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When I was a junior in HS I purchased a rather expensive and elaborate "water pipe". It was my pride and joy for years. this past summer, I let a friend keep it for a period of time, as i was leaving town for a bit and didnt want to bring it. when I moved back to town at the end of august, he reluctantly told me he broke it, like way back in early July. There was a massive hole in the base, which we deemed irrational to repair. I was bummed and forgot about it until tonight. We were hanging out and decided to just duct tape the shit out of it, and no matter how ugly, make it work. We got quite crafty with the application of the tape, complete with layers of Saran Wrap for added stability. To my surprise, it worked like a charm. Slightly harder to pull now, but no leaks. It's was good to resurrect it for another go. Lol
Any one else have similar stories of resurrecting broken pieces? Lol the more improvised/ghetto, the better.
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Shouls have done Saran Wrap then duct tape that doesn't sound like fun having your water on the tape. I had a bowl break clean in half in the middle that I taped up.
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use calking on the hole and put a piece of glass in between the layers (inside and outside the base). Your duct tape is just going to come off after a little bit. A buddy did this to my old tube and its still going like 2 years later. Of course its not in my possession anymore but hey I got very good use
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@Superballin said: Shouls have done Saran Wrap then duct tape that doesn't sound like fun having your water on the tape. I had a bowl break clean in half in the middle that I taped up.
Yeah Saran Wrap was first. Then duct tape, then a second layer of each
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I have a bong that is old as $#it; his name is Bummy. Bummy is a plastic piece of crap that gets abused in so many ways: dropped, kicked, stepped on, used as an ash tray, and repeatedly smoked out of. When Bummy first started leaking, he was fixed with simple duct tape. Knowing Bummy is plastic, and old as crap, you may rightfully assume that he broke at a young age. Duct tape got old very quickly. Bummy got made over with electrical tape. Very bondage-esque. I had some Mardi Gras beads draped around his shiny black shaft, (yeah, I said shaft). Bummy would get packed up (haha) and taken on trips to the frozen lakefront or camping/hiking. I thought it was time for another change. Bummy was stripped completely naked, and that's the first time I found out he was green, (he wasn't originally mine, he had duct tape when I met him). Anyway, that was cool. So bummy was now permanently wrapped at the base with electrical tape, but he was given a sweet foil shell. This shell was adorned with hemp rope wrapped tightly from electrical tape base to kok ring mouth hole. It was a thing of beauty. He got to keep that outfit for quite a while. I would repair when he got raggedy. Then one day, I came home from work, and he was no longer my hippy hemp-y friend, he was wearing day-glo orange and neon yellow duct tape! Let me tell you...that didn't last long. Made him look cheap(er).
Now he wears a humble wrapping of silver duct tape and shiny black electrical tape. His kok ring mouth piece doesn't fit at all...he just isn't loved anymore. Maybe, one day I will want to bring Bummy back out and get him looking dandy once again. Maybe he will keep his place on the end table next to stuffed Willy ripping his shirt off, (you can almost hear him say "GREASE ME UP, WOMAN!" ...neither here nor there...
delirious, I am (in a yoda voice)
I have to get up in 4 hours, and I can't sleep.
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Back in the day, we had a 3-foot green plastic Graphix bong named "Puff." One day I went to take Puff out of my closet, and when I picked him up the tube just broke off about 6 inches above the base. Still not sure why, must have gotten knocked around or something. Anyway, we were bummed and figured Puff was dead. But we didn't throw him away.Several months later, a guy that I had worked/smoked with at a gas station got a job in a place that made plastic tubing, pvc, etc. He looked at Puff and said he thought he could fix him. So our friend goes and makes a custom sleeve about 8 inches long that fit snugly around the tube. Slipped it over the base section and then inserted the rest of the tube, then used epoxy to seal both ends of the sleeve and PRESTO! Puff was good as new! Used him the rest of the time I lived there without a leak, and slapped a green classic Phish logo on the repair sleeve. Magic!
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:::::TOSSES IT BUYS NEW BONG::::::::
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I'm curious what kind of piece you have OP and how much you spent because if you are really serious about fixing it, Kind Creations in Fort Collins, Co does pretty solid, affordable glass repairs. Look em up.
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Actually no - I have the same exact RooR I bought myself back in approx. 1995.I take really good care of it.
Then last week my GF drops the bowl on the ground and breaks it - luckily I bought an extra in 1995 - so she is still all original.
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