collecting resin from a glass pipe

kidswithguns · 09-14-2009, 11:43 PM

How should one go about doing this?

My little bro got my pipe today and boiled it to collect the resin. It worked fine I guess, except it fucked up some of the paint? And didn't really remove all the resin.

Buzzby · 09-15-2009, 03:30 AM

Melt it off with isopropyl alcohol and let the alcohol evaporate.

cthcforlife · 09-15-2009, 08:16 AM

I used a paper clip, vodka and hot water, took me nearly an hour to scrape it all out but it ended up being a nice size resin ball

emuhhleee · 09-15-2009, 10:49 AM

most of the time, i just use a safety pin on any other pokey object. but, i've tried boiling. it got it pretty clean, but it put a ring around the pot i was using & there wasn't that much resin in the pipe to begin with...

i've heard that soaking it in alcohol & shaking it with salt works, but i don't think it works if you plan to smoke the resin.

my problem is that my resin is too sticky... now, there's a problem i don't think i'll be able to solve.

echolalia · 09-17-2009, 09:24 PM

i use a bobby pin, with the nubs at the end taken off obviously, bend it into the right position, and scrape. if i want to get my pipe nice and shiny i will use isopropyl but it seems to liquefy the resin so i just dump it. when i am wanting resin i scrape manually

Medicalifornication · 09-27-2009, 02:38 AM

If obtaining alchohol is too difficult for you, Try any dish washing detergent (powder) with hot water. Shake, rinse and repeat. Worked like a charm for me.

Zebra · 10-11-2009, 02:33 AM

It didn't knock off the paint, there is no paint. When your bowl is brand new it is clear and has no color. Once it starts to resin up, the resin starts filling in the colors. So don't worry about your bowl fading or losing color, it will get the color back once you start smoking from it again.

If you want to collect the resin, just do what Buzzby said.

1406 · 10-12-2009, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by kidswithguns

... It worked fine I guess, except it fucked up some of the paint?

If you're smoking anything with 'paint' on the bowlhead, I'd discontinue the use immediately.

Otherwise, do what Buzzby said and use rubbing alcohol.

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Buzzby Buddhist Curmudgeon Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 16,803 Grams: 91,185.17 Thanks: 995 Thanked 6,793 Times in 3,138 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Melt it off with isopropyl alcohol and let the alcohol evaporate. __________________ 60% of the people of America now say we are heading toward a depression. Not a recession, a depression. We are in desperate need of profitable industries that we can tax. Um... Now can we legalize pot? ~ Bill Maher Theocracy Watch

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cthcforlife Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 278 Grams: 1,961.78 Thanks: 22 Thanked 22 Times in 19 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	I used a paper clip, vodka and hot water, took me nearly an hour to scrape it all out but it ended up being a nice size resin ball __________________ Gee, did I say that or just think it, was I talking...did they hear me?

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emuhhleee emtard smash! Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,210 Grams: 12,679.76 Thanks: 266 Thanked 274 Times in 168 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	most of the time, i just use a safety pin on any other pokey object. but, i've tried boiling. it got it pretty clean, but it put a ring around the pot i was using & there wasn't that much resin in the pipe to begin with... i've heard that soaking it in alcohol & shaking it with salt works, but i don't think it works if you plan to smoke the resin. my problem is that my resin is too sticky... now, there's a problem i don't think i'll be able to solve. __________________ that's the effect of living backwards; it always makes one a little giddy at first.

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echolalia Jr. Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 113 Grams: 1,869.60 Thanks: 11 Thanked 13 Times in 9 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	i use a bobby pin, with the nubs at the end taken off obviously, bend it into the right position, and scrape. if i want to get my pipe nice and shiny i will use isopropyl but it seems to liquefy the resin so i just dump it. when i am wanting resin i scrape manually __________________ ♥ stop the car, lay on the grass, the planets spin and we watch space pass. walk a direction, see where we get, i never knew nothing so there's nothing to forget.

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