Angel_Above said:
I thought brillo had stuff in it that made it bad to smoke?
What about fine steel wool(the one that doesn't go up in flame on contact).
You do need to prepare it!!
By burning off the brassy looking coating...I use a torch lighter to do this, because a regular bic-type lighter leaves a black soot.
I heat it directly till it is red hot & no longer smoking at all. Make sure every bit that you are going to put in your bowl has glowed red before you are done!
Then I run it under some hot water to clean off any soot or ash left from burning off the brassy coating.
I dry it by wrapping it in a paper towel & gently pushing on it, this takes care of the majority of the water, but I also then let it sit out & air dry until it is totally dry.
To use, I make a coil with it & tightly stuff it into the bowl...put my dose on top of the Brillo & use the torch lighter to heat the outside of the glass bowl
just enough to start the spice melting into the bowl.
I let the DMT finish melting it the Brillo by itself & then usually let it cool.
I then use a regular Bic lighter to vaporize it, by holding the flame over the bowl, just close enough to keep a constant flow of vapor.
Which means the distance between the Brillo & the flame is constantly varied to keep it vaporizing smoothly...
but not burning it!!
BTW...Steel wool is
way too thin, even if it doesn't burn up (which it will), it is not thick enough to actually hold the DMT oil once it melts...so it'll just run out the bottom.
A wide metal mesh (steel or brass) like Brillo, gives the DMT oil a path to run along & while it does, it is also vaporized perfectly.
Glass "
oil-bulb" pipes don't work very well, because DMT oil actually runs away from the heat. Once the vapor starts, the oil runs away from the hottest point on the glass & spreads it so thin that getting & keeping a good steady vapor is nearly impossible...especially by yourself!
Using a piece of Brillo, or other wide metal mesh like that, actually uses this fact to keep good vaporization happening.
You heat the Brillo just enough to start the vapor & the DMT runs along the wire mesh, but the heat diffuses out to the entire wire mesh & the oil has nowhere to run that doesn't vaporize it.
That is if you get the technique down right & you are not burning things!!
WS