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Use kosher salt and alcohol, pour into waterpipe and shake the **** out of it, then rinse with hot water until you cant smell the alcohol anymore.
Run the hottest water in your house through your bong until all of the resin stains come out.
Cleaning your piece is very easy. Trust a long time toker:
Rinse out the piece with hot water to loosen up the resin. Then pour in some regular table salt and isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. Shake the piece, closing up any openings with your hands. Rinse out a couple times with water.
The alcohol dissolves the resin and the salt acts as an abrasive to help take off the stubborn stuff.
MYTHS:
-It is not necessary to buy special cleaners, they’re just isopropyl alcohol and salt with scent and coloring added.
-There is no need for water to be especially hot. Super hot water can crack your glass or cause you to burn yourself and drop your piece.
-There is no need to use 90% isopropyl alcohol, the 70% works just as well and costs half as much.
HELPFUL HINTS:
-For a small piece you can shake it up in a Ziploc bag.
-For really dirty pieces you may have to repeat the process a couple of times because the alcohol dissolves all of the resin it can contain.
-You will probably have some resin stick to the sink or tub. Just use some rubbing alcohol on a paper towel or tissue to clean it off.
Empty the water-pipe, pour in a little Epsom salts and rubbing alcohol and just swirl it around, up and over all the resin. The Epsom salts don’t dissolve in the alcohol very quickly, but help break apart the resin while the alcohol dissolves it. Epsom salts is wicked cheap and can be found at CVS or Walgreens in the foot care section (it’s used to soak your feet). Quickest and cheapest way EVER!
I’ve heard that lemon juice is a good cleanser, and also you can shake around some dry rice in there to act as a scour.
Fill the bong with as much water as possible. Plug the bowl hole if you want to clean to the top. Drop a tab of Polident ™, let it sit and then rinse. Voila, clean pipe.
I just tried citrus based de-solve-it (for getting sticker residue off) and it’s as clean as the day I bought it. It did take about 10 fills, shakes, empty cycles.
I just tried the salt and alcohol method…. PERFECT!!!! Thanks guys
I have not cleaned my bong in 6 years. It is so dirty/nasty that I can’t even see how much water is in it. I’m going to clean it tonight. Thank you all for the inspiration.
Try using some acetone (it’s in most nail polish removers, if you don’t have any) … It works wonders, but obviously make sure to rinse it well afterward.
Alcohol and Epsom salt are cheap and easy! Took me seconds to restore almost as new.
Question though; How do you completely remove the resin from under the slide????? I can always restore the glass piece brand new, however the area under the slide in the middle is tough. Any ideas???
Alcohol + Salt = Death of acrylic pieces. If your unit is plastic, do this and you will be sorry. It’ll work just fine, you’ll love it for a while, but eventually the plastic will be weakened by the alcohol, and your piece will be a busted POS. Trust me, I’ve done it a few times myself. In Canada there’s a product called Orange TKO, might be in the states too, works just as well as the alcohol and salt method, without compromising the integrity of the plastic. It’s expensive, but bloody worth it, cheaper than buying a new bong. You literally only need about a cap for most jobs, maybe even less if you dilute it like they recommend. But since it’s made from 100% natural orange junk, I don’t bother and it doesn’t hurt any of my units, and I’ve been using it for years. If your unit is glass or ceramic however, I think the cheaper alcohol and salt solution is just fine (I think – not sure on that really). A lot of the commercial cleaners ARE just alcohol with scent and color added, so don’t bother wasting your money on those. To clean the stem piece use the same cleaner as you use on the unit, just get bamboo skewers from the dollar store and scrape it off, cotton swaps are a good tool as well. If you don’t keep nasty water in your unit, as in, dump it and get clean water every session, it’ll be a billion times easier to clean too. Those are my tips – Good luck.
The absolute best way to clean a dirty glass bong or water pipe requires 2 simple ingredients:
91% Isopropyl Alcohol
Epsom Salt
Both are available at your local pharmacy. If 91% is not available, 70% will work too. These are the two primary ingredients in almost all packaged bong cleaners. Simply pour some alcohol and Epsom salt into your pipe and shake vigorously (with all the holes covered up) for a couple minutes. The result should be clean-as-new glass. Q-tips are recommended for reaching tight spots that are extra dirty.
