Question, does someone else beside me remove the goddam sticker on the MM pipes ? It remind me of those guy who leave the sticker on their baseball cap or the pricetag on new pair of shoes ?
Long Term Cob Torture Test: 6 Months Under The Elements
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Great, now you’ve just killed the value of those pipes by removing the nomenclature.
You've been smoking that cob since June and the inside of the chamber still looks like that?!
What is value ? ?Great, now you’ve just killed the value of those pipes by removing the nomenclature.
Exactly.
There is another 2ish months to go in this officially sanctioned and scientific study, and I'm not sure the cob will look much different.
It will me interesting to see if moisture expansion from the cold will do anything that wasn’t present previously.
The metal ring is already getting loose, but the stem fits in tightly to the bowl still. Not bad for a $5 pipe.
Well after the craziest late winter and spring weather I can remember, I have an update. As you will recall the cob chosen for this experiment was not a new one, but rather an old one which needed some wood glue to hold it together. Thrown from its perch to its new home in the gutter, this legend has seen icy hail storms, a deluge of thundery tropical downpours, as well as being blasted by some of the most intense UV in the world.
it grieves me to inform you that the shank and stem were dislodged…ok well they already were loose… and were washed away in a flash flood. They now reside under our home in a soak hole. The stummel however looks sexy as ever
it grieves me to inform you that the shank and stem were dislodged…ok well they already were loose… and were washed away in a flash flood. They now reside under our home in a soak hole. The stummel however looks sexy as ever
Haha the irony is that I was only keeping the pipe for the spare shank and stem!
I inadvertently left an ashtray on our condo building roof one winter. (Now this is Winnipeg, with several days of 40 below). It was one of those promotional faux Bakelite jobbies.
In the spring when I went back up there it had basically disintegrated into powdery mush.
Canadian winters are not the "usual elements", where the average pressure treated cedar fence has a lifespan of less than 10 years. (Don't ask me how I know this.....but it's one of several reasons I now live in a condo)
In the spring when I went back up there it had basically disintegrated into powdery mush.
Canadian winters are not the "usual elements", where the average pressure treated cedar fence has a lifespan of less than 10 years. (Don't ask me how I know this.....but it's one of several reasons I now live in a condo)
It’s snowed - and by that I really mean for like 10mins tops - in my city twice in the last 50years. Though if you head an hour south or into the surrounding mountains you’ll find some. I live on this peninsula
There's some heavy frost and potential for snow/sleet this week.
Welcome to winter little cob!
Welcome to winter little cob!
Just a few more weeks to go and then we can do a side by side comparison with the 'control cob'