Pipe Cleaners?

[jship079]

What kind do you guys like? Is there certain ones you use for certain pipes? Do you use something instead of regular pipe cleaners? I have never heard a discussion on this so I thought I would through it out there.

 

[pentangle]

I have had several problems with standard savinelli cleaners as they lose cotton during cleaning and stem result occluded.Much better the duplex or the abrasive ones.Don't know other brands over Sav or Lubinsky

Maurizio

 

[tobakenist]

I use a wide variety of cleaners as some of my many pipes are particular as to what cleaners they allow up them, now here's a confession, I keep all the cleaners that havn't been over bent and then they go in an old pillow case and go in the washing machine when the wife is washing all her dusters, and some of my pipe cleaning rags. these are then dried and then used on my most cruddy pipes, just think how many pipe cleaners are used on an old estate pipe, why use new ones for this filthy job, keep your new one's for your clean pipes.

 

[jship079]

I keep all the cleaners that havn't been over bent and then they go in an old pillow case and go in the washing machine

Man that's thrifty

 

[tobakenist]

Thought somebody would like it.

 

[nbpiper]

I use the regular BJ Long cleaners and it seems to be working ok. Been thinking of getting some tapered ones or trying to find some slimmer cleaners for one of my pipes.

 

[markw4mms]

BJ Long's are what I use.

 

[jship079]

Been thinking of getting some tapered ones or trying to find some slimmer cleaners for one of my pipes.

Falcon pipe cleaners are extra thin like for a bent cobb how nothing wants to pass through.

 

[bambam]

All I use is BJ Long they do what I need em to do. ::

 

[olderthandirt]

BJ Long here as well. Regular and for the churchwarden.

I do pick up the occasional pack of Glaredos that Paul mentioned simply for the included shank brush

 

[ohin3]

BJ Long or Dills. I also keep some bristled cleaners around for monthly cleanings.

 

[lordnoble]

BJ Longs here as well, but I'm convinced that the only reason why there are no other brands available here is because BJ Longs is a local company and have a strangle hold on the pipe cleaner market in town. All 20 of us. :nana:
-Jason

 

[tiltjlp]

I use BJ Longs, standard, tapered, and bristle. I use them after every smoke, and order so many that Rich @ 4noggins thinks I'm crazy.

 

[jpbass]

I think my local shop sells BJ Longs (can hear Beavis And Butthead laughing at the name) exclusively. So that's what I use.

 

[judcole]

BJ Longs - I keep the standard ones for passing through the pipe while I am smoking,if need be, and the tapered bristle for thorough cleaning.

 

[dhizzy]

Comoys and Dill's

 

[aussielass]

I bought massess, and I mean masses, of BJ Long pipe cleaners t'other day which I thought was an absolute bargain on ebay.
Check out items #'s 330543165852, 330605094018, 350479700853
Because I can't just go out & grab them easily like you guys do, necessity is the mother of all invention - when I'm cleaning shanks, I cut the pipe cleaner in half - that way I get x 4 ends to clean with instead of only 2, therefore saving half of what I would normall use and then dispose of.
I also need to find some tapered ones, which are like hen's teeth over here.

 

[terry]

I buy the ones that are for sale at walgreen.

 

[matchstickman]

I have a few pipes that have the aluminum screw style tenons, and the opening for these pipes tends to be more narrow than any other pipes. For these pipes, I use the Dills cleaners in the yellow package because they are a bit narrower than all the other cleaners. When I order online, I get the BJ Longs tapered cleaners because I also have some pipes that have rather large shank openings, and the thicker end of these cleaners is good for swabbing through the shank. My "local" B&M (about a 40 minute drive) also sells a brand called Bryco, and I pick up 2 or 3 packages whenever I am in town.

 

[atuukson]

BJ Long's!