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derisive

Hey what's up. I've got a bong and it's pretty good, nothing special though. Here are the specs:

just over 1 foot high with a bubble bottom with 3 inch diameter at its widest and a straight tube chamber with a ~1 inch diameter

adapted slider stem with the following instead:
14.5mm diffuser stem in rubber flange from old slider stem with about a 10-15mm thing that goes in the bong and leads to its hole-not-slot end

a fairly large glass-on-glass bowl w/steel or brass pipe screen

It hits pretty smooth but it tends to over-fill with harsh smoke, even when hit softly. I tend to over-pack my bowls and come back to them later, as opposed to treating my bong like a 1-hitter. Sometimes, I fill the whole thing with ice, but when I do that, the hit tends to be harsher rather than smoother for unknown reasons (to myself, but not hopefully to some of you.)

What I'm most interested in doing is giving it some sort of ice notching so I could put ice in the top without worrying about said ice taking up water volume in the bubble bottom chamber thing. The ideas I'm kicking around at the moment are pretty bad sounding, but they're a start.
1. A metal screen (the one off my herb grinder I decided to both remove and keep) attached in ???? way to the interior of my bong.
2. A bong extender with ice notches somehow made in it (ex: a soda can with the bottom cut off and the mouth piece at the mouth of my bong with the cut end as the mouthpiece. Ouch!)
3. A metal screen with arms that extend diagonally and curve over the rim of the mouth of the bong, hanging it in place to bear the weight of ice. This idea seems most practical if I knew what material to use and how to use said material without advanced skill sets or expensive machinery.

Any help with making my bong better would be vastly appreciated.

 

sterbo

Any good sized hardware store ought to have misc synthetic netting. Choose a type with the hole size that makes sense, take a length of it, insert it into the tube and then put the ice cubes in and allow the netted ice to drop down however far you like...

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derisive

by God, you're a genius!

Edit: in terms of attaching the netting to the outside of my bong to suspend the ice inside, what do you think the most long-lasting but not impractical method would be? Twine could work, since Ruthless Villain has the signature festival glass loopy hand-hold thing.

I know duct tape is the obvious solution, but duct tape leaves nasty residue when it comes off, and that's nasty...

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sterbo

You got it - do not use duct tape!.
Twine is perfect - tie a small 'slip knot' and
every hit is the perfect hit...

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derisive

I took the day off for numerous reasons, but I'll be taking a stroll over to the hardware store soon. Later today I can tell if your idea works, or rather how well it works.

 

sterbo

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fabrice88

ok guy, i am going to buy a roor bong.. and im basically new to this ice bong stuff.. can u please tell me what ice notches are??

thanks

sterbo

The notches, in the neck of the down tube, are to hold chunks of ice in place so that the smoke is further cooled when passing up from the bowl to the person smoking. Definitely very cool
and BTW, Roors Rock...

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fabrice88

so.. here are the set of questions

1) for the ice bong.. do i need to put in water first?
2) what are diffusers
3) the bong i want to buy can come with no ice notches or with ice notches.. if i buy the one with NO ice notches do i need to put water or ice?

sorry for all the questions!! but thanks

vern

I think thats the preferred method amongst smokers.

Its a different down-stem end for your bong. Has many holes on the side instead of one on the bottom.



Well you need water either way. Unless you like huge harsh throat-destroying hits. Ice helps take cooling further. Ice catchers do just what their named. They hold the ice above the bong water. No risk of cracking a down-stem when that ice slides down your bong.