Paraphernalia - How To Make A Crack Pipe

[Woodman]

If you're curious about as to how a crack pipe is made I offer the following for your information:

Materials:
1.) Hollow glass tube (available at your local liquor store)
[Edited, September 10, 2005] Since I wrote this almost two years ago, state and federal law enforcement agencies have come down hard on places that sell glass tubes. You'll find that many liquor stores no longer stock them.

They DO, however, sell sell car deoderizers in long glass tube-like bottles, and although these bottles have a base to them and are NOT hollow, they can be easily MADE hollow and modified into a crack pipe.

a.) Buy the car deoderizer and take it home.
b.) Remove the cap and empty the contents from the bottle.
c.) Remove any tags or stickers from the glass.
d.) Rinse and dry the inside of the blass bottle.
e.) When the bottle has been thoroughly rinsed and dried, use a belt sander or a gringing wheel to grind off the base of the bottle. Once the base has been ground off, you have a hollow glass tube with with one thread end (where the cap used to be). The end that was ground has micro cracks that need to be sealed.
f.) A propane torch can be used to heat the ground edge of the glass until it is red hot and just begins to melt.
g.) Remove the torch when done, but give the heated area a blast of flame enery few seconds so the glass won't cool too quickly (otherwise it may shatter).

When the glass is completely cooled, you're done.

2.) Copper brillo pad. (also available at the local liquor store)
3.) Cigarette lighter
4.) Small chopstick, or section of rifle cleaning rod.

Function:
-The glass functions as the pipe.
-The copper brillo is the screen that holds and burns the crack and crack resins.
-The lighter is necessary to burn the initial gunk off the brillo/screen before use.
-The chopstick is used to push the brillo from one end of the pipe to the other. "Pushing" serves two functions: a.) it tightens up the screen so it won't slide back when a hit is inhaled and ... b.) it pushes the resins back up in the opposite direction. for a good crack-resin hit.

Application:
1.) Cut the brillo pad and pull off a sheet of copper mesh.
2.) Cut 3-4 squares from the copper mesh. Size each square to 1 1/4 inch (about 3cm).
3.) Place each square on the end of a metal fork and hold the lighter underneath it to burn away the crap on the copper. The mesh must be burned until red hot. It heats and cools quickly. Once cool, it will change color to various shades of gray.
4.) Roll the mesh into a thin elongated wad that will fit into the glass.
5.) Slide the mesh screen into the glass and use chopstick to compress it at either end of the glass. It is now a functional screen.
6.) Push the screen back down 1/4 inch (5mm) to make ready to load a rock.
The crack pipe is now ready for action.

You can substitute any small steel shaft for a push stick. Steel actually works better because you can scrape the resins off of the steel shaft, and use the steel shaft to scrape resins from the edge of the glass. A small section of wire hanger will suffice.

More threads about cocaine and crack cocaine paraphernalia.

[pink]

emergency crack pipe, can of red bull empty, crush slightly in the middle, prick some holes in it toput on the ash and crack, make a hole in the side and suck frome the drinking end

[Woodman]

I have to disagree.



For crack, in just about any kind of pipe, you'ld need a screen to get a good hit. Holes in a soda can don't work well for crack because there's no screen and smokeable resins become difficult to access as they stick to the inside wall of the can.



A simple sheet of aluminum foil, & a foil straw to inhale vapors works far better. Place a rock on the foil sheet and burn it from below while chasing the smoke with the straw.

[Zombie_Terri_Schaivo]

Originally Posted by Woodman

I have to disagree.



For crack, in just about any kind of pipe, you'ld need a screen to get a good hit. Holes in a soda can don't work well for crack because there's no screen and smokeable resins become difficult to access as they stick to the inside wall of the can.



A simple sheet of aluminum foil, & a foil straw to inhale vapors works far better. Place a rock on the foil sheet and burn it from below while chasing the smoke with the straw.

I agree.

And besides, if you're that desperate to smoke crack, you're probably not terribly worried about alzheimer's from aluminum foil.

[Danc9552003]

Originally Posted by Zombie_Terri_Schaivo

I agree.

And besides, if you're that desperate to smoke crack, you're probably not terribly worried about alzheimer's from aluminum foil.

