Discontinued VRIPtech Heating Wand

[ShadowVape]

Thanks for the heads up Vape Head that sounds like a good thread for me to contribute to for sure --- checking it now!

Absolutely the Vrip products are available through our two current EU distributors and both EU and Australian plug/voltage VHWs are available through our online catalogues at VripTech.com. Any questions feel free to ask here or email info@vriptech.com and we'll get you sorted.

 

[ataxian]

Hi, this vape is not really easy to find in Europe, I have a Cloud, how is the vapor quality and quantity compare to VXC?the glass screen is it already available?
A true all glass airpath seems to me really good

My VRIP arrive this afternoon.
Ready for Bed time Medication.


I was a bit slow figuring it all out.
After reading some post I realized I was not maintain the seal.
Once I made the seal it was "FLAVOR CITY" if you like flavor this is a flavor Chaser!
My night time flowers (GODS GIFT) through this VRIP is amazing!
Tomorrow Morning Wake and Vake!

 

[Jeppy]

Sorry don't have access to a digicamera right now so here is a pic from the VRIP website. As you can see it is two pieces, the only difference is that the top piece is shorter to accommodate the VHW. The VCB that is shown is made for the heat gun. If you buy the VHW with the short intake, I'm sure he would be willing to wheel and deal a little...doesn't hurt to ask, I did...

I owned one of these from back in the 90's. Used it with the heating gun.

 

[ataxian]

Added the VHW to my amassing arsenal recently. All I can say is, I'm enjoying my new WME(weapon of mass extraction)

I know you have a very nice quiver.
I just began using the VRIP.
At first I was just getting a moist flavorful light vapor feel.
A few rips latter and I'm like where is the milk shake cloud?
Very sneaky!
This thing creeps up on you!
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES work well however in a VRIP?
I like it so far!

I'm couched!!!!

 

[ShadowVape]

Good News Family the Vrip-Specific glass screens showed up and we'll have them in the inventory system tomorrow. I'll also take some better pics and get posted up ASAP. Still haven't decided if we're going to just sell them as an upgrade or make them OEM with a price increase and also available by themselves. Have already had some oil fans special order pairs of the larger screens for a nice glass tray on the top of the bowl and the ability to adjust the size of the holes by just lining up or slightly misaligning. Not sure if that is a better approach than using the glass beads on a single large glass screen the results from which I was beyond impressed! Might be easier implement-wise without the beads, but damn do those beads have alot of surface area from which to melt oil into vapor!!!

 

[ataxian]

Good News Family the Vrip-Specific glass screens showed up and we'll have them in the inventory system tomorrow.!

Glass screens to enhance the flavor even more!
It's so different.
This VRIP does taste incredible!
Pure clean vapor.
My GIRL SCOUT COOKIES STRAIN in this device gives me extreme medication without thick clouds.
FLAVOR CHASER MEDICATER
You have to be aware that the pure vapor without the thick cloud actually produces more medicating effects!

 

[ShadowVape]

Good stuff Ataxian --- you got some of the very first glass screens to ship and you're close so stoked you're already heating them up!!! Be aware if clouds are desired it's just a matter of turning the heat up and/or pulling a tad slower for a longer milk up and/or packing more at a time....or some combination thereof. But you hit the nail on the head when you said:
"You have to be aware that the pure vapor without the thick cloud actually produces more medicating effects!" It really is a less is more phenom just takes some getting used to for some.....

Luciano had a good post somewhere on FC.com about why big clouds are actually not the best approach to the most effective medicating, but rather a sipping technique if you will (if anyone has that please quote it here).

That said, I admit I like big clouds sometimes too....Big Blue Clouds though!!!

 

[VaporEyes]

I know you have a very nice quiver.
I just began using the VRIP.

Yeah, it was great. Sucks that I'm now absent one VRIP from my quiver. Why must glass break so easily?

 

[ataxian]

Yeah, it was great. Sucks that I'm now absent one VRIP from my quiver. Why must glass break so easily?

You know how to VAPORIZE!

