Dint plan on selling it, i did consider that but I’ll smoke it till i kick them it’s someone else’s problem, i smoke between 5 and 10 bowls a day out of it and the stinger does tend to get gurgly and they are just a pain to clean, at least that many bowls a day. I run a pipe cleaner after every bowl, the the big picture it’s a minor thing, just irks me.I smoke only one pipe with a stinger, a Kaywoodie Drinkless, and actually I find it a good smoke and quick to clean. Mine, like yours, has the screw-in stem as part of the stinger; the Drinkless is now made with a push bit. Does your stinger have bad smoking characteristics? Otherwise, I'd just leave it, assuming you'd learn to like it, if not love it. All of my other stingers have been removable, and I saved them, labeled, if the pipe gets passed along.
If you saw off the stinger, the pipe loses all its brand authenticity, but that's no big deal, unless it has some distinctive history otherwise.
Just afraid of bread for the stem and then the worry of finding the screw in part (I’ve seen chasing post the plastic ones) that would fit. In the end i don’t want to eff up my favorite pipe.Most stingers either screw out or just come out with a gentle tug. It shouldn't be that difficult to remove if you choose.
Just thinking snip it where the draw hole is not the threads.Am I missing something? If you snip it off, how are you going to attach the stem? Could use a Dremel tool with drill bit if i need to go in from the end.
Gotcha. That makes sense now. It's early, just got out of bed.Just thinking snip it where the draw hole is not the threads.
Yes a Dremel tool, snippin would most likely pinch it off.Snipping it will probably damage the screw. I would take a saw with a small metal blade, while the stem is carefully fixed in a vice.
Yes a Dremel tool, snippin would most likely pinch it off.
Same here, just bugs me when it starts to gurgle and this is a very large deep bowl.I don't care much for the stinger on my Kaywoodie. It's the only pipe I have that had gurgling issues. But before the gurgling starts--or after I unscrew the stem and wipe off the stinger--it's a fairly good smoker.