Do you know for a fact that smoking anything off foil will give you alzheimers? Sounds like a theory to SWiM. SWiM isn't sure if he can post where this info (below) came from, but if so MODS please let him know because it's not just made up



Smoking Using Aluminum Foil

Most brands of aluminum foil (Renoyld’s Wrap with the anti-stick coating and similar brands being the exception), are untreated and remain 99.9% aluminum (again with the .1% being residues and other agents in the manufacturing process)

In order to inhale aluminum it would have to be changed from a solid to a vapor. This requires a lot of heat. More heat than what it produced by a butane lighter. A butane lighter is not even capable of melting aluminum, if a lighter fails to melt the aluminum, it will not be able to change the aluminum into a vapor.

[Zombie_Terri_Schaivo]

Well, I suppose SWIM's knolege of tin foil smoking is limited, but for the record, SWIM won't even smoke weed out of tinfoil, rather find an apple.

[PliersOfSociety]

Yeh, this makes sense. Also, he rumours of aluminum-related health hazards date back MANY decades - there was, in fact, a widespread completely untrue rumour that Rudolph Valentino was poisoned by using aluminum cookware, and there was a long-term anti-aluminum movement beginning in the first half of the 20th century.

Although it has never been proven that there is no link between Alzheimer's and aluminum (and proving a lack of connection is more difficult than demonstrating a possible connection), there is little convincing evidence connecting the two that I've seen.

If citing research recommendations is prohibited, please, moderators, correct this - Dialup connection may may will likely diconnect on its own before the rules can be reviewed again - but Scientific American was keeping up on the Alzheimer's/aluminum controversy a few years back during research for a medical magazine - one might check their website and search for "aluminum alzheimer's" and find something of value.

[weidland]

Swim watch another smoker take a small plastic milk chug bottle cut a hole on top and inserted a straight shooter into the hole. She then lit the pipe and sucked through the milk bottle opening and inhaled the smoke that way. The small milk bottle held smoke in it after she hit it and swim took a hit of this smoke left over. Swim still prefers the straight shooter though.

[whatsinaname]

Mainly, this contraption is used for smokin meth, but SWIM has found that it is most excellent for his new-found lethal pleasure as well....

Take a light bulb (any normal sized lightbulb will work..), remove the copper (?) ring thing on the very end of it with a knife. Then use that same (preferably small) knife, and jab it in between the two big black chunks of plastic.. chucks should break off fairly easily, when you can fit knive in insert and rotate to get it all out.

Now I take a long, thin screwdriver, and break the layer of glass that is seperating you from the guts of your bulb. Insert into bulb and just kind of move back and forth..you'll understand fine after you get to this stage. To break the glass tubing, take your screwdriver and get the tube between it and the outer edge of your bulb; apply pressure. (Be sure that you are cupping the entire side of the bulb you are applying pressuer onto with the palm of your hand...do not hold by the end or it will break, and you will have to go without yet another light in your probably already dimmly-lit home).

Now, its a simple matter of removing the pesky "soft" white coating. This usually takes the most amount of time by people I see do it, but only because they wash it out with water. Check it.

Pour enough salt in the lightbulb to fill it a bit under 1/4 full...cover end with thumb, shake a few times, DONE.
When pouring the salt out, swirl the bulb in a spiral fashion, so the salt will kind of clean up after itself, removing most of the salt residue. (NOTE: You can wash with water now to remove that salt residue if you really want too...however it takes a while to dry, so if you're as impatient as I usually am, fuck it. The salt doesn't hurt anything..just makes it slightly harder to see in. After using for a little while most of the salt residue will be gone (with no effect on taste).

They're disposable, easy-to-make-able, and oh so damn fun to get huge rips off....if you're not familiar with shards, to get a big hit you'll want to rotate the lighter in small circles while rotating the bulb left to right...and make sure you inhale as slooooooooooooowly as you can.

Get some sleep!
Edited by: whatsinaname

[adzket]

instead of all that all you nead is a empty plastic bottle about 500 ml or smaller some tin foil and a straw. half fill bottle with water burn hole big enough to fit straw inside on the side a little above the water line. if its lose cover side with gum. place tin foil on top make sucure by bending sides over top of bottle. put some small holes in top and cover with cigaret ash. blaze away. or failing that just use a coke can. cheap and easy and disposable.

