what is the best way to clean your pipe?

I just thought id share this with you all last night i broke out my 3 pipes a big metal a small glass and a incognito one made from a blistecks tube i claned them all out with saftey pins but i put a plastic bag underneith so all the resin fell in there-- after i was done (a long time i hadnt cleaned any of these pipes in about a month and i smoke almost everyday and like 4-5 times a day on weekends) there was a big pile of res on the bag it was very sticky and looked almost wet so i thought what the hey im outa bud as we speak and i got nothin to do tonit so i rolled the res up into a ball it was a little bigger than a bowlpack i pushed it all the way into my metal it turned out it wasnt as much as i thought but it had tiny chunks of green in it so i toked it up and ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyy godddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd i was toe up it was fantastic i lost the feeling in the back of my head and both my arms so i just turned on some floyd and went to bed--- how shady i fell asleep at 845 i had smoked at around 645 and i just laid in my bed for 2 hours having lucid dreams and then i drifted off into a deep sleep -- what a great experience

blistix pipe the plactic ones? dude for health reasons u may not wanna use it

haha nah its just the hollowed out blistecks thing with a small one hitter inside its just for if im going places where i could get friscked or somethin

lol!

Dude, a long time back I bought a bong from my friend (used). I decided to clean it out nicely before I used it. I scraped so much resin out of it! I had my roach container (Super-8mm film container) filled right up with resin.

Those were some good times... it's too bad that bong busted. I remember getting ripped to the ends of the universe and back on that sucker!

My friends and I are thinking about getting a pipe, but I'd like to know how to clean it, just for future reference.
Also, what is resin, and why do people like it so much? How does one use it to their advantage?

Definatley get a glass one it tastes so good, and it changes colors a lot of times as the resin builds up. Resin is the black sticky stuff that builds on a pipe/bong from smoking. If you've smoked a joint and noticed the roach was more potent, that was the resin that collected at the end of the joint. People like resin so much because it's super potent, but the downside is it tasted pretty bad.

As far as cleaning i only know of 3 options:
1. Boil it in a pan with water-the downside is it's not easy to save the resin this way.

2. Scrape it with a screwdriver or something, but be careful to be gently if it's glass. you could scape out the resin and smoke it if you want

3. Rubbing alcohol just put some in your pipe while not letting any leak out and swish it around a bunch, pour the alcohol back into the bottle and refill the pipe with alcohol and repeat. Be sure to rinse it well after you're done. You can eventually boil the alcohol off and make some super potent THC extract. Just dump some alcohol into a little glass bowl(not your pipe) and find something to hold it right over the flame of a candle and wait for the alcohol to boil off, then add some more alcohol. Also, if you do this make sure it's well ventilated!!! Ventilation is very important with this method

Wrong Forum

Please try a search in the Methods of Use forum because I'm positive this topic has been covered.

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Keeping the Ol' Pipes Clean...

I'm not at all sure of what a vaporizer is, but I've heard that they give the same THC effects while taking the edge off the lungs. This would be ideal for me, as I want to keep my lungs as healthy as possible (I'm a singer.) Can someone explain to me what these are, and where they can be bought? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

try this

well, first off - ive never used one, however ive heard the same things as you have about them. though i can point you in the right direction if you want to purchase one:

try a HighTimes magazine (Barnes & Noble, or your local Head Shop), found here: hightimes.com/

hope this helps

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high times?
pffffffff lol

just do a search for 'vaporizer' 'eterra vaporizer' or 'Vrip vaporizer' on google or yahoo or something

eterra and Vrip are the best out there, but be ready to shell out 130-150$ . . . or if not, u can make ur own

theres plenty of threads on here about making vapes, pretty cheap, pretty nifty, altho still never as good

donkeysmell

ayo. if you wanna know more, do a search in this forum for the thread entitled "all about vaporizers." its the longest thread on vaporizers in this forum. it should answer all your questions. if it doesn't i could probably answer your question, so post your question here if it isn't answered. ****.

Should People Clean Their Pipes Or should we let them build up with resin???

Should People Clean Their Pipes Or should we let them build up with resin???

If it is a glass pipe, definitely let it build up. The colors get brighter, the colors change, and sometimes new colors you couldnt see at the start will show up. Also, if enough resin builds up you can scrape and smoke that if you are really jonesing to get burnt. There really isn't a downside to letting it build up... Yup.

if its plastic, acrylic, wooden i suggest cleanin it cuz u cant scrape and the resin that coleccts there is nastyy.

thanks for all yur help i will keep all your suggestions in mind

haha, untrue...i let one of my pieps get so resined that when i went to scrape it i couldnt get the screen out cuz it was like glued in there with the res....it was not fun to get that out

but besides that its all good

peace

take a lighter to the resin for like 5-10 seconds and it would loosen that thing right up

after lots of build up in glass pipes your hoots will take on quite a resiny taste which i cant stand, i usually clean my pipes and bongs every 2 months

No bongs here...

My favorite smoking devices are the joint and the pipe.

Joints, no cleaning required!

I clean my pipe about once a week with a brush, and often with a scraper. I find if I let it go longer it gets a bad taste and a harsher quality to the smoke.

Plastic bongs have a lot fouler taste to the resin. Glass is the way to go for that. You can clean them less, and when you do scrape them the resin wont have any noxious flavor.

back in the day, i had a pipe and i never knew that you could scrape the resin off. anyways, she got so resinated that her carb closed off. you couldnt clear the chamber because you couldnt open the carb. hehe, so much resin. the plus is that you didnt have to hold the carb when you took a hit. too bad she broke the day before we were gonna scrape her.