Thank God for my new floor padding in my SMA (STEALTH MEDICATING AREA).

This VRIP is extremely medicating and the FLAVOR is all time!

 

[Buildozer]

sucks man.. you should be more careful... that's what happens to glass when you're careless.. too bad you weren't warned.. Pshhhhhsh
hopefully ShadowVape will hear your cries .. dry your tears, have hope..

BTW comparing glass to metal is no fair comparison.. apples and oranges IMO.

The atomizer is a rather integral part of what makes the Sublimator work. So it's no surprise it has a "hefty" sum attached to it. Recently, I'd broken the glass(internally) of my Vriptech Heat Wand, a replacement of that glass would cost about 120USD. Rather expensive for such a small thing that's far more prone to breakage than an atomizer could be, right?

 

[Tweek]

This looks like a tasty little unit

 

[ataxian]

This looks like a tasty little unit

It is very surprising.
I did some GODS GIFT last night and I slept for 7 hour's which is amazing in my case!

Looks like a COUCH LOCK INDICA session.

VVVVVVVVVVRIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

 

[ShadowVape]

Check it family playing with three stacked large glass screens rotated to block the outer holes partially and some MK Ultra full melty flakes laid over the holes...got super melty and thickened up real nice until it melted enough to open the holes up after which it thinned out a little....plugged the holes with a few more MK Ultra full melty flakes and wham thickened right back up. Running the wand about 90% heat with a 15 second or so sealed heat up and one nice slow primer pull for the melt sequence shown in the pics.

With beads you never have it thin out from a hole clearing fully well into the melt because the beads always partially block the holes and the surface area is multiple compared to just placing flakes on stacked screens, but the stacked screens are definitely less clumsy. I'll get some shots up of the glass screens with the beads next....reached my R&D upper limits for the day!

 

[ataxian]

Photography is just another one of my pursuits I suppose, not my full-time gig, though it has been lucrative on occasion. I especially enjoy my artistic endeavors as I've spent much time in engineering and tech.

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RESPECT to a fine picture!
Today is SATURDAY!
WAKE & VAKE!
My GSC Clouds were BLUE!
This VRIP ripped my shiny metal a@@!

 

[NineDelta]

 

[VaporEyes]

sucks man.. you should be more careful... that's what happens to glass when you're careless.. too bad you weren't warned.. Pshhhhhsh
hopefully ShadowVape will hear your cries .. dry your tears, have hope..

BTW comparing glass to metal is no fair comparison.. apples and oranges IMO.

No tears to be shed(not to say it won't be missed). I have more than adequate back ups.
The cord on the Vrip was it's ultimate downfall. I need to invest in a good heat resistant place-mat to prevent further casualties. Failure is the greatest teacher, after all.

I think the comparison I made was fair, considering it's context. It was based on price of accessories, not material type.

 

[VapeHead.com]

The cord on the Vrip was it's ultimate downfall. I need to invest in a good heat resistant place-mat to prevent further casualties.

Get the VHW Stand - I would never use or sell a VHW without one now, they are brilliant at keeping the VHW safe and stable, cable out of the way etc.

The huge bonus is that it lets the VHW soak in its own heat for longer, the glass stand insulates and radiates back to the VHW which gives you access to very high temperatures that you can't achieve with the VHW on its own. That and the new glass screens will let you position your herb closer to the VHW, so you can approach combustion temperatures or vape at very high temps if that's your preference (as it is mine).

 

[ShadowVape]

The stands work great, and VapeHead nailed it the extra heat it holds in the glass right when you need at the beginning of an extraction is nice and something you become accustomed to and appreciate. Most important thing to remember to avoid bonking the VHW is that you need to be sure there is strain relief of some sort on the cord at all times. Many if not the majority of the VHW breakages we get to hear about involve the cord getting yanked by a great friend (you know who you are) or a dog or cat or girlfriend type of deal. Just innocently walking by right? We have had a few customers install over head pulley cords and never have another breakage!!! So that is always an option. I've usually just got mine hanging off the side of the drafting table I work on, but a tight loop mid way through the straight edge slide cable on the table just in case so the heat wouldn't hit the floor if a cat jumped up there while it was hot or something (because my friends would never "bump" my glass). Definitely not a problem getting a hybrid smoke/vapor if that is your preference with the VHW (with or without a stand) just takes some tuning of the technique (or board if you really want extra heat) --- the glass screens definitely help this cause. I'm into full spectrum, but clean pulls so actually pull a little faster and sooner with the glass screens at the same temp setting due to the greater thermal mass and surface area reaching thermal equilibrium --- I would have to turn it down a tad to pull at the same rate and not have it get a little smokey on me with the glass screens.

