Ragnor
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- Dec 7, 2015
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So here's another scewball incident that I need to remody. I got my regulator and was screwing around with it. Ive never actually messed with one before. A childhood dream come true yah know. Anyway, I was messin to see what kind of resistance it had and if I could tell a difference turning the dial etc.
Then I attached the flex line and sucked through that a couple times.
Well then I attached it to the airline that has my reseve tank attached to it. Basically getting a sense for what "out of air" feels like since the pump isn't up and running just yet unless I take the dredge pump out to the horse trough. So I took about 3 good pulls on the system and then I got a breath of some real nasty stuff. Kind of made my head spin and felt like a saline injection in my blood stream (Or perhaps just like a CT scan injection). I was not amused.
So I backed off and waited to see the effects of this unintentional intoxicant and see if I would fall over dead or get sick. Well it didnt happen and I went on to ponder the chemical composition based on taste and effects of the gas. Now the closest thing I could rememeber to that particular flavor was those hidious old iodine water purification tablets. With just a hint of chlorine perhaps?
So a while later I decided to pull the hoses apart and check things out. I pulled the hoses off the reserve tank and I sniffed the hoses and they smell like hoses. Then I carefully took a whiff of the contents of the reserve tank and there it was. Chlorine, with a hint of iodine.
That's when i rememebered the guy who sold me the dredge told me the only time he had used the dredge was to pump out his hot tub.
The guy got hot tub water in the reserve tank somehow and it eventually evaporated in there I would assume.
Now if there is one thing I cannot stand to work with it's chlorine bleach. I burns my skin, gives me a headache, makes me feel sick.
So.....
Replacing hoses and reserve tank is not really an option right now, my budget is getting down to the wire. I do have an aluminum scuba tank I got salvage that I plan to eventually adapt into a reserve, but that's not now.
I guess the Cptn' Obvious answer is flush a few hundred gallons of water through the system and it should wash most of it out, but is there a better way? Vinegar? Soap? Moonshine?
What's the common method of rarifying the internals of a hookah system?
Then I attached the flex line and sucked through that a couple times.
Well then I attached it to the airline that has my reseve tank attached to it. Basically getting a sense for what "out of air" feels like since the pump isn't up and running just yet unless I take the dredge pump out to the horse trough. So I took about 3 good pulls on the system and then I got a breath of some real nasty stuff. Kind of made my head spin and felt like a saline injection in my blood stream (Or perhaps just like a CT scan injection). I was not amused.
So I backed off and waited to see the effects of this unintentional intoxicant and see if I would fall over dead or get sick. Well it didnt happen and I went on to ponder the chemical composition based on taste and effects of the gas. Now the closest thing I could rememeber to that particular flavor was those hidious old iodine water purification tablets. With just a hint of chlorine perhaps?
So a while later I decided to pull the hoses apart and check things out. I pulled the hoses off the reserve tank and I sniffed the hoses and they smell like hoses. Then I carefully took a whiff of the contents of the reserve tank and there it was. Chlorine, with a hint of iodine.
That's when i rememebered the guy who sold me the dredge told me the only time he had used the dredge was to pump out his hot tub.
The guy got hot tub water in the reserve tank somehow and it eventually evaporated in there I would assume.
Now if there is one thing I cannot stand to work with it's chlorine bleach. I burns my skin, gives me a headache, makes me feel sick.
So.....
Replacing hoses and reserve tank is not really an option right now, my budget is getting down to the wire. I do have an aluminum scuba tank I got salvage that I plan to eventually adapt into a reserve, but that's not now.
I guess the Cptn' Obvious answer is flush a few hundred gallons of water through the system and it should wash most of it out, but is there a better way? Vinegar? Soap? Moonshine?
What's the common method of rarifying the internals of a hookah system?
