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    Intriguing 1908 Barling

    Hi Al/Oz. Al, glad you asked if it was integral. I assumed it was, but I've just had a look through the loupe and it is bone. There is a seam of some sort, so I think it is probably threaded (you'll have to excuse my reluctance to find out for certain). Unfortunately, I didn't get a life...
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    Intriguing 1908 Barling

    Thanks Jesse, John - very much appreciate your time. The whole 'original /genuine' bun fight reminds me of a conversation I had recently. Went something along these lines: Them: Is the stem the original? Me: It's genuine. Them: Not what I asked. Is it the original? Me: Yes. Or a genuine...
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    Intriguing 1908 Barling

    Hi Jesse, Thanks for your comments. Yes, the stem logo was my hang-up, but looking into the mortice, it certainly doesn't look like a DIY job. I've attached one of the rejects showing the chamfer. It's an odd one - with replacement stems you can normally see evidence of a slight mis-match if...
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    Intriguing 1908 Barling

    Hello all, I thought I'd post a few pics of this pipe since it has a number of interesting aspects to it I've not seen in a Barling's before. I guess first off is the shape. Somewhere between an apple and an egg - it's not a million miles from the artisan pipes of today - but I've never seen a...
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    Vulcanite Drilling Speeds and Physics

    Hmm, hadn't thought of reaming - another something for the US shopping list. I had tried Tripoli on a cleaner but either I'm doing something wrong, or Tripoli doesn't have enough cut. Valve grinding compound sounds fairly hardcore so I might hunt for something like that. With that said, I...
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    Vulcanite Drilling Speeds and Physics

    Thanks for all your comments folks. I would normally try to reply to each, but it is late in the UK and my bed awaits. But in general, yes I do overthink things, but it is more a natural curiosity than anything else - if I don't know why something is happening it drives me nuts even if it is...
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    Vulcanite Drilling Speeds and Physics

    This is a hobby George and I just asked for help. I wasn't asking anyone to calculate it; I asked "What is the general consensus on RPMs when drilling vulcanite rod?". I also mentioned "ballpark" and "starting point". My musings on which forces caused centering, were just that. I came here for...
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    Vulcanite Drilling Speeds and Physics

    G'day folks I have a question that has been rattling around this empty head for a while and I have been unable to find any relevant info that will help. I drill vulcanite rod on a pillar drill but rather than chuck the bit, I chuck the rod and have a chucked jig on the table holding the bit...
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    Replacement Silver Spigots

    Thanks folks. I had hoped that artisan makers would be able to purchase them on an as-and-when basis since some make spigots from time to time in small numbers. I think casting my own is a little beyond me. A bit of silver soldering from time to time, but there is a lot of space between that and...
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    Replacement Silver Spigots

    Thanks Cossack, I've tried all the usual suspects. I'm a Brit and we have no pipe supplies stores as such, but I've gone through all the stores Google has to offer, and no dice. We can get rods here, but it's not stem material that I need (although a nice amber pen blank for less then 3K would...
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    Replacement Silver Spigots

    EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) - Bob G'day all I hope everyone is well. So I have a little project: I have just got a lovely cased army mount GBD from the 20s sans stem. I was roaming around ebay looking for a suitable old banger of the period from which to filch one when the...
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    Can anyone help with dating this Hardcastle?

    Thanks MSO. The seller had a few pipes listed (including the Dunmore), some of which looked NOS, most dating to around the 70s/80s as far as I could make out. The only give-away with this really is the smooth panel - it looks like it has just come off a sanding belt which, even for a budget...
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    Can anyone help with dating this Hardcastle?

    Thanks Daniel7, that's fairly exact. I'm here to learn, so can you tell me how you got there?
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    Can anyone help with dating this Hardcastle?

    G'day all I usually steer clear of Hardcastles for no other reason than, try as I might, I can never nail down a date for them, particularly where there are no patent numbers/silver etc., and their post-family reputation is far from stellar. So when I won this at auction I was fairly surprised...
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    Soldering a cracked nickel ferrule

    Yes excellent posts folks - thank you very much for your time. I had no idea of the health issues and I'm particularly grateful because I have just looked at what I thought I'd bought and what I received - and they are not the same. I thought I'd ordered assay-quality easy silver solder paste...
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    Soldering a cracked nickel ferrule

    Good evening folks, I would like to repair a cracked Peterson ferrule with solder and I'm running into problems. I have a scrap ferrule to play with and the solder paste is not running smoothly into the crack or surrounding divot, in fact it looks almost as if it being repelled by the crack...
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    Need Help - Bone Extension on a Pre-Republic Peterson Straight Dublin 120F DeLux

    OK, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I can accept it. I've had plenty of practice. I get the graduated bore and how this affects the airflow through the chamber up through the stem. What I don't understand is how the chimney can improve the performance of a stem. If it doesn't dump the moisture in the...
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    Need Help - Bone Extension on a Pre-Republic Peterson Straight Dublin 120F DeLux

    I'm now confused. I thought the whole point of the chimney was to draw the smoke back causing turbulence so that the smoke entered the stem directly above the sump and any moisture would condense and end up in the sump rather than heading back down toward the bore and bowl or up the stem. I...
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    Need Help - Bone Extension on a Pre-Republic Peterson Straight Dublin 120F DeLux

    This is the first time I have seen a chimney on a non-system pipe. I thought that the chimney sits below the bore in the sump (on the Premiers and Deluxe models), but the 120 doesn't have a sump, does it? I thought the only straight system pipe was the 31 which has a longer chimney which ends in...
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    Does amber have an odor??

    Incidentally, I think Vicks still contains gum turpentine which is distilled pine sap and smells very similar to ground or abraded amber.
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