 

[ShadowVape]

Alright I've been meaning to post some pics up with the glass beads on the large Vrip glass screen AND WITH a reducer ring. We get alot of inquiries about using the Vrip with concentrates these days so have been sharing some of the tricks which have just gotten alot better with the glass screens due to the extra thermal mass and holes that don't clog like mesh.

3mm beads clean on top of a large Vrip glass screen

pancake of OG butter

Little bit of residue from the OG pancake now melted into the beads and on to the glass screen. Super tasty and medical, but didn't really have enough material to get it milking thick and blue so....

Let's try some Purple Alien OG dry sift. Personally I prefer drysift for vaporizing anyway because it's a surface area equation at the end of the day. Pollen = more surface area than oils/butters/magic goos

Holy shit that was Flavor Country like you wouldn't believe and milked up thick and blue in no time...

Sorry for the super gooey bowl in the pic this one gets alot of use with concentrates. Check the beads from the side and how even though we've melted some materials through already the beads are only lightly coated. This is because the thermal mass of the glass and surface area of the beads is so efficient at holding the heat of the convective flow and spreading the melt that it mostly goes to vapor right there in the bead layer between the cake of flavor on top and the glass screen underneath.

I have some more ideas on how to best use the Vrip bowls with concentrates and will continue to document and share --- any feedback and your ideas always appreciated.

 

[Kief]

Holy shit Mark! Those pictures are so freaking huge, I'm not sure if I'll be able to get them all to load in one day. But don't stop sharing that valuable information, can't get enough of it.

 

[ShadowVape]

Sorry Kief I'll have to try to down size the images I was just dragging them straight out of iphoto...will have my wife the resident FaceBook expert show me how to properly size! Stoked you dig the intel though because you know I cannot tell a lie --- I absolutely love the R&D!!!

BTW: in case I'm dreaming about already posting this the glass screens are now on the website at the bottom of the VHW catalogue and other catalogues (we used the large one in an upper location for concentrates w/ or w/o beads), but the reducer is not on the website. If anyone on FC.com wants one of the reducers just hit me up and we'll get you one gratis --- I'll make sure the reducers are up on the website soon too and we're entertaining selling the beads, but you'll get a better deal buying a pound at a time from a lab supply.

And as another special for FC.com members we're giving a sample pack of the glass screens, one small and one large, with a Vrip Medi-Lungs T-shirt purchase. We've had a few viewers of the youtube videos where I was wearing one of the Vrip Medi-Lungs T-shirts hit us up for the T-shirt saying they couldn't find it on the website and I'm happy to say the problem has been solved. They are up there now as I guess they got entered into the shopping cart, but the active product box wasn't checked (yeah....errrr more R&D???) so they didn't previously show up...now they are there and we're throwing in the glass screen special offer if you just put "FC.com member --- glass screen samples please" in the message box when placing an order for a T-shirt. Or if you forget just email me and I'll make sure you get the glass screens! The shirts come in black and white. Check'em below (hopefully better sized images...wifey just walked me through).

 

[ataxian]

Flavor Country like you wouldn't believe and milked up thick and blue in no time...

Just had a session with GOD'S GIFT in the VRIP.

It's really odd because the FLAVOR is so sweet.
The EFFECT is a creeper.
I did not think I was getting medicated then as I was sitting watching the news I realized I was fully medicated.

The VRIP truly vaporizes!

 

[kiefcamel]

Hi everybody,

It's nice to meet y'all.

