Opening HCG glass amps

**spooledup** · 08-13-2009, 02:00 PM

This is my second time using HCG and I cut myself and got glass fragments all over the place including inside the amp where is HCG is.

I pointed the dot away from me and pushed forward with my thumb. I must be doing it wrong because glass shavings went everywhere.

I'm not so concerned about the little cut, but my HCG got some glass fragments in the amp. I turned it upside down a tapped it gently and it looks like the glass fragments came out.

Can someone help me open these things? It took a LOT of force to break it so I'm doing something wrong. Should I trash this amp and use another one?

Thanks.

**Phate** · 08-13-2009, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by spooledup

This is my second time using HCG and I cut myself and got glass fragments all over the place including inside the amp where is HCG is.

I pointed the dot away from me and pushed forward with my thumb. I must be doing it wrong because glass shavings went everywhere.

I'm not so concerned about the little cut, but my HCG got some glass fragments in the amp. I turned it upside down a tapped it gently and it looks like the glass fragments came out.

Can someone help me open these things? It took a LOT of force to break it so I'm doing something wrong. Should I trash this amp and use another one?

Thanks.

are you scoring it with a file first?

**spooledup** · 08-13-2009, 02:09 PM

Nope. Never heard of that. That's probably what I'm doing wrong.

Details please?

**Phate** · 08-13-2009, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by spooledup

Nope. Never heard of that. That's probably what I'm doing wrong.

Details please?

take a triangular file and use it to score the ring before you break the amp(so the ring has thinner glass and breaks easier)

**spooledup** · 08-13-2009, 02:22 PM

Thank you.

I know I should probably trash it but I hate to do that. Im pretty sure I got all the glass out of the inside.

grrrrr....

**Phate** · 08-13-2009, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by spooledup

Thank you.

I know I should probably trash it but I hate to do that. Im pretty sure I got all the glass out of the inside.

grrrrr....

if you can suck the gear up with a 27g or 29g i wouldn't worry about it(the glass fragments would be very very small), your call though

**spooledup** · 08-13-2009, 02:33 PM

thank you Phate

I let it sit for a while after I reconstituted it. Then I pulled off the top. If there was any glass left it should have setteled to the bottom I hope.

**largerthannormal** · 08-13-2009, 02:42 PM

you should be fine bro...just transfer it...

**spooledup** · 08-13-2009, 02:47 PM

Transfer complete!

Rejuvinated nutsak coming up!

lol

Thanks.

**vaders4** · 08-13-2009, 03:05 PM

you can score the amp with scissors too...

**largerthannormal** · 08-13-2009, 03:23 PM

hahah amps always scare me that way but i never got cut and never had glass fall in but a lil ususally does fall off the bottle...

**fanatic** · 08-13-2009, 10:11 PM

Wrap it up in a t-shirt or towel, even if scoared or not, and break it that way.

**BokBok** · 08-14-2009, 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by spooledup

This is my second time using HCG and I cut myself and got glass fragments all over the place including inside the amp where is HCG is.

I pointed the dot away from me and pushed forward with my thumb. I must be doing it wrong because glass shavings went everywhere.

I'm not so concerned about the little cut, but my HCG got some glass fragments in the amp. I turned it upside down a tapped it gently and it looks like the glass fragments came out.

Can someone help me open these things? It took a LOT of force to break it so I'm doing something wrong. Should I trash this amp and use another one?

Thanks.

No no no no no. You push AWAY from the dot, AWAYYYYYYYYYYY!

**BokBok** · 08-14-2009, 01:21 AM

In other words, dot towards you.

**BokBok** · 08-14-2009, 01:22 AM

On the HCG vials I have, under the dot there's a tiny tiny score mark already there. That basically a 'weak' spot that breaks first causing the rest to snap off cleanly.