How To Clean Stem?

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HawkeyeLinus

Lifer
Oct 16, 2020
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Iowa
Looking for a little help on how best to clean the brownish looking stuff inside the stem. Estate pipe arrived today (not refurbished but looks great but for this which I assume is from use and time).

Thanks!
 

jhowell

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 25, 2019
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Phoenix, Arizona
Tie a churchwarden pipe cleaner around a faucet. Slide stem onto cleaner. Soak the cleaner and saturate it with a mild powdered abrasive like Barkeeper's Friend. Slide the stem back and forth on the cleaner and abrasive to clean the slot's oxidation.
That's what I do. Except I start with automotive valve grinding compound and end with Flitz (r).