How to clean bong bowls - Pipes and downspouts guide

Step by step guide to cleaning glass bong bowls or metal bowls

After a few uses your bong and its weed bowl will usually have a build up of weed ash and weed resin. At first this may not be a big deal but over time your bongs bowl will get so dirty it will literally get clogged up with resin and you will be unable to smoke through your bong or at lest its bowl anyways anymore until you clean it. Many bong shops will try and sell you their over priced bong and pipe cleaners without informing you there is cheaper better solution to cleaning your bowls. All you have to do is invest under 10 dollars in buying isopropanol 99% rubbing alcohol which can be found at most pharmacies.By cleaning your bongs bowl, pipe, or downspout you can with very little work make your equipment look just like the day you bought it.

How to clean your bongs bowl - cleaning your bongs bowl in a bag

A very clean easy way to keep your bowls

1.  Use a Ziploc baggie and pour ispropanol about 1/4 of the bag.
2. Add a few tablespoons of salt.
3. Now add your glass bong bowl or metal bowl.
4. Close the seal and shake for about a minute.

Now depending on how much weed resin has built up in the bowl your may need to let the bowl sit in the solution for about 30 minutes.

Other ways to clean your bongs bowl - Using the finger method

This is perhaps the best way to clean your bongs bowl fast and easy. Be careful not to drop the bow.

1. Place your finger inside the bowl lightly.
2. Turn the bowl upside down.
3. pour salt in the bottom of the bowls downspout but only a small amount.
4. While continuing to have your finger in the bowl add isopropanol 99% in the bottom.
5. One the isopropanol 99% is added take another finger and hold the bottom end.
6. Shake around for about 1 minute and dump out the dirt.
7. Take some tissue and clean the weed bowl top, It will be soaked in isopropanol 99% so it will clean. easy.
8. Your done.

Cleaning your bongs bowl - leave in method

The best way to insure your bowls are always clean is to leave your bowls in isopropanol 99% over night.

1. Using Tupperware pour in enough isopropanol 99% to cover your weed bowls.
2. Add salt and stir or shake.
3. Place the used weed bowls inside and let sit over night ( make sure to put a lid on the container)
4. Moving on to the next day: your bowl will be nice and clean so just rinse and use.

How to clean bong downspouts

Like all bong equipment your bong downspout should also get a daily cleaning.

• Use any of the above methods to clean your bongs downspout.
• If you have a diffused downspout you might not want to use the finger method since the solution will leak
• A good way to always have a clean bong downspout is to buy an extra and let site in isopropanol 99% when not in use.

Caution is in order when cleaning bong downspouts. They can break very easily.

Cleaning weed pipes - Best way to clean weed pipes

You defiantly will want to clean your weed pipe since when pulling a dirty pipe will not be good for dental hygiene

1. Place your finger over the choke hole of the pipe and also inside the bowl.
2. Tip upside down and add salt and isopropanol 99% in the mouth piece.
3. Taking another hand or finger also cover the mouth piece.
4. Now shake around the weed pipe with the isopropanol 99%  and salt inside for about 1 minute. 
5. Pour out the isopropanol 99% and salt and take tissue and clean the bowl.
6. Rinse and you are done. 

Polishing up the bongs bowl, downspout or pipes
Want to achieve that head shop sparkle in your equipment like the day you bought it? After you clean try giving the bongs, bowls, pipes, downspouts a rinse of Windex or window cleaner. By doing this it stops the water marks that appear from the drying water after you cleaned it. After you rinse with window cleaner then rinse again with water. The last rinse gets rid of the window cleaner chemicals will stopping hard water stains on the glass.