Message-ID: <175309Z05091994@anon.penet.fi>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.pot
From: an122794@anon.penet.fi
Date: Mon,  5 Sep 1994 17:46:56 UTC
Subject: Death Star plans (repost)


At least a few people have requested that the following plans be either
sent to them or reposted to alt.drugs, so here they are:




                                The Death-Star
                                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


                                                   /
                                                   \
                                                    \ 
                                                    /
                                                  ____
                                                 |    |(A)
                                                  \  /
                  ---------------------------------||---
       <--->     |      /            \             ||   |
      ___________|___ /    balloon    }    (B)        __|_____
     | /---------|--- \               }               --|---\ |
     ||          |      \            /                  |    ||
     ||           --------------------------------------     ||
     ||                                                      ||
     ||                                                      ||
     ||                                                      ||
     ||                                                      ||
     ||                                   __________________/ |
     ||                                  | /------------------
     ||                                  ||       <----
     ||                                  || 
     ||                                 _||_
     ||                                / || \
    /  \                             /   ||   \
   |(C1)|                 ---->     |    ||    |  ---->  
    \  /      ______________________|_   ||   _|______________
     ||      | /----------------------   ||   --------------\ |
     ||      ||                     |    ||    |             ||
     ||      ||                     |~~~~||~~~~|             ||
     ||      ||                     |    ||    |             ||
     | \____/  \__________          |    ||    | (E)         ||
      ------(C2)---------- (D)      |    ||    |             ||
     <---   \  /   ---->            |    ||    |             ||
             ||                      ----------              ||
             ||                       Stage 1                ||
             ||                     (hot water)              ||
             ||                                              ||
             ||                                              ||
             ||                                              ||
       +------------+                           <----        ||
       |  (output)  |                     __________________/ |
       |            |                    | /------------------
       |    (G)     |                    || 
       +------------+                    || 
          Air Pump                      _||_
                                       / || \
                                     /   ||   \
                                    |    ||    |     ---->
                                    |    ||   _|_____________________    
                                    |    ||   ---------------------\ |
                                    |    ||    |                    ||
                                    |~~~~||~~~~|                    ||
                                    |    ||    |                    ||
                                    |    ||    |  (F)               || 
                                    |    ||    |                    ||
                                    |    ||    |                 suck here
                                     ----------
                                      Stage 2
                                    (ice-water)


* arrows indicate the flow of air/smoke.

(A) The bowl:  "You put your weed in it."

(B) "Gravity" Chamber:  What we used for this is a plastic spaghetti 
     dispenser.  Probably any cylindrical container which can be sealed
     airtight will do (actually a 1-2 liter bottle is probably okay.)
     Into one side (the left side in the diagram) goes a plastic tube 
     with a balloon securely attached to the end (a rubber band will 
     work.)  Into the other side, insert a bowl (A) and another plastic 
     tube going to (E).  Important: the entire cylinder must be sealed 
     airtight, so that air may only enter and leave the chamber through 
     the "out" tube (on the right) and the bowl.  Air obviously may only 
     enter the balloon through the left tube (from (G) the pump.) The 
     reason I call this the "gravity" chamber is because it functions 
     exactly as a gravity bong, with the top of the balloon doing what 
     the water usually does.  By the way, the balloon should be of the 
     round variety (as opposed to oblong) because you don't want air 
     (or smoke) to get past the balloon... i.e. the balloon should be 
     tight against the sides.

(C) Controls:  This part is a bit hard to explain.  Part (C2) is simply
     something that will allow you to choose one of three ways to direct
     air from the pump.  Most aquarium stores will have the necessary
     equipment (you'll definitely want to be able to choose exactly one 
     of the three outputs (9,12, and 3 o'clock in the diagram) at any 
     given time.  Part (C1) should be a relief valve (I don't know if 
     that's the correct term) which looks something like:



                                to nowhere                         
                                                                   
                                    ||                             
                 ---->             ---- (*)        <---->          
                ____________________||___________________          
                -----------------------------------------          
               from pump                               to/from     
                                                       balloon     
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                                    
              (*) Valve:  allows you to control the amount of       
                          air that goes out (to the room).  To      
                          inflate the balloon, close the valve      
                          so that all air goes from the pump to     
                          the balloon.  To deflate the balloon,    
                          open the valve.  The valve allows you    
                          to control the speed of inflation or     
                          deflation as well...                     

                
(D) Air:  You should have an output from the pump to the air, so that the
     the air from the pump always has somewhere to go when you don't want
     to inflate the balloon or pump air to (E).  Be nice to your pump.

