Hello @mjhelto I’m sorry to hear about your old glass. I hope that the only thin that broke with it was a replaceable downstem. I would take the bong into a glass shop and ask them for sizing the right length downstem.

I don’t know how open you are to the recommendation of new pieces but theres some pretty neat and affordable glass on market today that wasn’t here 10 years ago.

I am a oldhead raised on traditional glass beakers, glass handpipes, and dugouts. The tech they have today is just crazy.

The orb v3 by vgoodiez is one of the most functional water pipes ive ever had.

Any dynavap absolutely invalidates a traditional one-hitter dugout. They sell wooden dugout boxes and other stash options for dynavaps. The H2 glass vaporizer in particular is real nice.

There are two makers of pure titanium bongs now that are unbreakable. The Summit and the danglebong.

Thick Ass Glass sold me the best most beefiest glass I ever had. Truly a company that proudly lives up to their name they will sell you thick ass glass. If you have the money get the thickest 9mm bong they have and you won’t be disappointed.

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The best light is the cheap usba plastic bulb ones that plug into any power bank. They last forever on battery power and provide decent enough light.

Hey subsub if you haven’t thrown it all away yet you can salvage it by making bubble hash.

Just do the process you normally do with the proper weight of grams and hope it all works out. You are presumably doing a free service for your friend using the valuable skillset and experience you have gained. They have no room to complain if the bud they supply you is mid and makes mid edibles or if the bud is fire and they end up sickly potent.

Does smell signify potency? I think theres a correlation at least some placebo where you think sticky dank flower is more potent so it is. You can put some humidity back into the flower to try to bring back some smell and stickyness but if youre cooking it anyways no point.

Great leader has mandated all must be implanted with explosive chip at base of the spine. The AM radio sometimes acts as a secondary proximity kill switch.

Thats a very ideal picture of a corpse thats been buried in the ground without a coffin that deep. Must have used one hell of an embalmer.

Also yeah me and the family still miss and talk about the dead pets. You never forget your loved ones and keep the memories alive.

I didn’t know gold digger was perojatorive, I thought it was just the common name given for that kind of behavior.

Human beings at base are emotionally complex, greedy, self- interested horny apes driven by comfort and convinence. Theres no shame in acknowledging less virtuous parts of our animalistic nature and addressing their manifestions of behavior in ourselves and others honestly.

Does it suck that some people are materialistic? Yes, but I dont shame them for it. That comes from part instinctual nature and part of social conditioning for hierarchical society. Theres plenty of cultures where marriage for political and financial power plays is completely publically normalized. Just not the one where I or presumably OP come from.

I agree that a 65 year old person being with a 25 year old person introduces a yuck factor but an conventionally named ‘prerogative’ for that behavior doesn’t come to mind especially not when I wrote the comment. Would ‘Youth-digger’ be appropriate?

You’ll both have lots of time to get used to the idea. Sorry to hear that your daughter turned into a gold digger marrying out of financial convinence instead of love. Its kind of unsavory and understandable why its causing some cognitive dissonance. But well thats the kind of thing our society incentivises and she’s an adult who can make her own choices. Its hard to judge too hard. Hope the husband is alright personality wise and even if this is dark to say, you can take some solice in that statistically speaking its probably not going to last too long and she will probably inherit some assets. If it all burns down it will be a hard but good lesson in not being with people just to extract value out of them.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my stuff and comment schmidt. Nice xq2 always a fun time rocking the good old cyclone/conneseur bowl and bag :)

I like bags for the experience. However its not a method I reach for often anymore. The vapor gets stale tasting quick by the time you get done filling a big bag a lot of the the terps and cannabinoid oil has been lost condensated back onto the inside of bag.

Then the bag itself gets a little stale tasting after a few uses affecting flavor even more. Then you have to buy more bags to replace stale dirty bag, and go through a process of redoing the balloon rubber bands holding the glass insert.

The glass orb offers the same kind of visual appeal of watching the vapor fill a thing to the point of milking it then ripping the dense vapor all at once. The difference is when it inevitably gets dirty inside you can just spray it down with alcohol and rinse with water at the sink.

The omega wand kits from ddave are game changers. I was unsatisfied with the stock cyclone /conesseuir bowl+ whip. I didn’t like all the airflow that made the vapor feel whispy, I didnt like how big the bowls were which always cooked herb unevenly, I didnt like how high the herb sits above the heater which took minutes to fully extract anything. The stock EQ was mid easily beat out in power by a simple dynavap.

The omega wand and adapters turned it into a top tier one hitter rig. Think elbow packing with much better extraction able to get all the vapor from a bowl in a single hit. Think being able to milk a small bag the size of the orb using a tiny bit of herb stretching out your grinder of expensive ganja out crazy amounts.

The goo roo hookah mouthpiece is a really really nice luxury if you are a whip user. The teeny little glass mouthpieces sent by arizer never felt luxurious to use or pleasant hold in the hand. It was a very basic functional restricted airflow mouthpiece.

The goo-roo mouthpiece is an absolute unit of glass. It feels great to hold in the hand and hit out of. I like it a lot easy recommend to any eq/xq2 owner who likes the whip.

The ruby balls are the final piece of the puzzle for the ddave adapters. Adding the balls makes the entire bowl cook evenly all the way through. Every watt of power the EQ can consume gets put to use heating up the balls it literally puts all possible power into extracting the herb completely and quickly. I’m convinced the only way to get better extraction would be an actual ball vape with beefy PID and injection chamber eating hundreds of watts.

Someone’s told me before after seeing my cleaning sesh it was too much work and I was better off just smoking lol. Well I figure its better to get the pieces gunked than my lungs. All the parts come together to realise my ideal extraction situation. The added maintenance is the trade off to maximizing performance kinda like a sports car.

