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Lair of the infamous tms: Drug Policy, hooka

From mimsy!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state. edu!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!app45293 Wed Jan 29 10:35:59 EST 1992 Article: 23271 of alt.drugs Path: mimsy!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state. edu!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!app45293 From: app45293@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (humble ZUSS) Newsgroups: alt.drugs Subject: The Real, real g-bong Message-ID: <1992Jan29.040413.21155@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 29 Jan 92 04:04:13 GMT Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 113 As a public service, and to once and for all prove I am a criminal, I am posting this design of gravity bong which I have never seen described on alt.drugs. bowl || water tube uncapped two liter bottle |----| _____________________ |||| / ___________________ \ | | / || \/ / \ \/ \ / || / / \ \ \ / || ||\ /\ \ \ | || || | | || | |___||_||_| | || | | || || | | || | | || || | bong bottle | || | | || || | | || | | || | |__||______| | H20 | | H20 | \________ / \________/ This marvelous picture is gonna need some explanation. We have two two-liter plastic bottles. You can use larger bottles if you wish but you will save yourself trouble by making them be both the same size. A cap that fits the bong bottle will have the bowl attatched to it in an airtight manner. The best way is probably to have a threaded bowl and make a snug (it takes care to make the hole snug) hole in the cap. A tube is fixed to the bowl/cap, also airtight. The depth to which you allow this bowl tube to go is up to you. If you make it short, probably not all the smoke will pass through water. It you make it long, your construction methods will have to be pretty good because it takes a greater pressure differential to 'pull' the smoke to that depth. If the pressure gets low enough, flaws in your airtight sealing will make a big problem. The water tube must be flexible (probably polyvinyl, get it at your pet store) and needs to be about four feet long. It will enter through holes near the top of each bottle. These holes MUST BE AIRTIGHT. Each end of the tube must go to the same depth in each bottle. The deeper you run the ends of the tube, the larger your smoke chamber will be. {water tube should be about 1/2 inch diameter, BTW} Now she's ready to run. Fill the bong bottle with water, almost to the top. Fill the water bottle only to the exact level of the tip of the tube. BUT BE CAREFUL--this is why they call it the gravity bong. The water tube is a siphon. Before you start, the water bottle must be higher in altitude than the bong bottle. Pack a hit of your -er- special funny tobacco in the bowl. Have lighter in hand and ready. NOW, lower the water bottle below the bong bottle. Through the magic of gravity, the water will flow out of the bong bottle and into the water bottle. In the bong, an expanding smoke chamber is 'sucking' air through the bowl tube to replace the lost water. Be applying the flame as soon as the water is flowing, so that the air will be rich with the smoke. If when you lower the water bottle there is not immediate flow, have a friend suck on the mouth of the water bottle to start it off. Once it is going it will not stop, since we are using the famous siphon which steals gasoline and empties my brother's aquarium. You can adjust the rate of flow by decreasing the height difference between bottles. If, however, you raise the water bottle above the smoke bottle, the flow will reverse and this will make you severely unhappy. When the water level in the smoke bottle gets to the level of the end of the water tube, there will be a !SLURP! and the process will halt itself. KEEP THE BONG HIGHER THAN THE WATER. You should now have a bong filled with concentrated and mostly cooled smoke. Remove the cap/bowl/bowl tube. The bowl tube must be connected to the bowl and not the bong chamber or you are going to be inhaling water in the next step. Place your hand over the top of the uncapped smoke bottle so that the smoke will not escape. It's especially good to have a friend help you with the next step, unless you happen to be a real pro at using this contraption. When your courage is up, wrap your lips tightly around the hole in the bong bottle. Have friend slowly raise the water bottle above the level of the bong. Friend had damn well better not raise the water bottle too high, letting the water flow too quickly. Once again, the siphon might not work immediately, so a short suck on the bong might get it started. When the water does flow, the smoke chamber will shrink and the smoke will be forced out. In other words, marij--er-- special funny tobacco is being PUMPED INTO YOUR LUNGS. Is this behavior befitting of idiots? HELL YES! Nonetheless, I have done it myself. It is probably best to inhale lightly while the smoke goes in. Don't resist the inflow or you make big waste. It is very unlikely that you'll be able to take in an entire 2 liter of the world's thickest smoke in one hit. Signal your friend that you need oxygen, swap your mouth for your hand over the bong opening, and try to bring the bottles together at a level where the water levels in each are at the same height. Now your friend can take his turn. I hope I was able to explain this adequately. If you actually want to make one yourself, I highly recommend performing trials with -um- cheaper non-funny tobacco. When I made one myself I found that you've got to get the hang of it before it goes smoothly. I never got very fond of it simply because there's lots of steps involved and plenty of room for screwing it up. After one hit off that baby you aren't going to be in the best shape to operate it again--well, I wasn't. The maniac from which I learned this insisted that it's the 'most efficient way to do doobie.' He was in the habit of sucking down about 4 g-bong hits in a row. He is also proof that with LOTS of practice one can fill the g-bong with smoke so thick you can walk on it and administer it to oneself. *DISCLAIMER* This posting is for informational purposes only. I do not endorse any illegal activity. That means all you kids who are less than 18 years old had better perish the thought of making one of these. -- Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the | ZUSS / Tony Pulokas universe, and he'll believe you. Tell him | University of Illinois there's wet paint on that bench over there, | @ Urbana-Champaign and he'll have to touch it to make sure. | College of Engineering

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