[hippie_lain]

ewwwwwwwww...burnt plastic is gross. Used to make lots of makeshift bongs and straws and plastic bottles are not prime matrial. Gets the job done but id just spend 30 on a freebase stylebong. Can be used for anything but weed for the most part.

[adzket]

yeah anyone would prefer a glass pipe and stuff but that is for people who cant get there hands on shuch things

[Woodman]

Here's another method:

Buy a small glass tube of car deodorant. Empty the
contents and remove any labels stuck to the glass.

The top has a threaded glass lip.
The bottom is capped with glass seal.

The empty container should look like a small test
tube, but with a flat base instead of the rounded
bottom you usually see on a test tube.

The bottom can be easily removed, leaving you with
a hollow glass tube.

To remove the bottom you will need access to a belt
sander. Use an 80 grit belt and sand away at the rim
around the bottom.

The flat piece of glass at the bottom will erode away
as you sand it, leaving you with a rough glass edge
around the rim of the tube.

To smooth the edge, you can use a propane torch
and apply it to the rough edge that you just sanded.

Heat the glass until it turns a soft red color and
begins to molt, then remove the torch and re-apply
heat intermittently so as not to let the glass cool too
quickly.

When the glass is completely cooled you will have a
nice soft edge, and a clean hollow glass tube.

Enjoy!

[dgetta]

Is it at all possible to smoke crack from a lightbulb? Unscrew it, take the stuff out of the inside, put the rock in, light the bottom, and suck through a tooter? I saw this on the show "Intervention" and was just wondering if what I saw was right... thanks

I also saw H. Thompson / Johnny Depp smoke a light bulb in Fear and Loathing. What was that all about?

[Silonco]

Ithink you will lose to much coke if you do that, the coke can't move and if you would put a rock in it it would just burn away,maybe if you put everythime just a very litte bit in it and every time you smoked that bit put again a little in it,but not a whole rock.

[cracklin]

I have a question about ways to smoke crack - when using a can and ashes - often times the can will smoke profusely and taste like shit - or so my friend says - and then often times she will throw up or gag because of the nasty tasting ashes - it happens mostly when the ashes are all new - why does this happen? the smoking profusely of the can i mean. she thinks the straight shooters are great - however doesn't have access to one of these all the time - her husband throws them away after use - ashes and can are very easy to acquire - is there anything she can do to make the ashes better?

[qwkracer]

can brass pipe screens be used in place if the copper brillo pad? or will the pipe screens burn too easy and melt?





Edited by: Alfa

[GETERDN]

Some places it is hard to find those glass tubes and they tend to crack and break when heated to much.swims preference is a metal tire gauge tube. They can be found at most convenience stores in the automotive section .


Break off the head of the tire gauge and use a piece of Brillo and a pusher to clean out . Some tire gauges have a light film of oil inside for lubrication and makes the dope tast like shit.than add the Brillo you're going to smoke of but don't forget to burn it first I hear that copper coating is bad for you .

[powderhead55]

Originally Posted by GETERDN

Break off the head of the tire gauge and use a piece of Brillo and a pusher to clean out . Some tire gauges have a light film of oil inside for lubrication and makes the dope tast like shit.than add the Brillo you're going to smoke of but don't forget to burn it first I hear that copper coating is bad for you .

instead of going through all this, you could just buy the Zebra 350?, its a pen with a steel tube for the middle and is hollow when you take it apart, just put the brillo pad in there....its smaller/more compact than the guage too, just a suggestion

[nwpsychonaut]

Originally Posted by GETERDN

Some places it is hard to find those glass tubes and they tend to crack and break when heated to much.swims preference is a metal tire gauge tube. They can be found at most convenience stores in the automotive section .


Break off the head of the tire gauge and use a piece of Brillo and a pusher to clean out . Some tire gauges have a light film of oil inside for lubrication and makes the dope tast like shit.than add the Brillo you're going to smoke of but don't forget to burn it first I hear that copper coating is bad for you .

