Hookah Stories- the great mystery

So every now and then while enjoying the perks of being a regular shisha and hookah smoker, i can run into small little inconveniences along the way. some of these little hooka problems get bigger as time goes on and some of them go away. this is a hookah story involving some friends of mine who had an unsolvable problem... a few years ago some friends of mine owned a hookah and it was pretty nice. they smoked premium tobacco and shisha out of it and used it everyday for about three months. At one point in their adventures smoking their hookah, the hookah became very harsh tasting no matter what we did. Its was if the coal was burning straight through the stem, through the hose and right into our lungs. this became quite the menace to our hooka rituals and proved very disturbing to our lungs, and we could not figure out why! So we deconstructed our hookah to ind the problem. at first we thought it was the bowl head. after after cleaning the bowl head we tried smoking our hookah with a fresh new shisha flavor. This did not work and it still felt like we were inhaling the coal itself. So we got a new bowl head from a local store and tried it the next day sure that this was going to be the solution to our problem. it was not. so we took the whole thing apart and cleaned it with salt and alcohol. We had collected so much resin in the stem of this hookah from smoking shisha that it was burnt and caked on and unable to be removed. so we flogged it with a hookah cleaner and got most if it out. we decided that this must be the solution to our problem. well it was not, so we cleaned the hose and the vase and it came to no avail. this was a hookah mystery that we could not solve. they ended up getting a new hooka and of course it worked fine. you never know what might happen when you are smoking a hookah!