cleaning a pipe?

[watchinthewheels]

i have a very nice metal pipe that i bought at a festival but i have been using it for a while and its a wee bit dirty. how can i clean it? i have seen pipe cleaning fluids for sale but i wanna try to avoid the LONG trip into town to buy some, any suggesetions? i have heard alcohol will clean it but i dont have anything but vodka and i think that would work out as very expensive just to clean a pipe lol :D any help from you guys would be great

[joker121]

i used rubbing alcohol when i cleaned out my pipe, it got hte shit off there really well. I used to think it had a smoky glass design or something, but it turned out that it was all gross resin build up (it was a used pipe). The only problem was that unbeknownst to me, the carb had broke sometime agao, and been glued back on, and the rubbing alcohol took out the glue too, so my carb fell out.
Just try using some warm/hot water, and maybe a tiny bit of soap, but rubbing alcohol works bestest! :cool:

[Phresh as it Gets]

you could clean it for resin, just take your lighter and light the inside briefly (about a second or two) then get a bent paperclip and scrape the sides on the inside over a peice of paper

[bk17]

nail polish remover works great. just put some in their and shake it around, after about 4 or 5 times it will be pretty clean

[gjayde]

scrape it all out with a long pin put the resin onto foil and booya resin spots to fuck u up...

[sToNeDpEnGuIn420]

use rubbing alchol the best u can get i have 91% :D swish it around in there then let it soak over night. the next day pour it onto a mirror then burn the alchol away scrape off the resin light that shit up and be blazed beyond infinty!

[Bauman]

Obviously cleaning solutions like rubbing alcohol and nail polish removers would work best, but if you just want it reasonably clean... hot water (the hotter the better, within reason) with some good grease cutting soap is good. What ever you do, rinse the fuck out of it, don't want any chemicals still in there when you light up.

I don't know if nail polish remover is a good idea, I personally use rubbing alcohol (proper name is Isopropyl Alcohol).

[SmokeyPotter]

I might be wrong, but isn't nail polish remover isopropyl alcohol? Or at least a high percentage.

[Trips Rolls Bowls]

nailpolish remover has acetone and chemicals in it..and bitrex. makes it really bitter so you dont swallow .yea. i wouldnt want to go hit my bowl and get a trickle of that in my mouth. a lil bit will make you sick :(

so if you do use nail polish remover, make sure its CLEAN before use. i like rubbing alcohol. and dont waste that resin, do what they said to clean/get resin..yummy

[watchinthewheels]

i never even thought about smoking the shit that comes out, it smells terrible so i figuers it wouldnt be exactly pleasant to smoke it. i will now though :D the only problem i have atm is where to get high% alcohol, i may be worng but i dont think you can buy it in the uk? i will try the nail polish remover though, thanks for the advice :D

[watchinthewheels]

WOW you werent kidding about nailpolish remover working. i just dipped my pipe in for a second and the resin is falling off! im gonna leave it in afor a couple of hours to get it all off but thanks a LOT for the suggestion :) im gonna get wasted tonight now :D

[bk17]

I FORGOT TO TELL YOU GUYS TO RINSE IT W/ SOAP AND WATER AFTERWARDS. NAIL POLISH REMOVER IS DANGEROUS IF INHALED.

[watchinthewheels]

yeh BUT it also evaportaes at a low temperature so if you leave it out for a while it dries fast and its safe. i cleaned it with boiling water anyway just to be sure, its nice and sparkeling now :D

[Bauman]

Even if it evaporates, not all of the chemicals in there will, there will undoubtably be some residual chemicals that cannot, CANNOT, be healthy. Isopropyl Alcohol is legal, it's freaking rubbing alcohol. Just go to your local pharmacy or drugstore, hell most big-box stores probably carry it.

Also, I don't know what either nail polish remover and rubbing alcohol will do to finishes on wood pipes and the like. I have no idea if it starts to deteriorate or not, and don't want to find out by it happening to my pipe. Never endanger your paraphernalia if you can avoid it... treat it like your own flesh and blood.