Still testing ..tonight i had some great luck with my...plenty.. [storz and bickel] vaporizer...
I think i tryed something tonight i think.. no one else has tryed with the vaporizer...And it worked very well!
Most people who just vape dry herbs love this product because of the high quality vapor it makes just using heated air!
My plenty vape has been sitting in closet for close to a year because i wasnt happy with its performance with spice..
there has been good reports of using changa in it over the months...but it usually took more than twice the spice to give any effects...and that was wastefull...
Getting to the point ive discovered two weaknesses the plenty had with spice...
[one]...The spiril metal stem is [no good] for spice vaping...because i think it cools the vapor so fast it crystalized inside the stem ..very little spice getting to the mouth....
[two]...there was problems with the oversized bowl when it was used for spice or changa! a person often had to use more than twice as much product to get any decent results...
[three] when trying to take a pull with the original stem it came with ..i found it hard to get enough effective vapor without pulling really deep and hard ...and all the time spice was crystalizing inside the stem..being wasted!
Well Tonight i tryed again using a temporary home made pipe stem with a small carberator air flow hole i put into it...
Now my discovery tonight !.. worked very well! when i tryed loading a very small couple pinches of crushed caapi leaf ... [directly on top of the heat exchanger screen]..instead of using the normal vaping chamber...
After putting just a thin layer of cappi leaf ..[on top of the heat exchanger screen].. i then droppered only 6 drops of product tincture on top of the cappi and alowed the alcohol to compleatly evaporate... those 6 drops of tincture .. my guess.. was only [about 12 to 15 mgs of spice]
An hour later i tryed vaping the mixture... and it worked great..as after it heated up set on [number 6]...it clicked off and i tryed to vape ..not expecting much success.. i put my finger over the air flow hole on the stem took a normal pull... and noticed vapor was comming fast!
I then pulled just a little harder and to my surprise i got a nice full hit as i blew out the greyish vapor it wasnt hot at all!...and i felt it hitting me pretty quickly!
Now the plenty was performing very good like it should!
I took a total of two hits..and i believe most of the spice vaped on first try !
Because on the third try ... there wasnt much left .. just some brownish [un burnt leafe material]
Now.. It was easy to get a full hit on first try...
I think i might be able to vape 30 mgs on first try ..it performed so well!
below are photos of ..[the green un vaped leafe]..and... [after the leaf was vaporized]..it didnt even blacken or burn the leaf material! [just turned it a little brown..!]
I may be able to vape straight product if i can rig up a proper setup..
Any way it only took using a couple pinches of leaf material.. is all it took to act as a carrier and prevent spice from dripping down into inside of the vaporizer..
So i found the changing the stem...and putting the material right on top of the heat chamber screen.... gave a faster heat up... and much better results..not using the origional twisted stem it came with..
and...[putting the spice infused herb ..[directly on top of the lowest heating chamber screen] improved the heating of the.. [ product /herb mixture].. and when the normal chamber was screwed on top of heating chamber ..it kept the small amount of ..[herb/spice mixture] compressed nicely ...
[in place]... so it would stay compressed against the heating screen..without moving no matter how you held or tilted the vaporizer...[the top screen does.. NOT..reduce air flow ..but slows it just a tiny amount ..just enough for the herb to vaporize nicely ..while still alowing good air flow!
the other improvement.. was to .. NOT.. use the vaporizer stem that it came with.. because the product was cooled too fast causing early crystalization inside the pipe stem preventing too much spice from entering the mouth..[and wasting spice ]
i instead used a simple ..[test stem with a carberator hole].. to increase air flow...
ive tryed this last night and after it reached heating temperature..i got a decent full hit of vapor that was quite efffective! [a big change from how it performed before re designing it a little ..
hope this makes sense...anyone with a plenty should try this minor re design of mine..
anyone with a plenty gathering dust should try this method...
and please report your results here on the nexus!!
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