Pipe Cleaning With Warm Water
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Was done Sir
Now drying. Tomorrow back to smoke !!
2 Pipes with warm tap water and 2 more with Calvados
Thanks to all who helped me with their recommendations
I piss in my pipes after every smoke, works for me!
I have one of those! It took me like 16 hours to clean all that cosmoline off! I never shot it though.
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Awesome! Please let me know how they smoke for you. Thanks for the pics.Was done Sir
Now drying. Tomorrow back to smoke !!
2 Pipes with warm tap water and 2 more with Calvados
Thanks to all who helped me with their recommendations
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All my pipes are clean like a baby and smell like a lady and smoke fantastic. Thank you
I’m very happy that this method work out well for you. It has never let me down in all the years I’ve been refurbishing pipes.
Happy piping, my friend.
I'm in the habit of keeping my all my stuff very clean at all times after use but I've sort of been afraid to do anything to my pipes besides using pipe cleaners despite smoking on and off for years, the last 2 years regularly. Sometimes fora and other users used to get me paranoid (you should try browsing the cast iron forum on reddit, I swear a lot of these people mustn't actually use their pots and pans for cooking, just for showing off on reddit...) and it takes a while until my life experience and sense kick in to do what my gut tells me is right.
Over Christmas I decided to do a deep clean, remove cakes etc. What amazed me after the salt and alcohol treatment was the amount of acrid oily gunk that kept coming off wipe after wipe after wipe. I don't want that in my pipes.
Nowadays I do the hot water flush + bristle bottle cleaner for the chamber weekly and flavor has remained top notch, in fact I am looking forward to the weekly flush because of how good they taste after it. My pipes were never stinky, but this weekly cleaning took them from smelling ashy to smelling like a fresh tin of tobacco with just a hint of ash.
I think I'll still do a salt and alcohol once in a great while, let's say once a year, but the water flush is here to stay.
Over Christmas I decided to do a deep clean, remove cakes etc. What amazed me after the salt and alcohol treatment was the amount of acrid oily gunk that kept coming off wipe after wipe after wipe. I don't want that in my pipes.
Nowadays I do the hot water flush + bristle bottle cleaner for the chamber weekly and flavor has remained top notch, in fact I am looking forward to the weekly flush because of how good they taste after it. My pipes were never stinky, but this weekly cleaning took them from smelling ashy to smelling like a fresh tin of tobacco with just a hint of ash.
I think I'll still do a salt and alcohol once in a great while, let's say once a year, but the water flush is here to stay.
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Nope. Not gonna do it. Some 90% alcohol on tapered bristle cleaners if a deep clean is needed, but no water.
I did once boil a briar pipe bowl after the salt / alcohol / oven treatment refused to remove some pernicious ghosts (which worked, smokes fine with no finish) but it was a brebbia roccaita lido, but no water flushing for my pipes.
I did once boil a briar pipe bowl after the salt / alcohol / oven treatment refused to remove some pernicious ghosts (which worked, smokes fine with no finish) but it was a brebbia roccaita lido, but no water flushing for my pipes.
Just finished warm water cleaning a number of pipes. I wanted to return them to a fresh and fairly neutral condition, which water does far better for me than alcohol alone. Using the boiling alcohol retort technique is about the only thing I've done that might get out a bit more, but that needs to be done very carefully since there is a slight element of danger to it.
Anyways, fresh pipes to try out some new blends.
Anyways, fresh pipes to try out some new blends.
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