Great forum here folks!
I am researching vaporizers and have some concerns about negative effects on health they might have. Clearly, vapor is better than smoke. What I am concerned about is the materials used to make the machines.
The Volcano is aluminum, right? Well, due to concerns that aluminum possibly short-circuits peoples brains in later years, one has to wonder.
Ceramic sounds good for example, and I see the Vapor Brothers claim to have "the only vaporizer to use a 100% ceramic" element. Another shop told me to beware their Taiwanese parts. So, does one manufacturer have "good" ceramic while others do not? How can one discern if the Vaportower, the Easyvape, Vaporbrothers and others are actually cleaner than the other?
Took a look at a local shop and found the VaporGenie; looked ok but worth more like $25 than the $60 they wanted. Also, if one is sucking on a lighter, you are not just getting good vapor, you are getting butane fumes. And holding them in.
Looked into the pricey heat guns and noticed on Amazon they come with the "cancer causing" warning! They may be great for dialing in that perfect temp, but they are not thinking human consumption when they weld those pups together!
Isn't sucking smoke through a plastic tube kinda counter-intuitive? Glass makes sense. Any of these units just glass and ceramic? Or must we encounter metal and plastic?
Seems every manufacturer is ready to slam the other. So, who to trust? Who really knows and tests their products for metal fumes, glues, machine oils, plastics, other out-gassing nasty crapola that none of us want to ingest?
Maybe the answer is burning off the oils and whatever else is integral to industrial manufacturing of vaporizers at high temp before toking. I don't know.
But I am anxious to hear what you veterans of the vapor think about this!
Thanks again for a mindful forum here!
I am researching vaporizers and have some concerns about negative effects on health they might have. Clearly, vapor is better than smoke. What I am concerned about is the materials used to make the machines.
The Volcano is aluminum, right? Well, due to concerns that aluminum possibly short-circuits peoples brains in later years, one has to wonder.
Ceramic sounds good for example, and I see the Vapor Brothers claim to have "the only vaporizer to use a 100% ceramic" element. Another shop told me to beware their Taiwanese parts. So, does one manufacturer have "good" ceramic while others do not? How can one discern if the Vaportower, the Easyvape, Vaporbrothers and others are actually cleaner than the other?
Took a look at a local shop and found the VaporGenie; looked ok but worth more like $25 than the $60 they wanted. Also, if one is sucking on a lighter, you are not just getting good vapor, you are getting butane fumes. And holding them in.
Looked into the pricey heat guns and noticed on Amazon they come with the "cancer causing" warning! They may be great for dialing in that perfect temp, but they are not thinking human consumption when they weld those pups together!
Isn't sucking smoke through a plastic tube kinda counter-intuitive? Glass makes sense. Any of these units just glass and ceramic? Or must we encounter metal and plastic?
Seems every manufacturer is ready to slam the other. So, who to trust? Who really knows and tests their products for metal fumes, glues, machine oils, plastics, other out-gassing nasty crapola that none of us want to ingest?
Maybe the answer is burning off the oils and whatever else is integral to industrial manufacturing of vaporizers at high temp before toking. I don't know.
But I am anxious to hear what you veterans of the vapor think about this!
Thanks again for a mindful forum here!