Bong Newby/Gas?!?

[spicecowboy]

First of all, I have to mention that I am not a bongsmoker(at least not jet).

I´m a straight reeferman, and from time to time, I smoke a pipe.

Nonetheless, I got myself this cute little glass bong today, and a few of those "spoon screens".

I allready tried this nice piece out, with pretty good results.

But every time I light the ganja in the bowl, I have to inhale the gas from the lighter, or did I get something wrong here?

You know, I like to take very small hits, and then have to light the grass again with my lighter.

What about using matches for cigar smoking, or something similar to that?

I´m really confused and surprisingly stoned.


All ya bong afficionados:

Please don´t smack me, as I´m a total newby when it comes to bong smoking,- give me some advice instead, also about how to correctly use this "kick hole"....




spice

 

[dope_roor]

what kind of lighter are you using? sounds like what i experienced when i first started smoking using a Zippo with a pipe lol

i dunno i always use BIC lighters, nothing else. cheap and lasts a good amount of time.

maybe its the way you're smoking it, i usually place the flame barely on the bud to begin with and inhale very slowly as if i'm sipping a straw. that enables the chamber to fill completely and densely. i move the flame closer and further away from the bowl to maintain the rate the bong "milks" up

 

[spicecowboy]

Thank´s for stopping by, Dope_Roor!

I only put a very little piece of bud into the bowl, and suck on the mouthpiece while I hold the light to the bowl´s top, so the flame is literally sucked into the bowl to get the bud lit.

I´m only concerned about the gas that somehow has to be involved, plus I feel pretty retarded after a few puffs on this nice little piece.


spice

 

[dope_roor]

hrm i'm confused why you're inhaling so much gas cuz it sounds like you're doing everything correctly. maybe inhaling too quickly? it only needs light suction for it to work.

you're not using a zippo right? or any kind of lighter that leaks gas?

maybe you're just smoking some good diesel LOL jk

i'm kinda confused what kind of bong you're smoking, does the spoon screen look something like this?

if so, are you covering every hole with bud? if not, the gases from the lighter are probably being sucked through the uncovered holes.

i was under the impression you were smoking a bong with a glass bowl that you just pack w/o a screen. the only passage the air can go through is directly under the bud so with those bowls those gases get rarely sucked through. but i can see how you'd get that gassy taste if using the spoon screen without completely covering every hole with bud

 

[Guest]

as with any other bowl, if you don't break up the bud so it covers the entire hole, gas from the lighter flame will just ruch past the bud into the stem, path of least resistance type thing

 

[glock23]

Try using one of these for your bong:


Glass screens. I use them in a few of my glass pieces. They stop the larger chunks of weed and ash from falling into the water. I break up the bud before I pack the bowl, then when I light it, I try to keep the flame off the weed. Once the weed is nice and lit, take the flame off and just keep inhaling. I then cover the bowl over with my palm and take my thumb off the carb (my bong has a carb and a slide, go figure). Then I cover the carb again and inhale the smoke left in the bowl. No smoke gets wasted this way.

 

[Hal]

I think Spice is asking if anyone has any knowledge about whether any of the gas from the lighter makes it through the flame (incomplete combustion) and into the bong chamber and then into his lungs...

Did he say that he actually tasted the gas...or is he assuming that the gas would be tasteless and therefore undetectable, affecting the smoker unbeknownst (that can't be a word...) to the smoker.

 

[glock23]

unbeknownst is a word The gas won't make it through, but some of the products of combustion will. Colibri gas is the cleanest. I try to keep the flame as far away as possible, and once I have a good cherry, the lighter's gone.

 

[Sin Humo]

This has been discussed before here:-

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=56741

I'm sure I've seen a thread somewhere about making your own Phedor ceramic heater/lighter somewhere but it could be another forum.

There's some info regarding butane burning here:-

http://www.rockscillc.com/Butane/butane_fallacy.htm
This guy is making a new design pocket vape which looks promising but he's thinking of charging the same as a volcano from what I've heard elsewhere.

 

[dope_roor]

i know of a smoker who uses this glass poking device and just torches the end with a butane lighter and then just touches the bud to smoke it

 

[FKN CREEP]

i smoke bowls exclusive and imo it sounds like you aren't using enough herb. what i do is put enough in that I can spark the middle/corner.. whatever.. then use the cherried bowl to light the rest as I take hits

looks like you'll just have to get more stoned than you intended! ohnooooo


ps use a bic like the mans said

 

[spicecowboy]

Wow, so many answers!


Dope_Roor:

Yes, I got exactly those spoon screens!

And, no I don´t have a clipper jet, just a normal cheap gas lighter.


Glock 23:

Those glass screens look trippy!

Hal: You got it right!

I never complained about tasting gas, I´m just worrying about taking it into my lungs.


FKN CREEP:

Yeah, I don´t pack my bowls enough.

Maybe smoking bong bowls is too hardcore for me.

Thank´s everyone for taking the time to stop by to give me advice,


spice

 

[spicecowboy]

Ah yes, and could someone please show a picture of a filled bowl?

 

[bounty29]

Here's the last bowl I had before my bong broke, maybe this will help.





You can see that the lighter wasn't held onto the bowl the entire time she was pulling it. In the second picture you can see that it's cherried and she's just pulling from that. As soon as it is lit, we take the lighter away and let it burn itself.

(I'm a guy, those are my girlfriend's hands.)

 

[Guest]

About 2/3rd's of the bowl that bounty29 is usually what I pack and snap (as in the bowl is taken all in one hit) and I never had a problem with tasting gas. You shouldn't have to pack a bowl full, you shouldn't have to pack more then a 1/4 of whats in that picture to get a nice hit out of a regular bong. Maybe yours is designed different? do you have a picture of it for reference? maybe find one online.
If lighters don't work out for you, maybe try to find what we call a "glow rod" which you hear with a torch and it burns/vapes the herb similar to solar hits.
Hope you get it figured out, I love smoking out of bongs and don't think I will give it up any time soon.