Because I've learned so much more about this pipe that I had evolved out the ingenious design of "The Machine", I've decided to give it a new introduction:
Because I didn't have single-serving bottles of Hennessy readily available to me, my first exposure to "the machine" was a single-serving wine bottle attached to the top of a vitamin water bottle with a copper mesh plug and pen tube--the details of which are unimportant. I took a hiatus from extraction and smoking shortly after developing this method due to a legal scare regarding illegal substances.
After having picked up where I left off--to some great success--I sought a new method of smoking the spice while always considering that I would probably have to locate a hennessy bottle and a way put a hole in the bottom. During the extraction process, I was in search of newer and better transfer pipettes to aide in the process, and so I came across some glass medicine droppers readily available for otc purchase.
It soon occurred to me that the stem of these droppers could easily be converted into a vaporizer via a method identical to that of "the machine." This was extremely successful, but I realized that a decent amount of product tended to precipitate in the stem. The solution I came up with was to add a stainless steel spring or coil to the open stem to distribute heat throughout the length of the pipe, and this has worked wonders. So now I can always smoke a good breakthrough amount, and then recreationally smoke the leftovers afterward.
The second problem I encountered was that a buildup tended to develop near the nozzle after a great deal of use. However, I have only recently remedied this by serendipitous circumstance: I had fortunately saved a jar of of xylene (I pull all I can with naphtha and then do a final pull w/ xylene) with a fairly minuscule amount of product in it, so what I did was simply heat the xylene in hot-water bath, reattach the rubber dropper cap to all of my pipes, and pull xylene into them and squirt it back out into the jar; this is done repeatedly while sometimes leaving the xylene in the dropper stem to allow it to better absorb the melted product. Eventually I will try to recrystallize what is pulled out.
This is the most efficient way I could ever imagine smoking the spice, and I feel that it is extremely important to share with the purveyors of this forum. As always, I hope this has been quite helpful to you.
Because I didn't have single-serving bottles of Hennessy readily available to me, my first exposure to "the machine" was a single-serving wine bottle attached to the top of a vitamin water bottle with a copper mesh plug and pen tube--the details of which are unimportant. I took a hiatus from extraction and smoking shortly after developing this method due to a legal scare regarding illegal substances.
After having picked up where I left off--to some great success--I sought a new method of smoking the spice while always considering that I would probably have to locate a hennessy bottle and a way put a hole in the bottom. During the extraction process, I was in search of newer and better transfer pipettes to aide in the process, and so I came across some glass medicine droppers readily available for otc purchase.
It soon occurred to me that the stem of these droppers could easily be converted into a vaporizer via a method identical to that of "the machine." This was extremely successful, but I realized that a decent amount of product tended to precipitate in the stem. The solution I came up with was to add a stainless steel spring or coil to the open stem to distribute heat throughout the length of the pipe, and this has worked wonders. So now I can always smoke a good breakthrough amount, and then recreationally smoke the leftovers afterward.
The second problem I encountered was that a buildup tended to develop near the nozzle after a great deal of use. However, I have only recently remedied this by serendipitous circumstance: I had fortunately saved a jar of of xylene (I pull all I can with naphtha and then do a final pull w/ xylene) with a fairly minuscule amount of product in it, so what I did was simply heat the xylene in hot-water bath, reattach the rubber dropper cap to all of my pipes, and pull xylene into them and squirt it back out into the jar; this is done repeatedly while sometimes leaving the xylene in the dropper stem to allow it to better absorb the melted product. Eventually I will try to recrystallize what is pulled out.
This is the most efficient way I could ever imagine smoking the spice, and I feel that it is extremely important to share with the purveyors of this forum. As always, I hope this has been quite helpful to you.
