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sprbld417
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cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..?
#15060392 - 09/10/11 10:42 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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whats up, I own this. I feel like cleaning it right now but I'm unsure about it. Coming from a mechanical standpoint the alcohol, should it touch those lil black rubber bushings, would probably make them dry and brittle (at least thats my hypothesis). What do you guys think? I know using alcohol and salt is a common method, so I figured I would shoot this.
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Soluminia
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: sprbld417]
#15060415 - 09/10/11 10:49 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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itll work just boil in water for a couple minutes in the microwave after your done
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: Soluminia]
#15060449 - 09/10/11 10:55 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Lol the alcohol won't hurt the rubber at all, I use 99% denatured and coarse sea salt. Just find the highest % alcohol you can and some salt, shake for 5 min and your done. If you decide to heat the glass up make sure you let it cool SLOWLY. Temp changes crack glass
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: MycoMayhem]
#15060556 - 09/10/11 11:18 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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dude, alcohol and salt are like a fucking MIRACLE!!! Shit will make you bong spotless!
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: Nunbuh_Chrubble]
#15060570 - 09/10/11 11:22 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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alcohol and salt works miracles, bro.
The rubber are actually grommets which are fairly compressed. To add some perspective, cars use rubber bushings on the underside of the chassis to actually hold suspension arms to the vehicle! And they get wet all the time, and are even prone to corrosion. Compressed rubber like this takes a very long time to wear down. You could probably soak the grommets in alcohol for months before they decomposed.
It's amazing how well iso + salt cleans shit up
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: Nunbuh_Chrubble]
#15060592 - 09/10/11 11:26 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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MycoMayhem said: Lol the alcohol won't hurt the rubber at all, I use 99% denatured and coarse sea salt. Just find the highest % alcohol you can and some salt, shake for 5 min and your done. If you decide to heat the glass up make sure you let it cool SLOWLY. Temp changes crack glass
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Nunbuh_Chrubble said: dude, alcohol and salt are like a fucking MIRACLE!!! Shit will make you bong spotless!
This. I don't find it necessary to heat the glass but you may have to do 2 washes. I have done it on my glass pipes and they looked brand new. Never on rubber pieces but I'm sure they will be fine just rinse it out with warm water after you're finished.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: Nunbuh_Chrubble]
#15060983 - 09/11/11 01:40 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nunbuh_Chrubble said: dude, alcohol and salt are like a fucking MIRACLE!!! Shit will make you bong spotless!
Sure itll make it spotless. It will also break your bong. Not from one time of course, but repeated use will make the glass thin and break easily.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: ReefaCheefa]
#15060996 - 09/11/11 01:51 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I heat it up first with the hottest water from the faucet by running it under for a couple min. Helps to loosen the gunk before the alc and shake.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: ReefaCheefa]
#15061008 - 09/11/11 02:01 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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ReefaCheefa said:
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Nunbuh_Chrubble said: dude, alcohol and salt are like a fucking MIRACLE!!! Shit will make you bong spotless!
Sure itll make it spotless. It will also break your bong. Not from one time of course, but repeated use will make the glass thin and break easily.
What? Don't lots of solvents much stronger than rubbing alcohol sometimes come in glass bottles?
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#15061025 - 09/11/11 02:07 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: What? Don't lots of solvents much stronger than rubbing alcohol sometimes come in glass bottles?
All I know is I was using alcohol and salt to clean my bong until one day the bong chipped simply by me removing the stem. I talked to the guy at the head shop about it and he said it thins glassware.
I dont know if its the salt and alcohol combined or what, all I know is what he told me matched up to what happened. My glass obviously got so fragile that it broke coincidentally while trying to clean it with alcohol and salt.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: ReefaCheefa]
#15061048 - 09/11/11 02:21 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: pwnasaurus]
#15061070 - 09/11/11 02:37 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: ReefaCheefa] 1
#15061334 - 09/11/11 06:04 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: What? Don't lots of solvents much stronger than rubbing alcohol sometimes come in glass bottles?
All I know is I was using alcohol and salt to clean my bong until one day the bong chipped simply by me removing the stem. I talked to the guy at the head shop about it and he said it thins glassware.
I dont know if its the salt and alcohol combined or what, all I know is what he told me matched up to what happened. My glass obviously got so fragile that it broke coincidentally while trying to clean it with alcohol and salt.
My grasp of chemistry is limited so I could be wrong but I don't believe the salt is very soluble in or reactive with EtOH, if at all. This allows the salt to stay in solution in crystalline form, which allows the salt to act as an abrasive on the resin, but it is way too soft to damage the glass. Thats how I always imagined the whole thing works anyway, so it wouldn't be any worse than exposing your glass to salt or alcohol on their own, both commonly found in glass.
The enemy to glass is uneven temperature changes which would occur regularly around the stem. Every time it is used it increses the odds that the glass will someday break. Every time it sustains any sort of impact microfractures form in the glass weakening it, this is what causes pieces to break, not salt and alcohol.
To me Salt n Alch is the safest, easiest way to clean glass.
I'm sure the guy in your headshop knew all this, he just wanted to sell you one of those overpriced pipe cleaning products they sell
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#15061445 - 09/11/11 07:15 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Rubbing Alcohol won't hurt that rubber.
I wouldn't use any acetone though, that would probably eat away at it.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#15062106 - 09/11/11 11:05 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the heads up. I had a feeling he might have been trying to sell me something, but he never tried to...And I guess the heat thing makes sense. Thanks dude.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: ReefaCheefa]
#15062252 - 09/11/11 11:40 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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ReefaCheefa said:
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moonrockmushy said: What? Don't lots of solvents much stronger than rubbing alcohol sometimes come in glass bottles?
All I know is I was using alcohol and salt to clean my bong until one day the bong chipped simply by me removing the stem. I talked to the guy at the head shop about it and he said it thins glassware.
I dont know if its the salt and alcohol combined or what, all I know is what he told me matched up to what happened. My glass obviously got so fragile that it broke coincidentally while trying to clean it with alcohol and salt.
was it american glass? or cheap recycled chinese glass? makes all the difference in the world.. you can break chinese glass with a tuning fork
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: ReefaCheefa]
#15062260 - 09/11/11 11:43 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yall are clueless, the alcohol doesn't "make the glass thinner"- it makes it brittle. I don't fully understand how or why though, chemistry.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: blujay]
#15062284 - 09/11/11 11:47 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I should have mentioned I've been told this only applies to the special pyrex glass that has some silicate compound in it making it extremely resilient in the first place. You know the ones, they always advertise by tossing on the concrete.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: blujay]
#15062517 - 09/11/11 12:42 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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blujay said: Yall are clueless, the alcohol doesn't "make the glass thinner"- it makes it brittle. I don't fully understand how or why though, chemistry.
Well thats what I was trying to get at. I guess brittle is the right wording...but yeah the glass just chipped as I was removing the stem. It wasnt cool.
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Re: cleaning bongs with alcohol and salt..? [Re: ReefaCheefa]
#15062554 - 09/11/11 12:49 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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i use 90% alcohol and rock salt. But my buddy bought a 5gallon bucket of simple green and just lets his pieces soak in it over night once a week, and they always stay sparkling
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