Clean glass bong
I’ve tried the salt and alcohol and it isn’t working that well and a just got this bong the day before. I just don’t want to waste my money on all the rest of the junk knowing that it probably wont work, and does it make a difference that mine is an ice catcher Bong?
Yep, the alcohol and salt works like a dream. My bong was disgusting, so I Googled “how to clean a glass bong” and found this site. The method took a while and there was lots of shaking to be done, but all resin is cleared out and I now I fire up in a nice clean bong. Cheers!
Bong cleaning
The best method I found is to boil some water and squeeze about 2 and a half lemons into it. Leave it in your bong for about an hour and voilà! Good as new! It’s cheap and easy
Cleaning Bongs / Water Pipes
!!!!CATION!!!!!
When you clean a bong with nail polish remover and rubbing alcohol mixed together (in my case i was running out of rubbing alcohol so i mixed them to add to the level) plus Epsom salt and you cap the whole thing off once you start shaking it to get it clean purser starts to build up inside so when i took off the cap BOOM big old bong volcano =) so watch out.
P.S – Don’t clean under the influence, disasters await those who try, only some times that is.
Bong cleaning
I prefer acetone & dry rice. The acetone cuts through the resin better than rubbing alcohol and the rice serves as a much better abrasive than salt as it does not dissolve and can be reused throughout the cleaning.
Bong Cleaning
I used Acetone and salt. And of course hot water as well, let it sit for 10 min.
CLEAN BONG
happy smoking.
Cleaning your glass pipe
Well, I don’t know about other peoples methods but I’ve learned that a little water (hot or cold) and some nail polish remover works great to clean your glass pipe. Let soak for about ten minutes and use something like a q-tip to get to the hard to reach spots. Rinse well and you’re ready to go.
What about just the cone-piece??
I have no problem cleaning the glass bong itself but the glass cone piece never looks new.
how do I get into the long narrow stem and get out that resin?
Or can I just soak it in alcohol and salt in a small dish/bowl??? The Q-tips can only do so much. I appreciate the taste of a totally clean bong.
Acetone
Acetone is best for glass or metal, but not safe for acrylic.
Shake it in a bag.
If you’re trying the clean the stem, I recommend putting it in a bag filled with alcohol and kosher salt then shaking the bag to get the salt moving against the resin.
Just as with anything, make sure to rinse really well.
How to clean water bong
Two things. Isopropyl alcohol and rice grain. Add up to 10ml of alcohol and rice grains up to 15 pcs. Shake it as hard as you can and it won’t takw a minute to shine your bong.
Use grunge off, bling, or formula 420.
Soapy Bong!
I usually use Isopropyl Alcohol and Rock Salt, works a treat but recently ran out and used the Mrs. nail polish remover. Now my bong tastes like soap. Any ideas for getting rid of the taste?? (It’s all glass by the way.)
Still there after many cleans, not happy.
You could return these pipes
Okay, as many fine stoner’s have said:
Alcohol, 70-90 percent, I like 90 but that’s just me. it evaporates quickly so no long lasting smells, it doesn’t stick into any crevices as it just wants to dissipate into the atmosphere. Works great on metal, ceramic, and glass, even wood! Just let it sit longer than others.
Kosher Salt, even the iodized salt will work, but kosher is bigger and heavier and actually holds resin itself. Rice works well, but you gotta throw it in the trash, sinks/erators don’t like it so much, so it stinks up the trash.
With this method you need some Q-tips and paper towels to wipe resin on. You should not try to be ultra conservative of the alcohol, it does have a limit on how much resin it can hold. Replace it when it’s dark brown. The hard stuff may be really tricky, rinse all the crap out and put some alcohol directly on the tough spot (why i like 91%) and let it sit about 5 minutes. Add more alcohol and salt and shake again. Rinse out. I like to also use some dawn dish detergent afterward. Shake it really good, rinse it and let it drip dry. Bigger pieces may require a bottle brush or water pipe cleaner. Every pipe that is glass, WILL come clean eventually, (unless there’s all those damn perks) with bigger water pipes, try using alcohol and salt instead of water and put a vacuum on the mouth piece and turn it on, the bubbles will help clean it.
