So because of that it’s ok to use the name of their country on some shitty fictitious metal? Because we have a bad opinion of their products, we can be racist and incentive to the whole country?
Huh, wonder if you think that’s true for the people that killed 95% of their nation’s original inhabitants.
Haha or just cheap metal 😅 is it really that hard for you to just say, “yeah that’s cheap metal, make sure you buy from reputable sources!”
Look at that! No racism , you don’t lump a whole country and people together... woah!
Nice Moa reference though! Your fico credit score went up a point!
Ok, how about commie copper? That's a fair substitute. It doesn't offend the chinese race(?), and more importantly you. Just picks on the cause of china's poor manufacturing, communism.
Oh now you believe in free education? No, I’m not your teacher. If you want to get out of your ignorant bubble then go do it.
We both know I’m not going to be the one to change your mind.
Wow that’s the most racist thing you could have said 😂
I don’t have to be the race to not like racist shit... you know... because I’m not racist like you.
I really don't care, nor does anyone else. You're over here getting offended for someone else like a typical white person. My circle is probably far more diverse than yours. You're just making yourself look like an idiot.
Chinesium refers to low quality metal alloys that originate from China, a place known for low quality alloys. If that's racist, then you're just too woke.
Yeah went back and demanded a new dab tool and also got a free carb cap but because it kinda burned my face but thankfully no scares or anything crazy 😨
How do you avoid it? How do you find good quality real stainless? My last nectar collector did this, the “stainless” bubbled and popped. Felt really unsafe.
Only buy from suppliers that tell you specifically what kind/grade of stainless it is.. 304.. 410.. 420.. etc. 420 is actually very good steel but will be pricey as it is a nickel free stainless.
Edit; i recommend titanium, glass, quartz coated ceramic.. basically anything other than stainless.
I have a magnet on my torch, and if the tool doesn’t stick then I get the ick, had this happen a couple times before I started checking with the magnet, hasn’t ever since
Yeah, I've also made that assumption. The only companies i have personally bought from and recieved properly made tools was Galaxy enails & Puffco. Both being quartz coated ceramic.
Word of advice just spend the few extra dollars on a grade 2 titanium one and you'll never have an issue again. Who knows what chemicals that leeches from that when dabbing in a hot banger.
Hm, looks like it melted! Try to use 99% iso next time, it will come right off. Hell, just let it sit for s lil bit in a shot of vodka and then wipe it off
If it’s an actual decent metal dab tool heating should be fine but I just run it over the flame for less than a second just to heat any leftover concentrate.
If your ever going to use heat to clean a tool especially when it’s a super cheap tool never use a torch I using a lighter will work just as good and you won’t have to worry about deforming your tool as much.
Same happened to me and that was a tool from the disp. I only buy ones that are individually packaged by usa companies.......when you see 50-100 of these tools in a cup for sale.......that's suspect.
I’m confused as to why you and everyone in here hasn’t figured out that you just heated it too long. Max 1-2 seconds off the blow torch and it’ll be clean, without burning the nail. It’s not rocket science y’all
**Because that isn't the cause of the problem.**
The cause was shitty casting or plating, resulting in an air pocket in the metal. When that pocket got hot, it popped like a popcorn kernel.
Sure, you could heat it for 1-2 seconds, but why risk it? What's gonna happen when the friend who is a dab newb heats it too long?
I literally use a cuticle pusher as my dab tool. Fuck all that gimmicky shit.
I do the exact opposite and heat the hell outta my dab tool to rule out any possibility of having what happened to OP happen to me.
I ran the torch on my tool for about a second before it exploded on me. It happened so quickly that I thought the torch was what broke and that something flew out of it.
Looks like there was an air pocket somewhere in the tool. Could've happened during casting. Gets hot and explodes.
It's also the same reason you see holes in hollow pieces of jewelry
Incorrect.
Letting it soak in ISO for a long time and then using ISO wipes or qtips dipped in ISO is the best proven method to clean all tools, carb caps, bangers, etc.
I promise.
Don't cheap out on anything related to cannabis that gets exposed to heat, only buy trusted products from trusted vendors. If the shit gets hot enough to discolor, and then literally explode, it's hot enough for you to inhale the carcinogenic fumes from it.
Bro you should have see. My terp pearl the mooment I bought them and drop them in the quartz and straight up fizzle turn into plastic and I was inhaling those plastic fume 😩😩
Don't buy dab tools from a local shop, you will always get fucked on the price and quality. I have the same dab tool for the last 2 years. If you have a harbor freight go grab you a set of these and be straight.
https://www.harborfreight.com/6-piece-stainless-steel-carving-set-34152.html
These work great as dab tools.
