cleaning a grinder

[weedmaster]

anyone have any good tips on cleaning the gauze at the bottom of my grinder, it's getting a little clogged and it's takeing ages to fill the catcher up.

[TheMetal1]

I haven't encountered that problem yet... looks pretty caked up. Mmmmm. I can't say for sure that this will "clean" your grinder, but I have found that when dealing with delicate particles, a paintbrush works amazing. I read a post on here talking about using a paint brush to handle your pollen, so I went out and bought one of those cheapo watercolor paintbrush sets (6 brushes included) for like $2 usd. The finest point one works great for getting in the nooks and crannies, and then there is a harder, flat tipped (still small) brush that works great to round up pollen. If you were to use that harder brush, you could just keep working it until most of it went through... or at least loosened it up, that way it won't damage your screen. It is obviously going to push through some plant matter, so it is not a great way to keep the pollen seperate.. but should work to clear it up a bit.
But my tip of the month... When handling pollen/kif a small paintbrush works so well I cringe at the days of using a business card, watching the edge of it turn a bright green... knowing I was losing valuables. Or even worse, the days when I used my fingers..... ahh... if I only knew then what I know now. Hahaha. Good luck, looks like you got your work cut out for you.
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[jessem98]

LMFAO, i have the same exact story as person above... fuck i hated using a business card... i know your pangs all too well TheMetal1.

i just take the brush with the stiffest brissels, and jam it right into the wire gauze. that way the brissels poke out the keif thats stuck in there.

[smok3y]

A thin paint brush will do the trick.. You'v got a nice wee collection of kief there dude...:jointsmile:

[weedmaster]

thanks peeps took your advise and managed to give it a half decent clean.

[FreshNugz]

I hope you kept what you cleaned outta there and made something special! :jointsmile:

[xcrispi]

I keep a nickle in the portion of the grinder the weeds collected in and shake the grinder side to side after done grinding . Works great .
Crispi :jointsmile:

[putrid retch]

An old electric-shaver cleaning brush works great. 1 side has the stiff-bristles & the other side has like a mini-scraper on it.
I use it after each grind...that way there's no build-up. :D

[Mr. SMG]

You guys just need a grinder with a kief catcher.

[donsolo]

Dude, that's what he's been using. His screen was getting clogged.

[kingkeef]

a toothbrush works good too!

[jdsoil]

I have the same grinder and had a screen problem just like you. Scrape it until your happy with what you get and then when you want your screen spotless soak it in rubbing alcohol for an hour. You can watch the crap come right off the screen.

[one.stoned.wookie]

the way i do mine once it gets caked like that is this. i take my grinder put it so i can see the threads and there is a C type ring in there i get a small jewlers screwdriver stick it down in there and pry it up and the ring comes off.then u should be able to push screen right out. do this very gently dont warp the screen then soak everything in alcohol shake up realy good but do not dump that alcohol put it in a flat bottom glass dish and you can recover all the reallly stuck on goodness........mmmm hash oil! good luck

[dewthedew]

crispi I also a nickel in fact I keep 2 nickels in my grinder:smokin:

[doc holiday]

I use a small paintbrush for the screens, and used to keep a guitar pick in there for the kief. now i've got the fancy space case pick (:
if you need a deep clean and don't care about wasting any kief, go out and find yourself one of the bottles of compressed air for keyboards and stuff. those work great.

[420Dank]

what i do is cut a bottle in half. unscrew the top, put it in ur mouth (you looking down) hold the screen section of the grinder under the bottle like inside of it since its cut in half. place flame 6 inches below the screen and just watch all the smoke rice up to ur mouth now inhale!!!

thats what i do when im outta rope and my grinders full of jewels.

[415plus5]

what i do is cut a bottle in half. unscrew the top, put it in ur mouth (you looking down) hold the screen section of the grinder under the bottle like inside of it since its cut in half. place flame 6 inches below the screen and just watch all the smoke rice up to ur mouth now inhale!!!

thats what i do when im outta rope and my grinders full of jewels.

i would have never ever thought of that. ever. period.

[Henline]

When i clean my grinder i take it to the max, i will first get a paper clip and go in all the cracks and screw attachment part and scrape it out good, then, open up all the compartments, and find a flat clean surface and hit it down on it a few times just make sure to hit it hard enough, ive done this many times and i have got a lot of keif this way when ive been disparate

[headshake]

soak it in a bowl of 91% isopropyl alcohol. let it sit in there til it is sparkling clean. i used an old tooth brush to get all the nooks and crannys. then just make hash with the goodness that came off of it!


-shake

[214texasmade]

I think this is the way to go, the easiest way!
Cleaning the screen on your grinder, to get the most kief possible for hash. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSpwUNvPR5U)