Cleaning Glass Pipes

[triv]

Get a freezer ziplock bag, 1 tablet of efferdent (denture shit) and place it in bag with hot tap h2o and pipe. Shake for a second and take out. I use rice instead of salt. seems like it works better for me imo.

I don't have any rubbing alcohol on me at the moment so I'll try this method tonight.
I take it you put the rice/salt in the stem and bowl before placing the pipe into the ziploc bag, correct?

EDIT
Sorry, I just realized I've already asked this on a previous post in this thread. Consider this nothing more than a bump. :thumbsup:

[Got That Haze]

wow, absolutely amazing. i used the shorter method, running under hot water then filling it with rubing alcohol and salt, i didnt even remember my bowl lookin like this. the first method might be better for like your prized piece, but this works just fine, got rid of like 85% of the res.

[Krayzee1]

Use Purple Power... it's a heavy duty degreaser... or grease lighting... but purp power's better

[angry nomad]

Use Purple Power... it's a heavy duty degreaser... or grease lighting... but purp power's better

I wouldn't want to smoke out of something that could leave behind a a residue like that. Isn't the main ingredient in that pure potassium which is corrosive?

Anyway, on cleaning your pipe, I just scrape that shit out (the resin) with a paper clip or bobby pin. Then, I put it back in the bowl, and smoke it, on top a piece of rolling paper if it's a small amount. or, I roll it around in my kief. Make sure you blow the resin out.

When it starts to get old, rubbing alcohol and salt work well. Then, make sure you rinse it well.

[DRybes]

Smoking the scraped black resin is a bit odd cause it has a harsh taste, similar to half-assed honey oil or those other leftover chemicals you might taste in something homemade and think "I shouldnt be tasting this". Any nonpolar solvent should take the crap right out but rubbing alcohol has, for me anyway, tried and true worked the best and the fastest. Ethanol or vodka is slower and ether, although it should in theory work the best, barely works at all (was not 100% pure ether). Stick to isopropanol. Haven't tried salt but a pinch is all you'd need and that should help react stickier compounds, although I'd rinse it well afterward.

Alcohol (ethanol, methanol, or isopropanol) is one of few substances that will completely evaporate if pure or near pure with water added (i.e. 90% rubbing alcohol is 10% water). Anything with molecules dissolved in it will theoretically leave residue other than just undissolved resin that was there to begin with. Potassium is never a pure ingredient since it hates being in that state (much like sodium... they can just spontaneously combust), but it can make lots of salts, just like table salt would if not more. Without a very good solvent rinse afterward (like with rubbing alcohol), it'd be a bad idea. There are other things besides potassium or lye in commercial cleaners that make them very bad choices. Stick with the cheapest and best. Warning: only use on metal and glass.

Edit to say you can just buy a bottle of rubbing alcohol with a suitably large cap, drop the piece in, shake it around, pull it out a few hours later, and reuse the liquid in the future... if not just put a bit in a small glass and soak/stir your piece for a few hours. Keep away from flames even though its not very dangerous as far as solvents go, better safe than sorry. If you add salt you will want to rinse it out again with fresh, non-salted alcohol. rinse well with water and air dry only. Can also rub a pipe cleanr inside while its in the alcohol, works well.

[Toke'n]

What about Methyl Alcohol, like heet? (Gas line Antifreeze) I don t have any alcohol right now, but i have a bottle of this stuff around. It evaporates quickly just like rubbing alcohol. Any thoughts?

[Whix]

all you need to do is

1. take zip lock baggie
2. dump in a bunch of salt in the bag and in the pipe
3. pour in the the alocohol in the bag while the pipes in there
4. close bag and grab the pipe inside the bag and shake the liquid throught it

your pipe will look brand new in like 10 min
boiling it in water is a waste of time
my bong looked brand new after like 3 min's of shaking with the salt + alocohol combo!

[rebgirl420]

I use rubbing alcohol, q-tips, and pipe cleaners to clean out my glass peices. Then I make sure to rinse them out well and I dry them with some of the unused q-tips and a rag.

[Chrono420]

Pixel your method got my pipe looking like the day i bought it not a single spec of resin thank you.

[hybridlove420]

the alcohol will bond with resins and crud to help clean i believe.

this thread should merge with the bong cleaning one.