Proper cleaning technique for PTFE?

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Wednesday January 23rd, 2008 @ 10:28 PM

Filed under: Piercing

I keep hearing different things from different retailers, what is the proper way to clean a PTFE barbell? Does alcohol damage PTFE like it does with acrylic? And while we are on the subject of cleanliness, can PTFE be sterilized?

The joys of retailers and even sometimes piercers who can’t differentiate between PTFE(Teflon), Silicone Tubing(Tygon), Polysulfone(BioPlast) and Acrylic (how you can confuse Acrylic and PTFE is beyond me).

When alcohol and acrylic meet the alcohol ends up cracking the acrylic, with PTFE this will NOT happen. Also yes with the right type of PTFE, Tygon, BioPlast, even Acrylic(Dental Acrylic) these materials can be sterilized.

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