My favorite pipe was getting pretty filthy. Cleaning glass pieces can be a difficult task. Someone suggested trying Randy's Black Label for cleaning my pipes. So, I gave it a try.
The instructions say to dump it into a cup and then soak the dirty item in it. That's all fine and good, but it just seems plain wasteful. The stuff works well and you really don't need much to get results.
Instead of soaking the entire pipe in Randy's solution. I simply wrapped the bowl of the pipe with electrical tape. I had to give this two tries. The first attempt leaked. Just wrap the bowl of the pipe with several wraps of electrical tape then pour a little Randy's inside the mouthpiece. I filled it about halfway. You can see in the above picture that the pipe is pretty dirty. This is actually a light blue glass piece.
I poured the Randy's in over the sink. The solution gets really nasty and I'm sure it would stain fabrics. It did a nice job on the hand towel.
You can already see a difference in the pipe color and this was just after a couple of shakes. I spent the next 30 minutes shaking the solution in the pipe while I watched an episode of Vikings. When the episode was over, the pipe was pretty clean.
When I finished there was one tiny spot left on the bottom of the bowl. I ran some pipe cleaners through it and got as much as I could.
I ran a wired pipe cleaner thru it to hit a couple of the tuff spots. This was the finished product. I'm really happy with the results. It's almost like a new pipe again.
The bottle of Randy's was only $9.95. Seems like money well spent. I love smoking out of a clean pipe, and this did a great job cleaning it.