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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:
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/
\
\
/
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\ /
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<—> | / \ || |
___________|___ / balloon } (B) __|_____
| /———|— \ } –|—\ |
|| | \ / | ||
|| ||
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|| | /——————
|| || <—-
|| ||
|| _||_
|| / || \
/ \ / || \
|(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
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
3. Light up. Have someone hold the lighter to the bowl, and loosen the
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.
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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