So in an effort to maintain my Crafty, I visited a local industrial supplier.
I have an extra cooling unit from my original Crafty that needed some restoration.
Soaked in hot alcohol. Do not boil alcohol anywhere near a heating element. Fill your sink up with hot water. Get a mason jar full of alcohol with your parts all sealed up..... Boil a pot of water completely separate. Pour that boiling water into the sink to get your jar pretty fucking hot. Completely safe.
Cuts through that gunk no problem. I only use an old toothbrush occasionally to scrub. If it's maintained routinely, no scrubbing necessary at all.
Storz and Bickel has been great to me, but god damnit this is America and there's a better way.
I'm not going to get financially gouged to purchase the wear and tear kit which contains
maybe 4 screens tops.
That things' nothing more than a bunch of high temperature silicone o-rings and stainless steel screens.
Our local Industrial supplier sells both, they sell the screens die cut to whatever diameter you need.
The size of the Crafty screen is a
5/8" 304 stainless steel.
If you want to really maintain the Crafty unit, keep that fussy little o-ring fresh, keep your screens clean. Clean the cooling unit often, or in my case rotate them and maintain them. You paid the big bills for the unit, get the most your portable can offer every time. And yes, it's noticeably better when it's 100% clean.
http://www.mcmaster.com/#
Product #
9396K16 High-Temperature Silicone O-Ring, 1/16 Fractional Width, Dash Number 011, packs of 25 $3.75 pack
Product #
9317T64 Corrosion-Resistant 304 Stainless Steel Wire Cloth Disc, 60 x 60 Mesh, 5/8" Diameter, .0075" Wire Diameter, packs of 25 $8.10 pack
Product #
9317T63 Corrosion-Resistant 304 Stainless Steel Wire Cloth Disc, 40 x 40 Mesh, 5/8" Diameter, .010" Wire Diameter, packs of 25 $8.10 pack
That will replace your top screens, and finer bottom screens, as well as
that shitty little o-ring that always fails. Oh well, 3.75 for a pack of 25.
Enjoy having a
brand spanking new crafty every day motha fuckas. On the cheap.