There are lots of things that I do, that I do not suggest other members try. It doesn't take long being on here to realize that most guys just don't have the finesse, skill, nor hand-eye to really do much of anything. I suggest that taking the stem out when warm, because I do it at every smoke, and yet some guy with gorilla ham hands, snatches a stem out... I use a knife to ream my pipes, but yet gorilla ham hands just sets there and hacks at his like cutting firewood. Then there is the idiot-proof Dremel tool, right? Nope, some guy is going to go at it like they're jumping on luggage (that Samsonite joke may date my age, ha ha).
I used to get a kink yanked in my drawers when some idiot on History Channels says that ancient men could never have created the pyramids, when I know for sure that in their other artworks, they demonstrate the the skills of precision jewelers. And, today, we have... well, I stopped getting mad. Just being on the forum has shown me that many of us have devolved into mouthbreathing knuckledraggers. Give a guy a screwdriver and they end up poking a hundred flat holes in the wall trying to remove a faceplate. :::sigh:::
So... Don't remove a warm stem. Never put anything sharp inside your pipe, and just,.. just stay away from sharp objects altogether.
I'm really surprised they let us drive cars.
