When you really want to smoke simply you don't want the smoke smell lingering on yourself or your surroundings, your best option is a Personal Smoke Filter. It goes past many names, Sploof, Smoke Eater, Smoke Trap but no matter what yous call it, a cardboard tube & some dryer sheets is non going to cutting it.

This How to Guide is for a smoke filter that I made on my quest for something that actually works. I did some research and discovered the magic of activated carbon and coupled that with some existing engineering science bachelor at my local hardware store. I threw everything into an empty weed container, popped on a mouthpiece and was skilful to go!
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Everything Yous Need

  • Activated Carbon
  • 2 Empty Child Lock Containers
  • 1 Dual Thread Lid (Side lock way works best)
  •  3M© 2097 Respirator Filter Refill
  • one Dryer Canvas (Optional)
  • Sandpaper
  • Drill with approx. 1/8″ Drill Chip
  • Hacksaw
  • Scissors
  • Pen / Mark
  • 20 – 30 minutes of Free Fourth dimension
  • Bones Mechanical Competence

Pace i > Drill Holes in Principal Chamber and Lid

Of course earlier you lot start step one, you need to gather your supplies. Please annotation that the "push & turn" fashion of kid lock is used in the tutorial, it'south just what my dispensary has been using recently, just the "side lock" way of lid gets a better seal without employ of glue. In one case you have gathered everything, y'all may brainstorm!

Screw the lid on one of the containers and drill nigh 20 holes in both the top of the lid and the bottom of the container. Be sure to space the holes enough to retain structural integrity. Become dull and allow the drill practise the work, if you push button also hard the bottom may crack all the way through. Remove chapeau later drilling is complete.

Step 2 > Cut Mouthpiece

For this side by side step, I had an old (rusty) hacksaw already but if you practise not have admission to 1 yet, I've seen hacksaws that will work just fine at my local $one store. Take the second container and make a clean cutting about an inch from the threaded side.

For best results, slowly rotate as yous cut and start a shallow groove that aligns perfectly around the circumference of the container and then only keep cutting while rotating until you become through evenly. Trying to cut direct down usually ends in a curved and/or jagged cut.

Step 3 > Smooth and Shape Mouthpiece

Now we need to soften the edges of the cut and give information technology a picayune curve to fit the contours of your confront. The sandpaper I used was out of a bundle pack from the $1 store, medium or high grit.

Accept the recently cut end of your mouthpiece and sand information technology evenly on a apartment surface. Next nosotros want to business relationship for the curvature of your mouth. Have a piece of sandpaper and wrap around a iii″ – vi″ curved surface, like a baseball bat, fence post, etc. Take that same surface you only smoothed and carve out some condolement by slowly sanding in an up & down motion against your curved surface. Rinse and dry sanded edge when consummate.

Step iv > Prepare Activated Carbon

Activated Carbon attacks smoke/smells at the molecular level, neutralizing odor in a process called adsorption. Information technology is ordinarily used in aquarium filters and tin can be constitute at your local pet store.

The Carbon needs to be rinsed before utilise to exit grit that settles in during production and transit. Luckily information technology is very like shooting fish in a barrel to do with your (at present perforated) container from step 1. Make full the container about 1/2″ from the top with carbon and rise until the water coming out of the bottom is clear. At present dry out the carbon on a plate with some paper towels. Set aside for later.

Footstep five > Cutting the Filter Patches

The side by side component is a unmarried 3M© 2097 respirator filter refill, sold in pairs at your local hardware shop. Have master bedchamber and apply it to trace the patch sizes that you lot crave. The top side is usually a little larger then trace the elevation and bottom on the the printed side. So flip it over and first cutting out the plastic ring, then cut out your ii "patches".

  • The pink layer may be removed, it collects more wet than annihilation else.
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  • Optional – Fold a dryer sheet into a tight square, so cut into circular (Smaller, bottom sized) patch.

Step 6 > Layer the Main Chamber

The prep work is done, at present information technology'due south fourth dimension to put it all together. Take the main chamber and fill it (in society) with:

  1. Dryer Canvas Patch (if wanted)
  2. First (smaller) Filter Patch
  3. Activated Carbon (Dry out)
  4. Second (larger) Filter Patch

Step seven > Attach & Savor!

Firmly pack the filtration materials and thread the lid onto the chief chamber, holes side down. Adhere mouthpiece onto the remaining open thread and give it a test. If you are using a "side lock" style hat y'all are probably good to become. If yous are using a "push downwardly to turn" style hat, you will probably need to use a lilliputian superglue on the top side thread to create the requisite air-tight seal.

Congratulations You Did It! Now go pack a bowl of your favorite combustible consumable and test your new creation. For maximum clandestineness pack just one hitting at a time or apply a vape pen. Please enjoy responsibly and cheque u.s. out when y'all're prepare for an upgrade!