I'm with you on this one
@herbivore21, what about disposable paper inserts, made of that heat proof paper used for cooking and baking? I think stainless steel would conduct the heat along the air path making the vapor warmer than it is on wood or paper.
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Stainless could indeed conduct heat along the airpath, but this would likely make for more clouds by providing a heated downstem effect (a la sublimator) - for direct draw use, I could definitely imagine that SS would add heat to the POM mouthpiece which might be problematic - given that POM has a melting point of 175c and I am vaping hash at temps well beyond that! Still, a stainless or ti or ceramic piece with no mouthpiece, that is tapered to 14.4mm (with some wood or something around the outside of the tip to keep heat off the glass!) for connection to glass would be incredible!
I only really use my vapman through water anyway (super high-end hash needs way too much heat and creates way too much vapor to be vaporized direct through such a short airpath lol)
Parchment inserts like you say could work well for this purpose though, it would need to fold out over the bottom of the middle piece underneath the middle piece screen (that has two small screws in it) so that all of the wood is covered from all possible vapor/oil residue but that could work quite well, so long as it can stand the heat from my bubble hash vaping (which is heat that would possibly combust flowers in the same crucible I'd roughly guess somewhere in the 200-220c mark - from memory I think this is the upper heat limit of the best quality parchment papers).
@Enchantre it isn't a matter of effecting the taste of my flowers (I don't ever vape flowers in the vapman, they go in the mighty for maximum consistent clouds and taste - vapman really shines for hash for my purposes because it is so easy to clean for such a melty medicine, the middle piece absorbing resin really is the only thing stopping it from being the absolute perfect hash vape
).
My issue with the middle piece is that it very quickly gets so gunked up with the errl of whatever hash I have used that when I get a new strain, all I can taste is the last one I had. Since I am a medical user who takes great pride in making very clean extracts for my meds, I like to keep everything as hygienically clean as possible to savor the fruits of my labor.
The vapman is also useful (while I wait for my SiC dish for the dnail) for tasting my new solvent based meds to ensure that full purge is complete but not overdone, but only if it doesn't taste like hashes or shatters I've hit in the past lol
It sounds like
@vapman is open to developing a solution for hash users though, which I look forward to!
I understand that the vapman was made for flowers originally so we really can't expect these considerations to have been prominent when Rene first designed it. This is more a suggestion for how we can move the vapman forward and make it even more widely useful and loved than it is already!
EDIT: Just saw vapman say they are not necessarily in the pipeline yet. We'll have to see what happens! I also am with Vapman here though in saying that glass is really not what we need here lol, I honestly think in the event that parchment is still not heat resistant enough for hash vaping that SS or ti inner path with wood around the outside would be the best way to do a middle piece that connects direct to glass but keeps clean.