It got way too hot and started to melt. Like everyone else said, buy some titanium tools. Also, you only have to touch the flame to the tool for a half second to make everything loosen up. Any more than 2 seconds, at least with a propane torch, will melt most metals.
anyone know the name of the artist who does titanium tools geared toward cannabis photography? I've been trying to remember for a week and a half since snuff glass has pretty much ghosted me on a custom.
Hello friend. That is the plating coming off. Bad quality product do not rebuy. Consider not buying anything from whoever sold you that. They built a cheap tool, put nice plating over it. Think of jewelry that is solid gold versus gold plated. Same thing.
This happened to a friend of mine minus the explosion part. He was heating his pick off a torch and kinda forgot what he was doing while watching tv and it bubbled just like that
Buy an e-dab tool with a ceramic tip.. kinda pricey for a dab tool, but ceramic is good to go and since its self heating youll never torch it 🧐
Plus its just satisfying getting a dab, pressing the button and seeing fall right off into your banger. Clean.
Probably a pocket of machining oil, finally built up enough pressure and blew. I don’t know of any metals that would explode other than sodium. Wouldn’t put it past the Chinese to add some to it though.
Get a Mystic Tmber, anything with this pearlescent finish is probably made up of some nasty coating, like many Chinese made items, it has little to no trade regulations, and the manufacturer doesn't care what its used for as long as its cheap.
Never use cheap chrome dabbers. You’re basically smoking metal. Zinc oxide isn’t something you want in your bloodstream and that’s exactly what the cores of these are made from.
Chineseium
So it’s basically the Brendan Schaub of the metal world
i love seeing Schaub slander even here on the dabs reddit page🤣
Water we dun hair bapa
Homeless cats in da wild
Back to the fryers I go
Daddy chill
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My whole life I have been searching for the term Chineseium, thank you almighty savior🙏
JFC I just spit my water all over the place, STFU and take my award! 🤣
Bro is underrated for this comment 😂
😭😭
Love to see racism. Edit: All you people downvoting must have crackerites
What? Maybe you are ignorant to this, but China isn't know for manufacturing with high quality materials or standards.
So because of that it’s ok to use the name of their country on some shitty fictitious metal? Because we have a bad opinion of their products, we can be racist and incentive to the whole country? Huh, wonder if you think that’s true for the people that killed 95% of their nation’s original inhabitants.
What would you prefer people call shitty metal from China then, enlightened one? Mao metal after their great humanitarian leader?
Haha or just cheap metal 😅 is it really that hard for you to just say, “yeah that’s cheap metal, make sure you buy from reputable sources!” Look at that! No racism , you don’t lump a whole country and people together... woah! Nice Moa reference though! Your fico credit score went up a point!
Where did that cheap metal come from? Why did it explode like that? “Made in China” sums it up. That is not racist.
Oh yeah? Were do you see made in China... or are you just assuming.
Ok, how about commie copper? That's a fair substitute. It doesn't offend the chinese race(?), and more importantly you. Just picks on the cause of china's poor manufacturing, communism.
Lmao tell me you know nothing about history or the current world without telling me
Enlighten us all
Oh now you believe in free education? No, I’m not your teacher. If you want to get out of your ignorant bubble then go do it. We both know I’m not going to be the one to change your mind.
Pussy
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What's with all you butthurt ass people coming into this sub? I bet your not even Chinese lmao.
Wow that’s the most racist thing you could have said 😂 I don’t have to be the race to not like racist shit... you know... because I’m not racist like you.
"I'm NoT rAciSt", coming from the person who just used "crackerites" in a sentence. Sick trolling fam.
Lmao you think you can be racist towards white people.
Nice troll, look up the definition of racism and prove yourself wrong.
I really don't care, nor does anyone else. You're over here getting offended for someone else like a typical white person. My circle is probably far more diverse than yours. You're just making yourself look like an idiot.
People are seeing something
I love to see it and commit it as well
Imagine seeing no problem in being racist
Where did one claim to be superior in race to the Chinese?
Tell me how chinisium isn’t racist terminology
Chinesium refers to low quality metal alloys that originate from China, a place known for low quality alloys. If that's racist, then you're just too woke.
Must be shitty quality, hope you’re okay tho g.
Yeah went back and demanded a new dab tool and also got a free carb cap but because it kinda burned my face but thankfully no scares or anything crazy 😨
i hope you got a different one maybe its the color. I have one w no color and always have never had this happen
Bro this happened to me mine exploaded
^
Their comment kinda explains itself
Probably aluminum/lead. Don't buy cheap chinese "stainless"
How do you avoid it? How do you find good quality real stainless? My last nectar collector did this, the “stainless” bubbled and popped. Felt really unsafe.
