Post-Lighting re-pack.

[Beowoulf]

Got out a gorgeous pipe and some really good tobacco (Sutliff's Creme Brulee) and packed the bowl way too tight. I spent the first ten minutes trying to suck air through that thing. Finally I had enough. "F**k it," I said, "I am NOT smoking the whole bowl like this!" I tamped out any remaining embers and I laid out a mylar bag. I emptied the whole bowl out onto it and started from the beginning. This second attempt is smoking much nicer!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Relax! It happens. Just don't waste ten minutes figuring it out. Empty bowl, start over. Should take less than a minute.

 

[Hillcrest]

Same thing happened to me tonight with Match Late Evening; first time in years. It happens. The rush to smoke ...

 

[didimauw]

Yup. You learn the best way to fix it through time. Sometimes it needs to be repacked, sometimes you just need to run a pipe cleaner through the shank into the bowl for airflow.

 

[lukifer]

Sometimes I have found I wind up with tobacco plugging the draught hole and that is the problem. My solution has always been to run a pipe cleaner through it to open up the draught hole.

 

[lukifer]

Yup. You learn the best way to fix it through time. Sometimes it needs to be redpacked, sometimes you just need to run a pipe cleaner through the shank into the bowl for airflow.

Great minds think alike...at the exact same time apparently. Your comment wasn't there when i started posting mine. It might be best to delete my comment to save me from looking like a fool. Is that something I am capable of doing or would I need to try to convince the moderator to do it for me? Lol

 

[didimauw]

Great minds think alike...at the exact same time apparently. Your comment wasn't there when i started posting mine. It might be best to delete my comment to save me from looking like a fool. Is that something I am capable of doing or would I need to try to convince the moderator to do it for me? Lol

Nah I'll leave it up! More answers means more truth! Haha.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I remember Harris used to post about the importance of testing the draw before lighting, and how pissed he'd get at himself if he found out that he had screwed it up while lighting.

 

[NomadOrb]

For those with draft hole problems, you can insert a pipe cleaner before you pack the bowl. That may help as well.

 

[judcole]

It does happen to us all.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

That is the best way to deal with that situation when it arises

 

[5star]

When that happens to me, 99% of the time it’s before lighting. In that case you do the same, dump & re-pack.

Mac

 

[drrock]

Yup. You learn the best way to fix it through time. Sometimes it needs to be redpacked, sometimes you just need to run a pipe cleaner through the shank into the bowl for airflow.

When I mess up & overpack a bowl -

I run a pipe cleaner through the stem as far as possible into the bowl, leave the pipe cleaner in place, & slide the pipe tool pick down along a side wall all the way to the bottom of the bowl.

More often than not, this will allow enough air flow to get a cherry smoldering. Some judicious stirring & tamping will keep me happily puffing away.

 

[Cyxelsid]

I haven't had this problem yet... however, last night I painstakingly packed a bowl, then set my pipe down to make a hot decaf, sat back down and picked up my pipe, only to drop it upside down on the patio floor. Lost the entire pack on the dirty floor, followed by cursing. Then a redo.

 

[kcghost]

Happens even to the best of us.

 

[jndyer]

I seems that very often new pipe smokers just keep trying to keep a poorly packed bowl burning. You did well by stopping and repacking the pipe.

 

[bullet08]

Never ever happened to me. I test the draw before putting light on my pipe. Don't seem like that's the case with most people. Sounds like torch the tobacco then draw to light it? Beside, there are ways to fix the load/pack without dumping the chamber. Czech tool and pipe cleaner comes very handy.

 

[sugardaddy]

I often am smoking without access to a pipe cleaner.

But I always have a poker tool and so I will dig down on the stem side of the chamber and see if I can get to the draft hole where I can try to clear it up. then tamp a little bit to even things out.

A lot of times fiddling with it that way does give me success if I have already lit the pipe.