anubis
Mod Maker
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2014
- Messages
- 49
THE HISTORY BIT
I was watching a program on TV a couple of months ago called "Ancient Aliens" and they described a Nazi war weapon called "Die Glocke" Die Glocke, German for “The Bell” was a purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device/secret weapon. It has been associated with "vortex compression" and "magnetic fields separation," and a related source suggested that the Bell had something to do with "spin polarization" and "spin resonance" also "torsion field" creation. The project was supposedly associated with Nazi occultism and antigravity or free energy research. It has also been called the "Nazi Time Machine".
THE PIPE DREAM
So I decided to build one - for vaping. It seemed like a good idea at the time but it soon became like the castle in Mony Python and the Holy Grail where the first one sank into the swamp so a second one was built, and that sank into the swamp, so a third one was built, that burnt down, fell over then sank into the swamp. My pipe went much the same way (without the swamp). It was as if it was cursed.
THE BUILD
The first pipe, all black with "Die Glocke" written on it in gold Old English script. It was a work of art. I glued the switch in place and held it down with some tape. When the glue was dry I took the tape off and two large chunks of varnish (five coats - two days work). This caused me to swear a little bit. I now had to strip all the varnish off, destroying the beautiful gold script. I thought...sod the script I'll carry on without it. The rest of it went together really well, I checked and tested as I proceeded and then the final part, glueing the 510
assembly to the copper pipe (the point of no return). When the glue was dry I stuck my trusty Hypertank on it and gave it a try. That was when I found out that a one eigth extra turn on the Hypertank caused the 510 socket to short circuit. I swore a little bit more. I then tried a repair job - long story short - I broke the bloody thing....more swearing ensued.
Second pipe. Just couldn't get the paint work right. The grain kept rising every time I put some stain on it and had to be rubbed down and then re-stained...more rubbing down...etc. I spent about a week painting, waiting for it to dry, rubbing down, re-painting, stripping it back to bare wood and starting again until eventually I said "Oh, bless my soul" and carfully put it to one side.
Third pipe. By now I had recieved a nice piece of walnut, so I decided to use this. WOW what a lovely pice of wood. Beautiful grain and a joy to work with. No way was I going to paint this so I polished it instead (got a few funny looks when I told people I was polishing my pipe in the shed - can't understand why). Anyway, chrome pipe, chrome RG500 and one of those new Varitube 22mm spring loaded 510 connectors (these are the muts nuts - far easier to fit) and the bloody thing is finished at last.
I was watching a program on TV a couple of months ago called "Ancient Aliens" and they described a Nazi war weapon called "Die Glocke" Die Glocke, German for “The Bell” was a purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device/secret weapon. It has been associated with "vortex compression" and "magnetic fields separation," and a related source suggested that the Bell had something to do with "spin polarization" and "spin resonance" also "torsion field" creation. The project was supposedly associated with Nazi occultism and antigravity or free energy research. It has also been called the "Nazi Time Machine".
THE PIPE DREAM
So I decided to build one - for vaping. It seemed like a good idea at the time but it soon became like the castle in Mony Python and the Holy Grail where the first one sank into the swamp so a second one was built, and that sank into the swamp, so a third one was built, that burnt down, fell over then sank into the swamp. My pipe went much the same way (without the swamp). It was as if it was cursed.
THE BUILD
The first pipe, all black with "Die Glocke" written on it in gold Old English script. It was a work of art. I glued the switch in place and held it down with some tape. When the glue was dry I took the tape off and two large chunks of varnish (five coats - two days work). This caused me to swear a little bit. I now had to strip all the varnish off, destroying the beautiful gold script. I thought...sod the script I'll carry on without it. The rest of it went together really well, I checked and tested as I proceeded and then the final part, glueing the 510
assembly to the copper pipe (the point of no return). When the glue was dry I stuck my trusty Hypertank on it and gave it a try. That was when I found out that a one eigth extra turn on the Hypertank caused the 510 socket to short circuit. I swore a little bit more. I then tried a repair job - long story short - I broke the bloody thing....more swearing ensued.
Second pipe. Just couldn't get the paint work right. The grain kept rising every time I put some stain on it and had to be rubbed down and then re-stained...more rubbing down...etc. I spent about a week painting, waiting for it to dry, rubbing down, re-painting, stripping it back to bare wood and starting again until eventually I said "Oh, bless my soul" and carfully put it to one side.
Third pipe. By now I had recieved a nice piece of walnut, so I decided to use this. WOW what a lovely pice of wood. Beautiful grain and a joy to work with. No way was I going to paint this so I polished it instead (got a few funny looks when I told people I was polishing my pipe in the shed - can't understand why). Anyway, chrome pipe, chrome RG500 and one of those new Varitube 22mm spring loaded 510 connectors (these are the muts nuts - far easier to fit) and the bloody thing is finished at last.
