Am I overdoing my cleaning routine between dabs? What do your sessions look like?
I'm coming from an erig to a proper rig and I'm curious what everyone’s actual routine looks like during longer sessions.
I have the D-Nail UTHS and I rotate between 2 bangers:
I love both of them, especially the Blender, but even after figuring out temps and avoiding chazzing, the cleaning process between dabs still feels tedious at times.
My current routine is probably overkill since I'm new, so please go easy on me lol:
- finish coughing
- dump the marble/pillar/pearls into first dunk tank
- dry swab the banger
- scrub the pearls/pillar while the banger cools to ~200F
- spray tech banger and swab again
- rinse the pearls/marbles into second dunk tank and move them to a drying station
- then dunk the banger in tank #1 and let it soak in tank #2 for a few minutes before moving it to a drying station
It keeps my quartz super clean, but it also makes me wonder if most people are actually doing all this between every dab during a session lol.
If I’m doing like 4–5 dabs in a session, I feel like I either:
- need multiple bangers in rotation
- or I need to swab REALLY thoroughly between every dab
Otherwise it seems like leftover oil/reclaim eventually gets cooked into the quartz during reheats, especially the Blender that has more grooves in the base.
So I’m curious:
- How many bangers do you guys actually use in a normal session?
- Do you iso dunk every dab or only after the session?
- Do you run Blenders/Slurpers/Towers for daily use or stick to simple Buckets/Autospinners?
- Or am I overthinking this and people just q-tip and keep ripping lol
Would love to hear what a session looks like for others.