Howdy,
No, not too bad. I posted about the repair under pipe repair thread:
Went to smoke my Ropp J04 earlier this week when I noticed a hair line crack along the left side. It was 3/8 of an inch long and went from the end of the shank towards the bowl 🤨 I’m not sure how it developed. I never remove stems while the pipe is still hot and don’t abuse them when removing...
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I used needle nose pliers and a Dremel with a cutting wheel and finished up with a table top disk sander. Took me about 40 minutes.
If you have any questions, let me know.