Anyone ever heard of these pyrolitic graphite pipes?
seems like some additional cancer risk but also seems kinda nifty
seems like some additional cancer risk but also seems kinda nifty
Pyrolitic Graphite?
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Yummy yummy cancer.
Gotta love asbestos.
Do you smoke it or is just kind of a collector thing?
I found a THE PIPE at an antique mall and it smokes surprisingly well, doesn’t get hot or give off any taste or smell to the smoke. I kept it and use it for trying out oddball tobaccos.
I've never heard of Graphite as a cancer risk, otherwise the schools would have outlawed pencils a long time ago.
Not all asbestos is dangerous. And, graphite is perfectly safe... it just makes a horrible pipe.
Le Pipe; It never changes, it never takes on a personality, it is heavy and ugly, but smokes all right.
Graphite has a VERY high resistance to heat, which is why it gets used in so many rocket parts and jet engines. I ordered some sheets of graphite to line the walls behind my metal melting furnace to protect the walls, because of this, but what I didn't realize is that there is a huge difference between "resistance" and "insulations." It absorbs and keeps hot all the heat that you can give it. But, it absorbs it and holds it. I started noticing that the wall behind the graphite would start smoking after running my furnace for just a few minutes. I removed the graphite to find that the wall had burned away. Aye yi yi!!!
As for using it in a pipe, I imagine that it absorbs the heat, probably giving you a cooler smoke, but will most likely start to burn your fingers after a while, and will most likely retain that heat for hours after you've smoked it.
As for using it in a pipe, I imagine that it absorbs the heat, probably giving you a cooler smoke, but will most likely start to burn your fingers after a while, and will most likely retain that heat for hours after you've smoked it.
asbestos is dangerous in one way. When it's broken particles get into the air and then go into the lungs and stay there. If you didn't bang or scrap up the pipe it would probably be safe.
Exactly right. I was amazed when my local school district started removing floor tiles containing asbestos in an "abatement" program. I went to them and tried to explain that if the tiles were intact, firmly adhered, and not broken it would be better to lay new floorcovering over them, as the removal process would create friable asbestos everywhere. I was told, "you don't understand..." (something that for some reason just pisses me off - as many times as I've hears it)
Remember asbestos brake pads? How many of us changed them back in those days? Blew out the dust with compressed air? How much did we breath in on the road with cars all around us hitting the brakes? It's a miracle we're alive.