How do I clean out my glass pipe without buying expensive cleaning solutions?

By admin | November 25, 2008
cleaning
Ship02 asked:

A lot of resin in the pipe and it will soon block off the hole in the bowl… Trying to find some alternate methods of cleaning it without buying some cleaning solution that’s like 30 bucks!!

Herbata Zielona

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8 Comments

  1. KJ
    Posted November 28, 2008 at 7:11 pm | Permalink

    I run hot water through it

  2. chrissy
    Posted November 30, 2008 at 2:17 am | Permalink

    Lots of hot water and soap. Soak for a good while and then try a pipe cleaner or bottle brush to help remove the resin. Good luck. You will need it!!!

  3. gram2five5
    Posted November 30, 2008 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

    My son said that he boiled his for a few minutes, just be careful not to let it cool too quickly tho.

    You will have a hard time keeping the bowl as good as new..

    I like to fiddle around with my pipes and I ended up breaking a nice one by trying to stick a tool in the hole u put your finger over..(dumb spell)

  4. SuperAtheist
    Posted November 30, 2008 at 7:28 pm | Permalink

    I once bought one of the ‘expensive cleaning solutions’, and it turned out to be something remarkably like oven cleaner.

    It worked fantastically well.

    Subsequently, I bought another pipe cleaning solution which was utterly useless. It was some kind of oil. So it’s a bit of a lottery, but I would strongly suggest trying one of the standard oven cleaner sprays.

    If it’s a glass pipe you can’t hurt it, and resin is chemically similar to oven gunge. Give it a go. Good luck.

  5. Wupadoo
    Posted December 1, 2008 at 5:09 am | Permalink

    TSP. Tri sodium phosphate. It’s avalible at most hardware stores. Put 2 -3 tsp of it into a glass of water, heat the water up till it boils, and put the pipe in to soak for a few minutes (20 – 30), then wipe clean, and rinse the pipe off.

  6. Cammie
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 1:02 pm | Permalink

    Use rubbing alcohol and a Q-tip. Replace the screen and don’t get the alcohol on the bowl unless it is glass too.
    Make sure all the alcohol is rinsed out and dry before adding fire or heat.

  7. Kevin S
    Posted December 5, 2008 at 10:50 pm | Permalink

    Rubbing alcohol works best and is cheep.

  8. emma
    Posted December 6, 2008 at 12:33 am | Permalink

    when i had a pipe i soaked mine in water and alcohol for like 3 days.

    no matter which way you do it its going to smell horrible..
    just a warning =]

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