About Author: mattathayde

another freaking necro post? i have to solution to this and to the all the necroposting in the last month... LOX, you do have a a decent % loss in the charcoal but pure charcoal becomes instant lights ;) -matt p.s. if you dont know what LOX is google it, there is a few people that have vids of lighting huge amounts of charcoal with it

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---Quote (Originally by SavageBeast)--- I don't like nakhla. It is over rated. Its far from the best shisha ever, like people say it is. I smoked the cherry and it did give me a good buzz and it also tasted like a shit covered cherry.emmmm. yum. ---End Quote--- yeah cherry is far from the best one they make, there are a lot of good flavors and its not very hard to get smoking well, it is drier than some of the other ones so its a little different and wont block you out with clouds but it can smoke well and consistent -matt

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---Quote (Originally by jpizzle4u)--- damn, your hookah is all jacked up. get a replacement from your vendor. they should replace it for you. KM are suppose to be the top of the line ---End Quote--- thats the thing, a lot of KMs have been having issues, the demand is up so they try and push them out, the other issue is that a lot of people are just accepting the flaws as "hand made". if you get a replacement, your probably going to get one that has the same amount of issues. look at any place that sells KMs, they all have disclaimers that basically say "these are handmade and have flaws, you dont like it, too bad thats what your getting" -matt

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---Quote (Originally by Mystifie)--- that sux bro, thats why you gatta carry around a knife or something ---End Quote--- again use of force, if he pulled a knife on the guy it would have been escalating the situation, you can only use equal force or else the issue becomes partly your fault. also unless your trained well in knife fighting pulling a knife is a last ditch survival effort. -matt

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so im to lazy to read through everything but heres some basic info/thoughts for you. the cold will not crack the vase it self as long as you are not shocking it a lot. furnace glass usually has a linear coefficient of thermal expansion of 96X10^-7, now honestly i dont know much about that that means i am getting a BFA not a BS, to the best of my understanding over a specified temp range that is the amount the material contracts or expands. so as the glass cools it contracts ever so slightly. the reason you have cracks when some glasses get a fast change in temp is because the surface of the glass contracts before the inner part of the glass does, causing excessive stress. a bit of comparison pyrex (the super strong glass) has a COE of 33, the lower the COE the stronger/more durable the glass because it is less susceptible to change (also the materials making the specific glass up can change the susceptibility some what) now freezing water in glass especially a base where it gets smaller as the base goes up will cause a lot of force pushing out. if the glass is pretty perfectly round and doesnt have imperfections you shouldnt have issues (on paper at least). so in short, on paper/in theory, you shouldnt have an issue but in reality you could especially with the low quality of glass if you really want a cold smoke put ice in your base and insulate it. -matt

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your not supposed to need to but i have noticed its good to give it 30 mins to an hour if you smoke it right out of the package. if you put it in a zip lock container and let it sit a few days it seems to even out more and be better. over all it is no where near as temperamental and is smokable at worst out of the package -matt

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---Quote (Originally by A_Teator1)--- Hopefully it ends up being metal and not foil so you can fix it. Realistically it's probably paint like you said and unfortunately there may not have been anything you couldve done about it. Just the minerals in the tap water could've messed it up ---End Quote--- there is no way it is metal, foil is hard enough to add but adding metals to glass when it is hot is very difficult and requires pure metals and a good amount of science (the coefficients of expansion have to be very close or else the glass will break or the metal will fall off). if it is foil it will be applied when it is cold and usually is picked back up and re heated but that is very labor intensive while paint takes probably half the time as it takes to just apply the metal foil while cold -matt

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ok so take all the info you have seen about the "proper" method, file in your mind in the back where you wont look at it again. every time i try anything near the "right" way it is horrid. i use a vortex to smoke tangiers but get decent results with my small phunnel as well here is what i do. after it is acclimated (i think it is more letting the flavorings air out and off gas and honestly if it will acclimate i find it does it very fast, nothing over a few hours at most, if it is being finicky you can leave it in the flat ziplock container closed for a while and that seems to help). i mix it up really well and then just grab it with my hands and put it around the bowl, not sprinkle, not packed, put it maybe a bit over the rim and then pack it down with my fingers so there is a good gap, about the level of teh spire on the phunnel and just under it on the vortex (making sure the vortex holes are clear) wipe off the rim and spire and foil it. poke pretty normal size hole NOT all the way down, poked to normal depth. i start with 3 coals hanging off a bit with a wind cover pull the cover once it is going and drop a coal as needed, using 2 for the majority of the bowl. i pack noir and lucid the same way but find lucid to be a bit easier and it gives less of the tickle (harshness that is there no matter what) -matt

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i put tobacco up to the rip very loosely then tap it down to the spire, 2 layers of reg foil. put 3 ch nats on slightly hanging off and put my wind cover on and let it sit a few mins then start smoking pull the cover off and move the coals when i know it needs it. honestly it seems to warm up better than an egyptian bowl and gets less harshness with better smoke -matt

