Discontinued VRIPtech Heating Wand

[marcuss]

oh my god! what the hell is that piece? incredible and where you put your lips?
Finally i've got the right silicone sleeve and the vrip is working a lot better for the seal,,,no more air....just thick thick vapor...WOW!

Ok now i'm very jealous of your glasses......i'm using the Herbo tube but it is very tall....and i cannot manage those bare clouds.....i need it smaller!

I must correct my signature.....i've got two winners now and i'm sooo vripped!

Thanks a ton SM for your help about the sleeve.....which one do you think is better? i've got the small ring one!

 

[stonemonkey55]

Marcuss - very happy to here that you are set up nicely. I've got the smaller sleeve as well and prefer to use it because it;s easier to to seal and remove from the lower bowl. Even though the Herbo and VHW have a lot of similarities, its always nice to switch between the two depending if you want to have a hands free experience or not.

As far as the bubbler goes, if you look at the top middle of the picture, you should see the mouth piece right there. The one I will be getting will have some coloring but will not be nearly as heady as the piece in the picture. I REALLY like the way the inline looks sitting behind the main chamber. I have pretty much converted from tubes to bubblers for the same reason you stated above. I feel like the flavor of the vapor is diluted and is hard to fill and clear in one breath.

May your glass company grow and keep the Herbo and VHW company

 

[CapnVape]

I'm also a believer in smaller volume pieces for vaping, but I haven't written tubes off yet. I think a shorter mini tube would be a great piece to use with the VHW. There are some really cool mini and tiny tubes out there right now.

 

[bluntfaced]

Yeah that inline bubbler is sick. Glad to hear you're going less heady though, the colors are a little much.

Really small glass?? I like big tubes you can condense massive hits in. I c an see the maerits of a smaller chamber though

I think a steamroller with an ice chamber an gong piece would be the ultimate vape weapon

 

[Glass Vape Head]

Yeah that inline bubbler is sick. Glad to hear you're going less heady though, the colors are a little much.

Really small glass?? I like big tubes you can condense massive hits in. I c an see the maerits of a smaller chamber though

I think a steamroller with an ice chamber an gong piece would be the ultimate vape weapon

Ya hit the Nail on the head there Bluntfaced. I love hitin vapor with a medum sized tube....no water just ice.... that way the tube leaves room for the water that eventualy pools up from the melted ice.

after making hundreads of glass aprati over the last ten years, this is what i like the best!

 

[stonemonkey55]

A few of you guys have been asking how the PerK in the VWT PerK worked, here are some up close pictures of this bad boy.

The UFO percs in these pictures do not contain water but how it works is like this. First the vapor enters thru the 3 main holes that you see. It then gets pulled down into a reservoir of water then pulled up thru all the tiny holes at the bottom of internal glass - kinda hard to explain but it kicks ass!

 

[NoSmoke]

So much glass so little money!!!

That thing is so sweet though!

 

[stonemonkey55]

I wish Henn or Prog could give this puppy a spin since they have a lot of experience with glass. The only thing that I can compare it to is my inlines and my LW 10 arm tree and I gotta say that these things are pretty much drag free and since they have this unique, inverted design, no splash guard is needed

 

[Durden]

So is that the next generation tube from Vrip or a similar design for comparison? The ones on the site have just the one perk and an angled (and apparently trademarked ) section of tubing at the top. I'm curious as to how well the water stays in the top perk since the spacing between the sections with the holes seems significantly less than on the bottom perk, but I guess that may just be the angle of the picture.
I played with the idea of getting one of the vrip pieces but I'm a sucker for heady glass and already have enough tubes, though looking at that Luke Wilson bub has inspired me to head out to the WS store and see if I can find something.

Still not sure if I like this better than my inline, more testing to come!

SM, since you're getting a custom made bubbler is it safe to assume that you prefer your bubbler over your inline tube now? I keep going back on forth on whether I want a higher volume bubbler or a smaller inline tube (100-200ml).

