How much do you clean your peice?

i clean mine after everytime i use it, not a huge fan of res.

so if you want to clean with rubbing alcohol and salt you just mix em together and let the piece soak in it for a little while??????

I usually fold a note card in half and then use it to pour salt into the bowls mouth peice and then I fill it roughly half way with rubbing alcohol then hold all the holes closed with my fingers and shake, rinse, and if needed repeat. Usually gets my bowls clean as the day I bought them... I also think somewhere on here there is a picture tutorial but I'm too lazy to find it right now.

i have 8 pieces. the first one i got was when i was a junior in high school, and that is the only one i have ever cleaned. i have never cleaned any other bowls. im a sophmore in college now

Hey hye life, Im from MI too...where do you shop for your pieces? I usually get mine from the road show, im sure you've heard of it..?

yeah you dont even need to use the salt really, it just acts as a light scrubbing agent to help get the resin off.

if you dont like the idea of salt you can also use rubbing alcohol and rice! the alcohol breaks up the resins bond too the glass and the salt/rice acts as an abrasive to clear away the resin.

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not much...i think the heat or whatever from a lighter/match kills any germs, and id rather not have it soaking in alcohol or any other abrasive chemicals...

plus, i do (sadly) end up smoking resin now and again...

my bong and pipe surprisingly dont get that dirty, or that much resin built up in them...dunno why. I find that organic weed produces much less resin than "hydro" or stuff grown with a lot of weird fertilizers. Maybe cuz those have a lot of excess cellulose and shit, because they are all beefed up to be big heavy buds.

Yeah that is weird how organics dont make as much resin, I had an ounce of some organic and I only had to clean my bowl 3-4 times compared to 1-3 per quarter or some of mt regular stuff. But they had less kief so maybe thats where the resin comes from.

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Originally Posted by hreskofreight4

why would boiling glass be just asking to break a piece...?

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Boiling glass is just asking to break your piece because it causes the molecules of the glass to expand and contract more rapidly then they normally would.

this causes the glass to become more brittle or can out right make it shatter if you cool it down TOO fast.

Need an example? pull a light bulb outta a socket thats been on for a while (be sure to use a cloth or something so you dont burn yourself) then run some cold water over it and watch it shatter.