How To Clean Stem?

[HawkeyeLinus]

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!

 

[hauntedmyst]

Inside the stem? Just a lot of bristled pipe cleaners and brushes and some alcohol.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Sorry, here’s the pic! And thanks if this is what you were thinking.

 

[Chasing Embers]

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.

 

[kcghost]

Sounds like good advice.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Thank you gentlemen!

 

[jhowell]

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).