New Simrell Hydro XL

I’m officially part of the droolers club. The first hit on the XL was a flower hash blend. 2.4g flower 1.1g hash, ground (not all of it). These are my thoughts…. Haha

Simrell is from Ohio. Ohio, USA. Yes! :united_states:
And yes, I absolutely drooled my ass off on the very first toke! Sheesh! :drooling_face:

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I recognize those binoculars. I’ve been thinking about picking up a monocular from that same brand. I just wish they had a neck strap for it, as they do for the binoculars.

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I finally caved and ordered one myself, along with the titanium XL stem adapter, so I’ll add some actual user impressions once it gets here and I’ve had some time with it. I’m especially curious to see how it compares to some of the other heavy hitters in my collection. I couldn’t hold out any longer haha

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Having some issues after my first cleaning in some 99% isopropyl. The click is damn near inaudible, if it happens at all now. Not sure precisely what’s up with it, but I’m gonna give it a complete teardown soon here.

Followup: This is fixed. Unscrewing the thermal exchanger from the top part of the unit frees the click discs, washing those and drying them before reassembling was what did it.

How did you clean it?

Unthreaded the main bits apart, tossed them in a Ziploc with the isopropyl and sealed it. Got it warmed up in some hot water (our heater gets to about 145f or so)

Once it was warm, I shook it around for a mini or so, took the pieces out and rinsed them in some in some hot water for a minute. Dried them off as I could, blew out what water I could and did a dry run on it to try and boil the rest of the water away.

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Nothing wrong with that imo. Did you put the click disks back in correctly? They have to be like this )( with the low temp disk facing the thermal capacitor.

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I actually haven’t figured out how to separate the heat battery/thermal exchanger into its parts yet :sweat_smile:

Nvm I got it, the screwdriver I was using wasn’t getting purchase but I used another and it worked. Gonna give them a clean and reassemble :slight_smile:

Followup: That did it, click is back!

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Stem + XL adapter came in today and she rippppppin’.

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I’ve been using the Yocan Temporal for it and it’s perfect. Heat between the first 2 dots for 25 seconds and I get a great roast. I tried the XL in all of IHs and had no luck. I’m afraid to try the Inductor.

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