Anyone Have a Method for Maintaining MM Plastic Stems?

[Waning Embers]

Watch out, there's a serial pipe offender amongst us!

They are just implements for tobacco usage. Too much forum exposure has just desensitized them from being anything more for me.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

...part of the charm (of Corn Cob pipes).

 

[FLDRD]

All of mine except two Falcons are boxed up in an outside storage bin now.

I noticed those were your new fav's.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

I must have delicate lips or something. When a plastic stem gets a little scuffed I feel it—sandpapery—and I don’t like it. I must also have sharp teeth. I don’t often bite the stems, and I don’t chew them. I let the stem hang between my teeth, and that, and the weight/length of the pipe, is enough to rough them up pretty quickly. I’ve never bitten through an mm stem or squeezed shut the airway. But I do have a problem with these stems developing cracks down the length of the stem. Guess I’ll just double up on the replacement stems I’m about to order.