Cleaning Question

[wilarseny]

Thanks guys. This might be a horridly stupid question, but I thought I'd ask.

[kvtaco17]

i've done this for shorter times with success... put it in a tub in a fridge if your worried about mold...

[wilarseny]

i've done this for shorter times with success... put it in a tub in a fridge if your worried about mold...

Yea I soaked the inside of the base for two days once.. fridge isnt a bad idea, thanks

[indian_villager]

I wouldn't soak the stem at all. Fear of rust!

[wilarseny]

I wouldn't soak the stem at all. Fear of rust!

It has an inside part that I believe is brass.. it's one of the mya ones that has cloisonne on the outside, and a thin tube inside that that comes out.

[antouwan]

3 weeks!? are you nutso?

just get a brush (and i find that Myas have a ridiculously small stem, so you'll probably have to get scissors and cut the brush so that it will fit in the stem) and you can put some soapy water or preferably, lemon juice and baking soda and just clean the stem out. you can soak your base in deture cleaner for a day or two (i soaked my KM base for like 20 minutes and it was pretty damn clean). soaking the whole stem and everything i would worry about the cloisonne detailing...that's expensive and i wouldn't want to fuck that shit up...

solo mis dos centavos...

[wilarseny]

3 weeks!? are you nutso?

just get a brush (and i find that Myas have a ridiculously small stem, so you'll probably have to get scissors and cut the brush so that it will fit in the stem) and you can put some soapy water or preferably, lemon juice and baking soda and just clean the stem out. you can soak your base in deture cleaner for a day or two (i soaked my KM base for like 20 minutes and it was pretty damn clean). soaking the whole stem and everything i would worry about the cloisonne detailing...that's expensive and i wouldn't want to fuck that shit up...

solo mis dos centavos...

Yea I figured I was being silly. Just wondering what people thought. I have a brush that's working but I still find a bit of a ghost taste if I draw through the hookah with no bowl on top/water in the base. The cloisonne is a separate piece from the inside of the stem, so that's not really the issue. Eh, maybe I'll just stop being obsessive-compulsive about hookah cleanliness washing it out after each session is probably enough.. lol

[modisess]

i thought molds cant live in acids? heh. it'll be like pickled hookah!

my hookah only flavor ghosts a little bit, but the hose is usually the biggest culprit. washing it after each session usually does the job for me.

[wilarseny]

i thought molds cant live in acids? heh. it'll be like pickled hookah!

my hookah only flavor ghosts a little bit, but the hose is usually the biggest culprit. washing it after each session usually does the job for me.

You know, since my Nammors broke I've noticed it a lot more. Well once I get off my ass and make myself a new hose, we'll see how that goes. I'm worried I'm going to have a very lemony hookah if I do this whole 3-weeks-of-soaking thing, so /thread.

[antouwan]

the ghosting thing is really bad with myas because of all the nooks and crannies in the stem that are basically impossible to clean. i leave my mya at my vacation house where my relatives and i pretty much only smoke grape flavored tobaccos...

[Sariél]

I'm guessing the acid in the lemon juice would eat through the metal. I left some rice with a very little bit of lemon juice in the cooker one time, and forgot about it for a week. It made three little holes in the pot. It was fun when the next time I (tried to) make rice, the water leaked down into the electronics and shorted out the cooker. Thank God for GFI quick-blow electrical outlets!

[Stuie]

Soaking your hookah in anything for 3 weeks is going to cause problems.

[zeppyrkr]

yeah theres no need for 3 weeks honestly ive never let it soak more then over night and usually i dont even do that ...

[wilarseny]

I dunno. I accidentally left lemon juice in my base when I went home for thanksgiving--I was gone about 6 days--and not all of the gunk around the edges was gone at that point. *shrugs* Though perhaps what that stuff'll do to glass and what it'll do to metal are very different..

[Sonthert]

Make lemonade with that lemon juice and use beer for cleaning...excess beer. Rinse well after beering.

[chinamon]

Make lemonade with that lemon juice and use beer for cleaning...excess beer. Rinse well after beering.

the Man has spoken.

[mellamobunny.]

excess beer?

ridiculous.

[fifthmanstanding]

there is no such thing as excess beer sir, only beer well used.

[engineonmute]

id would use a scrubby brush thingy and clean the stem with lemon juice and baking soda. id rinse it after and then dry it off after right away. letting something other than the vase soak in something sounds like a bad idea.