4) Also, making 'the dmt machine' is outlined here. Can someone explain me the mechanism... I haven't made one yet though... but if the dmt is melted into the steel wool and you heat the steel wool then smoke is generated, but don't you inhale some smoke of melted wool too? How can you control how much DMT you burn: if you put your lighter at the wool, doesn't everything burn at once, or is that the point such that you can take multiple hits of the smoke in the bottle?
I think I've made an EXTREMELY effective machine. Here's how I did it.
Get a freebase air pipe like this:
I believe this is the ASCII kind that Gracie and Zarkov recommended, but when I first got it, I tried using it right-side up with a very fine screen (like Gracie and Zarkov recommend), but I wasn't having much success AT ALL. So I decided to make a machine out of it...I don't think the idea for a machine was around when Gracie and Zarkov wrote their articles/etc. I love it.
You might have to go to a few different smoke shops to find a pipe like this, there's only one that I know in my area of that has them (~$10). Once you have acquired this, you're ready for the next step.
Then get some brillo (I used Chore Boy). Then cut/rip it to the size you need to fill around 2/3rds of the bowl. You know how brillo is copper colored? Well you need to burn that color off, it is these copper colored chemicals that you
don't want to smoke. Burn the brillo, one part at a time, by putting a flame straight to it (be careful not to burn yourself). Once heated, the heated part of the brillo will turn red-hot, and then when the flame is taken off and it cools down, it is now a grey/black color. You need to burn ALL the copper color off of the brillo, and this can be somewhat time consuming.
I then stuffed the top of the bowl piece with brillo, then turned the pipe UPSIDE DOWN. So you use the pipe upside down. You take the bowl piece out, and put the DMT into the small "tube" end (the little hole), so it lands right on the brillo. SOMETIMES a few granules will fall through the brillo (the really fine ones), like less than 5mg. So I do it over a dark colored book so I can see if it falls out. In that case I just put it back in. After it's loaded I start smoking.
I hold it upside down because that's the way you use/smoke with it. So basically the brillo pad is facing down. The DMT goes on top of the brillo this way, it doesn't go in through the big end. I put my lighter ~2 inches or so below the big end/brillo when smoking. Stop lighting your lighter about 5-10 seconds before you stop inhaling, otherwise you'll have a bunch of vapor still in the chamber.
It works great. Much easier to take fat, tastier, and more potent hits. Highly recommended for anyone who would want to try this.
However, if the DMT is extremely fine powder, it could fall through the brillo. Just make sure you load it on a flat non-porous surface.
Here's what it looks like when finished.
I used to almost not be able to handle the taste of DMT. I would need mints. But I think this device vaporizes it instead of burning some of it (like other methods) because the brillo heats up and that's what vaporizes it, not the flame, therefore giving a much smoother taste. I don't need mints anymore.
In my opinion, it was well worth the money and time that I spent buying/making it (even though burning the brillo took a while). I couldn't think of a better, more efficient way to smoke it. (Except maybe a vaporizer??? Never looked into it)
