Mouth Piece (No, Not A Stem) Question

[Sjmiller CPG]

I am working on a KB&B Good Night Pipe, a table pipe the company put out in the late 1920s. The pictures show the mouth piece from the hose that goes into the pipe. Hopefully you can see in the pictures just how small the button is. The teeth chatter I need to remove goes right up to the edge of the button. Am a bit concerned that going through all the different grades of my micro pads I would have enough oops moments to wear it down further. Suggestions? Besides not having oops moments.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

A tongue depressor with 1000g wrapped around it is what I use.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Would you consider filling the chatter with black cyanoacrylate instead of removing material?

 

[AJL67]

Have you looked at the soft flame heat method, lots of videos online, at least something to look into. I don't know if it would work in this case, I believe @Chasing Embers has successfully used that approach.

 

[Chasing Embers]

A heat source to lift the chatter.

 

[Sjmiller CPG]

A heat source to lift the chatter.

I will look into that.

 

[Sjmiller CPG]

The heat source did the trick. Thank you, gentlemen.

 

[georged]

Note to anyone following this thread:

Some chatter is from compression and will "re-inflate" just fine.

Other times it's from material removal (really sharp teeth, I suppose), and will NOT re-inflate.

Meaning, don't go too long and/or decide to raise the heat level if the roughness seems stubborn. Bad Things will happen.