Last off season Monday Night Open Thread

Featured image from: South Okanagan Events Centre (please don’t rat me out BC Dick)

For your listening pleasure:

Tonight is the first and only entry in my new RATE MY BONG series.  Probably because the PoPo will break down my door and take me away.  So, like many people my age, my first introduction to MaryJane came in college and our love affair blossomed so much that I had to redo my sophomore year.  However, due to having to reside in the real world of work and kids, I neglected my relationship with MJ being especially worried about possible custody of the kids issues.  But now, now the country is becoming more enlightened and legal avenues of procurement have arrived and the kids are old enough to join me, I have ardently rekindled my the flame between MJ and myself.  And like any new or rekindled interest I went a little overboard on the bong.

        Sorry for the poor image quality but I have never been able to take a good picture.  I am the anti-Brick in this regard, the man is good with the camera.

It is 20 inches tall made of thicc (sic) borosilicate glass with a choke point

near the level of the bowl which holds the ice inside the shaft (no penis comparison jokes please) to cool the smoke which really does seem to improve my rips.  I replaced the original bowl and downtube with an anodized aluminum bowl which has a retaining mechanism to hold the screen in place so you don’t lose the screen when tapping out the ash.  The downtube I replaced with another borosilicate downtube which had a better perfuser of the smoke into the water.  Now the bowl is actually in the ash catcher that I recently purchased, as I figured it would be a lot easier to clean than the bong.  No, now I have one more thing to clean but it does make the smoking experience a lot smoother so one does not sound like the beginning of Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf”.

The best way to clean all of this I have found is to use kosher salt and isopropyl alcohol, you just swish the salt around with the alcohol and it will abrade and dissolve the resin.

When MJ and I first had our fling, it was all pipes made out of apples or gravity bongs made of a 2 liter bottle (or milk jug with the 1/2 gallon being the best), small bit of tin foil, and some receptacle that could hold water and in which the bottle or jug would fit.  We did not want anything permanent due to the patrols of campus police and RAs who would walk right into your room. I did find that one of those loose leaf tea steeping balls, very useful as a make shift screen in a MacGyvered bong or pipe.

C’mon everyone tell me the best (or worst) bong, pipe, bubbler, taster, or vaporizer (flower) you have used either home made or purpose bought.