MrNorml
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emotion said:Dackz said:What do you use to clean the little bits of abv off the screen on the elbow?? The little glass pick doesnt work and neither does my wooden little scooper. Should I clean it with anything to make it work so it doesnt stick as much?
While I'm at it ............
I don't know if this has ever been mentioned here before...... I've recently found a neat little device that allows lightning fast loading of a warmed up Cyclone bowl while its still mounted in place over the heater - yet totally prevents any spillage falling directly into the unit if one should (as I often did) slightly miss some of the loading "target" area. It's called a "powder funnel" and is normally used for ammo reloading or lab use. They are available in many sizes and materials. The best one I found is made of lab glass, has a large mouth opening at the funnels top (providing a fairly large and almost impossible to miss loading "target"), has a sharply angled funnel taper/cone forcing everything dropped in to quickly fall through the funnel right into the Cyclone bowl and has a ground glass male taper bottom fitting (which is the exact same size as the glass elbow that normally occupies this place). This provides not only a perfect fit, but also (and much more importantly) a large bottom opening for material to easily fall through into the Cyclone without requiring manual assistance. If anything does manage to stick to the inside wall of the funnel (likely due to some finely ground material dust and a slight static electric charge on the glass funnel walls) - I simply use my artist brush once again to swipe the particles down the funnel. Super easy, quick and very convenient loading while virtually eliminating any chance of spillage or unintentional debris falling into the top opening and down into the main unit itself.
Before this current funnel - I purchased a small, very cheap, short stem lab glass funnel on ebay. This funnel worked "OK" but always required manual assistance to get the material down through the small funnel bottom stem. Luckily the glass stirrer/poker fit nicely but it was always a pita.
I use the bottle-top opener part of a combination corkscrew/knife/bottle opener, as a scoop. It works great and delivers a consistent does. Available everywhere for a dollar or two. Very nice 'funnel' many likely have in the kitchen drawer somewhere.