Syrian Hookah

[markchan]

okie so an open heart hookah will be unuseable? why though? wldn't it be easier to clean?
a closed heart wld be harder to clean i reckon.
sori i'm just really curious

[Scoop]

how so.

how would you open the chamber to wipe it down and actually clean it off.

ive tried washing away crud from inside the stem with boiling hot water for 30 minutes and nothing came out. when i put the cleaning brush into there and scrubed it around...bam all this crap comes off.

so you gonna pour water into the common chamber, or use a pipe cleaner/ nothing gets in there well enough.

[SafeSearchOff]

it depends how you look at it. eric has presented this point may times - cleaning an open heart can be pretty clumsy because there are few cleaning apparati that can reach into small crevices such as the open heart. also, many open heart hookahs tend to not have very smooth metal on the inside of the heart since this wont effect quality and will lower cost, so you cant tell if it really IS dirty or not, if its gunk or just rouch metal, and if it is gunk, how your going to clean it.

personally i just let open heart soack in hydrogen peroxide for a little, then some listerine, and scrub it with a brill pad. but you can never tell how clean its getting...


edited cuz im a retard... again. Edited August 3, 2007 by SafeSearchOff

[Sonthert]

Well, since you don't have a direct access to the common chamber, you can clean it...but you'll leave parts uncleaned...it'll be a constant battle. I take a dry-chamber hookah, (Yes, I'm making up words, but I think the word is perfectly cromulent!) run a brush through each tube, its clean. Bam. The only difference between the common and dry chamber is really the increased cost of the tubes keeping them separate (and easier to clean). Its cheaper to make a common chamber type. The other problem is, of course, you can't blow the smoke off the top of the jar with a common chamber. I actually own one of the first common chambers on the US market, the Versace hookah (You'll see it in pictures of me smoking a bowl, although I rarely use it). I designed, in my head, a meta-open chamber design to combat the jar not being able to be cleared, it would have a tube for the vent, but not for the hose port, so you could have several holes on the bottom of the lug that opened into the chamber for the hose port and a single tube for the vent. IT would allow the jar to be cleared. Same problem though, cleaning. Edited August 3, 2007 by Sonthert

[KillZedKill]

Hey Sonthert, I was wondering what color scheme you chose on your Glyph, because im going to be getting one to replace my egyptian, I'm thinking blue/silver or green/silver. If you have one of those could you post a pic?

[Sonthert]

I don't own one of those specifically, I believe those are from the same manufacturer as hookahs we used to buy out here from a different distributer. I own dozens of hookahs, different colors, multiple styles, etc.