After reading everybody's posts, I finally decided to get the vriptech!

I've got a couple questions that I need to figure out before using it though.

To provide some background, I chose the vriptech coming from a Purist point of view. With that said...

Where can I find glass screens that will fit the chamber bowl? I noticed that the honey comb glass screens ( such as these http://aqualabtechnologies.com/honeycomb-glass-screens-five-pack.html ) are only about 7mm while the chamberbowl is 18mm. How do you incorporate the glass screen into the 18mm chamber bowl if it is only 7mm? Are there 18mm glass screens to buy of some sort?

By the way, I read on one of your posts that the best way of using pure concentrates is to use glass beads in the piece... Most retailers sell the glass beads in bulk, do you know of any place that sells them in smaller quantities?

I really appreciate all of your help.

I see that the glass screens can be purchased directly through the VHW web site.

What are these screens made of? Borosilicate? Soft Glass?

By the way, where can we find individual glass beads rather than buying in bulk?

Thirdly, do the glass screens and/ or beads wear out? How long do they last?

Let me know, thanks!

Mod note: When possible, please avoid making back-to-back posts in a thread. Use the Edit feature located at the bottom of your posts. Posts merged.

 

[ShadowVape]

Kiefcamel I love your screen name makes me visualize two big camel lumps of kief on top of a freshly packed bowl. Yes, I'll take two lumps of kief on that bowl...

I'm sure we sorted you direct, but for everyone on the board's sake I"ll respond here too. The Vrip glass screens are specially sized borosilicate glass screens that we have Blazing Blue Glass (makers of the honeycomb glass screens) make to special tolerances and much larger sizing than their more common honeycomb screens. They drop into one of two positions in the Vrip lower bowls and are fairly tightly sized to minimize moving or flipping over in the bowls from stirring/poking (try to stir more than poke with the glass screens is always best though).

The best deal on the beads we've found is: http://www.gogenlab.com/products/borosilicate-glass-beads but it still isn't cheap. We've entertained the idea of selling them in smaller packets, but are focused on oil/concentrate specific modular solutions that work with our existing bowls and/or specialized bowls. Stay posted more on this to come soon...

Thermal stress will eventually cause cracking of all glass used in heating and cooling applications where the temperature differences are significant and the rate of heating/cooling is fairly quick, but that said I've yet to see a Vrip glass screen crack and had been using a standard honeycomb prototype for over two years before swapping to one of our tighter tolerance production screens we sell now so years of usage and I've never seen a bead crack ever. Even seen them used with a torch. With a torch they would surely go alot fast than they will with a wand --- you're talking years of service at least in regular usage.

 

[Nebu]

I'm really digging these glass screens! I love that is a truly, 100% no-compromise glass delivery-path but it is also performing better than expected, both in regards to maintenance and delivery.

The maintenance is easy! ABV just drops right off the glass screen, leaving it clean. Metal screens clog in short order. I'm also not getting any (noticeable) particulate pass-through, which was a bit surprising. I thought the holes were a bit large. I'd still like to test a smaller-hole version (I'm using the smaller glass screen option/model, btw). My lower bowls are all well used & oiled up. The screens stay put most always but, even if & when they do drop out during an aggressive stir + ABV dump, they drop right back in easy peasy, also easier that the metal screens.

Vapor delivery is also improved. I'd probably be a lying snob if I said I could sense the absence of the metal screen, but I am happy and reassured knowing that it is all pure glass goodness. What I do notice is less restriction at the screen, and I prefer the throughput there. The heat retention/effect of the glass screen also seems to provide a temp stabilizing effect = improved vapor consistency. I am one of those who loves pure vapor and stays well away from combustion temps. No white "milk" (aka smoke) clouds, coughing nor bad tastes happening @ Chez Nebu. It is all blue aroma therapy that is both absorbed and dissipates quickly. Remember folks, combustion does not require ignition. Smoke happens before fire. (unsure why that point seems lost on so many). But I digress. So, in summary ~> glass screens are pure WIN!! Photos soon come!

Bless up.