Comments on: A Faster & Better Way to Clean Your Volcano Vaporizer

By: Vapormaster

Vapormaster — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:49:00 +0000

Check out picture #17 here – http://volcanotips.com/volcano/volcano-vaporizer-taking-apart-and-cleaning/

By: justin

justin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:44:39 +0000

hello, i can’t figure out how to take apart the bag from the volcano in order to replace it.. do you have any demos that explains it?

By: Vapormaster

Vapormaster — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:34:37 +0000

Good point Jeremy. I inspected my mayo jar and found it to be in surprisingly good condition. The damage was from scratching by the metal parts. But I agree with you and now recommend using a heavy duty glass mason jar for cleaning. Better safe than sorry. If you’re worried about glass breaking, wrap the jar in a plastic shopping bag before you start your agitation.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:40:51 +0000

One more thing, off topic as it is. There is a company called tokeez, they make that lighter leash thingy we’ve all seen. they also make aftermarket bags that fit the ‘cano. They’re 12″ by 36″; 50% bigger than easy valve bags. They have cool designs too. like a multi-gun pattern and girly shadows. Theyre sealed up top, so ya dont need a zip tie. I dunno, I think theyre cool.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:33:01 +0000

imho an hour in the dip tank, followed by a hot water rinse and minimal effort with toothbrush will bring just about anything back to new. Plus that dirty alcohol is full of pure honey oil.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:31:11 +0000

I find the dip tank works superbly. A bakeware dish with an alcohol safe cover, a permanent coffee filter as the liftable floor/strainer. I also have a large brownie batch sized pyrex pan to evaporate out the alcohol when it comes time to harvest the oil. The storz&bickell grinder isnt alcohol safe, and will leach plastic into your alcohol. if you like the bath method you’ll need an alcohol safe grinder too. I even run my storage jars through said alcohol. waste not want not.

By: Vapormaster

Vapormaster — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:42:00 +0000

I usually use a tablespoon and just enough alcohol to cover the parts.

By: PATSY PITTMAN

PATSY PITTMAN — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:13:13 +0000

How mush sea salt to how much alcohol?

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:11:44 +0000

he didn’t mean the alcohol will damage the volcano parts, he meant the plastic jar your thinking of using. which also immediately sprang to my mind.

even if it doesn’t apparently damage the mayonnaise jar, you could still leach crap into your salt alcohol mixture from the plastic. while one would hope it would all be rinsed away, one could not be 100% sure that unhealthy plastic residues do not remain on the supposedly clean parts. i personally wouldn’t even use a ziplock bag. but if you were curious try using the same bag (or plastic jar)over and over. take a picture of the container and compare the container to the picture after subsequent uses. if your plastic container even just starts to get cloudy, your dissolving plastic into your mixture. the plastic you leech into your mixture will not necessarily rinse off like salt or evaporate like alcohol and as a result may still be there when you smoke.

might seem extra paranoid, but if i weren’t into splitting hairs of this nature i probably wouldn’t own a vaporizer.

not all plastics will be dissolved by alcohol but i don’t think a mayonnaise manufacture is going to invest in solvent resistant plastic for their containers.

By: Vapormaster

Vapormaster — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:40:40 +0000

I’ve yet to notice any damage to the plastic components that I’ve used IPA to clean for years. The manufacturer actually recommends it, so I think the type of plastic is not susceptible to damage from the isopropanol.