 

[stonemonkey55]

durden - the tubes in the picture are not the VWT PerK but are tubes that had the UFC perc in them. I went down to the manufacturing plant yesterday to help Mark out and I saw some shiny tubes that looked like a good photo op since some people were asking for clearer pics of the actual perc.

as far as the difference between the upper and lower perc in the picture, I'm pretty sure it was just the angle of the picture. I wish I was close to the WS stores, are there any equivalents up here in NorCal?

As for the reason I have been on a bubbler kick lately, it has more to do with the sensitive skin around my lips than me prefering bubblers over tubes. Every time I share a tube with someone, I end up getting a zit or two around my mouth. I had gotten a tube made by n3rd (http://www.youtube.com/user/stonemonkey55#play/all/uploads-all/1/klXc9Xo1EJk) where he put a 50mm GonG joint at the top so that I can have a tube with a bubbler style mouthpiece but he said they were really hard to make and didn't want to do anymore which is why I am now on a quest for the nicest bubblers to keep my VHW happy

 

[minnesnowta]

I'm the same way I like a smaller volume peice as well. I have a 35cm roor which is the smallest tube they make. Even this is a little bigger than I'd like. So I went down to the local walmart and bought some mini mancalla beads like has been suggested multiple times. The difference is night and day though. I filled it up just below the ice notches and with ice I'm close to what I want. Still doesn't feel the same as the vriptech water tool. I've tried nosmokes with the blazemaster diffuser and bowl and it's pretty much perfect.

These bubblers you keep posting look like they'd be amazing. The one thing I'm wondering is how comfortable they are to use with the verticle stem. It just seems that it would be kind of akward. Even with the angled bowl I'd think it would put the heater cover pretty close to your face. I'm sure stonemonkey can elaborate on this though.

I'm content with the vales I have now. I just have to work on my glass collection next. I'm thinkin I'm gonna get a matching set with my tax returns.

 

[stonemonkey55]

minnesnowta - I think the way the stems are positioned on the bubblers I have look much more awkward than when you actually use it. I recall seeing my buddy use it and thinking to myself "that looks uncomfortable" but when I'm doing it myself, it feels natural. I'm not saying that the bowl couldn't be positioned in a *better* area, but in now way do I think it detracts from the experience.

I've also slowed down on my vape collection to start accumulating more glass and i gotta say, each time I get something new, it feels like a new vape.

 

[THC(g)]

My girlfriend made the purchase on a VHW on a Friday. They don't ship until Tuesday or Thursday, so we received the tracking number on Tuesday. It started in California, and by Friday it was in our hands in New Mexico (but of course, it was only an hour away on Thursday ).

And on that second Friday, she opened her box and we were delighted to find everything was OK. Better than OK, actually. The glass piece on the soldering iron is finely blown, with what appears to be a great system: the silicone rubber at the tip makes a great seal with the upper intake bowl; air is pulled through two holes such that the air travels tangent to the cylinder, spiraling down between heat-exchanging glass donuts encasing the ceramic heating unit, and into your bowl; maintains heat nicely.

So far we (my two roomates, my gf, and I) have milked such vapory hits through a bubbler (9-perk), both with and without water. So milky with vapor we decided to hold in all future hits because it was sad how much vapor was being lost on exhale. We're about to try a double tree perk stack bong w/ ice, so I'll report back on that later.
The hits were so so tasty, and so, soo clean. So clean that my asthmatic girlfriend, who would cough brown/gray/black phlegm/shit from smoking for a day..., would cough clear mucus up. Clear non-pleghm mucus. My only explanation is that I've heard THC is an expectorant, like Mucinex, a big factor in not getting throat/lung cancer.

And this wand is nice. But, while not specific to VHW, fuck combustion.

A question: How hot is "100%" on this wand? 0%? 50%? Is 0% off?

 

[stonemonkey55]

thc(g) - glad to see that you are having a great vhw experience. To answer your question, I do not know exactly what the specific temperatures are at 100%, 50%, etc etc because I have noticed, depending on which home I am at, sometimes I need to be at 70%, sometimes I need to be at 80% to get comparable hits.

