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   smokenscotch
   

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   I noticed that most of the salt and alcohol treatments done on pipes are with grain alcohol and non-iodized salt. I'm in Canada and I cannot find either. Due to some regulations, we can't purchase either of them? Can these items be purchased in the states at Kroeger or Meyers ? I am really close to Detroit MI.

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   Uniodized salt should be easy to obtain in most grocery stores, at least it is here in the US. As for the Everclear (PGA), you can buy it in most states, but any good high alcohol liquor should work. I know a lot of people who use Bacardi 151 rum to clean their pipes and say it works just fine.

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   Thx Markw4mms. So is ever clear at grocery stores or just liquor stores?

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   Liquor stores

   "The fact is, squire, the moment a man takes to a pipe, he becomes a philosopher. It's the poor man's friend; it calms the mind, soothes the temper, and makes a man patient under difficulties. It has made more good men, good husbands, kind masters, indulgent fathers, than any other blessed thing on this universal earth."
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   So is ever clear at grocery stores or just liquor stores?

   That depends on the state, here in Georgia all hard liquor has to be sold out of a liquor store, but in some places it can be sold just about in any store that has purchased an alcohol selling license.

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   Kosher salt is my favorite un iodized salt

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   Here in Alabama it's only available in the "State Store".

   
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   Kosher salt is not ionized! I did not know that, and I have some. Thanks jchaplick!

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   If you can't find the salt I've heard great things about using cotton balls in their place.

   The cotton helps the alcohol evaporate while still touching as much of the inside of the pipe as possible. With the cotton balls you will avoid having a pool of alcohol at the bottom waiting to evaporate. The cotton will soak it up and make it touch most of the inside of the pipe to help clean and kill ghosts.

   I'm assuming that non iodized salt does the same thing. But the clean up is easier with the cotton balls. Especially if you forget about the pipes for a day or two. The salt will harden. Pain in the butt so I'm told.

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    i use 151 vodka bought at a state store.

    smokin my homemade rustic pipe. don`t get any better.

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    Popcorn salt works too

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    Thx everyone for your replies.

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    cotton balls and i use 99% drug store rubbing alochol.

    Now i gotta larn how to reed and rite good

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    Morton makes Kosher Salt, which has no Iodide, and they make a non-iodide salt that in in the same container as their regular salt. It will say "This salt does not supply iodide" under the Morton Salt Logo.

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    do yawl make moonshine up in the great white north?

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