O.K. so im trying to make a waterfall (or gravity? i guess) well either way does the hole need to be at the very bottom cuz i wanna use a captain morgan bottle but the glass around the bottoms pretty dang thick. and i also have a SoBe bottle but the lids pretty damn torn up, does it HAVE to be air-tight or can i go with the SoBe bottle? Note: i dont have any special glass cutting or drilling tools, im on the way cheep, so ideas for making a small hole without ruing either one would be cool dudes
Technically it wouldn't have to be at the absolute bottom of the bottle (but water will remain below the hole). If the bowl portion is not air tight you will not have as concentrated of a hit (much like any bong that is not sealed). I'm not aware of any method to put a hole in glass without using a proper bit.
yeah the lid part which is right under the bowl is a wide gash, but the bowl fits ok, if i wrapped my fingers around it while the water pulls in the smoke would it be ok?
This MIGHT work, I'm not sure: Snake some tubing in through the lid. Tubing from like a fish tank or something similar would work. The end out of the bottle should hang lower than the bottom of the bottle. Then, if you suck on that end just until there is water in your mouth, the water will keep flowing out of that tube. You just have to keep it below the bottom of the bottle. Then you could get your shit lit, and it'll start doing what a gravity bong does. Fluid dynamics is some crazy shit. This may all be too complicated or impossible without tubing. Just an idea though.
It would work so long as the end of the tubing (not the end in the bottle) is below the bottom of the bottle. This is the same way people vacumn their fish tanks or siphon gasoline out of a tank. The problem would be that you'd have that tubing essentially right under your bowl as you're applying a lot of heat to it. With regards to holding your finger around the bowl you'd end up with essentially the same problem (a burnt finger). Minor air leaks wouldn't ruin the pull, it will just introduce extra air into the hit.
k well i got the bowl right, the tube on the bottom goes through the lid yes? well the whole should be this : O but its this : () get it so how should i go about sealing up those corners? cuz the water has pull air from the bowl not the lid, and the lid will pull in clean air rather than smoke, i get how it all works unfortunately i only have one shot cuz i only have one glass SoBe bottle, and i dont wanna hurt the captain morgan bottle too bad i want a hole no bigger than my thumb.
Well i'm trying to understand if you're talking about making a grav like the top of a 2 liter in a bucket of water, or a waterfall where you fill a bottle with water and light the bowl and let the water drain out the bottom and fill with smoke.
Maybe set the bowl at one end, and the tube at the other with a small gap between them, then just put something over that hole? Bit of business card or whatever just to keep it covered temporarily?
gotcha, that's what i thought. well, no the hole doesn't have to be at the very very bottom, just water will stay in the bottle under it so dont spill it everywhere. also, the more water that remains in the bottle the less area there is for smoke to fill in, which might not be a problem but it could be. Also, i wouldn't mess with something that's not airtight. it would still work but it wouldn't be perfect, and even if you tried covering it with your fingers i just wouldn't want to take the chance of ruining an awesome hit. I like metallunchbox's idea of some kind of crazy siphon-driven waterfall...i might have to try something insane like that someday.
Yeah, as I was typing that out I was thinking about how epic something like that might be. Ridiculous
that sounds cool too, and just throwing it out ther but the way my bowl works i wont hafta worry about burning myself, but thanks guys, and my Cpt. Morgan bottle is big enough i dun think i'll hafta worry about not enough smoke lol.
i actually jsut made a waterfall with a captain morgan lime bite bottle. We went through 3 bacardi bottles before we got a decent sized hoel to work with. we just used a hammer and scraped a circle on the bottom of the bottle and carefully chipped it out. hits like a cement truck
I wouldn't make a waterfall bong.. The smoke just gets stale. The only difference between a waterfall bong and smoking out of your pipe is that the smoke from the waterfall bong has been floating around in the air for over a minute. Gravity bong is different, and IMO more worthwhile and cooler, but I wouldn't make a gravity bong either, but that's just me.
Just buy a vortex gravity bong if you like gravity bongs so much.... They're anywhere from 80 to 100 dollars and they hit like a beast.. I have one and i absolutely love mine and they impress everyone at the party! You won't be disappointed take my word for it!
put a piece of duct tape over the part and the make a small slit smaller than the bowl and work it into the hole. it will be pretty air tight then.
yeah not to shoot down your idea or anything but the reason im making my own is cuz im so broke lol, if money wasnt an issue i'de have the craziest most expensive one i could find haha.
i have a gravity bong i use almost everyday im short on weed. it consists of a apple juice bottle, and a propel energy drink bottle. that and a socket head. any small size works. heres a video and heres some pictures [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ze3eyNbZl0]YouTube - MOV04307.MPG[/ame]