yeah, I've read that thread, and I wholly agree with you. we have our preferences, so I'm not going to trumpet the bubble method as superior to a method that's been around for a thousand years or so. My preference is bubble, but that's because I vape my hash, and I think it works a bit better with the vaporizer. since I intend on growing my own again shortly, I'll have large amounts of trim, so that's also figuring into my preference as well.
oh, and i love bubble hash, i just dont think i'd find it worth the investment of money or effort when i could just use a simpler method and get stuff i'd have no issue with. i can't really imagine smoking hash in a vaporizer, though. maybe one of those inexpensive bubble/dome type vaporizers, the old school ones.... or maybe a volcano or some of the really high tech expensive ones...i dont really know how all those work having never used one.... but i can't see using hash of ANY sort in my ivape
I've cobbled together one from a hot plate (not a soldiering iron) a mason jar, some silicone hot pad scraps, a pipe nipple, some aquarium tubing and a little stainless steel 'cup' on little bolt legs. the cup goes into the mason jar with the material in it, the lid goes on, and so does the ring, he jar's got a donut cut out of the hot pad to keep it 'directly' off the hotplate on the bottom, and I've mapped the temperatures on the hotplate. Got a little probe thermometer that slides down through the lid, and gives me a reading right about where the little cup sets, co it acts like a convection vape, a lot like a volcano, rather than a conduction, like a lot of the old dome style. If I don't mind the vapor fairly warm, I can draw it directly, or I've got a passthrough system set up, where the tubing hooks to another pipe nipple, into a coiled tube in the bottom of another mason jar, and an outflow tube, so I can get it cool without breathing in cold water vapor. The vapor chamber on the hotplate is trapped in a wire stand, so it's not going to turn over. Safety, you know? I can regulate the temperature in the vape chamber within a few degrees, and while it's not as awesome as a digital, it still does the job very well.
sounds good. great idea using a hotplate instead of a soldering iron. even those commercial ones are essentially made from soldering irons.... they always end up burning it. the one thing i dont like which is an inherent trait of this type of device is that it continuously heats your herb/hash....a lot more resination and a lot less in your lungs can be a result sometimes..... still, this sounds like a good setup. i'd give it a shot for sure
Yeah, I wanted to avoid some of the inherent problems...like nasty burned popcorn hits, and losing so much of the thc. If you run your temps right, about 340-350F, you lose very little as it's your vaporization temp, and if you include a little bite-mouthpiece from a camelback type drinking system (where it's sealed unless you bite it and suck) you'll simply have a vapor buildup in the chamber instead of vapor loss, which is a problem I've seen with a few cheaper models.
