How To Clean Your Glass

I never use hard metal in my piece. Get skewer sticks, toothpicks, Q-tips, nylon pipe brushes, some Goof-Off tm., and a piece of plumbers solder, wire solder, sand, and a plastic bowl.. The solder is bendable, and works good as a scraper. No, the lead won't poison you, it's not enough, and you're washing the thing. Think.

You can warm the bowl with a lighter, or just smoke one out of it first. Goof-Off is extremely flammable, don't fuck yourself up. The warmth of the bowl it makes the resin softer. Start by getting what you can reach. Try blowing through each opening first, make sure to have a couple pieces of paper to catch the flying resin balls. You can get most of it out this way.

You might have to get a little bit creative with bending the solder pieces, but it's self explanatory.

!!! NEVER USE ANY PART OF A GLASS FOR LEVERAGE AT ANY TIME !!!

Glass really doesn't like that.

Once you have warmed and blown or dug as much resin as you can, completely submerge the piece in a plastic bowl (that you can never get clean again BTW...) full of lukewarm water. Never get a hot bowl wet in cold water, or vice versa, they don't like that either.

Nuke it. Yep, in the microwave for a few. It just needs to boil for a minute or so. (It's going to stink kids).

It's going to be hot as fuck, but take it out and put the piece on a towel, or paper towels. It should now be almost done.

You can use a metal bowl screen to catch the resin that's in the microwaveable safe bowl.

Try to blow it out while it's warm. Don't use Duster, it's cold!. If there is anything left in the bowl at this point, you should be able to reach it with the solder, or nylon pipe bristle brushes. I don't like pipe cleaners, the way they are cut, leaves a very sharp edge on the wire.

Once the piece cools, drop a bit of sand inside, and fill it about half way with Goof-Off. Plug the holes with your fingers and shake the fuck out of it. The solvent and sand will clean up anything left inside, although on some complex pieces, it can get a little stubborn.

Worse case, let the piece set overnight in the Goof-Off.

Now, you have a clean piece, but it has been washed in a solvent. Rinse it out in hot water, letting it flow all the sand out of the pipe. Squirt some Dawn dish soap into the piece, (it looks cool too), getting it on every part inside, then rinse it under hot water until clean.

Towel dry.

It will be clean enough at this point, to be returned to the store, or mailed to somewhere without worry.

I just use Randy's cleaner the black label. Put some in the piece shake around for a sec wash it out good and it's done.

I had a 22inch bong I cleaned with Alcohol, Salt, and one of those skinny spongers that fit perfectly snug for the tube part of the bong.

For the perc I just used a ton of salt water and alcohol and hold the base and take a towel or something thick at the top and SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE hard and rough and it comes out the same way the it came out the box.

If it gets to a point where i havent cleaned it for months I just let it run under warm water for 20mins while I boil water and just drop the boiled water in and ALL the goo comes off the sides and out the perc (Put salt in it too works)

nice guide but seems like a lot for what has been simple for years.

It's more of a guide for cleaning that which cannot be cleaned.

My main piece is simple. Scrape the ash from trhe bowl side out, then I just get a skewer stick, and run it through once, it will pick up a clod, then push it through. It cleans the whole thing out, done.

You're right about the salt too, it works the same as the sand does.

91% iso and kosher salt in a plastic zip lock bag. warm pipe under running hot water for a few minutes , and place in zip lock bag and let stand (the longer the better) and shake shake shake and rinse. clean as new.

I might need this guide after new years to be honest, I know it won't work (Just ISO & Salt) with bongs larger than 30" cause its too big to shake by yourself lol.
Then I wonder if I even need to buy a 30"+ Bong just to celebrate a few days with.

Worst stain I had came out after using oven cleaner.

It's ideal really, oven cleaner is designed to remove burnt on foods, which is what we are dealing with in our pieces.

Before my buddy broke my zong, I used cheap walgreens alcohol and white rice. Shake for a minute or so, dump and rinse, marvel at the sparkle.

I've always got a ziplock baggy, put my piece it and filled it with 91% ISO. Leave it for 20 mins, swish it around by tilting the bag side to side and then I rinse with hot water. Perfectly clean every time!