Castello White Stem Cleaning Question

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iajaffe

Starting to Get Obsessed
Mar 10, 2010
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I have a Castello with a white stem and it is beautiful. Smokes fantastic too. My question is how to keep the airway in the stem from showing through. It looks like I have a dirty strip along the center of the stem from the outside. I have tried Everclear and pipe cleaner (fluffy, tapered and bristle), but it still shows.
I know the stem is acrylic...can I bleach it? Will that affect the black dot?

 

sasquatch

Lifer
Jul 16, 2012
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Soaking acrylic in pure alcohol will likely result in it cracking/crazing.
Try a bristle cleaner and some soap first.

 

cobguy

Lifer
Oct 18, 2013
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Soaking acrylic in pure alcohol will likely result in it cracking/crazing.
+1
I have a couple of GBD Prehistoric pipes with clear Perspex stems that get pretty bad and Soft Scrub works really well.
Here's an article I found about it:
https://rebornpipes.com/tag/cleaning-perspex-stems/

 
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