Other Methods:
Citri-clean type stuff = Stronger ones that have lots of citric acid work well on glass. Not so well on acrylic, and will dissolve metal.
Acitone = Works good on glass with no paint or other soluble stuff. It takes it right off. It’s fingernail polish remover. It cracks acrylic. Pour a bottle in your acrylic piece and see what happens, you won’t like it, and metal absorbs the taste of it.
Denture tabs = Haven’t tried it, but its logical.
Boiling water = WARNING: If your pipe is not borosilicate or PYREX glass, it WILL stress-fracture, if not completely shatter into hot-ass shards of glass. but it works.
420beads = Not sure if that’s what they’re called, but they work amazing with alcohol, and there cleanable and reusable. They have a little dull blade like ridge around them, think Saturn, and they scrape ‘em clean, but only for water pipes.
What about methanol?
My friend used to use a certain kind of alcohol that cleaned the bong almost instantly, just a little shake. I think it was methanol aka methyl alcohol, I was hoping someone here could verify that. ;P
Actually
Methanol is very toxic with as little as 10mL making you permanently blind if ingested. So be careful if you are gonna try this one guys, rinse well, hehe.
A very useful trick
After a pour through of hot water and rubbing alcohol, to clean inside the stem, remove the stem from your water pipe, take toilet paper or a paper towel (about 2-3 ft. of toilet paper or 2 sheets of paper towel) and fold the T.P. over itself to decrease the length by 1/2. Then twist it until it is sturdy enough at the tip to be inserted into the bottom part of the stem. insert, continue twisting until the t,p snake makes it to the bottom of the bowl, and then slow twist as you pull the paper out. that should reach everything in there. If not, rinse again with hot water and alcohol and repeat! =]
Happy smoking!
Cautionary Tale
VERY IMPORTANT!! DO NOT use the alcohol/salt mixture on plastic water pipes!! It will crack within minutes.
Rice and alcohol, easy. Rice scours, alcohol cleans. Great for double stems.
Don’t use hot water. It will crack your glass bong!!!! Trust me, don’t learn the hard way. Salt and alcohol is the best way. Don’t waste your money on cleaners when you can just do it at home with household stuff.
RE :Soapy Bong WTF
I have the same problem, I used Nail Polish remover to clean my bubbler, and I’ve tried salt and hot water many many times and it still tastes like nail polish remover, Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheap and safe
Pour a little aquarium gravel, dish soap, and water. Swirl around gently, shaking it a few times, then rinse. No harsh chemicals you can reuse the gravel and save money.
Cleaning your pipe-piece:
If you have a blocked pipe-piece that’s the same size as your garden hose (I believe most are that size), you can clean it in under 30 seconds.
1. Remove the pipe from the bong.
2. Put your hose around the pipe – squeeze tightly.
3. Turn on the water (extra pressure helps)
Hopefully it will gurgle a bit, shoot some black sh*t out and then – amazing! Unblocked.
Acetone!
Nearly anywhere you’d go to buy Iso u can find fingernail polish remover, yall should really try Acetone (or just regular fingernail polish, the kind with acetone in it). I’ve been using Isopropyl Alcohol for a few years now. I ran out today and needed to clean my piece; knowing a little about chemistry I grabbed my girlfriends polish remover and bam! clean bong. 99% of the sticky stuff came off in one or two swirls, the rest was just getting the little Klingons
anyway, the acetone works 10X better than alcohol, try it and see for yourself… oh and acetone is extremely cheap like Iso.
Grunge OFF
You guys should all check out this stuff Grunge Off, by far the best glass cleaners. Reusable for life and minimal physical work, lol.
Use OxiClean stain remover.
Use OxiClean or something similar, it’s used for laundry and stains. Put a couple teaspoons inside the pipe or bong, put it in a container and fill it with hot water, then wait for the bubbles to stop and rinse it.
I tried the salt and alcohol and it worked great! I used Kosher salt, and 70% rubbing alcohol. On the bowl I had to do a little manual labor and scrape out the resin where the neck gets small, but it wasn’t any problem at all!