(E) Stage 1:  Standard bong technology here... smoke comes from (B),
     bubbles through the water, and goes out the right-hand tube (in the
     picture.)  Instead of a carb, though, air can be directed from the
     pump into the chamber.  This will force air through to stage 2 and 
     out through the mouth part (so you can pour yourself a bong-hit.)
     As long as (B) is above this part, nothing will be pumped back to
     (B) since the weight of the water prevents this.  The actual chamber
     in our model is much smaller than Stage 2 (F), since the larger 
     these chambers are, the more one has to suck before any smoke comes 
     out.  Hot water is supposed to "clean" the smoke more than cold, but
     maybe that's bullshit.

(F) Stage 2:  Same as (E) except bigger.  We used a Sunny Delight bottle
     (That shit actually has oil in it... I wouldn't recommend drinking 
     it, but the bottle works well.)  Ice-water in this one definitely 
     gives you a hit that's smoother than smooth.

(G) Air Pump:  You can get this at an aquarium store as well.  I don't 
     really know how powerful ours is, but it really just has to be able
     to inflate the balloon, which probably doesn't require much power.
     Pumping air to (E) isn't really necessary, and it would require a
     much more powerful pump to really force the air out... but it's fun
     anyway...



Instructions:

1. Load the bowl.  It seems to work best if you really break the pot up 
    into small pieces (or use shake) since you want it to burn fast.

2. Inflate the balloon.  Inflate it as much as possible without pushing 
    against the bowl or whatever.  For that reason, the bowl should be
    placed close to the end of the gravity chamber.  You can open the
    valve (C2) so that at this point, it's at equilibrium (i.e. not 
    inflating/deflating.)  

    WARNING: Test this out first, etc, since if the balloon pops, then
    ~~~~~~~  most likely whatever is in the bowl will end up all over 
             the floor.  This actually happened to us once, but it was 
             due to carelessness (which in turn was due to being 100%
             baked).  So always pay attention when the balloon is 
             inflating.

3. Light up.  Have someone hold the lighter to the bowl, and loosen the
    valve all the way, so that the balloon deflates quickly, drawing smoke
    into the chamber.  Try to stop the balloon from deflating beyond the 
    point when the sides of the balloon come away from the sides of the 
    chamber (by closing the valve.)  The smoke should be so thick that it
    looks like mayonnaise... if it doesn't you're probably doing something 
    wrong.

    WARNING: Do not allow the balloon to inflate at this point, because 
    ~~~~~~~  then smoke will gush forth from the bowl.  

4. Start sucking.  Give someone else the first hit, and as they are sucking,
    you can inflate the balloon (as long as it's slower than they are 
    sucking) thereby making the smoke leave the gravity chamber.  It seems
    to help if there's something flat placed over the bowl (which also
    reduces risks in step 3.)  All of this may take some practice, but 
    probably not much.  It's not necessary to re-inflate the balloon, but
    it will result in a stronger hit.

5. Um... next step.  When all of the smoke has left the gravity chamber,
    you can switch (C2) so that air goes to Stage 1, and smoke will be 
    pushed slowly through the suck tube.  Skip this if it doesn't turn 
    you on.  It does function sort of as a carb, so even if you don't 
    achieve spectacular results, it is useful.

6. Keep sucking.  If everything is large enough, there should be several
    hits worth still in stages 1 & 2.

7. Repeat.  Keep repeating steps 1-6 until the bong is too funny to smoke.



Tips:  

1. Load the bowl really full (but not packed too tightly), and try to 
    completely torch it during step 3.  For some reason, the uniformity 
    and speed of the burn is very efficient.  Think about it: whenever you 
    normally stop taking a hit, the pot still burns for a bit, and this is 
    wasteful.  Trust the bong... nothing will leak out or anything like that, 
    so go for it.  The key to the power of this bong is the fact that the 
    burning of the pot is separate from the actual act of smoking.

2. Make sure everything is totally air-tight.  We used aquarium sealant on
    just about every connection, and it seems to work very well.

3. By the way, the tubes that actually have smoke going through them (the 
    ones on the right hand side of the diagram) should have a larger
    diameter than the ones from the pump.  Otherwise, you'll get too much
    resistance when taking a hit.  I think ours are probably around 1/4-1/2
    inch in diameter, while the pump tubes are quite a bit smaller.  The 
    tubes can be purchased at a hardware store (we payed $0.40/foot, I think.)



That's all.  May your station soon be fully operational...



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