Carburetor Pipes?

[chopper]

I've bought a couple of 'carburetor' pipes but have yet to smoke one.
They're stored in a box somewhere.

The first one I bought was for it's uniqueness. A 100yo Fumetta.





I'll have to search my file to find the 2nd one. I thought it might be good for slow burning flakes.

 

[chopper]

Here it is. From the 1940s. Made in England.
Steel's No 838413 #56 Air-Add-System

 

[chopper]

Found another pic for the 1940's Steel's that shows how the hole protrudes into the bowl.



As you can see, lots of fills.
Briar was hard to come by during the war apparently.

 

[a3zname]

I own a Kaywoodie carburator shape 01, a small pipe, but hell out of a smoker. It smokes english flakes like no other pipe i own.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Oh dear, if this allows Flakes to burn faster, or at all in my case, that might actually be worth something.
I hope the system actually doesn't work.

I'm pretty sure most collectors would be annoyed but not absolutely dismayed at my stem and button modifications, the stem is usually somewhat disposable anyway, but if I start drilling holes in Briar some of these guys might come back from the grave to stop me.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I've bought a couple of 'carburetor' pipes but have yet to smoke one.
They're stored in a box somewhere.

The first one I bought was for it's uniqueness. A 100yo Fumetta.

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I'll have to search my file to find the 2nd one. I thought it might be good for slow burning flakes.

Thats a cool pipe.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Found another pic for the 1940's Steel's that shows how the hole protrudes into the bowl.

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As you can see, lots of fills.
Briar was hard to come by during the war apparently.

When you smoke one of these, let us know how they smoke.

 

[logs]

Diluting the smoke seems useless to me for average smoking tobacco, but providing another oxygen source to help keep the pipe lit could possibly be useful for difficult tobaccos that don't burn well. (If it works like that).

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Diluting the smoke seems useless to me for average smoking tobacco, but providing another oxygen source to help keep the pipe lit could possibly be useful for difficult tobaccos that don't burn well. (If it works like that).

I'm with you, I wouldn't give up much flavor for a better burn.

 

[mso489]

I've owned only one, an E.A. Carey. I couldn't see any benefit from the carburetor and filter insert. It seemed to over ventilate the draw and eliminate flavor. I finally taped it over, but it still wasn't much of a pipe. I hope someone had some use out of it, but I was not at all impressed.

 

[chopper]

Thats a cool pipe.

Starting in 2018 a German ebay seller was selling off NOS from a just closed 100+yo tobacconist shop.
They must have found a hidden storage in the building because he had a heap of really old unique pipes.

I went overboard & won way more than I need but have some very unique pipes that we'll never see again.
Maybe I should start a thread & show off a few pics.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Starting in 2018 a German ebay seller was selling off NOS from a just closed 100+yo tobacconist shop.
They must have found a hidden storage in the building because he had a heap of really old unique pipes.

I went overboard & won way more than I need but have some very unique pipes that we'll never see again.
Maybe I should start a thread & show off a few pics.

Do it.

 

[snagstangl]

There was a member , who is not active much anymore, who said that carburetor pipes were the easiest way to smoke down to fine white ash. I have a yello bole carberator i have smoke about half a dozen times. I moved and misplaced it in the last year. What I recall is a super cool smoke, but I didn't try it with flakes or different types of tobacco.

 

[TimeKiller]

carburetor pipes were the easiest way to smoke down to fine white ash

I totally believe this, and I've been looking at carb pipes just out of curiosity. I imagine they might also be more forgiving for those heavy handed savages who can't help overpacking the bowl.

 

[edger]

I had a duncan hill that i think i got in a trade. Iirc it had a hole in the side of the pipe, surrounded by a metal ring that let some air into the smoke stream.
I didnt really care for it, i felt i had to concentrate on smoking it to get the same amount of smoke. I guess they would be fine once you got used to them.

I had one years ago and I found that it condensed moisture so well that it leaked around the stem. I think I smoked my leaf too moist in those days.

 

[edger]

I have four Carey Magic Inch pipes that smoke very well. The "metering" of the cool air from the vents, for me, does not degrade or weaken the richness of the smoke at all. The older pipes were "London made"( the stummels) and were quite nice. The papyrate sleeves work well and are cheap to own a lifetime supply. There is not much to dislike about these pipes if you are not a briar snob.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Ah, I just figured out how to try it out and not suffer the same fate as Scrooge.
Falcon pipe bowls are already drilled straight down the middle, and the aluminum shank and bottom chamber is not made of sacred Briar.
Should be a very simple job drilling a hole in one of those.

 

[edger]

Ah, I just figured out how to try it out and not suffer the same fate as Scrooge.
Falcon pipe bowls are already drilled straight down the middle, and the aluminum shank and bottom chamber is not made of sacred Briar.
Should be a very simple job drilling a hole in one of those.

Why? Falcons have some of the best functional engineering out there. They smoke exceedingly cool just the way they are.

 

[mso489]

I owned a Cary carburetor pipe for a long time, but it never gave me a satisfactory smoke. I finally taped over the air vents, but it was still not a great pipe. Others enjoy them, so there's that. Along with all kinds of systems, stingers, keystones, and inserts, this was an effort to specialize pipes in a highly competitive market when brands were fighting for business. Kaywoodie finally gave up their Drinkless stinger screw-on stem, and those pipes are now push-on stems.

 

[elessar]

This one of my Kaywoodie Carburetor pipes (that I smoke, the rest are in restoration backlog). It's a good smoker but no matter how much I fiddle with plugging or not plugging the hole in the bowl I don't really notice much of a difference with the carburetor feature.