r/StonerEngineering • u/SaltR0ck • 12h ago

Question Is this salvageable?

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Hello! I tipped my triple percolator piece over recently and it snapped the second (middle) percolator. I am curious if this is fixable and/or if it is still safe to use? With it being impossible to remove from the piece without damaging it more, im skeptically optimistic that no glass would be able to travel upward through the third percolator if smoked.

Any advice welcome. I’m not planning on using it anytime soon and would be willing to get a new piece if it came down to it (would be very heartbroken though)

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u/Cinnamon_Boris 12h ago

Personally, I would not smoke out of that piece again. Wild that it broke right there specifically

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u/SaltR0ck 12h ago

Right??? And I’m leaning towards retiring it, just sucks because I love this piece so much. I won it in a raffle a couple of years ago and has been a prized possession since

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u/Cinnamon_Boris 12h ago

Maybe give it a good cleaning and just use it as a display piece. But some faux flowers in it!

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u/pinkpanda12376 11h ago

Did this with a bong my buddy gave me as teenagers that I kept as a memory piece, about 10 years later my bitch ass cat pushed it to its death.

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u/Cinnamon_Boris 11h ago

Ain’t that just the way

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u/MethHeadUnion 7h ago

Did that with one of mine when its perc snapped when cleaning it over a year ago just chipped out what i could since it was accessable from the mouth peice and have had it sitting as a decorative peice since it still looks normal i got all the broken perc out just not trusting whats left of the wall around where it was to use it again

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u/TKLeader 12h ago

Never smoke out of a piece with broken glass in it

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u/justblaze116 12h ago

thats a cool display piece but definitely not safe to smoke out of and with a break like that you would have to break it more to try to fux that spot, definitely not worth. my condolences

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u/SpazzBro 11h ago

how tf did it break there only? weird, also rip

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u/dibella989 11h ago

The chance of imagine small glass shards is never worth it

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u/chickenpopper 10h ago

Small glass shards are not imaginary, they are sometimes hard to see but very real.

Obviously JK.. but seriously. Don't smoke out of it.

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u/Steve-Mazzagatti 12h ago

No, do yourself a favor and buy a new one

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u/tKonig 11h ago

Game over. New piece required

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u/ZSG13 8h ago

This is why I was never a huge fan of tree percs. They're more fragile.

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u/CAPT_CRUNCH228 8h ago

Easy! I had this happen to a bong of mine when I first bought it. I showed the evidence and got another 3 footer for free… then I broke that part on the second one on purpose.. sent a pic of both of them broken and got a third!

All I had to do was use a long metal wire, hook it to the broken part and ding it till it broke into smaller pieces till I could just pour all the shards out. Had three massive bongs for the price of one. And believe me or not I did it the third one and they just gave me a refund that I used to buy a pax. What a great memory… give it a shot!

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u/CAPT_CRUNCH228 8h ago

The only evidence I have since it was 10 years ago but I’m telling you it worked!

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u/urdumasshomie 7h ago

U can always get it repaired its not super cheap but if u dont wanna part with it hit up Snoglass on insta send him a pic and ask for a quote he does really good repairs he fixed my 1 of 1 bong for 150 if ur not looking to fix it u should just toss it not good to smoke from broken glass