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Almost everyone hates the stinger and recommends that if removable, remove it.
But there is also talk in a couple threads about the tenon falling short of the mortise, creating a condensation chamber.
I have a handful of pipes with a stinger and smoke them as is, and yes, they can get sloppy if you smoke them fast. Nice tar soup starter. But in the couple that I took out the stinger, one, which had a ball-type stinger, was worse for moisture (The other was never a moisture-maker to begin with, and isn't now -- that one had been a tube stinger).
The one that's giving me the problem, I suspect, is doing so because the stinger left a big void. It was engineered for a stinger in place, but I took that out.
Do you think what's happening is that void is acting like a condensation chamber now? Would that make sense? And if so, then, for some pipes with stingers, it might be better to leave them in place (at least in cases like this one). Just depends on the particular pipe?
Anybody with similar experience/suspicion?
But there is also talk in a couple threads about the tenon falling short of the mortise, creating a condensation chamber.
I have a handful of pipes with a stinger and smoke them as is, and yes, they can get sloppy if you smoke them fast. Nice tar soup starter. But in the couple that I took out the stinger, one, which had a ball-type stinger, was worse for moisture (The other was never a moisture-maker to begin with, and isn't now -- that one had been a tube stinger).
The one that's giving me the problem, I suspect, is doing so because the stinger left a big void. It was engineered for a stinger in place, but I took that out.
Do you think what's happening is that void is acting like a condensation chamber now? Would that make sense? And if so, then, for some pipes with stingers, it might be better to leave them in place (at least in cases like this one). Just depends on the particular pipe?
Anybody with similar experience/suspicion?
