My First Bong

Instead of inhaling deeply from the lungs while lighting the weed up, I kind of suck it and some smoke goes in my mouth, but not into my lungs, wait till the chamber fills up, and the inhale as I release the carb. More of a headrush that way :)

is it air tight?

Yep, it is air tight, I just checked.

I tried again last night and I had some success a few times, but most times it didn't work properly. I got mashed as hell, but still, I want to be ble to do proper bong hits.

The hole from the weed container is quite large though (I think). Maybe this is the problem?

you do have a bowl on that right? not just the hole for the slide piece?

I have a glass sliding peice and the bong..... it seems that i need a bowl haha. What should i ask for when I head to the shop tomorrow, just ask for a "bowl"?

Your glass slider piece shuld have a bowl on it to put the weed in :/

By bowl, do you mean just shaped so that it can hold weed? If so, then yeah, I have a bowl. But it has quite a big hole in it, I have to use a decent sized nug so that it doens't fall in.

Remember guys, I've never used a bong in my life, I don't know what all the parts are :P

get us a picturreee!!! we will be able to help. make sure you are shredding teh weed with your fingers(or whatever) first and then packing it into the bowl(not too hard)

do you let go of the carb at all?

Ohhhhhh yeah You need a Bowl. not a pipe, a Bowl-peice for the bong.
You have the slider, but not the bowl. See, you put the bowl (the bowl has a bowl shaped top, and you put a nug in the bowl, and it shouldn't be a huge opening, nothing should fall through even if it's shredded) in the slider, take a hit to fill the chamber, then "pull" the bowl out of the slider, which mimics a carb.
Bowls are cheap. Just gotta make sure it fits your bong.