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- Message-ID: <175309Z05091994@anon.penet.fi>
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.pot
- From: an122794@anon.penet.fi
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 17:46:56 UTC
- Subject: Death Star plans (repost)
-
-
- At least a few people have requested that the following plans be either
- sent to them or reposted to alt.drugs, so here they are:
-
-
-
-
- The Death-Star
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
- /
- \
- \
- /
- ____
- | |(A)
- \ /
- ---------------------------------||---
- <---> | / \ || |
- ___________|___ / balloon } (B) __|_____
- | /---------|--- \ } --|---\ |
- || | \ / | ||
- || -------------------------------------- ||
- || ||
- || ||
- || ||
- || ||
- || __________________/ |
- || | /------------------
- || || <----
- || ||
- || _||_
- || / || \
- / \ / || \
- |(C1)| ----> | || | ---->
- \ / ______________________|_ || _|______________
- || | /---------------------- || --------------\ |
- || || | || | ||
- || || |~~~~||~~~~| ||
- || || | || | ||
- | \____/ \__________ | || | (E) ||
- ------(C2)---------- (D) | || | ||
- <--- \ / ----> | || | ||
- || ---------- ||
- || Stage 1 ||
- || (hot water) ||
- || ||
- || ||
- || ||
- +------------+ <---- ||
- | (output) | __________________/ |
- | | | /------------------
- | (G) | ||
- +------------+ ||
- Air Pump _||_
- / || \
- / || \
- | || | ---->
- | || _|_____________________
- | || ---------------------\ |
- | || | ||
- |~~~~||~~~~| ||
- | || | ||
- | || | (F) ||
- | || | ||
- | || | suck here
- ----------
- Stage 2
- (ice-water)
-
-
- * arrows indicate the flow of air/smoke.
-
- (A) The bowl: "You put your weed in it."
-
- (B) "Gravity" Chamber: What we used for this is a plastic spaghetti
- dispenser. Probably any cylindrical container which can be sealed
- airtight will do (actually a 1-2 liter bottle is probably okay.)
- Into one side (the left side in the diagram) goes a plastic tube
- with a balloon securely attached to the end (a rubber band will
- work.) Into the other side, insert a bowl (A) and another plastic
- tube going to (E). Important: the entire cylinder must be sealed
- airtight, so that air may only enter and leave the chamber through
- the "out" tube (on the right) and the bowl. Air obviously may only
- enter the balloon through the left tube (from (G) the pump.) The
- reason I call this the "gravity" chamber is because it functions
- exactly as a gravity bong, with the top of the balloon doing what
- the water usually does. By the way, the balloon should be of the
- round variety (as opposed to oblong) because you don't want air
- (or smoke) to get past the balloon... i.e. the balloon should be
- tight against the sides.
-
- (C) Controls: This part is a bit hard to explain. Part (C2) is simply
- something that will allow you to choose one of three ways to direct
- air from the pump. Most aquarium stores will have the necessary
- equipment (you'll definitely want to be able to choose exactly one
- of the three outputs (9,12, and 3 o'clock in the diagram) at any
- given time. Part (C1) should be a relief valve (I don't know if
- that's the correct term) which looks something like:
-
-
-
- to nowhere
-
- ||
- ----> ---- (*) <---->
- ____________________||___________________
- -----------------------------------------
- from pump to/from
- balloon
-
-
-
-
- (*) Valve: allows you to control the amount of
- air that goes out (to the room). To
- inflate the balloon, close the valve
- so that all air goes from the pump to
- the balloon. To deflate the balloon,
- open the valve. The valve allows you
- to control the speed of inflation or
- deflation as well...
-
-
- (D) Air: You should have an output from the pump to the air, so that the
- the air from the pump always has somewhere to go when you don't want
- to inflate the balloon or pump air to (E). Be nice to your pump.
-
- (E) Stage 1: Standard bong technology here... smoke comes from (B),
- bubbles through the water, and goes out the right-hand tube (in the
- picture.) Instead of a carb, though, air can be directed from the
- pump into the chamber. This will force air through to stage 2 and
- out through the mouth part (so you can pour yourself a bong-hit.)
