In all honesty the tube portion has stayed completely clean, and lemme tell you this really surprised me. Every other unit ive used that has a hose will always have oil or some sort of resin that usually collects along the tube and this thing has none that ive seen so far. I'll keep an eye on it and keep people posted when my unit returns from enrico, but after smoking it for over a month every day heavily nothing has collected, the only flaw ive noticed is my hose is already becoming....."malleable?" im not sure the word for it but it bends completely now whereas before the plastic was solid and would always hold its shape.
O I just realized tweek that you might be talking about the whole tube that has the sublimator logo on it. For that I have also had even MORE ease cleaning. Hot water and paper towel is all that was needed for that portion.
Update: in terms of regular cleaning absolutely not. I find the only portion of the unit that needs regular scraping is right under the atomizer where the oil drips into. And again it doesn't need cleaning, it just needs a quick scrape every week or so to clear out that oil. And this being said, the unit is the easiest unit ive ever cleaned in my entire life. EVERYTHING comes apart completely, you can fit a qtip in every component of the piece, its beautiful honestly for cleaning, im someone who likes an immaculate piece ALL of the time and im very anal about it so this thing is just wicked