disappointing. No manual either, just all in the plastic egg with the screen and a tiny brush. What's up with that?
Took about 3 or so bowls practice pushing it a little more each time (didn't want to combust) and I have/familiar w. dynavaps, etc. Finally got some decent vapor out of it. Pretty confident I'm doing it right and not a newbie at this.. but it has a distinct wood odor when cold and when heated it's pretty much all I taste along with some of the strains flavor mixed together.
Anyone have any torch tips for best flavor? I have a few noname single flames and an Honest as well. Flame length is set correct. I tried the 3 on 3 off 3x which gave the best 'get it done' results but all I smell or taste is the warm olive wood odor - also on my fingers from holding it. I tried the previous posts 'no preheat' method (7 second then..5.5 second, etc.) after first 7 seconds heat def no vapor ..maybe a wisp, nothin just that warm olive woody taste and some strain taste. 2 or 3 more 5.5sec go's later it tastes done to me and woody, lol. Wondering if I got a dud or this is how it is? I was expecting amazing pure flavor blasts each re-heat but so far not getting that. Before anyone asks if its the strain no.. same strain in a TM or Venty blasts flavor/taste.
Does the olive wood smell go away?
No disrepect to it in any way.. really want to get the most out of it just not getting results that others are saying about it. So far feeling a little let down and no way would I pay almost 400 for a heating can for it.
Anyone care to post your complete method start to finish? Is it just not for me?
Vapman just takes time to learn. If you pointing tip of flame to tip of heating chamber - one of two right ways to heat with torch already chosen.
Now it will take time to know the red lines, to stop heating.
You can go up to line of almost combust.
Or your red line is unpleasant, harsh vapor. Or whatever your will discover during the using of Vapman.
Dynavap is the king of learning different techniques, discovering different vectors of vaping and to go to next device.
Analog device, that yours knobs of control are angles, airstream, nature of heat, level of heat, point of heat, distance of heat, movement before the draw, movement during, materials at self, different builds - you can play with a lot of knobs - all analog, so your level of control also benefits from your hands, that are in constant improvement.
Perfect tool to learn your taste in weed extraction, learn the essence of it, and to move to device that will serve you better. Or stay if it’s perfect.
Vapman also have with pedagogical stuff but more mental way. You start deal with time. Source of Heat, Point of Heat, Time, Airstream.
It’s sort of more profound, than Dynavap, but in total Vapman have less knobs.
For example, in case of overheating with Dynavap you can cool done small dose, that move freely in chamber by spinning it during the draw (with spinning mouthpiece - super-easy).
In Vapman it’s not exist.
Sometimes some knob is opposite of Dynavap - for example, speed of air-stream. Dynavap: you get higher airstream speed - you get higher temperature. Vapman:
higher speed of airstream cool done the chamber.
So Vapman have different approach. Meditative. You still learn and search your extraction way, but it’s more observe and think, then technical stuff, troubleshooting or induction-heater-VAS.
One of the changes from dynavap - I stopped to count “high” by visibility of clouds and started chase slow extraction.
Slow extraction and fast extraction - it’s like big-cutted and small-cutted salad. In slow extraction you taste all ingredients in kind of separation.
Still I get very dark avb in the end, but if I get visible clouds on 2nd heating cycle or even 1st - I heated too much.
I’m microdoser - 17mg dose - long draws of 30-40 seconds, so by default ain’t no big clouds.
So what I learned (and it took time - about couple weeks) is temperature control by taste of vapor.
Dividing the extraction for 8 parts. First and second heating cycle not too overheat - understanding where I’m with temperature. 4th heating cycle - already to start to feel high - and with 7th and 8th to give little bit more heat to finish the bowl.
I’m giving the numbers of heating cycles, but actually there is no counts already. I just repeat the process, and feel by taste and harshness if I need to add more temperature next cycle, or less, or next cycle suppose to be fatality.
Wow, stop. It was good Platinum Jack)))
BTW
Unpleasant taste of wood will disappear after 10 days, 2 weeks. You still will get flavour of olive wood, but it will became pretty nice taste.
The lighter - take the most noisy small torch, that you have. The noise indicate how much butane the lighter shot per time. In my case Honest louder then Vapman torch.
Touch the heating chamber with whitest area of flame. To get little bit deeper to the flame more forgivable, then to get little bit out of flame. I loose 1/6 of flame efficiency on first millimetre and need to add 1 second more in my case. And avb became not so solid colour.
Enjoy your Vapman!
It’s just take time to learn.