Quote Originally Posted by Fengzi
I've had my Vapor Brothers for about 3 months now and with daily use haven't had any problems with breakage. The whip seems pretty sturdy to me, at least as sturdy as glass can be.

It's my understanding that you actually connect the whip on the Vapor Warez to the heating element. Is that correct? With the Vapor Bros it doesn't connect, you just hold it up to the heating element much like you'd hold a pipe to a flame( or flame to the pipe). I can see, however, that if it actually connected you'd have to be more careful passing the whip around. Any sideways pressure would create a lot of leverage at the spot where the whip connects and since it's glass...well..you know.
Yeah, on the hands free version (the one I have) you do connect the whip to the heating element. At the time I bought it I figured this would be better because, you know, you don't have to sit there like a jerk and hold the thing up to the heating element the whole time, you can just sit back and relax.

In retrospect I probably had the whip connected to the heating element for too long, heating up the glass to a point that made it more breakable. The thing that pisses me off is I didn't pull it sideways when I broke it, I pulled away from the unit and it just broke away.

Next time I will be more careful, and I will keep the whip connected to the heating element for shorter periods of time. But man is it easy to just sit there and pack whip after whip and smoke freely, not worrying about odor or smoke bothering anyone else...

But I still think they should make the whips stronger. It says at vaporwarez.com that their top selling item is a spare glass mouthpiece, so I'm guessing that a lot of people have the same problem I did.