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Hey folks. Once again, it is Paul here for Hookah.org and I have another video how-to.
This one is for actually how to salvage an unwashable hose and convert it into a washable
one. Most of you have unwashable hoses. They come
with most hookahs pretty standard. They will rust overtime because they almost
all invariably have a metal coil inside that is going to get wet, it is going to get rusty
and its going to get nasty. Most hoses I really just suggest ditching
and buying a nice high quality washable hose but with things like this, which is the hose
from my [Maya] colossal which I was a really big fan of, I love the motif and the enameled
handle; I could not bear to part with this thing.
It was time for me to break out the tools, break out some vinyl tubing and turn this
into a washable hose. The process is pretty simple. With these,
you can unscrew the ends and
what you end up doing is you just take the nasty hose and you cut it apart.
You open up the outer layer, you check out the inner coil inside, you realize how very
rusty that actually was and you just decide to ditch. It's time for all this to go away.
Cut off all the outer layer, a nice sharp knife will do well to cut through the string
and the faux leather and all that. Then you take your pliers, get a good grip
on the metal coil that is usually pretty well seated in the end piece with some kind of
a [00:01:48] or glue and yank that out. It's really pretty simple but please go slow.
It can be a little dangerous, especially if you've cut the coil because that will be a
sharp edge pointing probably directly at you. From there, it's all about cleaning. You should
do the usual cleaning job that you would do on a washable hose.
Use a stiff bottle brush, something relatively fit and small to clean out the actual end
pieces, both the hose part and the mouthpiece, and then clean up the center post as much
as you can, which involved usually digging out a lot of extra material that's gotten
stuck in there thanks to the really heavy glue job that a lot of these people do when
it comes to gluing these hoses together. If they use something that's not hot glue,
a little bit of glue gun in the end, left to sit and left to soak overnight, can really
help to loosen things up. After that's done, you just go in there with
a flat head screwdriver and dig out as much as you possibly can.
After that, I usually take some 220-grit sandpaper, which is a finishing sandpaper but it does
nicely on the metal, to get off any remaining rust and to get rid of any glue residue that
could impede adhesion later on. At this point, I take the end piece and the
mouthpiece and I wash it all very nicely with some soap and water; warm water, mild soap
and make sure it's very clean. You don't want any of the metal flakes or
metal dust to be left inside there where you're going to be drawing your smoke from.
That also allows everything to be nice and clean so that the glue will adhere nicely.
From here, you just cut a nice piece of vinyl tubing; food grade can be found at most improvement
stores. Most places like Home Depot or Lowes or other places like that.
If you can't find it there, you can order it online. Its very cheap, you usually buy
it by the coil or the spool and you'll have way more that you need, but you can build
a really nice long hose that has some good flex to it and have plenty of extra tubing
left over for further build projects or making your own hoses or whatever might some down
the pipeline sort of speak. For adhering the vinyl tubing to the actual
mouthpiece and end piece, I suggest hot glue. Be careful not to actually touch the hot glue
gun to the vinyl because it will melt it, but so long as you are careful, you should
end up with a nice seal that is airtight, watertight and will end up lasting for a very
long time, but isn't so strong that you're not able to break the seal and get the glue
off should you ever want to replace the hose for whatever reason; say a coal drops on it
or it gets cut or short or something like that.
That's about it. It's not the prettiest thing in the world.
I know some people really love watching the smoke go through the hose, which you can see
it's milky white right now because it is filled with delicious smoke, but I'm actually going
to end up taking this and probably doing some braiding along the outside in a traditional
south western style; we'll see what I do. I like making things pretty and that will
be another guide for another time. This really is all there is to rebuild a hose
and making a non-washable hose into a washable hose.
I suggest using one that's going to go in the trash anyway for the first time you do
this build project because you really don't want to mess up a really nice hose and potentially
wind up with just a useless hose and as a result, a useless hookah.
If you got one that you're going to throw away, tear it apart, see what you can do,
follow this guide and I think you'll be pretty happy with the results.
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