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Packing My Alien Phunnel


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So, when we were at tangiers pre-release party, i was talking to some people about the alien phunnel bowl and how they pack them.

Everyone packs them tight and what not like you should pack tangiers but...i have a different method of doing it and i found that it last longer my way.

most people say it last 2-3 hours at most and tangiers should last way longer then that so i tested out other ways of doing it. so here is my way of packing tangiers into a alien phunnel bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfQU-Bx8Ng

wont let me embed for some reason so link i guess Edited by Pavo21
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So, the secret to extra-long lasting bowls is to stuff three times the usual amount of tobacco in them? ;)
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I noticed in all of Stuie's reviews where he shows a pic of the bowl packed with coals on it's always bumped over. Not quite as much as yours, maybe a little less. But perhaps this is something I should try on my Tangiers Mini Phunnel?

I'm wondering if maybe you're compensating for how shallow the Alien is. Eric designs all of the Tangiers phunnel bowls to be a correct depth/width ratio, and, in my opinion, this ratio combined with a superior use of clay that is heat retentive is what makes Tangiers bowls so epically awesome.

Anyway, good how-to man! Like I said, I think I may try overpacking the shit out of my Tang Mini sometime. If I do, I'll let you know how it goes.
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I'm a firm believer that everyone packs differently and it works for them but idk about this man. I mean obviously it must work because why would you post this if it didn't but it kinda defeats the purpose of an alien. That much tobacco could have went into a small haha.

I use mainly aliens since I'm broke so like to use less shisha. If long sessions is what you are going for its easy to get 3-4 quality hours with an alien with proper packing and heat management. Littlec made a great alien packing video but I'm on my phone and can't post but I'll find it when I'm at my laptop
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yah well the only reason i pack it like this is because when we have people over which is like every weekend we have about 2-3 hookahs going and we only got 2 tangier phunnels, they keep disapearing on us so yah thats why, if was going to just smoke for about 2-3 hours solo or with erica the regular way would be perfect
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I stuff every bowl I use. I find that "too much" tobacco is ALWAYS preferable to "too little". But good lord, I'd just use the small phunnel for that much tobacco!
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[quote name='Epoch' timestamp='1323750913' post='532854']
I stuff every bowl I use. I find that "too much" tobacco is ALWAYS preferable to "too little". But good lord, I'd just use the small phunnel for that much tobacco!
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later today im going to pack a bowl on the alien and see how much tobacco i use on that compared to a small
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ok so i did it with help from erica and our buddy jimmy we set out to find out the difference in the tobacco used in the alien phunnel and the small tangiers phunnel.

so first we weighed each bowl
Tangiers Phunnel - 2.2 oz
Alien Phunnel bowl - .7 oz

then we packed both bowls tight like a tiger like u would Normally pack them

Tangiers Phunnel - 7oz
Alien Phunnel - 3.2 oz

then we packed the alien phunnel the way i pack it to make it last longer so i dont have to repack it, which is posted in the video.

Alien Phunnel - 5 oz

So you can see that even with the alien phunnel being loaded looking like its more tobacco then the tanigers bowl it really is still less sure packing it tight over fluffing is using less tobacco but if u look at the numbers its not much less. just thought everyone would want to read this post again and see how it went
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[quote name='Dereksd' timestamp='1323748402' post='532847']
Littlec made a great alien packing video but I'm on my phone and can't post but I'll find it when I'm at my laptop
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Here ya go: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDnWTKNQgAQ&list=LLlol5olhASYemdFnP1g0SBg&feature=mh_lolz"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDnWTKNQgAQ&list=LLlol5olhASYemdFnP1g0SBg&feature=mh_lolz[/url]
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[quote name='mustang67n' timestamp='1323889318' post='533048']
wow.. thats a lot of freaking shisha!!
IDK if I believe the accuracy of those numbers pavo.. like.. 136 grams in a small seems insane too
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I definitely get more than 2 smokes out of a 250g pack.
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yah me to for some reason the math didn't add up now that i did it even though the scale was the same every time i did it i did it like 3 times so maybe i'll have to do it again and try to find out maybe get a new scale and try it its really accurte when we ship stuff out so i dont know whats wrong i'll try again but i deninitly try again
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I pretty much only use aliens now...I pack it semi tight and over-flowing and I get 3-5 rounds of coconut coals on it...works for me bc I I don't really want to smoke the same flavor for four plus hours
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[quote name='tah161' timestamp='1324194137' post='533306']
Just curous, how come you just dont use the bigger bowl? instead of having that bump, seems like you could just load the bigger bowl with the same amount and it would be at the rim?
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He has bigger bowls, but with company you can run out of bowls so this is a way to get around buying a new one
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[quote name='Coleman' timestamp='1324194800' post='533307']
[quote name='tah161' timestamp='1324194137' post='533306']
Just curous, how come you just dont use the bigger bowl? instead of having that bump, seems like you could just load the bigger bowl with the same amount and it would be at the rim?
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He has bigger bowls, but with company you can run out of bowls so this is a way to get around buying a new one
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excatlly this way helps like last night we had 3 hookahs going we only got 2 phunnel since we lost like 2 others and the alien so the alien saved lives since we dont use the mya ones
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/Blitzbolt/35eadc63.jpg[/IMG]
such as this, we have more hookahs then bowls
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