Long-Term Cob Torture Test: 6 Months Under the Elements *AliExpress Edition*

[mikethompson]

Some of you may remember a little thread I did a few years ago where I put a brand new Missouri Meerschaum cob pipe on my roof for 6 months and documented how it fared.

Long Term Cob Torture Test: 6 Months Under The Elements :: Pipe Talk

Could be around 15-20cms of snow coming tomorrow, so this will be the last blast of winter before the pipe comes down. I'm not too keen on falling off my snow covered roof to retrieve it, so it might be a touch longer than 6 months.

pipesmagazine.com

The pipe did very well, and I hope it helped dispel some misconceptions that cobs are disposable and not durable.

I've decided to try this 'experiment' again, but with a Chinese cob from AliExpress. Will this cob have the same resilience as its MM counterpart? Will it fare better?

The pipe itself was around $6 shipped to my door. I will say shipping took incredibly long for whatever the reason, but you get what you pay for in terms of shipping.




Here are some pictures of the new, actual pipe.

 

[woodsroad]

God, I love science!

 

[PA Piper Mike]

Did it break yet?

 

[Bbailey324]

Should be interesting.

 

[AJL67]

Love the rusticated rim!

 

[mikethompson]

God, I love science!

And science has strong feelings for you too Dan, but just really likes the place you're in now, and doesn't want to get caught up in labels.

 

[mikethompson]

Did it break yet?

Haha not yet, but the bowl seems a little more 'spongy' than the MM one.

Love the rusticated rim!

An added, un-advertised feature!

 

[Old Smokey]

Waiting for the cob to explode like any good science experiment.

 

[kcghost]

Why the hell did you buy a Chinese one???

 

[anotherbob]

And science has strong feelings for you too Dan, but just really likes the place you're in now, and doesn't want to get caught up in labels.

or in other words science is a dirty little minx. Which seriously he shouldn't be surprised with how much science is into almost any kind of experimentation.

 

[anotherbob]

I think I've found my favorite name for a pipe brand. Pedestrian. Might as well call it meh or o.k..

 

[woodsroad]

Why the hell did you buy a Chinese one???

China

 

[mikethompson]

Why the hell did you buy a Chinese one???

I know, weird right? Its like I had a thread in mind

I think I've found my favorite name for a pipe brand. Pedestrian. Might as well call it meh or o.k..

A truly unglamorous name for an unglamorous thing

 

[Lumbridge]

I never understood why anyone would buy a Chinese cob to actually smoke when one can buy a real cob for the same price or a couple dollars more.
It would be interesting to put a MM Missouri Pride - the pipe they intended to copy - to the same test alongside it. I think I know what the outcome would be.

 

[mikethompson]

I never understood why anyone would buy a Chinese cob to actually smoke when one can buy a real cob for the same price or a couple dollars more.
It would be interesting to put a MM Missouri Pride - the pipe they intended to copy - to the same test alongside it. I think I know what the outcome would be.

Click the link in the first post.

 

[woodsroad]

or in other words science is a dirty little minx. Which seriously he shouldn't be surprised with how much science is into almost any kind of experimentation.

I don’t know about that.
I did a lot of experimenting in my youth, and although some of it involved chemicals and bodily fluids, I’d be lying if I claimed there was science involved.

 

[anotherbob]

I don’t know about that.
I did a lot of experimenting in my youth, and although some of it involved chemicals and bodily fluids, I’d be lying if I claimed there was science involved.

but you are not science. Reminds me of an old joke. When asked if you experimented with drugs answer yes until the cost of the lab monkeysgot too high.

 

[woodsroad]

but you are not science.

Excuse me, sir, but I’ve spent more time around a lab than most people that you know.

 

[anotherbob]

Excuse me, sir, but I’ve spent more time around a lab than most people that you know.

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Just because you are a Lab assistant doesn't make you a science person.

 

[woodsroad]

Just because you are a Lab assistant doesn't make you a science person.

Did you check out those lab coats? Huh?