Yeah so I made a huge impulse buy under a month ago at my LHS and dropped 500 on a Phire straight tube because of all the percs. It has a 7-arm downstem and a 13-arm tree and hits and clears faster than anything I've ever witnessed. It hit amazing but the other night the bottom of the tube (not the base) got knocked by a little corked jar. Not hard at all but still made a little clank. I honestly did not think anything of it because the jar got bumped off the edge of my coffee table, bounced off the carpet once, and hit the tube. I ended up watching tv for a while and I look down to pack a bowl and 5 of the arms on the downstem and just jangling in the bottom of the tube unattached. So now theres a showerhead diffuser like thing going on with 5 holes around, a fat center downstem, and one remaing arm outside the diffuser. The upper (13 arm) percolator is fine but I cannot believe how they just snapped off so easily on literally the first time I've ever knocked it with something. The jar isn't even the height of a bic but apparently it was strong enough to break the percs on a Phire which is kinda bs if you ask me considering it was the first time. but here's the thing, it hits smooth as hell still. But I can't get the broken off arms to come out. its a fixed downstem and the downstem with all the trees is so fat you cant get it to go up very far, not to mention the huge perc chamber above it. I'm just running the water really high right now and ignoring the downstems as though I've got some type of 5 hole showerhead and it hits exactly the same, just has more chug to it. Only thing is, it looks jank as fuck with the percs still in there and i cant find a way to get them out. Does anyone know of any way I could get them out of the tube? I need to like break them to little pieces somehow. please help. i'm kinda sad that i dropped that much on what turned out to be some low quality shit
Yeah I was thinking about that but I don't see what I'll be able to do with it once it's down there. The arms are just sitting in the bottom in the water. One fat downstem then its got 5 holes around it where the arms used to be and one arm is remaining. Could I like... convert it into a showerhead diffy somehow? If I broke the last arm out and the main center downstem. It'd have 6 holes going around it and one fat hole in the middle and the water would just be at a higher level.
go to your shop and get the number to the phire guy or request a refund. Prolly wont do the second one but if not you should be able to get a hold of someone from phire Its bullshit that they charge 500 bucks for something and then give out something thats going to get all broken and fucked up, percs shouldnt be falling off and getting undone in a 500 piece man ask the dude to replace that shit for the shitty workmanship on the percs
Yeah I'm pretty pissed. That really was the first time anything knocked it and I'm really not exaggerating when I say I took the best care of it that I possibly could have. Aside from that one thing and 500 dollars shouldn't get ruined for a (literally) tiny one-time thing.
Those things are Phire branded Chinese Toro knock off's. They tried to sell some to us 3 months ago. They haev no warranty and $500 is a crazy price for them. I've seen them going for $300.
Is there some way you could break the downstem into smaller pieces safely? Then you could pour them out the hole.
if there is no physical mark of the clank, take that shit back tell him u set it down and the fuckers just snapped off and its very unacceptable for that price!!! ask for the owner if not a manager and if he is not in, ASK that they call him and ask him if he can give u a refund or a "gift" if they are a Professional head shop they will take care of u, if not dont ever go back and post the name 2 warn others