Hi, I'm new in the forum I'm from Chile I just acquired the Pure version (in my country is not available mica version) I searched the 300 pages and lost the page where talked about the screens for concentrates, is there any way to improvise something diy?
I think I've seen a concentrate screen made with a pipe screen. Is this possible?
Thanks!
First off, welcome to the Forum. Lots of good folks around, as you've no doubt discovered.
I'm happy you can get such a unique, truly fine product from half way around the world, literally. Access to such products seems to be improving all the time.
The factory screens are definitely superior to home made ones. They are thicker so hold more concentrate in the mesh. The center hole is precise so there are no fit problems and the rims bent up at the correct angle to fully engage the wall of the pan. Very nicely made from some custom tooling. The best home made ones can hope for it partial contact at a few points.
That said many of us tried and got some good results in some cases. I suggest starting with a few stacked pipe screens (say 3 thin or 2 thicker ones?), with holes in the center to clear the post completely. Then shape them to fit. IIRC I used 5/8 inch ones. Avoid the urge to press them into the pan to shape, the Gold plating is very thin and soft, you're sure to scar it. I used a bottle cap of about the right size stuffed with paper towels to make it very shallow. I then used the cap on a 'Sharpie' pen to press it into the cap to dish it out. Same with the other screens, pressing them into the first after initial shaping, testing for fit. I used fine wire cutters to trim the last screen down a bit as I recall, scissors would also work.
Mine worked well, finally, although it was 'fiddly'. It'd torch it clean, but dropped it on the floor once and never got it back to fitting 'right' again. The factory screens, of course, have none of those issues.
Good luck with it.
I hope you learn to enjoy your VM quickly and completely. The user is definitely part of the experience, your timing and 'feel' determine the success. Remember, '
don't be too shy with the heat'. it's normal to do, of course, but most guys waste a lot of time early on trying to make it work well for them too cold. Combustion is very hard to do, really, and not really all that bad. Assuming you only briefly do it, it's easy to clean up and residual tastes get 'covered up' in the next session or two. Once you stop drawing air in the fire dies almost instantly for lack of oxygen. So, if you start to taste 'burnt popcorn', freeze the it and set the VM down to cool. No big deal, really, if you don't make it a habit.
Until you learn where the upper limit is, your working in the dark IMO.
Regards to all.
OF
had a magic vapman session with the classic Walnut with the mflb caleidoscoop mouthpiece (nice combi).
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