Brand New Pipe. Cracks/Voids in Chamber Wall. What Would You Do?

[jpmcwjr]

Obi-you might want to post a link here to the new thread.
If I don't see it, I agree you do not want to cover the chamber as is. Sand it down, start over, smoke much more slowly, keep flame away from rim and tobacco. (the super heated air at the tip of the flame is plenty hot.)

 

[oldmansmoking]

I have a Peterson K Briar which came new with the black coating on the inside. Smoked it a few times and a piece fell out in the chamber by the draght hole. Was unsure myself what to do, lucky carbon has filled it and you would never know there was a void. Even big manifacters are sometimes careless, they knew it was there because they filled it over.

 

[balkisobrains]

Figured that I would post an update as I have just lightly reamed the pipe, removing some cake, and not seeing a need to attempt to cut into the carbon coating. I learned that my reamer actually won't reach the chamber wall nearest to the rim anyway. I think that you can still see some of the original crack on the right side, which I have highlighted in one of the pics. I'm not too worried about this because I don't think that it is growing (yet), or moving at all (yet) when I smoke the pipe. Everything seems to be holding together well (so far). I have been roasting VAs in it most recently, but plan to convert it to a Latakia-smoker very soon! ::

 

[hobie1dog]

Looks like you have at least one more year of use out of it.

 

[balkisobrains]

Hopefully! The only things that I would have done differently would have been to skip the pipe-mud for filling the voids and gone straight to the grout, and probably would recommend to anyone who wants to make their own carbon bowl coating to use the powdered carbon that comes in the capsules. I ground up my own since I had some 1/8" granules of activated carbon laying around, but it was time-consuming and more difficult than I had anticipated to grind it into a very fine and consistent powder. ::