Would it be possible to soak my pipe in hot water? Would this loosen up...

[Etrain]

Would this loosen up the resin? Please help, I'm scraping right now, but my results are minimal. I would appreciate another technique or tip to get it out, (Not boiling though, can't right now) maybe just something to loosen it up.

[Buck268]

Here's what I do...

First I take a couple resin tokes (if you cant get a resin hit, chances are it aint worth scraping). This will also heat the resin up, making it easier to scrape. Then I use this little penknife I have to scrape out the bowl part (this is where the best resin comes from). Then I soak my pipe in rubbing alcohol and use pipe cleaners (those fuzzy wires you made crafts with as a kid) to clean out all the resin from the inside of my piece... I do this whenever it starts clogging, and I scrape the bowl out once a week or so (depending on need), if I don't smoke the resin I ball it up and wrap it in tin foil... Got a nice size rsin ball in a joint vial chill'n for a rainy day.

Yeah, this way wastes a lot of resin, but the way I see it is that resin isn't the best smoke anyhow, and I still get decent balls scraped out of the bowl anyways, typically...

[Etrain]

Thanks for the info buck, but when I smoke the ball out of my pipe should I line my bowl with tinfoil? I hardly smoke res. but my friends do quite a bit adn I've seen them line with tinfoil. What would you suggest?

[slipknotpsycho]

don't do that....i always just scrape the resin off onto a screen....then just gently set the screen in the bowl....hasn't failed me yet.

[Buck268]

If your just smoking straight resin I'd use a screen, but I like to but a little bit of resin on top of a bowl of shwag. Really gets ya there...

[sawleaf]

Damn I never smoke resin. Too much work to scrape for so little smoke. Try using a vaporiser or a more efficient way to smoke. Hotter flame or gold plated bowls burn more bud. :)