cleaning a grinder

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.

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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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.

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

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

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

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:

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

You guys just need a grinder with a kief catcher.

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