Vapor Volumes by Vlad - New and Updated!

i appreciate your comments!600 is quite a scam when it can be had for 200 or less...

not easy finding a good hash bowl on the east coast i want a nice andy roth..anybody know anything similar online?

I'm not sure about physical stores, but a quick google of "concentrate bowl" yields several domesticly shipped options for 10-20 bucks. Ive used AMSs before (number three or so under that search term) and they are just fine. You can get them for $2 each if you dont mind waiting on shipping from china, but expect 10-20 for us based

was planning on getting da buddha......anyone have any input on da buddha vs arizer extreme q? i have read alot about both but can't decide!

da budha has a ceramic heating element from a soldering iron, a variable power knob, and a glass on glass mouthpiece to use as a whip, and costs 150 avg on ebay extreme q has a ceramic heating element from a soldering iron, digital variable temp with accurate thermometer, and a glass on glass mouthpiece to use as a whip, a blower fan and a glass on glass bag filler, a remote (which isnt necessary to operate) and costs 180 avg on ebay Since they are both glass on glass and have the same heating element, its all about how you vape. You want a bag filler, arizer is the way to go. The digital temp is nice, because room temp is variable and so the same power setting might not always provide the same amount of heating. Once you find the right arizer temp (~380), there is no need to mess with any functions again, you just turn it on and it goes. In my experience, because of this, da buddha actually requires more fidgeting with the knob than the arizer. They are both a expensive for what they are, but Arizer feels like less of a rip off bc of all the shiny glowy digital upgrades. A simpler one like da buddha, which costs almost as much, can literally be replicated using a $2 heating element from ebay, a $.50 dimmer knob, $2 worth of electrical cord, and $20 for a pyrex downstem to house the element and a glass on glass whip from your local headshop. Personally, since I like to just make everything myself lol, if Im going to purchase something, I want a ton of neat bells and whistles to justify cost - I can just make a barebones one like da budha myself for practically nothing.

how easy to make a homemade volcano vap?

easy. squirrel fan blowing over soldering iron ceramic heating element inside GOG downstem, wired with 2 dimmer switchs (one for fan one for temp) and standard electrical cord. get a GOG bag filler adapter or make one from a GOG bowl and a turkey bag

i jave a soldering iron ill be taking apart later, and ill be putting up a thread about my build. looking for the best ideas and volcano would be nice to make

sounds easy enough

yeah it sounds wasy but knowing me id end up burning my house down lol any recommendations for a vape for a first timer?

I got the simplest thing for ya, bud. Go grab a deep bowl, I'm talking an inch deep inside. If you dont have one already that matches that description, go find a $5 spoon at your local headshop that is deep enough. Then fill your bowl with ground herb, leaving the upper 1/2 inch of the chamber clear. So a deep bowl, packed halfway with a half inch clearance on top. Now, take a flat, unused screen that has been oxidized (had the shiny burned off) and lay it across the top of your bowl, making the screen cover and completely block it. You now have a Vapor genie style vape. Use it with a bic lighter. Holding the flame higher than normal above the bowl, but low enough that when you suck the flame dips down and just licks the screen. The screen will block the flame, but the hot air will still rush through, vaping your weed. You have to leave a half inch between the screen and weed bc the air is too hot at first and will burn, but the half inch cools it well. It will take some practice to vape everything without scorching it, but you can get extreme rips when youre well practiced this way. Its how I vape if I have a friend who really wants to smoke me up but cant bc theres no vapes around (I die from smoke x.X).

im about to try that out

Hi vlad which across oven do you recommend?? Does the one in your youtube videos work well?? Looking to make the leap to buy and just wanted to get some feedback if possible

Thanks for sharing the knowledge with the community

I'd love to help, Orion, but I'm not sure what you're talking about. I dont know what you mean by "across oven", and I don't have a YouTube account nor any videos posted. Can you clarify?

LOL i thought i was left out of the loop for a second! i wanted to see vlads youtube videos for sure lol but for real im about to take my bowl put a screen on top of the pack and try that out...

lol dont worry, if I decide to make some video tutorials, rollitup will be the first to know! Ill work on getting pics for my Vapor Volumes first. lmk how it works for you - go slow at first till you get the hang of it - that method is the easiest to scorch. Big thing is making sure you have 1/4-1/2 inch clear space in your bowl between the herb and the top screen. But man, once you get the hang of it, you can vape anywhere at the drop of a hat, even out of other peoples bowls!

Were you able to get the screen method to work?

i was about to post reswults actually. i dont have a deep bowl so i tripled up on the screens and tried it. def got a nice vap effect and flavor! flowers only scorched after heavily flaming the screens. definitely worked great in my opinion! thanks for the tip.

vlad, have you thought of instead of putting a high temp bag in the freezer to cool it off, using a whip style vape and put it through a bong with cool water when you rip it?

I've also thought of this, but instead of a regular bong, a gravity bong that percolates. It would act like a bag almost, except have a cooling effect on the smoke for when doing high temps, what are your thoughts on this??

Well, if I understand you correctly, I think so. The bag in the freezer never worked well for me, cools too fast and the vapor condenses. My bag vape also has a GOG water pipe attachment, and I always filter my bags through a water pipe as hot air vapes are very harsh to me, being used to BHO. I find, with either bho or hot air vapes, that too much cooling is a bad thing. The temps are already lower than smoke, and condensation of the vapor becomes a big problem. Because of this, for vaping, either BHO or bag/whip, I use a single chamber no perc bong. Straight one hole downstem. Adding percolation cools too much and leaves me getting less high and with less thick hits. I havent rigged a bag or whip up to a gravity bong - they generate so little vapor at such a slow rate it seems like one would be unable to get a nice milky gravity bong hit. I have rigged up an oil concentrate bowl to a large 2 liter distillation funnel, which is a large enclosed funnel with a GOG fitting for a top opening and a valve on the bottom. I filled it with water, loaded the bowl with ~.5g high THC budder, and started releasing the valve while working the bowl with the heated wand. The vapor turned the thickest white I've ever seen, it was incredibly smooth, seemed Id exhale vapor forever, 5+ exhales and I was still emitting visible vapor. I started hallucinating within 5 minutes - jungle calls surrounded me, everything went red green and yellow, the walls shapesifted, this occurred to myself and my friend who took a similar dose. Worst trip ever - like low dose of mescaline but with anxiety instead of euphoria. The thing that folks dont realize is that highly pure (or pure) THC isnt fun - it desperately needs the CBD et al to kill the weird hallucinations and suppress the uncomfortable body high the THC causes. The BHO was made from dry ice hash from wonder woman, a type of extraction that favors delta 9 from strain that is notably high in delta 9, which is why it yielded the fluffy white powdery budder - I tend to stick to whole herb extractions of high CBD strains now, as the earwax to shatter oils are much more medicinal. But yeah... sorry for the ramble, a bit stoned. I dont think a gravity bong is necessary for a bag - if you add a perc, I think youll find you actually get a lot less vapor per hit as it condenses it, and without it, youre just kinda moving the vapor from one large chamber (the bag) to another (the gbong). If you are vaping at high temps, try scaling the temp down (should be ~380, 450-500F and it starts burning) and setting the fan on the lowest setting, in order to get milkier hits without scorching. But youll never get vapor as milky as bong smoke from a hot air vape, not without burning. The only way to get vapor that milky is with BHO and a concentrate bowl/wand.