Bushbr Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 grrrr. nbody is on this late, will have to wait a few hours befor i get my answer...I once again searched the forums and couldn't find anything,I heard a friend talking about hoses with ball bearings in them, so that if your hookah doesnt auto-seal, the hose does. anyone heard of theese? if so where can I find them?also i remember HS had some flip-cap hoses on their site, but they mysteriously dissapeared. anyone know anything about these?I really hate thumbing, and would like some auto-seal action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekon Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Auto-seal for me is starting to get really annoying as i like clearing out the stale smoke i might just invest in some cash into the fliptop hoses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zildjian Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 if you have a mya your hose pieces are interchangeable (the part that screws into the heart of your hookah) so you can change em all around! i have 1 regular and 2 autoseal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalSoil Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 if im thinking correctly, you should be able to smoke without a hose in one of the ports? cause it seals like a purge valve? if this is the case you should still be able to blow the stale smoke out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zildjian Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 uhmmm depends if the hose you are on is auto seal. if it is,you cant blow anything out. with auto seal you are blowing your ballbearing into the hole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalSoil Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 QUOTE (Zildjian @ Oct 26 2007, 10:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>uhmmm depends if the hose you are on is auto seal. if it is,you cant blow anything out. with auto seal you are blowing your ballbearing into the holeI knew i was forgetting something!Nevermind.I like thumbing (lol)... makes you pay attention and talk to the people you're smoking with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese// Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I hate shouting "BLOCK!"to my friends when they zone out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalSoil Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 awe, you get angry.... i just look at them, or im like "hey.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZenSilk Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 The hose doesnt contain auto-seal. The hose ports do. You have an Egytpian from H-S, so i don't think it would be very easy to mod it into an Auto-Seal. I have seen hose-caps around somewhere, i don't remember which site though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafeSearchOff Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 zen, he's talking about seals literally inside the hose.its been rumored on here once or twice before, i don't think it was ever definitively foudn though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZenSilk Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Ohh seriously..? I've never even heard of or seen one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Seems like a pain waiting to happen if you ask me. One more thing to get junked up.Hey, have you all noticed that people tend to forget about propper hose care with their hookahs? It is driving me crazy! Every time I smoke with a new group and try out somebody's hookah their hoses are ALWAYS dirty as hell. Oh sure they clean out their hookah after every use, use some lemon juice every couple of months, but they never blow out their freaking hoses at the end of the session. What's the point of having a clean hookah and a crap hose?Sorry for the rant but it just popped into my head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekon Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Alright ty zen, the only reason i was gonna invest in flip caps is because i was gonna take out the ball bearings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejoshman Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 like i pointed out earlier..i was able to establish a successful autoseal 3 hose hookah. since i had a weird ass stem where the hose attachments where absent only the screw treads where present. so to that effect, i was able to by the hose converters, place some barrings, and then boom perfect block and fully functional. seems simple, but finding one of the hookahs i have is like...impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreengoblin707 Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 (edited) QUOTE (thejoshman @ Oct 26 2007, 04:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>like i pointed out earlier..i was able to establish a successful autoseal 3 hose hookah. since i had a weird ass stem where the hose attachments where absent only the screw treads where present. so to that effect, i was able to by the hose converters, place some barrings, and then boom perfect block and fully functional. seems simple, but finding one of the hookahs i have is like...impossible.Hate to be a noob, but what does auto seal mean. OK, I know the name is self explanatory but I want to be discrete. If a hookah has auto seal - it seals the connection to the hose. If a hose has auto seal - it seals itself. Does my hookah have that feature? It doesn't have ball bearings on the hose ports but I've used ones that do and I notice little difference in the smoking. So what do you do with a hose that doesn’t have auto-seal? Masking tape? Isn’t auto seal supposed to be found in most hookahs as it sounds standard? Or is it just something that adds an extra tight seal not necessary but helpful. Thanks. Edited October 28, 2007 by thegreengoblin707 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekon Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Auto-Seal is basically a ball inside a hose adapter. It's kept in there with a screw and you can only suck air out, if you try to blow it won't let you because the bearing is blocking the hole. Your hookah does not have the auto-seal feature, and the only ball bearing you have on there i believe is in the purge valve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreengoblin707 Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Thanks for the explanation. It doesn't seem like a very useful feature to me. I don't have smoke leaking out of the area with hose attachments in my hookah. Nor do I see much difference with hookahs that do have ball bearing. Sounds fancy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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