alright so i hit my "shum" (bong without a choke, bowl in slide instead) far to much, to an unhealthy extend mostly based on the fact that there is usually as much tobacco as weed in my bowls.
i had always planed on buying a vaporizer but had always read and heard that convection vaporizers (hot air no heating element) where far superior to conduction vaporizers (weed sitting directly on an element).
i did a bunch of research into this almost 4 years ago(and it dosent seam much has changed) and at that time there where basically a bunch of shit vaporizers on both sides of the fence, mostly conduction and there was the volcano which was really the only one worth buying. but at easily over $600 Canadian that was never really a serious option, tho i did try to convince my buddies to pitch and they could come over and hit it when ever they want, that idea really didn't fly we tried it with a nice glass shum years before and one of them had the great idea to sneak threw my window and steal it while i was down stairs eating dinner because he could not wait 10 minutes to hit it. then days later since it was a "communal shum" they convinced me to take to to a party with us, in my back pack(where is stuck a good 5 inches out the top past the zipper) that we had to WALK to. it seamed like i good idea, who wouldn't like a nice bowl instead of frivolously wasting weed on joints, yeah until the surprisingly quick shutting doors of a 7/11 had something to say about it. we instantly tried to play it off like one of us dropped a glass bottle and offered to clean it up but with the shock and anger of losing such a valuable pence of glass so early in its life i just walked out more pissed then i have ever been. i still woe the day, i will get you 7/11 door don't you worry.
anyways a little of topic, where was i... o yeah so i am not rich and this is my life we are talking about but 600$ bucks common now, thats maybe $80 bucks in parts.
so other then the volcano the only other convection vaporizers i see worth buying are the vapolution or some type of heat gun bowl setup which i am still kinda confused about i know you can attach them to large wine vats but i don't plan on keeping one of those around, though my parents make wine so its feasible. but apparently the huge bowls that the heat gun sits into goes directly into most bongs/shums and is used like it would be with the heat gun instead of a lighter. i am just worried about how careful i have to be, one wrong move with this huge corded heat gun and there goes the bowl possibly the shum.
if anyone has experience with either of those 2 or would recommend something else?. please let me know also how would you rate the hit from different vaporizers compared to a single bowl from shum.
thanks
