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Cleaning guides, head-to-head comparisons and straight buying advice — built up over years of actually using this gear. No sales pitch.
Guide
How to Spot a Fake Mighty Vaporizer
Fake Mightys look close until you know the tells. Check the box, the serial, the finish and the charger, and you'll pick a counterfeit in under a minute.
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Vaporizer Not Working? Five Simple Fixes for Common Problems
Most vaporiser problems aren't broken units, they're a clogged screen, a dirty path or a flat battery. Here's how to diagnose the five common ones and fix them in minutes.
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Conduction vs Convection vs Hybrid Vaporizers: What's the Difference?
Conduction, convection and hybrid heating each feel different in the hand and in the lungs. Here's how they work and which one suits how you actually vape.
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The Complete Guide to Cleaning Your Mighty Vaporizer
A gunked-up Mighty tastes off and draws worse. Here's the cleaning routine that keeps it running like new, and the things that wreck it.
Review
The 5 Best Portable Vaporizers Under $300
Five portables under $300 AUD, picked apart honestly. Where the money goes, where corners get cut, and which one suits which kind of user.
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How to Clean a DaVinci IQ and Miqro: The Complete Guide
A neglected DaVinci IQ tastes harsh and draws like a straw. Here's how to clean the oven, the pearl and the flavour chamber properly, plus the parts people always forget.
Review
The Most Popular Vapes of 2019: What Aussies Actually Bought
The vaporisers Australians actually bought in 2019, and the honest reasons each one kept selling. A snapshot of the year, not a wishlist.
Guide
The Easiest Way to Clean Your PAX Mouthpiece
When a PAX mouthpiece stops sliding and the draw goes harsh, it's just resin in the airpath. Here's the two-minute fix that gets it moving again.
Review
Battle of the Desktop Vapes 2019: The Best Desktop Vaporizer of the Year
We put the year's big desktop vaporisers head to head on vapour, flavour and value. A 2019 snapshot of the Volcano, the Extreme Q and the contenders in between.
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How to Clean a PAX 2 and PAX 3 Vaporizer
A neglected PAX gets a sticky mouthpiece and a flat, harsh taste. Here's the quick iso-and-pipe-cleaner routine that brings it back, plus what not to do.
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Why a Good Quality Grinder Is Essential to Vaping (and What the Best Herb Grinder Looks Like)
The grinder is the bit everyone skimps on, and it shows up in the bowl. Here's why grind consistency makes or breaks a session, and what separates a good herb grinder from a frustrating one.
Review
The Top Four Vaporizers for Staying Discreet
The four most discreet portable vaporisers, ranked on size, smell, cloud and noise, plus what each one gives up to stay low-key.
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How to Clean a Volcano Vaporizer: Classic and Hybrid
A grimy Volcano tastes flat and the balloon fills slower. Here's how to clean the Classic and Hybrid properly, plus the parts you can throw in the dishwasher.
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3 Tips for Vaping on a Budget: Get a Cheap Vaporizer Working Harder
Vaping cheap isn't about the lowest sticker price. It's about a device that lasts, herb that goes further, and a bit of upkeep so you're not buying twice.
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Glass vs Plastic Vaporizer Air Paths and Mouthpieces: What Actually Matters
Glass tastes cleaner and cleans easier. Plastic survives being dropped. Here's how the air path and mouthpiece material actually affects your sessions, and who each one suits.
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Cleaning Guide: The Arizer Extreme Q
The Extreme Q lives or dies on clean glass. Here's how to clean the whip, elbow, cyclone bowl and screens without cracking anything, plus what to never do.
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Vaporizer Battery Life: What Drains It and How to Get More
Most portable vapes don't have a bad battery, they have a hot one. Here's what actually drains a vaporiser between charges and how to squeeze more sessions out of it.
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Cleaning Guide: The Arizer Solo
The Solo's glass stems gunk up fast and the flavour goes muddy with them. Here's the soak routine that brings both back, plus the few things that crack the glass.
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Vaporizer Maintenance: Taking Care of Your Vaporizer
Most vapes don't die, they get neglected. Here's the simple maintenance routine that keeps any vaporiser tasting clean and drawing right for years.
