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A Look at the Hookah
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by: Bud J. Jonser
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Thanks to my wife Ashly, my two children Jane and Mary and to my dog Sparky
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A "Quarter Pounder with Seed, Large Fry, No Shake" Production
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I am undecided as to whether you are reading this file to gather as much
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information as possible, or if you just want to get down to the actual
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method, so I'll leave the tried and true plans at the end of this file.
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Introduction
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This ancient design still ranks among the most efficient smoking
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devices. It consists of a bowl connected to a tube which runs into a
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containter of water about 90% full. Another tube starts in the 10% of the
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container which is dry air and ends in the users mouth. When the user
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inhales, the smoke is cooled first through the tube descending from the
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bowl into the depths of the container. The smoke is cooled mostly by the
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next stage on its journey-- through the water itself as bubbles. Finally,
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the tube extending from the air chamber to the user adds even more cooling
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effect to the smoke.
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Variables in designing a good hookah:
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-- The larger the water chamber, the cooler your smoke can potentially
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be. Some very old hookahs have chambers as large as several litres.
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-- Fill the water chamber with ice water. This will greatly increase
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the cooling effect.
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-- Leave enough space between the water level and the inhalation pipe
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so that splashing water is not sucked up through this tube.
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-- Choose a small one-hit bowl to avoid leaving burning material in
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the bowl after your lungs are full.
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-- Additional user-tubes multiply the fun and efficency with friends.
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Basic hookah design diagram: !---To user !--BOWL
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! !
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----!--------------!----- <- Air tight top
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! ! ! !
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! ! ! !
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! ! !
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!oooooooooooooooooo!oooo! <- Water level
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! ! !
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! ! !
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! Ice Water ! !
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! ! !
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! !
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Three tried and true hookah designs:
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(1) "The Happy Hookah" -- This hookah was constructed using a 64 oz. ocean
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spray glass juice bottle, 1/4 inch diameter plastic tubing, and a removable
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bowl borrowed from another pipe. First, I used a phillips screwdriver like an
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awl to create two small holes in the metal top of the juice bottle. Next, I
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used a knife to widened these holes to permit plastic tubes to be squeezed
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through. Before I actually inserted the tubes however, I covered the holes
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with electric tape. I stuck a pin through the tape and widened the pinhole
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with the screwdriver. The hole in the tape was just smaller than the diameter
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of the tube so that when I squeezed the tubes through, the tape made an
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airtight seal around the tubes. One plastic tube extends from 1/2 inch above
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the bottom of the bottle to 1 inch above the top; the other plastic tube
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extends from 1/2 inch below the bottle top to 2 feet above it. After filling
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the juice bottle with a freezing cold mixture of ice and water, I place the
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air-tight bottle top on to the juice bottle and double-check the tubework
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for leaks by inhaling air through the pipe. If when you place your thumb
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over the bowl, you are able to inhale and hear air escaping into the hookah
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to reach your lungs, there is a leak which needs to be plugged, possibly
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with electric tape. With a little time, care, and skill this device can
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yield thick, milky white smoke which is cooler and denser than room air.
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(2) "Mini Hookah" -- This ingenious little device was mysterously
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discovered inside a used stero-component by a friend of mine. Despite its
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tiny size, it truly did an impressive job of cooling and densifying smoke.
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It was constructed along the same design principles as the "happy hookah"
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but on a smaller scale using smaller parts. The bottle in this held only a
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few ounces of water; it appeared to be a glass baby liquid tylenol bottle
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or perhaps a bottle of chigger medication. The tube was as short as a
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standard pipe stem and had a diameter the size of a pinhead.
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(3) "Po Boys Hookah" -- This device was constructed in a hurry with minimal
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provisions and a scrambled brain. Its basic design is the same as the
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"happy hookah" and the "mini hookah." Instead of a glass bottle with a
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metal top, this hookah used a coffee can with a plastic lid. Wide tubing
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covered with aluminum foil punctured with a pin served as a bowl. The
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pliable plastic top of the coffee can minimized leaks by hugging the
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tubing.
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One final note: Many different people have told me that drinking hookah
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water after smoking though it increases the effect of whatever you smoked.
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I have not verified this claim.
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I take no resposibily for any of my own actions, let alone yours. This file
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is intended for informational purposes ONLY. Peace, Pot, and Microdot.
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