Help with my glass pipe...

Hey, I got a glass pipe today and I was hoping to get some info about these pipes ^^ I was just wondering how high does a glass pipe get you and mainly a couple of questions:

1. When I start to light, the glass heats up resulting in burning my hand/fingers so I figured I'm probably doing it wrong XD How do I light without burning myself?

2. I bought 10 pipe screens, but they're too big and just fall into the pipe vertically. What shall I do about this?

I have a 2 spiral clear glass pipe. I've attached a pictures of it so you can see what I mean a lot easier :)

Thanks in advance! :thumbsup:

Talmanonn

Wow never smoked a pipe like that. I use a bubbler or a bong. Seems like it might be a bad design if the whole thing is heating up and burning your fingers. How high depends on what you are smoking.

Glass looks abit thin,hence why its getting hot.it cant dissipate heat fast enough.:jointsmile:

Yeah, the glass on that looks very thin, so it would make sense if got too hot. As far as screens go, I've never used one in my many years of smoking. Many smokers do what is called a "plug nug" which is basically a piece of bud bigger than the hole in the bottom of the bowl. You put it there to keep the smaller bits from going through as you inhale, and when the bowl is done, it'll pull through- be careful! It can get into your mouth and taste like shit.

Bowls get most people moderately to very high. Bongs tend to give bigger more voluminous hits at one time, so they can really get you wrecked. Eating brownies is also a very strong, long-lasting stone. Joints are pretty nice, too.

So is there anything I could do about it getting so warm?
And I can't do a 'plug nug' because it's too deep and when I try to light the medication it the flame probably won't reach :(

Get some scissors, trim the screen

or

Plug nug ... the idea ... plug the hole with a nug and then top off the bowl, you bury the plug nug with broken up medication , so you light the broken up stuff, by you sucking in on one end will draw the flame down and burn everything you have put in bowl

Hot to touch ... try getting a big paper clip ... bend it straight again ... then carefuly wrap it around a secure spot on the pipe ... you can hold onto the two ends of the paper clip.

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Originally Posted by stupids

then carefuly wrap it around a secure spot on the pipe ... you can hold onto the two ends of the paper clip.

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Thanks for the plug nug thing; I'll try it out =]

And I got it up to the quote above; what do you mean by that? =S

Thanks for everything so far guys :thumbsup:

here is a picture ... pretend the red line is the paper clip

i would prefer to use a screen for that piece than a nug to block it. if the screens are too big, good, if they are metal screens. First, i like to use the gold plated steel screens, unless its a regular bowl where the nug plug would work, i would use glass screens.

But yours seems like a job for metal ones. and when you want it to fit right, you place it over the top of the bowl, like a hat almost, flat though. and then with the finger that would fit in the hole, like a pinky or pointer finger, push it down, so it makes a kinda semi-circle that wraps around your finger as it goes deeper, then when it is deep enough, remove finger, and screen should stay in place, and is removable with tweezers, paper clips, toothpicks. It may not want to stay in when it is so clean. But if you smoke right after and dont loose the screen the res will hold it in place after that and you can turn your bowl this way and that.

I tried that paperclip thing but to no avail :( Any other ideas? :)

And yes it is a metal pipe screen. I've tried jimmy8778's idea but again; to no avail. I've decided to try the old fashioned tin foil way, but even if that works, I doubt it'll stop the pipe from heating up :(

I'll post what I've found out once I've done this (which will hopefully be later tonight). If you have any ideas before then please don't hesitate to post it :)

Thanks :D