Pipe Cleaning--WHY THE SMALL STEMS?

renostarman · Jun 19, 2018

I'm wondering --and I always have--WHY would anyone in their right mind drill a pipe stem that is to small to pass a pipe cleaner through it? And I'm NOT referring to a little "toy" type sized pipe-but a full sized-or even a large size bowl and then fit it with such a small stem.

I hate having to get out the needle nose pliers to feed a cleaner through the stem.

Chasing Embers · Jun 19, 2018

Have you tried Falcon extra thin pipe cleaners?

jpmcwjr · Jun 19, 2018

Make and style? Photo?
Pipe cleaners come from very fat and fuzzy to thin and lean.

B18 · Jun 19, 2018

I know what you mean. I bought a few pipes which the slots were so thin i couldn't insert a lean pipecleaner.

I had to file the slots a bit to open it up.
But i think that factory pipes with bad slots is just poor quality standards or control.

And Artsian slots are abit different. I think the artisans who make too thin slots, only use extra thin (to what is available to them) pipecleaners and use that as a refrence point for their slots.

The older artisans maybe don't have the hand stability to make better slots (assumption) or it's what they were taught.

bnichols23 · Jun 19, 2018

If you think that's bad, reno, wait till you hit a bite-proof! But yeah, know what you mean -- some of mine, if I'm going to get a cleaner (always bristle for me) through the stem, I have to start from the tenon. And sometimes doesn't work even then. }

I has an annoyed.

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