The Vripmaster himself said that the best way to check to see if you are getting pure vapor is to blue the cloud into a light. Vapor should have a bluish/purplish tint to it, if the vapor cloud is very thick and white, chances are that this is higher temp vapor (the release of benzene is supposed to contribute to that whiter color). I usually start low and if I can't see anything, I will turn the heat up one mark on the dial, wait 20 seconds and then see what happens.

I prefer lower temperature vapes both for effect of high as well as to prevent any potential harmful toxins such as benzene from being released. Even if you vape at higher temperatures, it is still much better than combustion so it is personal preference. Hope this helps.

 

[Hotboxvapebongin]

Here is a nice thick cloud from the VHW using my RooR.
http://img190.imageshack.us/i/capture200908301.mp4/

 

[VaporBud]

^^ Nice that thing rip's.

 

[minnesnowta]

lol nice yours is bigger than mine :/ very nice cloud though. i thought you guys might like to see this though. my camera case i got to hold all my supplies

 

[THC(g)]

... I have noticed, depending on which home I am at, sometimes I need to be at 70%, sometimes I need to be at 80% to get comparable hits.

We plugged it in to a surge protector. Acted considerably better...

 

[11eleven11]

Hey everyone. What's up? I finally decided to register to these forums even after knowing about them for a year or so. After a lot of research and want to spice up my vaping experience, I've decided to move on from my SSV to this. Currently I have my SSV connected to one of their mini ice chambers. It's a great setup really and I love it but I want to move on to something more focused on not only the vaporizer but the water pipe as well.

I've been looking around at various water pipes and keeping in mind what people around here have said about how usually a 100ml to 250ml bong is ideal. Can anyone link me to a bong that's 12" or under that has an inner percolator AND a good lengthy ice-catcher? I've been looking all over the internet and I've been liking the EHLE and ROOR but I don't see any that fit my exact search criteria. Thanks for the help and this is a great site. I can't wait to try out the Vriptech! I just need to find a water pipe that fits my fancy first.

 

[manchild]

Hi guys. I've also been lurking round the forum for a while now and have finally got round to joining. This site has truly changed my life and i'd like to thank everyone on here.

So i got my VHW a week ago. I was a litlle concerned with how much movement there was of the glass peice and the metal plate inside moved around alot which kinda sucked. I really struggled for a day or 2 to try and master the technique but couldn't produce the thick clouds i've seen spinal and stonemonkey produce on their vids so i thought the alteration was in order. But i have an extreme so i was always reverting back to that when my lips got too sore from sucking my brains out ! Anyway a week later and i finally tried the alteration. It was easy as!.Mine was set a little low so when i try her out next i'm expecting better results. I'll report back.

But i discovered something during the dismantling process. I don't have any screws holding the metal plate and grey plug to the plastic part of the wand. This explains why the metal plate moves around so much. So is this normal? The alteration instructions state that there should be screws, so i'm guessing it's not normal. Is anyone else missing a few screws?!?

 

[NoSmoke]

Welcome to the forum! No need to worry friend the screws aren't supposed to be there!

 

[manchild]

Ah ok! Thanks NoSmoke. That does make me feel alot better. The screws holding the grey plug would be useless anyway, it was more the metal plate movement that concerned me.

Thanks for the welcome!

 

[jumpoff_the_planet]

 

[THC(g)]

So i got my VHW a week ago. I was a litlle concerned with how much movement there was of the glass peice and the metal plate inside moved around alot which kinda sucked. I really struggled for a day or 2 to try and master the technique

It took me about 4 days to master the technique.. A big player was the surge protector. Now i get too large of hits

But yeah, on my wand the glass piece itself moved around. Pivoted slightly around the lone screw pinning it on.

Also, I'm thinking about making a silicone vagina for it so right when I'm done and have unplugged it I can put it in the vagina and put it away in the case without waiting for it to cool. So no one breaks it... like this morning lol. Just have to order the $60 glass piece though so it ok

 

[THC(g)]

http://www.vriptech.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/heatwand-stand-01.jpg

What is that white wrap around the glass part where it should say "HOT" ?