A Faster & Better Way to Clean Your Volcano Vaporizer
As outlined in this article -
How To Take Apart and Clean the Volcano Vaporizer – Photo Illustrated – I’m a fan of using isopropyl rubbing alcohol and sea salt for cleaning my Volcano. I had no complaints about the process and thought it was pretty effective. Well they say necessity is the mother of invention…
As I prepared for cleaning last night, I realized I was without any heavy duty zip loc bags : ( I went for the recycling bin to see what I could find. A large wide mouth pasta sauce jar caught my eye. All the parts fit in easily and filled it about a third of the way. Hmmm, this could work!
After adding the alcohol and salt I sealed it well. Using a rolling motion I was able to get a tumble action going, and watch the salt and alcohol do all the work. Everything cleaned up faster than I’ve ever seen. I loosened the cap turned over the jar and strained out the alcohol keeping the parts inside. Added hot water for a rinse, tumbled and swirled some more. Dumped the first rinse and repeated 2 more times.
Dried and re-assembled, cleanest Volcano ever – in 3 minutes or less.
Next time, I’ll look for a mayonnaise jar since they’re plastic, which might be a little gentler and less noisy. I also think they seal better. My theory is the increased room allows the cleaning solution to get more movement and scrub more vigorously with the salt.
Tip: if you can’t find the washer for the plunger screen… it’s probably stuck to the inside of the jar in a drop of residual water.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
The best way I have found of cleaning the volcano is to fill dissasemel the pieces, place them in a tall tupperware container, and then fill the container with isopropyl alchohol. Leave the parts soaking in your “dip tank” until they are clean. Remove the parts with a spoon, and wash the parts with hot water, until there is no alchohol remaining. Every once in a while you will have to top up the alcohol, and pour the contents of the tupperware thru a filter, to remove particulate. Then, every once in a while, evaporate the alcohol, and what is left is high quality oil.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Just to be clear you guys vaporize sticky material with the volcano, right? I wanna be sure the alcohol/sea salt will strip that sticky stuff off the pieces.
December 24th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Yes it’ll work for the stickiest of sticky. Hasn’t failed me yet