Hi, i've never added anything to my bongs before, so this is gonna be a silly question, Anyway, the bong I have is just a glass one with an ice catcher. The slide has a bowl fixed onto the end so I just take the whole downstem out with attached bong, So my question is if I bought a bowl, how would I fit it onto my bong? I'm guessing i'll have to find a downstem aswell, but I see videos where people just pull the tiny bowl piece out, but what happens to the down stem? lol If i'm not making sense, which I think i'm not, basically: How do I attach something like this: 14,5 SCHLIFF - WEED-STAR to a bong like this: (Note this is nothing like my bong, but the stem is the same lol) Cheers
The downstem stays in the bong when you remove the bowl. Putting the bowl on the bong is very simple, you just pull the original bowl out and put the new one in, if it's the right size it should fit perfectly. When you are clearing a hit, you remove the bowl and leave the downstem in the bong.
Thanks, I was just thinking if you left the downstem in, it'l still be bubbling right, so would it take longer to clear?
well yeah buts its really not that much more difficult to clear, and nobody wants to but pulling the whole downsteam out of their bong for each hit.
Just figured because your piece had a one piece downstem. You aren't supposed to take that out to clear, you use the carb hole. If you want to tape over the carb hole and clear it with a slide, just go down to your headshop and see if they have a 14.5mm downstem that fits your bong as far as length goes.
Yeah, if your bong has a carb, what you do is hold it while your taking the hit and when you want to clear it let go
dude I used to have that same exact bong, I didn't know it was like that till it came, .. yea if u wanted to clear you had to pull the whole thing out.. because the carb hole was too small.. but that bong is broken now.. I tried to buy a stem and bowl for it but that stem hole is really small.. doesnt matter it did me well but she is gone now it was for the best I have alot better tube now.. got it for the same price as that one too !
Yes it still bubbles but the airflow is greatly increased from when the bowl was on so it isn't hard to clear. It also gives the hit a certain characteristic that to me just makes the hit so much better than a carb hole. I won't make a difference in the high, but to me it just provides a necessary feel to the bong hit that the carb doesn't. I hate bongs with carbs.