Getting a foul taste/smell from a pipe

[skylonrow]

Recently bought an estate pipe on ebay, and it was a bit worse for wear
Anyway, ive reamed back the cake, and done 4 salt and alcohol treatments, but there was still a horrid smell from the pipe. So I put a capful of alcohol into the pipe and set it on fire, this has now got rid of the horrid smell from the bowl.
But, there is still a horrible smell in the shank, ive run alcohol soaked pipe cleaner through it, yet the problem remains.
Any ideas?

 

[nsfisher]

ull have to let the alochol sit in shank, fill shank with salt an alochol, shank prob full of hardened gunk same as bowl was. i dont recommend settin it on fire tho lol. I imagine the stem prob stinks too. plug off shank end and put alochol in it an shake shake shake etc then do an alochol treatment. One guy on here uses boiling water to remove his cakes before alochol treatments.

 

[skylonrow]

I read somewhere that setting fire to the alcohol killls some of the mould spores that may be in the pipe, and it seemed to work.
Anyway thanks, ill give it a try!

 

[ejames]

IMO,most problems relating to bad taste and smells are caused by dirty nasty ass shanks. Pipe cleaners and alcohol will not always get them clean enough. I use several small brushes and even some small scraping tools I've made to clean the crud out of shanks.Then I go at it with q-tips,pipe cleaners and alcohol. Sometimes it may be necessary to fill the bowl and shank with alcohol and let it soak,use the salt for your food.When You're done cleaning let it dry for a day or so. You may still get a bit of a ghost but usually a couple of bowls will dispel them. Burleys seem better for that to me.

 

[olderthandirt]

IMO,most problems relating to bad taste and smells are caused by dirty nasty ass shanks.

Exactly this!

 

[tokerpipes]

Well first I would say, "dont keep your pipe where the sun don't shine"; after reading I agree with ejames.

 

[pawpaw]

sounds like a job for a retort

 

[tokerpipes]

Hey I work with a bunch of those...oh you didnt say retard did you? Nevermind.