So, I did something stupid a while back after realizing that I liked the quartz handpiece better for dry herb but that the screen was a total pain in the ass to change: I ordered 100 American made stainless steel screens off Amazon for the same price as Matt charges for 5. Pretty sure the same, but that's not where I went wrong: I started changing the screens
every day, because I'm (more than) a bit of a neat freak neurotic type. I ended up with lots of little shed wire pieces from the edges fraying
in my ABV. So, took a magnet to it, went to Reddit for some abuse and advice, and found a much better solution for my DiTanium quartz wand:
1. I keep a jar of 70% ISO on my vape desk, and after my last session of the evening I put my whole quartz handpiece (including the screen) in the jar (along with pipe mouthpieces, and other glass I keep super-clean).
2. In the morning, I toss some kosher salt into the bowl end, cap both ends of the wand with those rubber 14mm stoppers for cleaning bongs, fill it up halfway with ISO, run it under hot tap water in the sink, and shake it for about 30 seconds.
3. Uncap, drain the ISO out, rinse out very thoroughly with hot tap water (will dissolve out the remaining salt and rinse out ISO).
4. ...
5. Profit (clean quartz handpiece for use every morning, and I change my screen now about once every two weeks if it starts to get uncleanable around the edges from ISO/Salt/Shaking.
Anyhow, that's become my routine. No more wire pieces in my ABV, clean screens and quartz wand every morning for use with minimal pain and trouble, and it just makes me... happy. I'm going to go vape up my first dose of THC, CBD, and CBG now, actually
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Been giving my lungs a break and trying to not start so early in the morning last week or so...