concerns about smoking from homemade bong

ADR531 · 04-05-2002, 04:15 AM

my old bongs use to be made out of a 2liter soda bottle with a tinfoil bowl. after hearing about how it's so bad for u, i decided to get a metal screen. i got one from the little faucet piece and also from a cooking thing where u strain out the water. i smoked from it today and when i put a lighter up to it it leaves a brown spot. i don't think i could melt it but do u think it's safer for me? and will it relase some kind of oxide, bc i heard copper is the worst to smoke from? hlep me out here

nomadtw · 04-05-2002, 04:41 AM

yes copper can cause actual problems
AL can not
go back to the al foil bowl
or buy a piece not made of copper
ppl have said that metal twist off pop caps work

deadman420 · 04-05-2002, 04:45 AM

Don't worry about the brown spot. Steel will discolor when it gets heated intensely. If you're worried about it, just go buy a small metal screen from Home Depot, but I guarantee that it will leave a small brown spot on that too. The filter is probably steel, so it's probably just fine. But yeah, copper and tinfoil are bad to smoke out of. Keep it over the aluminum foil, definately. And if you SMOKED from it, it stand to reason that a large part of that brown spot is resin.

wakDbuds · 04-05-2002, 05:33 AM

wish id never thrown away my stainless steel piece, that baby was awesome

Paulie420 · 04-05-2002, 01:43 PM

If you have access to a head shop, you can buy a really nice (And cheap) metal bowl and all the screens you'll ever need. Also, you'll know that what yer smoking is safe.

I think thats the best bet.

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ADR531 Jr. Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 465 Grams: 2,600.10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	concerns about smoking from homemade bong my old bongs use to be made out of a 2liter soda bottle with a tinfoil bowl. after hearing about how it's so bad for u, i decided to get a metal screen. i got one from the little faucet piece and also from a cooking thing where u strain out the water. i smoked from it today and when i put a lighter up to it it leaves a brown spot. i don't think i could melt it but do u think it's safer for me? and will it relase some kind of oxide, bc i heard copper is the worst to smoke from? hlep me out here

04-05-2002, 04:45 AM	#3
deadman420 Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 786 Grams: 3,846.75 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Don't worry about the brown spot. Steel will discolor when it gets heated intensely. If you're worried about it, just go buy a small metal screen from Home Depot, but I guarantee that it will leave a small brown spot on that too. The filter is probably steel, so it's probably just fine. But yeah, copper and tinfoil are bad to smoke out of. Keep it over the aluminum foil, definately. And if you SMOKED from it, it stand to reason that a large part of that brown spot is resin. __________________ No matter your position on the tenets of National Socialism, you have to admit that the Nazis were snappy dressers.

04-05-2002, 01:43 PM	#5
Paulie420 Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 348 Grams: 4,124.78 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	If you have access to a head shop, you can buy a really nice (And cheap) metal bowl and all the screens you'll ever need. Also, you'll know that what yer smoking is safe. I think thats the best bet. __________________ Just my two cents... Paulie420 "Is marijuana addictive? Yes in the sense that everything good in this world is worth endlessly repeating."

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