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---Quote (Originally by chadtizzle)--- looks like our letters didn't do anything guys, better have your local shop stock up on shisha tobacco. *The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009 ("PACT Act") (S.1147) passed the Senate with a unanimous vote on March 11, 2010. On March 17, 2010, it passed the House.* *President Obama will sign it into law very soon. After Pres. Obama signs the bill, we will have 90 days until the bill takes effect. This legislation contains a provision which will make ALL cigarettes, RYO, MYO and smokeless tobacco products nonmailable. * *This law means you will no longer be able to purchase these products by mail-order, telephone order, or on the Internet, because the United States Postal Service, along with UPS, Fed-Ex and all other carriers will be prohibited by law from delivering your orders to you.* what a bunch of B.S. our government has become. i honestly don't think president obama is going to make it through his 4 year term if he keeps passing stupid shit like this. i'm so mad right now. first my cloves, now my shisha tobacco. minors DO NOT save up $60.00 and buy cartons of cigarettes online. minors scrounge up 5 dollars and have their older brother buy them a pack. i really hope that obama doesn't sign this (doubt), or the economy gets so bad that they have to start mailing tobacco again. ---End Quote--- since it was unanimous it doesnt matter if obama signs it or not, it is law now (or it might have to go back if he vetos but they have the votes so it doesnt matter, it will pass again to over ride the veto) i would bet that the cig companies have a hand in this like PM did in the flavored cig ban, the people paying 8 bucks a pack or a can now have to pay it and cant mail order to get it at 3-4 per thus allowing the cig companies to get more profit. maybe i am just looking for a conspiracy where its not but seeing as PM supported the flavored cig ban when they didnt make any (and they pushed it from when camel was really big in it, that seems rather logical) -matt

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probably doesnt help that i have thick calluses on my hands and they are probably burned smooth from blowing glass. o well i ordered from john, got 2 and got 2 things of lucid and some extra mod bowl grommets for the vortex. i was contemplating the turkish coffee but i dont really drink coffee so idk how much i would really drink it -matt

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---Quote (Originally by Coyotero)--- Am I the only person who couldn't care less what the cut looks like? Honestly, if the flavor sounds good to me, I'll get some and see the cut myself. I don't understand why it's important. ---End Quote--- ya i am not huge on cuts, honestly i dont like a huge cut cause its harder to pack but i also dont want it to be so fine its like a paste. honestly nakhla is what ive gotten super used to so its what i like, tangiers seems kinda long but since you have to treat it all special it doesnt matter as much but some of the af and sb isnts good to me but i dont really smoke it much (the cut it self isnt horrible its just so processed it seems super soft and mushy) and stems, i dont care that much about stems as long as i dont get a bx full of them, heck on an egyptian bowl some 1-2 inch stems are good to use to prevent the holes from getting blocked -matt

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---Quote (Originally by hookahfire)--- when you acclimate it, the shisha adjusts to the atmosphere. It was made in San Diego and then packed really densly. So acclimating it should let it breath more. Some tangiers are made a little more wet than others so they might need more acclimation. ---End Quote--- see i have yet to see a scientific explanation as to how RH interacts with it seeing as it is dripping wet. dont get me wrong when it smokes well i can get into tangiers and some of their flavors are the best versions of said flavor but i am starting to wonder a lot about the product -matt

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---Quote (Originally by Coyotero)--- I think it has lnothing to do with lazyness and everything to do with excessive workload considering KM's explosive worldwide popularity in the past few years. They produce a massive volume of pipes for a very low price considering the handmade nature of the product in question. Let me ask you this: If you were to apply your skills at making a quality pipe with no aesthetic flaws, how much would you want to make from it? Consider that the KM company only makes around $20-$30 off each pipe, the rest of the cost is shipping, taxes/tariffs, and vendor costs. ---End Quote--- your right it would cost a lot to make a pipe but even to do exactly what they do product but do it here in the states it would cost a lot more than it does being imported from egypt. some of the issues are the speed they pump them out i agree but other things truly are just being lazy, like uneven glass and poor solder joints -matt

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i prefer the ch nats, only down side is that they smell more during lighting. the CH qls are great too, i didnt notice any taste and they burned great. i likes the cocos when i had them but the CHs are a better deal, last longer (they dont give as much heat when small but they dont get small as fast), and if you ever have any issues john stands by his product and will help you. -matt

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---Quote (Originally by Marco Poko)--- Yeah not sure, I did "cure" it by just setting up a couple of bowls with a bit of crap shisha and not smoking but blowing/purging. Maybe I'll get cancer sooner rather than later :o ---End Quote--- CA just air cures, not sure if heating it gives off anything and if ti does im not sure if heating it multiple times will give off less of anything. MSDS sheets suck when it comes to how to treat the chemical AFTER it reacts -matt

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---Quote (Originally by foibled)--- There are various silver solders with Ag %s around or below 50 but that's beyond the point. I made that statement to give an idea of how much silver is actually in a low temp silver solder. ---End Quote--- one of the issues here is the debauchery that is terminology in the metals field. soldering has become a general term covering anything where you are adding in metal and not melting the base metals when it is not the correct term half the time (brazing). in what i do "silver solder" is jeweler's solder which is always 50% or higher silver content, the only other solder i ever use is low temp pewter solder which doesnt have any silver in it. im really not sure what the advantages of having a low temp silver with some silver in it compared to just other cheaper low temp solders, i know there is be different properties but in the end im not sure why they would be used. -matt

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