Do I have problems with combusting the flower? Not anymore, but I used to. It required trial error and experience to dial in the right temps.

My perspective has always been that I want to extract all the vapor possible from flower. And the color of the herb tells you how much vapor is left to be extracted.

That means high temps and riding it right to the point just before combustion where the flower turns pitch black . My ideal extraction has the herb looking completely black cooked evenly all the way through.

Getting to that point with any arrangement of equipment takes experimentation to find ideal temp zones. During the experimentation phase combustion is likely, but after finding the sweet zone and some experience to lock it in theres basically no chance of combustion.

If you combust, dial it down 15 - 20 degrees f and try again. I settled in using the omega wands and cyclone/conesseuir bowl at 428F/220C/493.15K any point beyond that risk combustion if theres too much airflow.

Once I got ruby balls over the ceramic heater with ddave adapters, dialing in the temp became entirely a question of how many balls to add if I combusted I added 5-8 balls and tried again. Setting device to max and Covering the ceramic heater core with 1 layer of 3mm ruby is enough to eliminate combustion potential.

Anyways sorry for long 5 paragraph essay hope this helped inform you.

Since we are talking hypotheticals, an ideal scenario would be a nearly completely renewables approach where each household is its own self contained energy production center equippef with solar arrays, wind turbines, thermoelectric generators. Various means of production. And have either propane or diesel generator as a backup. You know your average overall watt-hour usage for the household and try to have enough battery capacity to satisfy it for a week or two of bad weather.

Most household electrical wiring is redone for DC transmission and all consumer appliances possible are run straight on DC for optimal efficency. Energy efficent heat pumps for cooling and heating. energy efficent cooking appliances like induction heaters. Electric cars that act as backup battery banks would be awesome.

Industrial zones would be much harder as you need huge solar panel or wind turbine arrays to get the megawatt and gigawatts needed to run a factory. Most factories are decades old running on the most energy ineffient assembly lines you can think of. A energy mandate that calculated and taxed total energy efficency compared to national average for factory size and the would be a start.

Humanity simply does not “stop” because we go through an energy crisis. We did fine enough before the industrial revoltion and renewables + energy efficent consumer devices have improved a bunch. The economy would tank and what renewable energy made would be a premium commodity and the system would adapt to use it best as possible. But things would go on.

I appreciate it thanks for taking a look. The setup took a lot of work and creative thinking over the year slowly understanding what was needed and sourcing the aftermarket parts to get it extracting real nice. The extremeq is an excellent desktop vape done dirty by its stock parts.

I prefer using the orb dry more I like watching the turbulent vapor swirls completely fill up the piece. I do use water in it too when in the mood for it.

Water is good when you are vaping a lot and need some moisture to not get a dry throat. But it gets murky, starts to taste bad and contributes to reclaim deposits forming on the inner glass I think. It filters out some of the plant oils you want in the vapor.

I was absolutely surprised at how much vapor was produced with such little herb. The middle bowl here Is the one used in the video like maybe .05-.1 g?

If I had put the big 18mm omega wand bowl in there it would have really milked up the glass quick lol.

This setup is a microdosing dream!

Thank you! I added a video link to the description if you wanted to see it in action.

The glass orb is easy to clean, the pieces that insert into the vaporizer need cleaning from time to time. The metal omega wand extraction device works best with some melted beeswax covering it so it doesn’t stick into the glass adapters it inserts into. It uses metal bowl screens which need cleaning.

Thank you for the reply! The glass orb doesn’t take falls very well its a relatively fragile piece. However its cheap enough to replace from time to time.

The vaporizer itself requires no maintenance. The adapters and stuff inserted into it needs cleaning after awhile.

Good attetion to detail. I have ruby balls directly above the heater so it behaves more like a ball vape. They balance things out while improving the extraction.

You are welcome. Im happy if my writings can inform a few people from time to time. Yes thats absolutely what it means if you read the fine print of ecosia they tell you how they collect your data including IP address+ search terms and share it with google and Microsoft’s ad network to show you ads through ecosia. So your data is still coming back google and Microsoft to be sold to the highest bidder. Everyones gotta get a cut profititing off your data, except for you. At least a small bit of that profit goes to the trees I guess.

Here’s my guide to alternative search engines that discusses all the different search engines and how they differ under the hood. I wrote it to be understandable to everyone not just tech nerds.

Ads aren’t a thing in my life. On the off day I have to visit someone who lives with ads and suffer through one or two I tough it out, or look at my phone, or do something different.

I don’t watch live TV. I dont pay for any subscription services except phone service and internet data. I watch YouTube content that has the ads stripped out. I download youtube videos that get often rewatched to hard drive. For movies I buy DVD that can have the drm stripped out.

I play good video games preferably drm free (steam is the one service I can’t really give up easy, but it has offline mode and the deck so praise gaben!). I read e-books that are drm free. I have a mp3 player downloaded with all my music drm free.

The better question is, why are you willing to live with ads at all? Assuming you are in control of your living situation and have the power change whats shown on tv or played through speakers.

Why would you tolerate being constantly bombarded with manipulative messaging by companies, political canpaigns, and all the other powerful groups who want to affect he masses for their benefit?

Why is it so hard just say no? To give up the forms of toxic entertainment delivery? Why can’t you sacrifice ease and convinence and familiarity to regain some control overhow your attention is spent during free time?

If you like something, buy it and really take the steps to own it physically.

The digital manifestation of the ghost in the machine. It likes playing with the bits that line occupies when you aren’t looking. Don’t touch its line.