Ordered June 13, 2015 - I just got an email to confirm my shipping details.
Same here.
Ordered a titanium on June 18, 2015. Received shipping confirmation email on Sunday.
I couldn't wait any longer. So I purchased a SS hopper from Vapefiend 3 or 4 months ago.
I love the same things that everybody else does about the hopper.
Plus have the same issues with it as everybody else has.
I do taste a hint a metal in the vapor. But as long as the herb is high quality and tastes great. It doesn't bother me at all.
4 out of 2 batches of herb. That looked great and smelled great. Tasted like complete ass in the hopper from beginning to end. I usually start out at 2.5 and finish around 4.5.
I live in New York so great herb is hard to come by.
It tasted so bad that I had to go back to using my Arizer Air until the batch was finished. The Air gave those batches more of a neutral taste.
Don't get me wrong the 2 other ounces I put through it tasted like heaven.
I get the flickering lights right from the start. But only when I'm drawing from it.
The backend gets hot IMO only when my hands are in a certain position.
I usually draw from it while having the top of my pinky resting on the on/off button. While my middle finger and ring finger. Are resting on the hoppers clip. My thumb is holding the back and my index finger. Is a little higher below the mouthpiece on the front.
Always using the condom by the way. I just don't like lip dancing around the hot mouthpiece.
With my hand in that position while drawing. If I move my pinky and touch the backend. Where the serial number is. At the same time as the on/off button. I get an instant surge of heat.
It doesn't happen all the time. Plus I click it on and off after each hit. So it hasn't been a real issue with me.
All that said. I can't wait for my titanium to finally get here to compare the two.
I most likely will keep the SS as a backup to the titanium.
Guess I'll have to wait and see how that turns out.