How long is too long to have a piece?

you can never have a glass pipe to long.

i have a little spoon thats one year old, bubbler thats 4months old or less, and a roor thats less then a month old.

 

just use the alcohol and salt method, that cleans my piece perfect, even gets the smell out.

let it sit in the alcohol for like 20 minutes, then shake it around like crazy, then let it sit, and just repeat over and over again until it's clean.

there was just a sale on alcohol by my house, it was .80 for a bottle. i bought 6!

 

I don't think there is such a thing as "too long" to have a piece, only too short. I dunno, I've become attached to my bong. It's served me well so I see no reason to get rid of it.

 

Longest i have had a peice was probably a year or so until it broke. (i still have it, its just... broke lol)

I am an impulse buyer, so if im in the headshop picking up something and i see a peice of glass i like, i will usually buy it if i have money.

There isnt a "Too Old" but there is a "Too Dirty"

 

I've had my little yellow bong for almost 3 years.



I hope to have it for the rest of my life. I have all my pieces in a closet on a shelf and I clean them with alcohol and table salt mostly. While the pieces have the slightest resin smell, it doesn't make the closet smell like resin at all and the door stays closed.

I started using 91% alcohol and I do notice a difference in ease of cleaning and smell.

Diamond, If you jump back in here I have a follow up to our old cleaning discussion with debauch. Since I've been using the 91% alcohol I do not have any rings in my roor and I don't have to shake the living shit out of it either. I should have been using that all along.

 

And if you want to clean it faster, heat up the alcohol in the microwave. But watch it because it boils quick, once its hot as hell, use it like normal. It should come off even faster.

 

Ah, so you were using the 70% or whatever too? Heh, i figured that was the X factor that was keeping us behind.

I almost picked some up @ Marsh (local store) when i saw the 91% and it was the same price as the 70%. Next time i need to clean my peices, i will DEF be using the higher shit.

Is the diff. really THAT much? ((ease of cleaning))

 

I can put a tiny bit of alcohol in my bowl and rub it around with my finger and all resin comes out. I didn't wash one of my bowls for a week and it came right out without even using the salt as an abrasive. I still use salt when I need to clean the inside of the stem or bong and I do notice a significant difference.

 

hey, quick/wierd question you could probably clean your piece with everclear right?

just curious, used to drink it at parties, but i wont touch it now adays, not since i broke my ankle lol

 

that stuff so hard to find around here, i rather throw shine at it then drinking alcohol that i paid for.

 

lol Yes you could. I mean it's like 95% pure grain alcohol or something like that. It is cheaper to buy rubbing alcohol but I honestly would probably use it if I didn't have anything else.

Man I haven't drank everclear since college. Good memories but bad, bad vomit.

edit: I don't really like oxiclean as a non fabric cleaner. I always find this weird slick residue on the bowls I use to mix the powder with water. I normally clean my pieces when I'm blasted and that slick feeling just freaks me out t0o much.

 

yeah thats pretty much what i mean, because i had a bottle a while back n after breaking my ankle i wasnt about to drink it.

OMFG, when i go to my dads house all their dishes/cups are like that. I really hate that texture. Although im not entirely sure were talking about the same thing

 

I've had my bowl for 10 months. Dropped it on a wooden deck once, it didn't break. I've probably smoked (30x10=300x3 bowls a day on average..) 1000 or so bowls out of it. I dig it alot. Nicknamed "Rez" because it collects more resin than any other bowl I've ever seen.

 

i had a glass spoon for about 3 years, it was really sick, ill try to explain it. it had a carb the size of a penny first of all. there was this hole in the center that had a glass thing curving from one side of the spoon through the hole to the other side of the spoon. anyways point is it was sick and my cousin broke it and he paid me and i beat the shit oputta him anyways. what im saying is if youve had a piece for that long its got intrisical value, hang onto it but get a backup piece.

 

Ive done it, no risk of fire. I actually put it for like a a minute and a half only to find out that 2/3s of the alcy had boiled over. And I only did it this way because my bong was a bitch to clean, even with salt, this just like melted the grime off. But whatever, just suggesting an easier way.

 

WOW i have a bong thats green and blue that looks just like that (size and shape)!