Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

Metasynth

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Been using the mini dive. I like but need a bigger hit. Haven't tried the skillet yet

SH420
You may benefit from buying some ceramic xtal tips. I think they have an exposed heating element and can provide bigger clouds. Like the traditional coils in a wax pen, but set up for a nectar Collector tip


Sort of like this ceramic tip. See how the coil is exposed like the skillets in the older yocan evolve dab pen? May provide a more direct heating element


 

DarkWeb

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Dragged a sled around and found a nice tree. Hopefully I scared all the squirrels and birds out lol Took all the Xmas stuff out of the shop attic. Brought in a bunch of firewood. Now I just gotta get shit moved around and bring in the tree.......Santa needs a dab :eyesmoke:
 

RetiredToker76

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Had a cool gig last night, a holiday party in a posh suburban mansion. Buncha young doctors and such. I thought it would be obnoxious, but it was mellow. Most of them stayed in the front section of the house drinking and being loud, while I was situated in the back in an area with comfortable seating. So I got to play for the folks that were chilling back there and the kitchen and serving staff. They kept bringing me beer, and didn't mind that I vaped between songs and such. Got a $100 tip on a $400 gig, and booked another xmas party gig while there for next weekend.

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I'm playing another huge xmas party today with my chamber ensemble in WI, I'm really looking forward to playing with them and road tripping up there with my SMVG (sexy married violinist girlfriend). We all haven't seen each other for weeks, it will be nice to play some music with them and catch up. Hope everyone's having a great weekend.

Sounds like it was a nice gig! The bringing you beer reminded me of wedding quartet gig I played in college. It was a (VERY) Southern Lutheran wedding in the middle of no-where Missouri. We got there and the best man came out, "We got ya'll the very best seat in the house to play, you'll like it fer sure."

We followed him to where we were to play, and he sat us down in a circle around a keg of Nat. Light. He continued, "We didn't know what ya'll would like, so we just got a keg for yer-selves."

Our quartet was headed by the Violin professor, he looked at us and said, "Don't you even think about it."

Most ye-haw wedding I ever played, we even had someone in attendance holler for Freebird as we started Pachelbel's Cannon.
 

RetiredToker76

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So every time someone mentions Yocan, I twitch. Badly.

I had planned back in 2014 or 15 to switch to a full e-setup using the Yocan Nero system because of its reported rapid heat up time compared to most the coils on the market back then.

So this was the first (and last) Yocan item I got.

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There was supposedly going to be an e-nail option for bongs that ran off the system too and a dry herb companion, AFAIK they never got the latter two on the market successfully. The rapid-heating foil atomizer was the selling point and the major failing point. At the time you could only get the atomizers from their website or e-bay store and they were $25 for a pack of 5. The also awlays blew the foil within a week usually a day or two, sometimes on the first use.

Turns out the foil would contract too fast if you were in a remotely chilled environment, like outside in Nov. at a festival or in an air conditioned room. So I found that using it in my favorite air conditioned spot would almost guarantee that the foil popped, in the car not even a chance it would survive the fast blowing cold air of the AC, all I had to do was pass it in front of the vent setting it down and you'd hear a faint click of the foil breaking from the temperature change. At a fest. in Nov. I went through almost $75 in coils at the 4 day event because it was just too cold for the dab-saber (our nickname for it.)

When I gave up after a few months, I called the Yocan line and left a message, they never responded in any way. So I started firing them emails, after about the 6th one, they sent me an empty email that had nothing but a $15 gift certificate to their website, and nothing else.

I ended up chucking the thing in the trash in a rage and getting a $15 4v pen top from the headshop with the coils wrapped around quartz, it sucked and was a mess but at least it lasted more than a week.

I'm not sure if I'm at the point I'm willing to go back to trying them. I've got pretty much all my dab gear electrified where I want it, and flame powered where I don't.

I have to admit, the thing was a tank and felt like you were taking a dab from a lightsaber, which was really intimidating for people who'd never seen a dab pen of any kind before and fun for me. If it didn't have an upkeep cost of upwards $100+ a month to run, I would have loved it. The lack of customer service just put me over the edge.
 

curious2garden

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Staff member
butter is ready! 3.23 grams of rosin for 1/2 lb butter. Smells like normal butter.

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I found a little under a 1/3 oz of GG#4 in the freezer. So I shoved it in the pre-press and pressed in my vise
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I made a 9 gram puck. I stuffed it in a 2x4.5, 90 micron bag and heated to 190. At which point I had a nice glass of Sauv Blanc and considered my life, such as it is. While everything heated to 190 and I slowly added pressure
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It began to slowly bubble out and finally there was this
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It smells heavenly. It's in the freezer waiting to be scraped off.
 
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