Pipe Mud Again

[SunriseBoy]

Thank you for the recipe !
For cobs or briar ?
We are talking pipe cement here, not chamber coating, right ?

Yeah, for cobs. I can't say anything about the effectiveness on briar as I've never used it for that.
It ought to work just as well, but I'm not an authority on that.

 

[SunriseBoy]

By lowering my personal standards I make others look better. It’s a hard burden to carry.

Yeah...my heart goes out to you.

 

[Annaresti Red]

A while back I was chasing pipe mud, and had to give up because Scott over at Atristocob has apparently pulled th e plug and doesn't want any contact from people like me...after a few emails to him, I "got the message" when they went unanswered.
Tried the pipe ash trick. Very ground up. Very fine. Did two cobs and the result was miserable.
So, I'll use Mike's recipe, from over at Canerod Piper. I should have used that first up. Great recipe. Great result.
1 gram of Plaster of Paris.
.6 of a gram of activated charcoal.
.5 of a gram of salt.
I go a fraction less with the NaCl. Get a fair amount of humidity here. And Mike said that might be a wise decision.
The last time I used it, the result was ten out of ten!
So, I should have proceeded with what I knew worked, and worked well.
It is another case of "Captain Vacant Brain" strikes again!

Just used this will report back soon. I used a touch to much water, so that might be a problem.

 

[SunriseBoy]

Just used this will report back soon. I used a touch to much water, so that might be a problem.

I found that in this humid weather here, in Queensland, I had to back off on the salt. I'm going to use .4 of a gram, and see how that fares.
The last two I did they didn't harden up well at all. So, I figured I'd ease up on the salt a bit.
I'm doing one tomorrow.
Will keep you posted.

 

[itsnotuitsme]

I found that in this humid weather here, in Queensland, I had to back off on the salt. I'm going to use .4 of a gram, and see how that fares.
The last two I did they didn't harden up well at all. So, I figured I'd ease up on the salt a bit.
I'm doing one tomorrow.
Will keep you posted.

Just curious, why even use salt at all in that mixture? What's the benefit?

 

[jhowell]

Just curious, why even use salt at all in that mixture? What's the benefit?

When used on organic material (cobs) - salt would help to repel "critters"...

 

[Sig]

Ive used cigar ash/water pipe mud in several briars and cobs over the years with zero issues. I did use the plaster of paris for the outside of a couple "raw" MM cobs years ago.....I do not like the bare cob.
About 18 years ago I used the cigar ash mud on a HUGE burn out in a Dr Grabow I got in a lot buy from ebay.
The pipe has been smoked and reamed many, many, many times over the last almost two decades. After a reaming, the repair is 100% unnoticeable.
I have never even heard of the other recipes mentioned here. Now im wondering if there is a difference. I mean, 100% unnoticeable after 18 years of moderate use is pretty hard to beat.
As far as bowl coatings, I have spent time removing the dang things from the few pipes ive bought that had them.
I don't think it matters either way, but ive "broken in" a hundred plus bare chambered pipes over the decades with zero issues.
Again, I do not believe there is a big downside to bowl coatings but when I was a "newbie" in the early days of my internet pipe journey, it was all the rage to hate on and remove bowl coatings. I just followed the advice of the elder pipers. I believe I would just leave the coating now.