Alternatives to Tin Foil....

WhatAmIDoing

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FOR SMOKING OUT OF, NOT GROWING WITH.

I know that aluminum foil is bad for you and burns holes in your lungs or whatever, but i wanted to open this up to other alternatives (excluding glass, of course. everybody knows that's chill). wondering about paper clips. (coiled to make a screen, stopping the weed, permitting air flow). i was thinking that they'd be in the same boat as aluminum foil cause they're metal, but if anybody know better than I, lemme know.

also chewing gum. i thought of that the other night, and was wondering,. because it goes in your mouth, so it can't have shit that's bad for you in it, but i wanted some input as to whether or not toxic chemicals could be released or created with the heat? I am geussing not, ut it wouldn't suprise me if there were.

One more thing: rolling with regular paper (not cigarette papers). would the bleach and thigns they put into it make it a bad idea? obviously, you'd want to avoid sheets with too much ink on them, i konw that stuff's bad for you, but what about the plain white stuff? If anybody else has any other thoughts or ideas to add or confirm, please post 'em. this would make homemade piece-making so much easier...


p.s. oh and i know about apples too. those are the shit. ....(any clue as to how to make them like a slide or chilllum for a water piece?)
 

MRsteverson

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nonono,not for like, reflecting light, for smoking out of...unless you mean to smoke out of paint...lol
Tin foil blows... if this is best material you got.. get some apples or other dense fruit... like watermellon or some kind of cantalope.. i dunno i usta make pipes outa fruit and keep them in my freezer... just a suggestion.. good luck bro
 

MRsteverson

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learn to roll joints or blunts! blunts!!... probably easiest i think.. technicly it isnt illegal,, ie a pipe got resisin in it thus making it illegal.. good luck
 

WhatAmIDoing

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Tin foil blows... if this is best material you got.. get some apples or other dense fruit... like watermellon or some kind of cantalope.. i dunno i usta make pipes outa fruit and keep them in my freezer... just a suggestion.. good luck bro

good call. i usually try when i can, but i can't keep it in the freezer, i share the house. and the thing w/joints and blunts, i can roll, i just sometimes really like a good bowl. ...i'm gonna get a glass one soon enough, i just wanna wait till i'm good and ready so i can make a good choice on how i want it to pull (water bong, bubbler, short pipe, small bowl, long pipe, big bowl, etc.)
 

WhatAmIDoing

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just go out and buy some brass or steel screens

instead of bubblegum use aquarium glue to seal shit together

i was actually using bubble gum as the screen itself. i put it over the mouth of a taken apart flashlight (so basically, a tube), fashoined a bowl shape, and poked two small holes in the middle of it. it worked well, and is airtight, i'm just wondering if it's bad for you at all.

wouldn't brass and steel be bad for you as well? or is that just aluminum?
 

tmpsanity

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Gum for a screen. Thatbetter be Bublicous or some shit man. I LOVe It.
Smoking out of anything that oxidizes is bad for you...fruit too. (I accept nothing more than imperical data to refute the claim I just made: and citable references.;)
just buy a cheap chillum at a local flea market for like 20 bucks. You don't need killer glass.

I love the gum.
 

WhatAmIDoing

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lol. true, chillums are only 10 bucks at the head shop, but i wanna get a legit piece, one that i really like. i don't want to be tossing chump change here and there for things to smoke out of. either for free, or all the way.
 

MRsteverson

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basicly as long as the metal isnt treated.. galvanized for example u can use it for smoking, brass works and other non chemically treated ones.. a buddy of mine smoked outa a galvanized pipe and had to go to the emergency room.. so just do ur research
 

WhatAmIDoing

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word. thanks mate, that's just what i wanted to watch out for. didn't know about galvanized before, thanks for the tip. so let's say i wanted to smoke out of a trumpet mouthpiece...i know it's been done, but should i? i have no idea whether or not they treat that stuff...
 
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