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Do you recommend any special way to clean SSV tubing? Or is it best just to purchase new tubing?

If you want to save money, one can use alcohol to clean the vinyl tubing.   You can plug an end, fill it with alcohol and then plug the other end and let sit.   We think replacing the tube is the easiest and best way

is marbling various glass colors difficult?

Yes and no.  As the blower learns glass it becomes easier for them to take on the challenge.  But as different colors have different viscosities they do tend to be harder to mix than just one color.

Are marbles more difficult to craft as its mass increases?

Yepper.  The larger the marble the more heat so the hotter it is.  It also starts to weigh a lot.  With a larger marble there are more art things to add, so again it becomes harder to make

Are their health risks to dabbing concentrates that are extracted with butane or propane?

We are not doctors so we can not fully give you the info here.  But from our research concentrate extracted with butane or propane are perfectly fine.  This process has been used for extracting things for a very long time. What is important is that the butane and propane have been removed.  This is fairly …

How do you know how much concentrates to put on our flavor disc? Is it personal preference?

The thing to remember is you can always add more.  This really comes down to the user.  We recommend about 2 pot seeds worth for the first time, and about 1 seeds worth when you add to it.  If you do too much it can come out of the bottom

Why is UV reactive glass different than “Glow in the dark” ?

all glass is different as the minerals allow the glass to reflect light based on what the mineral is.  Glow in the dark minerals are not the same minerals as UV reactive.  The mineral used in glow-in-the-dark glass can absorb energy.

How does the galaxy black color look like crushed opal?

This has to do with the mineral they add to the jet black glass.  This is a trade secret.  But it is NOT opal

Do diamond knot bangers function any better than a traditional banger being that it is sort of insulated?

They work pretty much like any banger, other than they are harder to clean than a standard banger.  It call comes down to mass to hold the heat.    

what was the first made pipes? (stone, boro, soft glass, etc?)

It has been said that the first pipe made was from clay in about the 16th century.  But we feel wood or bone may have been earlier, just not mass produced.

In your honest opinion; is it easier for a soft glass user to convert to borosilicate, or the other way around, in their applications/techniques?

This probably comes down to the individual.  Some people can just pick things up faster than others.  Many of the techniques are the same for both soft glass and boro, just that the temperature is much higher for boro.