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    Opening HCG glass amps

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spooledup View Post
    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?

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

    Details please?

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    Quote Originally Posted by spooledup View Post
    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)

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    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....

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    Quote Originally Posted by spooledup View Post
    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

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    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.

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

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    Transfer complete!

    Rejuvinated nutsak coming up! lol

    Thanks.

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    you can score the amp with scissors too...

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    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...

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by spooledup View Post
    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!


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    In other words, dot towards you.

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    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.

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    Thanks.

    I thought I read to point the dot away from you.

    I'll look for the score mark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spooledup View Post
    Thanks.

    I thought I read to point the dot away from you.

    I'll look for the score mark.
    No sir, you keep that dot pointing towards you and all will be fine.

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    I just rap the amp with toilette paper and use another tp wrap on the top and just snap away. Never a problem for me.

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