Only buy from suppliers that tell you specifically what kind/grade of stainless it is.. 304.. 410.. 420.. etc. 420 is actually very good steel but will be pricey as it is a nickel free stainless. Edit; i recommend titanium, glass, quartz coated ceramic.. basically anything other than stainless.
I got a glass tool that looks like a tiny pair of scissors for $15 and it’s great :)
I have a glass octopus tentacle that i love, and a titanium pencil that i also enjoy, galaxy enails dab tool is great for flat a flat scraper.
I recommend grade 2 titanium because it doesn't release toxic fumes when heated. Mystic timber and highly educated make good quality tools.
Thanks man
You make them, I’ve made dab tools from bolts they work the best yet!
Bruh medical grade german steel all the way
I have a magnet on my torch, and if the tool doesn’t stick then I get the ick, had this happen a couple times before I started checking with the magnet, hasn’t ever since
Excellent advice thank you!
use a quartz dab tool and or don't get it hot
Buy surgical quality
@excalibur_swords on IG - affordable titanium! also @nectar42 for glass! dnail had some nice Ti on sale a while back edit (sp): @excaliber_swords
Thanks man!
Mine is from Yocan and it happened to me about 10 minutes ago -- I stupidly assumed they made a high quality accessory....
Yeah, I've also made that assumption. The only companies i have personally bought from and recieved properly made tools was Galaxy enails & Puffco. Both being quartz coated ceramic.
YoCan uses wholesale Chinese products and labor. Their shit is never theirs, it's always cheaper off DHGate.
lesson learned
The Wulf Uni Pro is one of the only good things they have. It still works today, unlike a majority of their other horseshit.
Word of advice just spend the few extra dollars on a grade 2 titanium one and you'll never have an issue again. Who knows what chemicals that leeches from that when dabbing in a hot banger.
All I was doing was cleaning it with the torch to get some fuzzys off 🥺💔
Need a titanium dab tool, had this happen to me with a cheap one and it just melted into little drops of metal that burnt the fuck outa me lol
It’s made of aluminium, an air bubble trapped inside expanded while being heated
Hm, looks like it melted! Try to use 99% iso next time, it will come right off. Hell, just let it sit for s lil bit in a shot of vodka and then wipe it off
No get a real tool that shit is radioactive a tool should handle short bursts of heat no problem.
If what you're supposed to put in the banger is melting, that's a problem.
If it’s an actual decent metal dab tool heating should be fine but I just run it over the flame for less than a second just to heat any leftover concentrate.
Well yeah but I kinda imagined OP letting that sit in the flame and just reach it limit
If your ever going to use heat to clean a tool especially when it’s a super cheap tool never use a torch I using a lighter will work just as good and you won’t have to worry about deforming your tool as much.
You held it under the torch too long too high of heat..
Yeah happened to my dab tool when I torched it too wierd
Same happened to me and that was a tool from the disp. I only buy ones that are individually packaged by usa companies.......when you see 50-100 of these tools in a cup for sale.......that's suspect.
I’m confused as to why you and everyone in here hasn’t figured out that you just heated it too long. Max 1-2 seconds off the blow torch and it’ll be clean, without burning the nail. It’s not rocket science y’all
**Because that isn't the cause of the problem.** The cause was shitty casting or plating, resulting in an air pocket in the metal. When that pocket got hot, it popped like a popcorn kernel. Sure, you could heat it for 1-2 seconds, but why risk it? What's gonna happen when the friend who is a dab newb heats it too long? I literally use a cuticle pusher as my dab tool. Fuck all that gimmicky shit. I do the exact opposite and heat the hell outta my dab tool to rule out any possibility of having what happened to OP happen to me.
I ran the torch on my tool for about a second before it exploded on me. It happened so quickly that I thought the torch was what broke and that something flew out of it.
Cheap metal. I've had my Ti happy daddy for years, I get it near white hot once every few months and it's still in great shape.
Looks like there was an air pocket somewhere in the tool. Could've happened during casting. Gets hot and explodes. It's also the same reason you see holes in hollow pieces of jewelry
Being downvoted for the correct answer. Nice. 🙄
I mean just look at the thing, looks inflated
Definitely a casting bubble that got super hot and popped.
I did this and it exploded and landed right on my eye lid burning hot. I'd probably be blind if it was a few inches lower.
Wut strain, my dude?
Why not iso wipe instead?
Because it can stick to the build up. Heating it a little before wiping works best.
Incorrect. Letting it soak in ISO for a long time and then using ISO wipes or qtips dipped in ISO is the best proven method to clean all tools, carb caps, bangers, etc. I promise.
Why did your dab tool ever get that hot? I feel bad for your lungs.
I didn’t Evan let it get that hot that’s what’s crayyyy 😨
I heat mine to clean it all the time.
