Filter stuck in a corn cob

Paper clip . Straighten it out and put a little hook on the end. slide it up alongside the filter and hook it out.

no good can come of filters :wink:

have you tried soaking it?may be able to get it wet enuff to poke it out with a pipe cleaner and FYI Doc grabow filters work in cobs as well

First thing I do when I get a cob is remove the filter before the first smoke. I would think soaking the filter would make it even harder to remove, as it will probably swell even more.
What I would try is inserting a sheetrock screw into the filter and then pull it out. And of course, then never replace the filter.

Good ideas. Once you get it out don't use filters. I chuck mine the minute I get a pipe that has one.

Don't listen to 'em punkpiper. About chucking the filter, that is. I have dozens of filter pipes of different varieties, about 65% of my collections are filtered in fact, and I love every one of them. It's all about your preference, and if you've found what you like and can adjust your smoking to it, then all the better for you.
And it sounds like using a small screw as a corkscrew would be your safest & easiest remedy for removal.

Get unclearthur to make you a new stem. I love the unclearthur stem on my cob.

say that again baron, can't wait to get that new fire swirl stem from him to install on my brand-new MM-Egg cob

Meh i used filters depending on the pipe but i use the balsa ones from savinelli.

The only filtered pipe I smoke are Savinelli's with the balsa wood filters, I can't stand paper filters in a pipe.

To Be honest i have never heard of a filter in a pipe. is this like those stinger things? :?:

The only filtered pipe I smoke are Savinelli's with the balsa wood filters, I can't stand paper filters in a pipe.

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Yes, but replace Savinelli with Brigham for me. Other filter pipes get cut down Brigham filters to reduce the draw to something I can't park my truck in/suck entire flakes through (cobs).

To Be honest i have never heard of a filter in a pipe. is this like those stinger things? [:?:]

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Sean; 6mm paper (or balsa) filters fit inside the tenon, as the smoke passes over the cardboard baffles (or porous wood), it condenses and absorbs some of the tars/liquid/nasty-crap. There are also 9mm activated charcoal (or, once again, balsa) filter pipes; the theory is the same, but with charcoal as opposed to paper. The biggest draw-back of filter pipes is that you cannot pass a pipe-cleaner with them in.

Enter the Brigham filter - a tube of rock-maple with an aluminum "gromet" (for lack of a better word) at one end. Once again, as the smoke passes over the aluminum/maple, it cools and any nastyness is soaked up by the maple, but being drilled through, they do accept a pipe-cleaner.
The balsa (Sav.) and maple (Brigham) filters also have the added advantage of being re-usable; a quick rinse under the tap, a few hours drying time, and you are ready to go (for 30 odd smokes), while the paper filters turn disgusting rather quickly. I can't speak for the 9mm filters, as I don't actually have any pipes that will accept these!

damn cob smokers at it again.....

Ahh i see thanks

Filters are good...no ooowie gooowies and less icky tar. :rofl: :clap: :crazy:

I for one see no need for filters and I have tried many times to like them... It just isn't for me!