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A New Classic: Storz & Bickel Release the New Volcano Hybrid
Storz & Bickel just dropped the Volcano Hybrid. It does whip and balloon, heats up in seconds instead of minutes, and finally has an app. Here's what's actually new versus the Classic.
Review
The Arizer ArGo: 3 Reasons You Need This Great Vape
Arizer shrank their glass-path flavour into something that fits a jeans pocket. Here are the three things about the ArGo that actually won people over.
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Introducing a New Herb Grinder: the Kannastor GR8TR V2
The GR8TR V2 lands with swappable grinding plates and a jar body for storage. Here's how it grinds and who it's for.
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How to Clean a Magic Flight Launch Box
The Launch Box is mostly wood and a hot wire, so it cleans differently to a plastic portable. Here's how to keep the trench, screen and contacts happy without soaking the box.
Review
DaVinci IQ vs Miqro: Which One Suits You?
The IQ and the Miqro are the same idea at two sizes. Here's what actually changes between them and which one's the better fit for how you vape.
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How to Identify a Counterfeit Firefly 2
Fake Firefly 2 units turn up on marketplaces and dodgy resale sites. Here's how to tell a genuine one from a knock-off before you buy.
Review
PAX 3 Review: Why It Stayed the Most Sought-After Pocket Vape
The PAX 3 is the pocket vape everyone keeps asking for. Here's what it actually does well, where it falls short, and who it suits.
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The Australia Day Weekend Sale at Australian Vaporizers (2019)
A snapshot of our 2019 Australia Day long weekend sale, the deals, the gear people grabbed, and the reasoning. Archived for the record; nothing here is running now.
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How to Choose a Portable Vaporizer
Six things actually decide whether you'll love a portable vaporiser or leave it in a drawer. Here's how to weigh heating, draw, battery, size, dual use and budget.
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Buying Your First Vaporizer: A Beginner's Guide
New to vaping and not sure where to start? Here's what separates vaping from smoking, the handful of things worth caring about on your first unit, and the rookie mistakes to skip.
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How to Clean a DaVinci Vaporizer (Classic and Ascent)
The older DaVinci units gunk up in the airpath and the mouthpiece more than most. Here's how to clean a Classic or an Ascent properly, and the habits that keep it sweet.
Review
Is the DaVinci IQ Really Worth Your Money? An Honest Review
The DaVinci IQ nails flavour and pocketability, but the airflow and cleaning put some people off. Here's what you're actually paying for and who should skip it.
Review
Arizer Air Unboxing and First Impressions
What you get in the Arizer Air box, how it feels in the hand, and how the first sessions go. A plain first look at the glass-stem portable, quirks and all.
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Replacing Your Vaporizer Whip Tubing: When, Why and How
Old whip tubing yellows, stiffens and starts to taste off. Here's when to swap it, how to get the size right, and why the silicone you use actually matters.
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All About Grinders: The Complete Herb Grinder Guide
Everything that matters about herb grinders in one place: pieces, teeth, materials, kief, screens and cleaning. The bit most people skim, explained properly.
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Silver Surfer Vaporizer Glass: Whip vs Glass-on-Glass
The Silver Surfer runs two glass styles: a whip or glass-on-glass through a water pipe. Here's what each one does to the draw, the flavour and the cleaning.
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Introducing the DaVinci Miqro
DaVinci shrank the IQ into something that genuinely disappears in a jeans pocket. Here's what the Miqro gets right at launch, and where the bigger IQ still wins.
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Convection vs Conduction Vapes: The Plain-English Difference
Convection heats your herb with hot air, conduction heats it by touch. Here's what that means for flavour, draw and how forgiving the thing is to live with.
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PAX 3 Vaporizer Announced: What's New
PAX have updated the 2 with a quicker heat-up, an app, and a concentrate insert. Here's what actually changed and whether it's worth the jump.
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The New DaVinci IQ Vaporizer Has Landed
DaVinci's IQ has arrived, and it's a proper step up from the Ascent. Smart Paths, a zirconia flavour chamber and an app that actually does something useful.
Review
The Best Desktop Vaporizers of 2018
The desktop vaporisers that stood out in 2018, from the Volcano to the value bench units, and a plain rundown of who each one suited.
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