Ok so a little info. I am new to owning high end glass. I've been rocking a volcano for 7 years now and decided its time to try glass. I picked up an sov king stemline down grid with worked bowl and boro farm ash catcher. I'm having serious issues with resin staining on the tube neck and the body of the piece itself. Here's my routine. You tell me if I'm doing something wrong whatever. Start with a clean piece. I use hot water inside the catcher and bong. Then I use ice in the pinchers. Using Normal hot tap water. Have a smoke session then dump out the water and rinse it all with hot water. Let it air dry every wed and sun I've been doing 91% baths with Epsom salt. Then Sunday night I let it soak all night in grunge off. I have a stopper so I am filling the piece up all the way. Over all the pieces are clean. Bowl fine. And most of the ash catcher spotless. But if you look through the glass in light. Or put the glass in front of a white towel you can clearly see little resin spots. Not water spots but brown areas. The worst is right above the water line it's a solid brown mark and just above the ice pinchers also. If you just have the glass sitting after cleaning you can't really tell. But like I said when you look through light or in front of a white towel it's clearly a brown hue on the glass. Every and all suggestions welcome.
[quote name='"gtx1"'] Why are you using hot water to smoke?[/quote] Ha that's what I was wondering lol
I wonder if it has to do with the spots though. I remember hearing that boiling your piece to get resin out effectively made it harder to get off, like the heat sealed it to the glass. Could that be happening?
Is that like grunge off? Better then using salt? As stated already been using that. Cleans well but isn't removing the residue I read simple green just haven't made it to the store to pick some up. Was also told zep? Was looking at these but didn't know if it was gimicy or not. I find its smoother to smoke when combined with ice. I think it's similar like toking from the volcano. Heated air. If this is for me I care because I bought nice glass for a reason. To use and keep nice over time. Do you go and buy a Porsche and never wash it?
I was wondering this also. I mean I'm not using boiling water. Just hot water from my sink. I notice when I didn't use ice I got less water spots. But no less resin. I love my ice so maybe ill have to use on nylon brush on the neck. Body I'm still lost.
They're not they work very well I went from needing to clean my bong daily to less than weekly after I got it they also make it smoother IMO just make sure to get a keck clip and clip it to your bowl
Cool. I'll order that up from ***. already have a clip for my ash catcher but don't use it much. So I'll use it for this.
i'd recommend only ever using filtered water. if you do clean it, you can rinse with tap, but the last rinse should always be filtered. never leave tap water in your piece. most everywhere has hard water these days, and it causes mineral deposits on glass for sure. i've heard some people only go distilled, but i fill my 5 gallon water jugs at a local filtered water place for $1 a piece.
I'm not having water spot issues. Also as stated I never leave water sitting in the piece. I always wash after the session with hot water. Maybe I need to try using all cooler water from now on.