I have never used one ( I have several ceramic heating elements lying around,so I guess I could make one in less than 10min...) but the idea was to not actually touch what ever you were trying to vaporize but to hold the element close to it...sounds like it would take practice and would draw a lot more air into the hit than most vaporizers(weak hits),but thats just an educated guess.


If you could make a chimney for your bowl that was long enough so that when you insert the heat element it didn't touch ,that would focus the heat ,restrict excess air and take less finesse/skill to use.