- As long as (B) is above this part, nothing will be pumped back to
- (B) since the weight of the water prevents this. The actual chamber
- in our model is much smaller than Stage 2 (F), since the larger
- these chambers are, the more one has to suck before any smoke comes
- out. Hot water is supposed to "clean" the smoke more than cold, but
- maybe that's bullshit.
-
- (F) Stage 2: Same as (E) except bigger. We used a Sunny Delight bottle
- (That shit actually has oil in it... I wouldn't recommend drinking
- it, but the bottle works well.) Ice-water in this one definitely
- gives you a hit that's smoother than smooth.
-
- (G) Air Pump: You can get this at an aquarium store as well. I don't
- really know how powerful ours is, but it really just has to be able
- to inflate the balloon, which probably doesn't require much power.
- Pumping air to (E) isn't really necessary, and it would require a
- much more powerful pump to really force the air out... but it's fun
- anyway...
-
-
-
- Instructions:
-
- 1. Load the bowl. It seems to work best if you really break the pot up
- into small pieces (or use shake) since you want it to burn fast.
-
- 2. Inflate the balloon. Inflate it as much as possible without pushing
- against the bowl or whatever. For that reason, the bowl should be
- placed close to the end of the gravity chamber. You can open the
- valve (C2) so that at this point, it's at equilibrium (i.e. not
- inflating/deflating.)
-
- WARNING: Test this out first, etc, since if the balloon pops, then
- ~~~~~~~ most likely whatever is in the bowl will end up all over
- the floor. This actually happened to us once, but it was
- due to carelessness (which in turn was due to being 100%
- baked). So always pay attention when the balloon is
- inflating.
-
- 3. Light up. Have someone hold the lighter to the bowl, and loosen the
- valve all the way, so that the balloon deflates quickly, drawing smoke
- into the chamber. Try to stop the balloon from deflating beyond the
- point when the sides of the balloon come away from the sides of the
- chamber (by closing the valve.) The smoke should be so thick that it
- looks like mayonnaise... if it doesn't you're probably doing something
- wrong.
-
- WARNING: Do not allow the balloon to inflate at this point, because
- ~~~~~~~ then smoke will gush forth from the bowl.
-
- 4. Start sucking. Give someone else the first hit, and as they are sucking,
- you can inflate the balloon (as long as it's slower than they are
- sucking) thereby making the smoke leave the gravity chamber. It seems
- to help if there's something flat placed over the bowl (which also
- reduces risks in step 3.) All of this may take some practice, but
- probably not much. It's not necessary to re-inflate the balloon, but
- it will result in a stronger hit.
-
- 5. Um... next step. When all of the smoke has left the gravity chamber,
- you can switch (C2) so that air goes to Stage 1, and smoke will be
- pushed slowly through the suck tube. Skip this if it doesn't turn
- you on. It does function sort of as a carb, so even if you don't
- achieve spectacular results, it is useful.
-
- 6. Keep sucking. If everything is large enough, there should be several
- hits worth still in stages 1 & 2.
-
- 7. Repeat. Keep repeating steps 1-6 until the bong is too funny to smoke.
-
-
-
- Tips:
-
- 1. Load the bowl really full (but not packed too tightly), and try to
- completely torch it during step 3. For some reason, the uniformity
- and speed of the burn is very efficient. Think about it: whenever you
- normally stop taking a hit, the pot still burns for a bit, and this is
- wasteful. Trust the bong... nothing will leak out or anything like that,
- so go for it. The key to the power of this bong is the fact that the
- burning of the pot is separate from the actual act of smoking.
-
- 2. Make sure everything is totally air-tight. We used aquarium sealant on
- just about every connection, and it seems to work very well.
-
- 3. By the way, the tubes that actually have smoke going through them (the
- ones on the right hand side of the diagram) should have a larger
- diameter than the ones from the pump. Otherwise, you'll get too much
- resistance when taking a hit. I think ours are probably around 1/4-1/2
- inch in diameter, while the pump tubes are quite a bit smaller. The
- tubes can be purchased at a hardware store (we payed $0.40/foot, I think.)
-
-
-
- That's all. May your station soon be fully operational...
-
-
-
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