How to remove oxidation and clean Ti products

       After being 'flamed' for my first time on how i take care of my Ti, i decided a thread with some evidence is due. This method refers to 'water seasoning' which really isnt seasoning. If you were to purchase a brand new ti nail that isnt brand name, i suggest washing like this. While blasting a nail will remove any sort of chemical left behind, it can also create things left behind, which is why i use water as a medium so it can grab anything. I have been using this generic Ti nail for over a year now, and my friend has a Highly Educated, and ive watched both build oxide over this last year. Now one thing to understand is that this titanium dioxide forms as a protective layer whether or not its introduced to water. Ive scraped it off before, which i dont prefer to do since your agitating a very light dust particle and can potentially end up breathing the dust. While heavy metal poisoning demands a relatively larger amount of metals to be present in the body, a little dioxide dust will still show adverse effects.
 
     Ive dabbed off a heavily oxidized nail before, not heavily since I was only at the dudes house for a second, but a few hours later i felt like shit and my urine smelled horrible and like i was pissing titanium. That being said i told him to clean that shit, obviously. I actually stopped using my Ti nail after a magnet test. I found the bottom section to have a small magnetic attraction but the top domeless section your heating up had none whatsoever. Heres my nail after approx one month. Note how white and thick the dioxide is, and excuse me for taking such low temp dabs and gunking up my nail, i was scared of overheating the metals in the bottom section.
 

 
To clean the dioxide, and also built up residue, i use water. Yes water can create the dioxide, BUT water will also remove the dioxide as well. I will heat the whole nail red hot and try to get the bottom part of the bowl to glow as well, since this is where the gunk mainly built up. Then i just dip that sucker in water. Heres the part where YoSHytsWeak rolls in his grave. Water can create dioxide quick, i am aware of that, you should be too. If you let the nail sit in water for exactly 5 sec or so until its not too hot to dry, and pull it out and dry quick, you get a fresh nail. Use something pointy like a nice metal dabber to wrap a good cloth around in order to get the crevices. Definitely do not torch your nail to remove moisture as your only opening up the ti for more oxidation, just dry with something decent and youll get all the water and no excess of titanium dioxide.
 

 
Here it is after dipping in water, and quickly drying. Definitely removed the excess of oxidation and gunk that built up.
My oil/wax/shatter isnt really that shitty, but it isnt the stuff you see from extract companies which is a given. Some stuff ive had contained little amount of butane and others just trim runs. I have had some very legit c02 but id rather get quantity over quality because c02 is imported and costs a lot to make and for me to purchase. Currently I have some green crack shatter, and its the most terpiest hash ive had in a while. On a glass nail the taste was pretty good, but i heated up my ti nail just now and i actually think im switching back to the Ti nail since it really does burn so much more efficient. I also dont think ive ever had anything except the c02 taste so well, but the Ti hits wonderful.
 
I just took three consecutive dabs off of one cycle of heating, the third got all burnt but almost didnt want to, so heat retention is still decent. After about a year and three months of use, this generic nail still has life. Its important to always clean oxidation once it builds to such a degree, depending on the product being dabbed and whatever temp the nails and even moisture and temp of the room/area i would say always clean a nail every week especially if it just sits out in a rig. Hopefully this clears some things up among any Ti users

 

Ive read the HE blogs before and it is the best information out there. Im not saying this water method seasons a nail, and (for the second or third time) ill refer to my original post to the mans nail who caught on fire, in which i said using oil and or reclaim is what truly seasons a nail. I have used this method to clean and remove dioxide off my ti for a while and i stick by it for this nail. If i had the budget for a Highly Educated i would splurge on an enail setup but i paid 20 bucks for this nail, and a half broken ceramic which still kinda worked.
 
I live in Ohio and being close to michigan youd think shit would be cheaper but i would rather 2g of decent wax than just a g of c02. I will buy c02 occasionally but its just not ideal as its usually 80 a g. 
 
i suggested this method to guy whos nail caught on fire because even when theres wax on my nail leftover it doesnt catch fire at all so there was probably a chemical of some sort but who knows. theres definitely just a small protective layer on the nail, as opposed to the buildup that was so i think this way works just fine. Like i said it also has not really effected how well it holds heat either, i can still let it sit for the same amount of time and get the same dab i always get.

 

i paid 20 bucks for it, friend paid near 50 at the shop. it does say USA on it but both me and my friend question and doubt that. I did switch to my glass nail but after cleaning i definitely enjoy the taste and ways ti hits.
Around here my options are either 50 dollar grams with price cuts of typical butane extract, and co2 can be 60-80. The co2 is made out of state and for a medical community of course. The butane is home made, on a dirty apartment floor and some times un properly purged leaving me and other customers to purge it fully so it doesnt completely suck to hit. regardless ive proved my point, water removes oxidation and effectively cleans a nail.

 

Well take a look at my nail, is there not less oxidation? I think you've been missing my point. Regardless if you care or not, taken you admitted to not reading anything I wrote because you think I'm stupid for presenting my way of cleaning titanium. You even pointed out a lack in evidence, which I supplied, the water method works. It may not be the most ideal way to clean a nail but it works, and that's all that matters.


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