Most of my stoner friends have one-hitters (they may go by a different name in your area---they're the little cigarette-like metal pipes that you can get one to four hits from, depending on packing technique), so I'll assume that most of the readers here do.
Get your one-hitter, and a glass pipette that fits over it well (mine is extraordinarily air-tight). With a very hot torch (like a propane torch), heat up the glass enough to crimp it about 3/4 inch from one end (not too much...just enough to break up the flame a little bit before it hits the bowl). Wait for it to cool, and then cut the other so that the length between the edge of the crimp and the far end of the glass pipette is about the length of the one-hitter.
Now, put the end of the glass with the crimp onto the one-hitter (with a packed bowl, of course), and light the lighter at the other end of the glass. Inhale. This should heat up the weed about enough to vaporize it. It's worked for me quite a few times. Actaully, earlier today I took two hits off it from the roach of a blunt and I forgot where my next class was. Fun times, fun times.
How To Build Carp's Vaporizer
By sjc
What is a vaporizer?. This page is designed to answer that question. Not only is this page here to answer that question but to tell you how they work and how to build them. They are by far the best way I have smoked weed and are not hard to make.
What Is A Vaporizer?
A vaporizer is a device for smoking marijuana. It uses a heat source to heat the bud without burning it, rather vaporizing it.
This produces a white cloud of THC (Delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol -- the main psychoactive chemical in weed), along with other canniboids (the 61 chemicals found only in the cannabis plants). Since the weed is not burned it is much cooler than a joint and contains very few tars.
How Exactly Does It Work?
The vaporizer uses a heating element rather than burning. A quick look at the THC MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET reveals that THC boils at 392 degrees F.
Thus if it is heated to 400 F the THC boils and produces a vapor. This is not hot enough for it to burn so it does not produce the toxic products of burning.
What Are The Advantages Of Vaporizing?
Well first of all the vapor is not as harsh on the throat (though the taste can take some getting used to). Also THC boils at 392 F but burning it is much hotter and the heat of the burning destroys some of the THC (making it less potent).
I have personally seen 3 people get stoned off a small joints worth of good weed in a vaporizer.
Not only that but a recent study found that water filtration systems are worse for the lungs than joints! This is because the increase the amount of tars in the smoke per unit of THC (thus one must inhale more tars to get the same amount of THC). This same study found that ONLY VAPORIZERS contain less tar per amount THC than joints!
Simple Vaporizer Plans
These are plans on building a simple vaporizer out of a soldering iron, some wood, and a plastic 2 liter bottle.
Of course not everyone has the skills, tools, or time to make their own vaporizer. Fortunately it is possible to buy vaporizers.
The Carp's Easy Vaporizer
First you will need the following materials:
-- A soldering iron
-- Flat piece of wood (any wood about 1/2 inch thick...at least 8
inches X 8 Inches)
-- Wooden Dowels (long at least 22 inches and about 1/2 inch diameter)
-- A plastic 2 liter bottle (the kind with the black part on the
bottom)
Procedure:
First cut the flat wood into a triangle with equal 8 inch sides (60 deg. angles)
Second Stain and varnish the wood (or polyurethane).
Choose one side of the flat triangle to be the top Find the exact center of the triangle and mark it on both top and bottom.
Choose a drill bit size such that the soldering iron handle can be set into the hole created by the drill and have the rim on the top (handle end nearest the element) sit on it so it doesn't fall through.
Drill with this size bit through the center of the triangular piece.
Turn the triangular piece over and mark 3 spots each about 1 inch from the vertex each angle.
Drill through each of these at a 15 degree angle with the smallest bit that the size dowel you have will fit into (snug is good).
Turn the triangular piece to the top.
Pull the plastic bottom piece off of the 2 liter bottle Cut out the middle of this piece (the indented middle part).
Place the black piece over the hole in the center of the wooden triangle and put a two nails through it into the wood.
Use Hot Glue (or better Silicon sealant) around the bottom of the black piece and fill in any cracks in it made in the removal from the bottle.
Place some wood glue in each of the holes on the bottom of the triangular piece.
Put a dowel in each of these holes and gently tap them with a hammer to set them (then let the glue dry).
Put the soldering iron power cord through the hole in the middle (trim the plastic if you have to).
Pull the soldering iron through so that it rests on the base...sticking up into the air.
Cut out the bottom of the 2 liter bottle (make a nice hole as big as you can but so that it still will go into the black piece and fit (leave some of the curved bottom).
That’s it...now just fashion a bowl and your all set.
Fashioning The Bowl
Depending on what soldering iron you use the bowl making is a little
different. I usually use a more expensive iron where the tip screws on. It
has the threads on the element (like a screw) and the soldering tip had
threads like a nut (inside).
When this type is used the bowl is easy to make. There are two ways I have had success with. The first is Tin foil. Just wrap tin foil around the threads where the tip would go and make a little bowl (small bowl is good...like maybe 1/2 an inch diameter).
Heated tin foil is not a healthy thing to breathe, so the suggested bowl would be similar to the one described below.
The next way to make a bowl for this type is to buy a thimble (size 9 works nice). It must be a metal thimble! Take the thimble and make a hole in it (the top) work the hole till it is the size of the threads on the soldering iron. Now try to put it on. If it is too loose then take it off and wrap a few layers of tin foil around the threads and try again (this will tighten it up).
If you use the cheaper soldering irons (the ones where the tip screws in rather than on) then try leaving the tip on and using a larger thimble (much larger).
Using The Vaporizer
Pack the bowl with herb (pack it good) and put the bottle over the soldering iron and place it in the black piece.
Plug it in watch carefully and as soon as you see a white cloud coming up, then unplug it (or else it will get too hot and burn the herb) and wait for it to build up.
Unscrew the cap, push up on the soldering iron (from the handle) and take a hit, replace cap and iron, let it fill, and hit again. Unpack with tweezers and repack (the bowl is small so ya have to repack a lot)
Notes:
Initial warm up can take up to 5 min. Plug in the iron and leave it on (uncovered and not packed) for a while before first use (you will see why).
You may need to pack it 3 or 4 times for 1 joints worth but I have seen 3 people get stoned off their asses with this little bit (I could not stand after that).
If the bottle is deforming from the heat then it is too hot (don't leave it on so long) Enjoy!