What's a Retort
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Bambam's got it. I use one and it works wonders for cleaning cruddy old pipes. You do have to respect the fact that you're working with glass, fire and alcohol but with proper caution they're great.
Captainsousie and Bambam go you covered here wheezy.
I started cleaning up estate pipes before I had a retort, and was able to successfully de-ghost pipes, and clean/sanitize bowls, shanks, mortise and tenon, stems and bits with the right combination of pipe cleaners, q tips, brushes, isopropyl alcohol and patience. The retort does seem to help speed this process up.
Do search youtube and watch how retorts are used, and do follow the safety recommendations of folks that use them regularly.
Cheers,
-- Pat
I started cleaning up estate pipes before I had a retort, and was able to successfully de-ghost pipes, and clean/sanitize bowls, shanks, mortise and tenon, stems and bits with the right combination of pipe cleaners, q tips, brushes, isopropyl alcohol and patience. The retort does seem to help speed this process up.
Do search youtube and watch how retorts are used, and do follow the safety recommendations of folks that use them regularly.
Cheers,
-- Pat
The main thing with a retort is to protect your eyes and face, wear a glove on hand holding test tube, hold pipe higher than test tube, you would not believe the so called Clean pipes I"ve retorted that were gross. My wife is a beautician so she gets me the round pads to take fingernail polish off, they are just the right size to cover the bowl. BE CAREFUL if you use one.
The guys above have it right. Using a retort helps a lot. I recently cleaned / unclogged an estate pipe. Probably used close to 100 pipe cleaners and did the salt & alcohol treatment twice. I still had to retort the pipe 3 times before it came out clean.
Everyone here is generally nice and I have never seen an newbie admonished for asking a question, no matter how many times it has been asked before. But if you keep asking questions like that, I think the responses to your threads will get fewer and fewer.
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