I am brand new to the world of DMT. I was reading on ways to take it. And smoking / vaping is the best from what I've read. "The machine" works by putting the spice onto one end of the mesh. and lighting the other while its in the bottle.

So I came up with an idea to cut a highlighter in half.
and put a piece of aluminum foil into one end. which i plan to use like the mesh in "the machine"
will this work however?
and yes. i did clean the highlighter first. theres no ink or anything inside it.

... I'm no expert, but I thought the mesh in the machine did the job of providing a nice lot of surface for the dmt to coat and also thermal mass to make sure it didn't heat up too quick and burn the dmt, stainless steel is a relatively bad conductor of heat. I'm not sure that aluminium foil will do the job here as it has less surface area, lighter mass, and higher conductivity.

Also watch out for burning paint fumes from the outside of your highlighter! (I assume it's of the metal tube body type? )

I like e-mesh myself, but it's more of an investment in tech ( vaping using an electronic "mod box" used to heat stainless steel mesh inside a "RDA" ... google these terms for more info and search here for full e-mesh details)

Cheers,
Frac4

I think the machine is outdated, better try the E-Mesh setups.

With any machine setup it might be really depending how well you construct it. Also the whole copper wire / mesh stuff feels not consistent for me.

Most of the times the vapor I inhaled did not feel healthy ...

Now about your idea with the aluminum foil:

Once I built something probably similar to yours, which was using a long glass tube and attaching some aluminium foil on one end. Drop spice from top and heat from below.

This was not good ...

Reason 1: You need an air flow from the bottom too (that's why the machine has a metal sponge-like end at the bottom) to drag air from down upwards to your mouth. If there is not a real airflow then the spice will not get towards yourself. You would need to make holes into the aluminium, but then the air will mostly bypass the DMT and not drag it upwards too efficiently.

Reason 2: Aluminium might not be too heat resistant and give off traces of aluminium into the air pretty easily. It has a low melting point compared to copper or steel and therefore you can expect also traces of metal released into fumes easier than with other metals. Aluminium might place a role in Alzheimer desease, although a high occurence of aluminium in your brain when being ill might just be a side-effect and not initially contributing to the desease evolution. Still, I would cancel potential unnecessary exposure of Aluminium whenever possible.

Reason 3: The foil will be so small that the optimal window where you need to hold your flame will be extremely small. Even if you dont get unhealthy aluminium particles for inhalation: Risk of getting 0,5 cm too close and instantly burning your spice due to the super thin foil will make vaping very difficoult.



Instead try the E-Mesh setup. It is much more user friendly.