scuba hookah help

[Waterdog]

I have a scuba hookah and you can taste the smell of the line. Is there any way to clean it up so you do not have that Smell/ taste of the air line?

HH

 

[Lou from downunder]

When you say "scuba hookah", I assume you mean your running the hookah hose directly from a scuba tank via a first stage?

I've never heard of the hose developing a "taste", but I guess it could happen, so cant help there.

The thing that concerns me is that the problem could be with the quality of the air in the tank.
Bad air can make you very sick, dead even!
Make sure that whoevers filling your bottles has proper filtration on the compressor.
Might not hurt to get the tank tested. If your using steel bottles rust can develop inside and maybe thats what your tasting?

And if I've misinterpreted you and your actually using a normal petrol driven hookah then once again, make sure the air filtration system is up to speed.

Good luck with the problem.

Lou.

 

[Dig]

Or if your using a gas powered hookah like a brownie or airline...make sure that you not getting any feedback from the exhaust or any splits in the hose

 

[kaptainkosmic]

if you are using a scuba bottle, get a clean white cloth and put it over the valve opening and release some pressure thru the cloth, if there is "ANY" discoloration of the cloth the tank has been contaminated and needs to opened and inspected by someone qualified to do so. Lipoidal pneumonia is something you never want to experience!

hope this helps!

steve

When you say "scuba hookah", I assume you mean your running the hookah hose directly from a scuba tank via a first stage?

I've never heard of the hose developing a "taste", but I guess it could happen, so cant help there.

The thing that concerns me is that the problem could be with the quality of the air in the tank.
Bad air can make you very sick, dead even!
Make sure that whoevers filling your bottles has proper filtration on the compressor.
Might not hurt to get the tank tested. If your using steel bottles rust can develop inside and maybe thats what your tasting?

And if I've misinterpreted you and your actually using a normal petrol driven hookah then once again, make sure the air filtration system is up to speed.

Good luck with the problem.

Lou.

 

[grumpyolman]

Get one that's commercially made and you won't have that and a multitude of other problems that can be deadly and not logically evident to the average DIY home handy man. If...you get a compressor made for human air consumption (not the average oiless made for painting); get the correct hose line (not gas station air hose); put an inline filter made to filter residual contaminants deadly to humans (not a filter to keep moisture out of you paint spray gun); purchase or have a professional SCUBA shop modify a 2nd stage regulator for Hookah; and know how to assemble those so they are failproof, you'll do fine. It's ain't like making a hod rod engine and if it doesn't work you don't go fast. You'll kill yourself or a friend.
If you bought a SCUBA regulator from a dive shopt that has a long hose to hook to a SCUBA tank, and didn't make the hose yourself, and your tank is current with HYDRO and visual inspection, it shouldn't be the tank or the regulator. Underline shouldn't. Maybe you got some bad air from a dive shop. It happens. Take all that equipment to a professional repair person. It doesn't have to be to a commercial dive shop. It just has to go to someone who has had the training, experience and tools, to do the troubleshooting and repair. Cut corners and we'll read your obit. Sorry if it sounds harsh. It's serious business and should be treated as such.
It might be revealing to take the air that is left in the tank to a local University and have them test the air that's left in there. They'll tell you really fast from what and how much contamination there is. Jim

 

[woodwizard]

very good info for your sake I hope you READ AND HEED ALL SAID