I am about 10 smokes in on my new Rossi 8106 and tonight after a cleaning I noticed what looks to be a small hairline crack at the very bottom of the fraught hole. Is this something to fret over? Warranty? Please advise
No worries. If it is bothering you can always ask the guy you bought it from if there is anything he can do. Rossi's aren't particularly expensive pipes so there's decent chance he won't.
I concur with previous posts. Pretty soon, it will cake over. Meantime, look at it only once a week, or once a month, to be sure it isn't a process, but no one here, including me, thinks it is.