How to clean a bong
I let the bong soak in hydrogen peroxide and dish soap. After like 15 min you put a little bit of rice inside the bong with some of the soap and HP solution. Shake the bong and the rice helps to clean the gunky stuff inside.
The Easiest, Cheapest Way to Clean a Bong
This is by far the easiest, cheapest way to clean your bong or glass pieces:
Buy the strongest Isopropyl alcohol (93%) and coarse Kosher salt (about $3 total). Pour salt in the bottom and some alcohol, swirl vigorously. The salt is the abrasive and the alcohol is the cleaner. Resin, tar and everything else on the inside glass will be perfectly cleaned. The salt does not dissolve in the alcohol, so just a little salt is all you need. Use a q-tip or similar on the narrow neck the bowl. Rinse well with clean cold water.
The smoke of quality ganja in a perfectly clean bong is world-class. Highly recommended as a weekly cleaner for connoisseurs and medical patients.
Smoke Well,
Da Ganja Samurai
Uh, no. The easiest and cheapest way is with an ounce of nail polish remover or anything else that has acetone in it. Don’t people experiment anymore?
THANKS!
I HAVE A SPARKLING CLEAN WATER PIPE NOW! Immaculate via the Isopropyl Alcohol/Coarse Salt method. Thanks!
Stem stuck
My glass on glass stem is stuck inside of my bong. This happened before (probably from tapping bowls out) and I broke my last one. My choices at this point are leave it be or try and get it out whilst breaking it most likely. Any advice out there?
Cheers, and Happy smoking!
Using tap water or bottled water in my bong resulted in a smelly and difficult to clean residue building up on the inside of my bong just above the water level. I replaced with normal saline solution, available at any pharmacy, and now get no nasty residue building up on the inside at all. Hardly any cleaning necessary. Does not seem to have any effect on the taste or the buzz.
If you don’t want to use alcohol, just try a bunch of ice, a bunch of salt, and some water.
I use the alcohol and salt method and it works great! But sometimes at the end, you still have some stains, which you can get off by using vinegar.
To get rid of the taste use baking soda.
Fark! Last night i used Ajax and window cleaner with a toothbrush. I spent about an hour trying get all the resin off and there were still stains this morning. So I got an alcohol wipe witch has 70% isopropyl and all the stains just wiped away, there was no need for salt – probably because I loosened it last night.
I just bought a pretty large glass bong with lots of twists and turns in it. I read a few of the comments and I’ve tried all except nail polish remover. I just tried it 5 minutes ago and it is hands down the best way. First of all your mom or girlfriend are going to have some lying around and its cheap. You add about 2 shots of the nail polish remover and about half a shot of salt depending on the size of the bong, swirl it around knocking off all the big chunks of resin, then if needed replace or simply add more nail polish and get the rest. I rinsed it out a couple of times with hot water then grabbed my girlfriends strawberry shower gel and dumped as much as I thought was needed into the bong. Fill it with hot water and swirl it all around and repeat process until it smells like the soap you used.
There are things you can buy to flavor your tokes which would probably help out with the smell but good luck finding some worth the price.
GOO GONE!
You don’t need a lot, swish it around for about 15-20 seconds, repeat this process until resin is all gone.
Rinse it with water REALLY well.
TIPS: Extreme goo gone works the best, don’t dump fluids directly in the sink bowl; pour it in the toilet or directly down your sink drain
This is really messy way to clean your tool, but it the most effective.
GOOD LUCK
Metho & rice, works very nice!
Steradent, hot water and bottle brush.
Clean, effective and no after tastes.
After all, Steradent is designed to be used for things that go into ones mouth………unlike acetone, Ajax, Methyl…etc
Bong on peepz…
Had already bought some Kosher salt. Did exactly as you said and glass water pipe was SPOTLESS in ten seconds. Thank you!
I used regular alcohol, table salt, and 15-20 BB’s. Put the bb’s in bong with salt & alcohol. Swirl around until you have brown liquid and then pour it out and replace the alcohol, salt, and bb’s. Repeat until clean – eta 15-20 mins. Rinse with hot water for glass only.
NO HOT WATER! it will actually cook the resin in your bong then you have a ruined piece of glass. room temp only.