Broke My Vortex Base, What To Do Now?

[Panther]

I broke my Mya Vortex base the other day, it felt like I had lost a child.

I'm sort of lost as to how to go about replacing it... I usually shop through hookah-shisha, in looking at their Base replacement section I see one which I think is a Vortex, also one called the Obelisk? Does anyone know if my Vortex stuff would fit on the Obelisk base, or should I just go ahead and get another Vortex base? Does anyone know if one smokes better than the other? I always loved my Vortex, maybe I should just get another...But then again my friend keeps her hookah at my place and it was also a green Vortex, same as mine, so maybe it would be cool to have something a bit different. Does anyone around here have an Obelisk or know how they smoke?

To be honest I'm having trouble thinking rationally about hookah right now. Yesterday I thought I was going to have to buy a whole new hookah and was torn between Mya or not, now I don't know what to do base-wise.

Thanks for any advice.

P.S. Hard to say how much of this was b/c of me being stupid and how much was the whole "Mya has weak glass" thing. Certainly I was surprised when it broke (while cleaning it) but as a college student who smokes hookah in crowds of inebriated youth fairly often, I've had hookahs fall over a few times and always knew it might happen regardless of weak glass or not. Edited February 20, 2008 by Panther

[waterboi]

Contact Mya Saray directly. They have been know to help and they also sell other bases.

http://www.myasaray.com/home.asp

I have a Vortex also and hate reading these post. Makes me kinda scared of mine!

[antouwan]

the same thing happened to me over the summer. for now i'm using an acrylic base on it, but it doesn't smoke the way it used to...

http://www.myasaray.com/store/item.asp?ite...epartment_id=36

[CouchKing]

contact mya. They can definitely help you get a replacement vase.

[Switch]

i would just order a new vortex base, i have a mya vortex and it smokes great, i think that that oblisk one isnt threaded so there is no guarentee that the stem of your vortex would fit. You would have to buy grommets and all that stuff.

[jfaltous]

I have both the vortex and obelisk... Switch is right in that the obelisk isnt threaded, so it wont screw in, but it is a close fit. All you'd have to do to get it to fit is just get one of the mya vase grommets and then it will fit in quite nicely.

[ZenSilk]

Ask every question you have to H-S online help and they will sort it out.

[Elky]

Like Zensilk said, talk to H-S live help, they can hook you up with any part you need especialy for a Mya. It might cost a bit though.

[The Devils Playground]

What we do for customer here at the shop when they break say a Vortex is sell them a new base for the whoesale price. The obilisk is a press fit so it will not work. I am sure you could ad spacers to convert it. But the Vortex is a threaded.

I would say see who carries vorteses and contact them on a base for that machine and get it back up and running.