Honestly I've never had the screen and use mine almost exclusively for hash. Cleanup is a breeze, I fold half of a paper towel into a triangle and wipe bowl right after I finish my session, then exhale through mouthpiece and wipe away any reclaim. So please, feel unburdened and enjoy some hash with wild abandon.
Really and would that work with dabs too?
Dear all
Thank you for the great response to the vapman station!
The original idea of the heating station goes back to 2008 when a friend of mine (American from Boston) walked in my workshop on christmas eve with a cheap soldering iron, asking me to do him quickly an electric heating device for his vapman so he could use it over chrismas. Ali it needed was an adapter with the form of the vapman bowl to mount on the soldering iron. After some work on the lathe, we clamped the soldering iron in the vice, heated it up and placed the vapman for only 4 seconds on the hot adapter and it worked amazingly well. We had a good laugh, wished each other a merry christmas and he left. It actually worked that well that I seriously started thinking about an electric heating station for vapman. Needless to say that the set up with the soldering iron was in no way suited for the public, it was by far too dangerous in all sorts of ways, but I liked the idea. After some tests with special made heating cartridges, I abandoned the project realizing that it would be a very long way from the soldering iron to a save and practical station. Besides this I am no specialist in electronics and to me it was clear that it needed exactly such in order to control the heating and to make it practical and save for the average consumer. Four years later in 2012 I had a second go at it and went to the technical college of Biel, asking them for help. The task was difficult because lots of the characteristics I wanted the station to have, are standing completely diametrically to each other. I wanted the station to be small with low energy consumption and at the same time to be as quick as the jet-lighter. Three things which don`t go hand in hand at all. Further it is difficult to control and measure the heat in a short time on such a small mass of copper as the vapman bowl actually is. To cut the story short, it was not easy and not cheap but we finally worked out a practical solution. After the research it was my turn to make a presentable device. I designed and made five prototypes and gave three of them to shops for trial. The feedback wasn`t encouraging, claiming having to wait for too long in between the hits for the station to heat up. After spending enormous amounts of money and time on that project, I have seen it and gave up completely. In fact I didn`t want anybody to mention the station anymore, I was really fed up with it and regretted not spending all that money and time on other things I needed much more, like holidays for instance. - After letting it rest for two more years, in summer of 2014 I was ready to tackle the problem of the heating station afresh. I went back to the college and (thanks to the gods of vaporizers) we could find a solution to the problem of the lengthy heating time without having to change much. In fact it had only to be programmed in a different way, unbelievable how long it took me to make that step. Good things take time, don`t tell me..
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Thanks to you! I was worried the heating station would be retailed at more than one hundred. I can get a new vapman if the price is at no more than 100€thanks a lot guys for the great vibes! soon will follow more informations! PS: we have totally forgotten in all the rush to post here our new special series with the hemp leaf laser engraving, here a small reminder there are still the last 5 in stock!
At first glance I thought the first photo was the cleaned oneCleaning with mustard powder.
1. Put gloves. Mustard eats skin.
2. Mix mustard powder with water - get something like toothpaste.
3. Apply on pan. Thin layer. Avoid to put inside of nozzles. (It’s very difficult to wash it. If you are not so accurate avoid this cleaning technique. Burning leftovers of mustard inside of nozzles - you don’t need it)
4. Wait 1 hour.
5. Wipe the mustard paste. (Nozzles!!!! Careful!!!)
6. Scratch the dirt with wooden something small and sharpened.
7. Wipe the leftovers with small wet cloth. (Around the nozzles!).
8. Repeat “7” until the pan completely clean from mustard paste. If you not so sure, that you completely cleaned the mustard - wipe with alcohol pad in the end - after - wipe alcohol with wet cloth - make one heating round without weed.
Done.
Whole cleaning process about 1.5 hour (1 hour of waiting).
Cleaning the filter - the same idea.
Scratching with wooden stick is essential. And it doesn’t scratch the pan.
Mustard powder made 100% of mustard seeds - the greenest cleaning solution.
If you have better way to clean - I will be happy to know - avoiding nozzles is pain in the ass.
Very clean pan, well done !Cleaning with mustard powder.
1. Put gloves. Mustard eats skin.
2. Mix mustard powder with water - get something like toothpaste.
3. Apply on pan. Thin layer. Avoid to put inside of nozzles. (It’s very difficult to wash it. If you are not so accurate avoid this cleaning technique. Burning leftovers of mustard inside of nozzles - you don’t need it)
4. Wait 1 hour.
5. Wipe the mustard paste. (Nozzles!!!! Careful!!!)
6. Scratch the dirt with wooden something small and sharpened.
7. Wipe the leftovers with small wet cloth. (Around the nozzles!).
8. Repeat “7” until the pan completely clean from mustard paste. If you not so sure, that you completely cleaned the mustard - wipe with alcohol pad in the end - after - wipe alcohol with wet cloth - make one heating round without weed.
Done.
Whole cleaning process about 1.5 hour (1 hour of waiting).
Cleaning the filter - the same idea.
Scratching with wooden stick is essential. And it doesn’t scratch the pan.
Mustard powder made 100% of mustard seeds - the greenest cleaning solution.
If you have better way to clean - I will be happy to know - avoiding nozzles is pain in the ass.
Not sure if it is better but I use 10-15%caustic soda solution, applied with q-tips, upside down. Then white vinegar, then water
Wooden toothpicks are great idea!
Would you also make a small series of the pure Vapman with the beautiful hemp leafthanks a lot guys for the great vibes! soon will follow more informations! PS: we have totally forgotten in all the rush to post here our new special series with the hemp leaf laser engraving, here a small reminder there are still the last 5 in stock!
Even though I still mainly use a torch for the mindful ritual of it, I 100% agree with all of this. The station is such a good complement.
Randomly stumbled across this picture taken by @coolbreeze back in 2022. Wow. Award worthy!
