Humidity Effecting Chamber Carbon?

[Doctor Chopper]

Only if you were starving for Vitamin N, would you ever try licking that carbon off a paper towel.

My great grandfather was a Yankee cavalry trooper on the 1865 Powder River Expedition and a Sergeant Springer of the same 12th Missouri wrote a memoir of the adventure.

Springer said the men were so addicted to tobacco they smoked sage grass in their pipes when tobacco ran out.

He also wrote he was carving a pipe from a piece of “sweet briar”.

And, he said Indians would never smoke their own tobacco if one scrap of government issue tobacco was available.

You know, they didn’t clean their pipes out on the prairies.

We clean our pipes today because we have the tools to do it.

What a great post!
Thanks

 

[PipeIT]

I believe this is the opinion the OP was seeking.
However, OP still hasn't seen the hardening yet, and it's been a month since last use.
Hmmm.

Sorry for any confusion...

I see hardening all the time in pipes, I was only saying that if there’s a lot of humidity then I’ll see the carbon go soft.

Since I use an air conditioner and the air is drier when it’s running the carbon will get very hard, it’s only when it’s not running at times, I then notice the carbon starting to get tacky/softer.

So it’s a back and forth situation for me....

AC on = chambers are harder
AC off = the hard carbon starts to get softer