Jake Westling had quite a few friends like that in Minnesota, he says. So many that he started cleaning their dirty pipes and bongs in his kitchen sink for a few dollars. Using a three-quarter gallon tank, he'd rinse any piece of glassware until it was cleaner than when it was purchased. Now, with a 65-gallon tank, he wants to clean yours.
His process starts by picking out any large chunks of tar that might be clogging air passages, then submerging them in a cleaning tank.
The cleaning tank, capable of fitting up to eighty pieces of glass, uses a citrus-based cleaning agent, intense heat and two thousand watts of ultrasound to clean off debris. He then places the pieces in a converted industrial dishwasher outfitted with irrigation lines to clean any percolator and crevice we can't reach at home.
The chemical is nontoxic and food-safe," he says. "It's mostly the heat and ultrasound that clean the pieces, anyways. The chemical is just there to haul all the resin away."
any piece measuring less than six inches costing $8.99 to clean. Prices only go up $3 to $5 dollars in four- to six-inch intervals
If you're using some of those cleaning chemicals at a head shop or anything you're buying from somewhere else, they can be harmful to smoke if it soaks in the resin, but the resin doesn't leave the bong," he says. As if pesticides and mold weren't enough to worry about already
Westling is also hoping to partner with dispensaries and head shops as dirty-glass drop-off points for customers who can't make the drive up to his headquarters at 5650 North Washington Street denver co
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