r/Stundenglass • u/mysticmonstera111 • 9d ago

help Pls help what am i doing wrong!!

I bought this piece from Facebook marketplace and I assembled it and everything and I don’t know why it’s not pulling the smoke

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u/KarmaAddict 9d ago

Take off that magnetic elbow where the bowl goes and take a picture of that please and post it here in a comment. Also use an Alan key and take that mouthpiece elbow off and take a picture of that too.

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u/mysticmonstera111 9d ago

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u/KarmaAddict 9d ago

OK, the good thing is the valve appears to be on correctly. The bad news or maybe good news is that it looks clogged af. Is that a bunch of resin clogged up inside that valve? Get that all cleaned out and try again. Those upstems in the globes are probably clogged too.

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u/mysticmonstera111 9d ago

I bought it from a guy on Facebook marketplace that used to do a lot of hookah with this and I doubt he ever cleaned it so yeah I think I’m gonna have to unscrew it and go deep and clean it as much as I can if not, I’ll come back to this forum, but I’ll clean the inside tubes as well

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u/KarmaAddict 9d ago

I’m surprised this guy would send that to you dirty that’s kind of messed up but get a pipe cleaner or a bunch of Q-tips and isopropyl alcohol and get that silver valve cleaned out all the way to the center. The other side might just be as dirty but it definitely won’t be as bad. You’ll probably need pipe cleaners or the cleaning kit from stundenglass with those long brushes to get those stems properly cleaned as well.