girlbythesea Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Hi, I have a scene I'm writing that involves a Hooka pipe in which there are 4 hoses. My questions is what would happen if someone blew on the hose rather than sucked in on it? Would it effect the other users, would anything spill over, would it make a weird noise? Sorry for the weird question but need to know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zildjian Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 well generally there is a purge valve that would blow excess smoke out of it, but being 4 hoses i think that smoke would come out of one of the other hoses. again, not 100% but lets see what others say too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwind Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Depends on a few things. A cheap one hose would send water up the hookah to the coal. A hookah with a purge would blow some smoke and send water up considering you were blowing really hard but isn't likely. Multi House hookahs would most likely send smoke out of the other hoses unless they were plugged. If that was the case again water up to the coal. Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zildjian Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 [quote name='Starwind' timestamp='1305058925' post='508947'] Depends on a few things. A cheap one hose would send water up the hookah to the coal. A hookah with a purge would blow some smoke and send water up considering you were blowing really hard but isn't likely. Multi House hookahs would most likely send smoke out of the other hoses unless they were plugged. If that was the case again water up to the coal. Hope that helps! [/quote] i disagree with some of what you said. water from purging has nothing to do with the hose. it has to do with the ballbearing not moving out of the purge port. a hookah with a purge will not send water to the top unless the purge port is blocked. multi hose again im not 100%, but the water will not shoot up. water will never shoot up unless there is no other place for the air pressure to go, hence purge valves. they purge the air being blown in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girlbythesea Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 So am wondering if that would disturb the others that are smoking on it? My hopes is that it would cause a negative reaction from the other smokers. If anyone wants to find out exactly what happens I'll put you in the movie credits! We are filming in July, and it would be much appreciated. [quote name='Starwind' timestamp='1305058925' post='508947'] Depends on a few things. A cheap one hose would send water up the hookah to the coal. A hookah with a purge would blow some smoke and send water up considering you were blowing really hard but isn't likely. Multi House hookahs would most likely send smoke out of the other hoses unless they were plugged. If that was the case again water up to the coal. Hope that helps! [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zildjian Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 [quote name='girlbythesea' timestamp='1305059179' post='508950'] So am wondering if that would disturb the others that are smoking on it? My hopes is that it would cause a negative reaction from the other smokers. If anyone wants to find out exactly what happens I'll put you in the movie credits! We are filming in July, and it would be much appreciated. [/quote] if what i think will happen does, person A blows into the hose, persons B-D have smoke blown into their mouths if the hose is indeed in their mouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwind Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 [quote name='Zildjian' timestamp='1305059134' post='508949'] [quote name='Starwind' timestamp='1305058925' post='508947'] Depends on a few things. A cheap one hose would send water up the hookah to the coal. A hookah with a purge would blow some smoke and send water up considering you were blowing really hard but isn't likely. Multi House hookahs would most likely send smoke out of the other hoses unless they were plugged. If that was the case again water up to the coal. Hope that helps! [/quote] i disagree with some of what you said. water from purging has nothing to do with the hose. it has to do with the ballbearing not moving out of the purge port. a hookah with a purge will not send water to the top unless the purge port is blocked. multi hose again im not 100%, but the water will not shoot up. water will never shoot up unless there is no other place for the air pressure to go, hence purge valves. they purge the air being blown in. [/quote] Multi hose hookahs sometimes don't have a purge valve do to the ease of purging from the opposite hose. The water can still go up the hoookah if its purging provided there's enough pressure to send air out the purge and push the water down. Like I said they'd have to to blow rather hard for that, and if there was any other unplugged hose it would just blow smoke/air out that. I've seen it happen a few times with small and medium sized hookahs. I don't think it's very plausible for larger ones though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorlyfish Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I haven't tried this myself, but my logic says something would happen like this: Some air would go out of the purge, and some would go through the other hoses. If those hoses were blocked (say the person has their thumb on the tip or whatever) then air just enters the hose with no noticeable effect. If not, there'd probably be a little puff of smoke/air to come out the end. The person blowing would have to have a hell of a set of lungs to be able to send enough air/smoke out the tips of everyone elses' hoses (especially THREE other hoses AND the purge valve) to annoy anyone. It just wouldn't be a very believable scene to me, speaking as a hookah smoker, to see someone blow into a medium/large pipe and see a significant amount of smoke shooting out the other hoses (i.e. enough to warrant an annoyed reaction). We could help you find other hookah-related ways to annoy people though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Most 4 hose hookahs don't have a purge. 99% of multi hose hookahs have common chambers. If none of the other hoses are plugged, and you blow into a hose, the pressure is just going to come out of the open hoses. Granted the height of the stem is a factor, the shorter the stem, the more likely that water is going to come up into the bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agunn1231 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I have a 4 hose. it doesnt have a purge, so if the others smoking have the hoses covered, it will send water up to the bowl. If they have their mouths on the hose it will send smoke into their mouths unwillingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 [quote name='Travis' timestamp='1305063812' post='508963'] Most 4 hose hookahs don't have a purge. 99% of multi hose hookahs have common chambers. If none of the other hoses are plugged, and you blow into a hose, the pressure is just going to come out of the open hoses. Granted the height of the stem is a factor, the shorter the stem, the more likely that water is going to come up into the bowl. [/quote] This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epoch Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 If the hookah has autoseals, nothing will happen. The hose port will plug up. If the hookah doesn't have autoseals, air will come out of the other three hoses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. B Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 op: yes you can definitely get a reaction from people smoking from hoses B-D. It's like if you had a straw in your mouth and somebody blew into it... not pleasant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vendetta_revived Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 [quote name='Epoch' timestamp='1305070294' post='508980'] If the hookah has autoseals, nothing will happen. The hose port will plug up. If the hookah doesn't have autoseals, air will come out of the other three hoses. [/quote] If the hookah has autoseals, then I am very sure that the water will run up the stem and ruin the bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezxen Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 only multy hoser ive scene are myas and they all have autoseal on the hose ports so nothing but if they dont 1) where all hoses are plugged water up stem into bowl and coal 2) were some hoses are plugged smoke comes out of the open ones 3) where no hoes are plugged smoke blows out 4) hoes are in mouth of person a,b,c and D is blowing they get unexspected smoke/air in there mouths /face (The money shot) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zildjian Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 ezxen there are TONS of egyptian multihose hookahs out there. and none of em have auto seal, gotta use the ol' thumb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epoch Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 [quote name='vendetta_revived' timestamp='1305112943' post='509035'] [quote name='Epoch' timestamp='1305070294' post='508980'] If the hookah has autoseals, nothing will happen. The hose port will plug up. If the hookah doesn't have autoseals, air will come out of the other three hoses. [/quote] If the hookah has autoseals, then I am very sure that the [b]water will run up the stem and ruin the bowl.[/b] [/quote] I have never seen this in life, but I hear about it all the time here... Blowing into a hose with autoseals has always just closed off the hose port from what I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansLight Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Oh you can very easily blow water into the bowl. I myself have a couple multi hose hookahs, including both autoseal and standard. Anytime you blow into the hose on a standard where the hoses are plugged, you can easily push water into the bowl. Now its harder when you have a longer stem to do, but on my QT (which I had converted to multi at one point) I got water in my bowl a few times. Hell once the purge valve stuck on it after I first got it and it did the same : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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