Help! My Terp Pen is CLOGGED and it won’t hit!
Don’t panic. This happens from time to time. Your Terp Pen is clogged with reclaim and cleaning it is a simple process.
Things You’ll Need:
Isopropyl Alcohol – 91% works best. Alcohol quickly dissolves sticky concentrates and will clean your Terp Pen back to the original finish.
Container for Soaking – I like to use a small jar just large enough for the coil. A zip-lock bag will work. Jars have the advantage of being shake-able.
Q-tips – You can get by without these, but I know you have them already.
Paper Towel – One is enough for the entire job.
Terp Pen Cleaning Video Demonstration
In this video I perform a deep clean on my Terp Pen and offer some tips and advice for keeping your Terp Pen operating smoothly.
Terp Pen Cleaning Instructions
Follow these simple steps to restore your Boundless Terp Pen to factory condition.
Step 1 – Disassemble the Terp Pen – Remove the cap, the coil, and the sleeve of the Terp Pen.
Step 2 – Soak the Coil – Place the coil in your soaking container and fill with enough alcohol to submerge the entire coil.
Shake shake shake! Shake Shake Shake! No need to sing, but shaking the soaking coil around makes the cleaning go quicker
Step 3 – Scrape your reclaim (optional) – Usually reclaim tastes pretty bad – but the Terp Pen isn’t a high temp device and any reclaim you can harvest will probably taste good enough for most. I like to use a dab tool to scrape as much reclaim as I can. This will be my first dab after the cleaning is done.
Step 4 – Clean Stainless Internal – It’s the main part. Hold it within your paper towel and spray it with your ISO. You can also wet your paper towel if you don’t have a spray bottle. Use the ISO to dissolve the leftover reclaim and clean the internals of the Terp Pen.
Step 5 – Use Q-Tip / Included Brush – Clean inside the threaded portion as well as the two cutouts where air flows through the coil. Spray more ISO if needed, but do not soak this portion of the device.
Step 6 – Clean inside of Outer Barrel – The internal wall of the Terp Pen’s barrel is the vapor path. Plug one end with your finger and spray some ISO alcohol inside. Plug the OTHER END with another finger, gripping both ends shut tight.
Shake the shit out of it while holding both ends tightly closed so no alcohol spews out. Dump the ISO onto your paper towel and repeat if needed. You can also stuff some paper towel or a q-tip into the barrel to clean out any remaining reclaim.
Step 7 – Remove Coil from Soak, Dry & Reassemble – Remove the coil from the alcohol bath and inspect to make sure it’s clean. The holes near the threads should be completely clear and there should be no remnants of reclaim.
Let the coil dry thoroughly, or blow on it and through it for a minute or two if you’re excited to dab that reclaim you harvested!!
This is my first dap experience and I love it, love it, love it! Your instructions and demonstration are superb! So easy to follow. When disassembling the Terp Pen, I had an inordinate amount of reclaim on the battery. Thanks to your video, I now know how that happened and how to minimize it! Great work! Thank you so much for posting this! By the way, I never comment on stuff, so that further shows how helpful your video was.
Jan
Now, if I only knew how to use my shower head percolator bong and it’s zillion assorted pieces! LOL
Help! Everytime I clean my pens they stop working. And I’ve done it just like you. Have you had this happen? Its been 5 pens now
My terp pen was clogged however it was not due to the coil so read this if the above article did not work for you or if you want to keep your pen extra clean. Basically, take apart the pen like in the article, now unscrew the mouthpiece. You will see probably a lot of reclaim as well as a hole under the mouth piece. Grab a paper clip and push it through that hole, you will see LOADS of reclaim come out the other side, you can use the isopropyl alcohol on this area but be careful not to drown it and not to get it in the battery port. MAKE SURE ITS DRY before using it again or it may short out due to the liquid. Happy smoking :)
Hey ‘Anonymous’…
If you have reclaim all the way up in your mouthpiece, then you should have cleaned that thing a long time ago.
Pretty new device after cleaning for the first time no longer worked. I found that slightly untightening the outer barrel made it work again when i noticed it worked fine without the barrel on.
I have cleaned, soaked and reassembled and it will not heat up. When I put the coil back on this time it seemed to get tighter. Now I don’t get any vapor, the coil is not heating up. I have watch all the videos still not working.
sounds like you need to replace the coil
You can also unclog the holes in the coil and that helps a lot. Also, Instead of alcohol, I take it apart and scrape the decent reclaim, I hold the outer piece with pliers and torch the thing til the excess is hot enough to clean out with q-tips.
***VERY IMPORTANT tip: this ONLY works with the full metal pens, not the colored ones with the outer layer made of silicon or w/e it is..also, DO NOT torch the battery part, only the outer casing***