Ok, first usage report: Ive just had two days of pretty contstant use of the Extreme Q (the Q is the latests 2010 model, quieter fan and with the remote control) and im very impressed on the whole...
First the bag: ideal for one greedy person like me, forget sharing it, the fan fills the big bag up in a minute or three, and a setting of 190 degrees C fills it with vapour, 230 C fills it with smoke, preferred the smokier version, got more of a kick, more like what I am used to with my strong spliffs, know that its better to have vapour not smoke, but i still need a bit of convincing that this is getting me to the higher levels _ more on this in a bit..
Secondly the whip pipe, felt like a Bedoiun smoking a hookah pipe in a tent all weekend, nice hits, coughed when the fan was on setting 2, probably dont need to use the fan at all to be honest, got good pulls without actually anyway, just being lazy, and used the remote control even when I was sitiing next to the main thingie, lazy fat guts its made me already
Bud usage - I used Chronic as my test strain, It does make the bud last, no doubt, I would have used a lot more in spliffs, got several big bags or loads of pulls off one bowl, each bowl full requires a shake after filling a bag or after several pulls, but it still has lots more to give after each shake so one bowl was in effect lasting at least an hour or two of heavy usage...
Compare to Iolite, its a huge step up in quality and i was getting more stoned undoubtedly, and no more of those hot pipes burning my lips, so glad to have taken the plunge
I notice that the same guy that sold mine to me from e-bay is doing the 2009 model (tower extreme) for only 129 quid now, thats seriously good value, I can PM the link to anyone who wants it. He delivered within 24 hrs of the order btw, I was well chuffed.. (just got the OK from him to list his site, I went via e-bay, but his actual web site is
www.vaporlot.com ).
But, and Ive got an awful feeling that there is no answer to this, I still cant shake off this paranoia that Im not getting to the final lock-down level that I was when I was smoking fat strong joints with tobacco in, a feeling that Im still not getting completely wasted,. I fear that this means it was the whole combustion/baccy hit that Im after still, that Im chasing a high that was coming off the tobacco not the bud, so tough shit in other words if I want a tobacco-free buzz...reading other peoples feedback on the fuckcombustion site they go on about a cleaner high, I suppose that mean I have to adapt my expectations, and i would agree that I felt a lot less spat out the next day after hitting it all day/night Saturday.