Swim uses the tubes that the little fake roses come in at most convienance stores, they are corked at both ends. Swim simply takes everything out and puts in a screen loads a rock, melt into the screen, apply flame... *go cross eyed* WHHHHHEW. He will then make a screen by cutting an old peice of somewhat fine speaker wire and stripping off the insulation and burning the thin invisable layer of plastic off of the copper wire itself with a lighter. He will then roll the wire into a ball and push it into the tube with some long object like a skewer to about a half of an inch from the end of one of the sides of the tube, he will test how well the screen fits by dry sucking it very hard, if the screen flies back he will adjust the screen accordingly, he has found the optimal set up for a screen, poofed out, yet densely balled up of wire to grip the sides of the glass tube, but not TOO tightly compressed or it will be harder to get a good hit. load a rock, hold lighter flame at the end of the tube under the rock and move the flame up and down the tube to melt the crack into the screen and you can even hit it at this point if you wish but swim has had a hot screen fly into his throat far to many times by doing this, now put the pipe up to your lips, and hold a direct flame to the end of the tube, flaming the screen good, now SUCK like your life depends on it, hold in about 10-15 seconds and exhale, if its REALLY good crack you may black out for a moment and open your eyes to find yours ears are ringing and your high as fuck

[Woodman]

Originally Posted by GETERDN

Some places it is hard to find
those glass tubes and they tend to crack and break
when heated to much.swims preference is a metal
tire gauge tube.

That is an excellent alternative, although metal tends
to conduct heat much more than glass. Still, good
though!

It's easy to temper a glass tube just by heating it up
with a propane torch.

Most people prefer glass because it's easy to see the resin
clumps inside the tube.

[GETERDN]

ive never tried to temper one of those glass tubes I wonder if it holds up as good as pyrex after being tempered.


a pyrextube would be my first choice


second choice would be a tire gage. if conducting to much heat is a problem you can always wrap tape around the end that you put in your mouth.


i have found that smoking off a soda or beer can with ashes works well if done right. A bigadvantage when smoking off a can is that you canputa hit on it as big as you want as opposed to only what can fit inside the tip of a tube

[glassoilburner]

macguyver can make a good pipe using shoe laces and a
piece of gum.

What i used to do is go to a head shop and find the metal
tubing used in cheap bongs. It is already shaped and you can
put screens on both ends. aluminum so use something soft to
get the resin out.

My flavorite was just a bong

[Nicaine]

Here's SWIM's recipe for a serious pinch (takes some practice). He delivered me this info, so if you have any probs with it post and I'll let him know your objections. Yeah, he knows foil can be toxic so he says only do this if you're otherwise stuck.

Ingredients:

* One pen or pencil
* Some aluminum foil
* A foot or two of medium gauge copper wire
* Pair of scissors

(1) Cut the foil so it's about 1 foot by 6 inches. (Optional: Put a little oil of any kind on the pen/pencil). Wrap foil around the pen/pencil medium-tight 10 to 15 turns.
(2) Slide the foil off the pen/pencil and cut the crumpled end off. Open the crumpled end. You now have a foil tube open at both ends.
(3) Strip some of the copper wire, tangle/crumple together and make a screen with it. Cook with lighter until black. Stick it in one end of the foil tube until it's about 1/8" down.
(4) Enjoy whatever you're gonna do with this makeshift device.
(5) Unroll the foil tube all the way, discard the copper screen, and cut off any foil you see resins coated on.
(6) Re-roll the remaining foil around the pen/pencil and make sure both ends are open.
(7) Cut off pieces of the resinated foil, crumple a bit, stick in the end of the foil tube and hit with a lighter...
(8) Repeat (7) until all gone. Throw all this crap away (except scissors and pen).

P.S. SWIM thinks crack smoking is BAD, and many or most people who do it end up junkies.Edited by: Nicaine

[Luvd2BMe]

SWIM is new to crack smoking and was using tin foil for months, wasting thousands of dollers in rock, I mentioned the pipe to save smoke and he chose the glass tube/chore boy, but wants to know if the chore boy should be the legnth of the tube, and how if it should be changed each smoke session?