If you know how to clean a
vaporizer it is likely that you will expand the
life span of your weed vaporizer.
Marijuana vaporizers have the tendency to get sticky during the
vaporization process.
Sticky clear resin builds up on all the directly exposed vaporizer pieces. This along with the vaporized dry herb in the bowl piece give good cause for you to clean your vaporizer after every use.
Parts that get dirty...

Some of the parts that get dirty on a volcano vaporizer after a session are; the bowl piece including a screen, a rubber O seal, aluminum bowl insert, and a separate screen and slide. All put together in a tempered plastic bowl housing.
The tempered plastic bag attachment also collects a lot of the resin, so that would need to be deep cleaned as well, and the mouth piece attachment should be thoroughly sanitized with rubbing alcohol and warm water.
At times the bag may need to be replaced but that is also easy. You want a clean marijuana vaporizer so we would suggest cleaning after every use.
Materials
for a
clean marijuana vaporizer:
70-90% isopropyl rubbing alcohol, small toothbrush, plastic zip lock bag, gloves, possibly new bowl screen replacements, Q-tips, paper towels, warm - hot water.
1. Put
on gloves and trash any nug left over in the bowl
attachment. Take
toothbrush and brush
most of the nug flakes into the trash. Also, brush
the screen and slide
which is a separate piece that blocks the weed
from getting blown into the bag.
2.
The
housing should have a metal bowl
insert that screws in, so you need to
twist
it out. Stick two fingers in the metal bowl insert holding
it in
place and twist the housing to the left. You should separate the
housing from the insert, and the rubber O seal.
3.
Take
apart and clean
marijuana vaporizer screen and screen slide pieces,
and be careful because these are small.
It should have a screen, a metal screen support, a metal nut, and a
small slide stick.

4.
Take
apart the mouth piece, and separate the the bag attachment
from the bag.

5.
Put
all your metal pieces, and the bag attachment into a zip
lock bag
submerged
in rubbing
alcohol seal, let stand, and shake the bag
periodically.

6.
Run all the pieces through warm-hot
water removing
resin that the alcohol didn't. Put
on rubber
gloves if you are scared of a little sticky and dip
Q-tips in alcohol and rub
away any
other stubborn resin spots, also you can sanitize the mouth
piece again and rinse again.
7.
Reverse
the process, and put it all back together. Twist the
insert into the housing, replace
seal. Reassemble mouthpiece, and
attach bag to the bag attachment.

1. Use a Q-tip dipped into rubbing alcohol to clean vaporizer heating element when COOLED COMPLETELY.
2.
Dirty
vaporizer tubes develope over a period of time. They start
to brown due to high temperatures and resin build up.
You
can separate the tube from the glass
vaporizer bowl attachment and cut the brown end
off the tube a time or two but, we would recommend replacing
the tube over time.
3. Soak vaporizer glass bowl piece in a zip lock bag with alcohol, seal and let sit for a while. Shake in the bag, rinse it off, and then replace tube.
You
are ready to heat the weed vaporizer to feel the marijuana effect.
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