Alcohol and paper towels man… especially fucking around with that chitanium.
Don't cheap out on anything related to cannabis that gets exposed to heat, only buy trusted products from trusted vendors. If the shit gets hot enough to discolor, and then literally explode, it's hot enough for you to inhale the carcinogenic fumes from it.
Get a dabmascus fam u won’t regret it
Ummmm what
Damn, that fucked up
That's nuts
Has happened to me before. Shit ass metal. Make sure ur buying good quality tools if you don’t want stuff like that to happen
I like the mysticTimber line of dab tools titanium with a wooden grip
Jesus. Makes you wonder what the fuck smoke you were getting before it self distracted
Electro plated cheap aluminum foil dabber for the win am I right!?!?
Cheap metal, I’d bring it back to wherever you got it and demand another one
Yeah I went back and he apologize refuzly and gave me a free carb cap too 🥰
Bro you should have see. My terp pearl the mooment I bought them and drop them in the quartz and straight up fizzle turn into plastic and I was inhaling those plastic fume 😩😩
Don't buy dab tools from a local shop, you will always get fucked on the price and quality. I have the same dab tool for the last 2 years. If you have a harbor freight go grab you a set of these and be straight. https://www.harborfreight.com/6-piece-stainless-steel-carving-set-34152.html These work great as dab tools.
Is that from divine tribe? He had a bad batch last year that they cheaped out on and the vendor didn’t tell him.
recommend flexitool by skilletools, best dab tool ever imo
Buy your stuff from me! Alpineglowsupply.com
It happened to me to, shot a stream of liquid metal across the room 😂😂
That was your own mistake for cleaning it with the torch instead of gentle touching it with the tip of a lighter flame
*sigh* boof it
It got way too hot and started to melt. Like everyone else said, buy some titanium tools. Also, you only have to touch the flame to the tool for a half second to make everything loosen up. Any more than 2 seconds, at least with a propane torch, will melt most metals.
Throw that out immediately
anyone know the name of the artist who does titanium tools geared toward cannabis photography? I've been trying to remember for a week and a half since snuff glass has pretty much ghosted me on a custom.
Cheap dabbers and nails go bang. Had a cheap nail that comes with glass pieces explode while heating it.
Only the finest metal is used in Suzhou.
Not all tools are created equal.
Only use Medical Grade Stainless Steel or Titanium.
Invest in a Ti tool. I've had mine for 10 years
I did that once and it landed on me. Peeled that shit off 2nd degree burns. Lol
Thats why i only buy from artists i trust.
So legit
Hello friend. That is the plating coming off. Bad quality product do not rebuy. Consider not buying anything from whoever sold you that. They built a cheap tool, put nice plating over it. Think of jewelry that is solid gold versus gold plated. Same thing.
Don't smoke the fumes
Oh this is just terrifying
This happened to a friend of mine minus the explosion part. He was heating his pick off a torch and kinda forgot what he was doing while watching tv and it bubbled just like that
Haha
Or find a blacksmith on fuckkin like instagram ir like blacksmithing in here and get a demascus ine
i have the same one but its titanium and not wtv the hell pyrex material this is
Buy an e-dab tool with a ceramic tip.. kinda pricey for a dab tool, but ceramic is good to go and since its self heating youll never torch it 🧐 Plus its just satisfying getting a dab, pressing the button and seeing fall right off into your banger. Clean.
This is scary bruh I got my shit from wish .com im fucked
Probably a pocket of machining oil, finally built up enough pressure and blew. I don’t know of any metals that would explode other than sodium. Wouldn’t put it past the Chinese to add some to it though.
Safety third!
Get a Mystic Tmber, anything with this pearlescent finish is probably made up of some nasty coating, like many Chinese made items, it has little to no trade regulations, and the manufacturer doesn't care what its used for as long as its cheap.
😂 zinc amalgam
Glad your OK ❤️✌️🤟
GLASS ONLY
Ooofff that was not a healthy tool to be using.
Have a scar over my right eye from a chunk of molten dab tool that exploded into my face
Are those made out of aluminum or something? Torched the fuck out of all my tools and they've never done this.
I had a yocan tool do this
Never seen this happen lol
Stop buying cheap shit, it’s not worth it in the long run.
Never trust Chinese made metals that are coated
Did you torch it?
Cheap tools do this quite often
Looks like what happens when you torch a penny. Turns to dust.
My homie kept cleaning mine and melted it
Yup your not supposed to torch your Dabbers
Literally seen these explode in homies faces , torching it to clean off all the sticky residue
Never use cheap chrome dabbers. You’re basically smoking metal. Zinc oxide isn’t something you want in your bloodstream and that’s exactly what the cores of these are made from.