Hi all,
I've been reading this forum for a while, and finally joined partly because I'm a bit stumped. I just bought a Kiko African block meerschaum (vulcanite stem with elephant logo), and it's pretty badly overclocked. There's a threaded metal insert in the stummel, and a threaded mortice in the stem; when I screw in the stem, the top points to 1-2 o'clock instead of 12 o'clock.
I don't have a lot of money to spend sending out pipes for repair, so I hoped I could fix this myself. If it's possible to reclock it without significant risk to the pipe, I'd rather do that than make a gasket. Searching forums like this one, it sounded like I could heat the tenon and give it a twist, but the more I searched the more I doubted that idea.
Does anyone have any suggestion? I bought it because I've been bitten by the meerschaum bug, and I wanted at least one African pipe -- which are getting harder to find and more expensive. They're reputed to be fairly hardy and good smokers, but not worth breaking the bank for.
Thanks!
PS I made the topic a bit more general than "reclocking a Kiko pipe stem," because I expect I'll have more questions which I'll just add to this thread.
I've been reading this forum for a while, and finally joined partly because I'm a bit stumped. I just bought a Kiko African block meerschaum (vulcanite stem with elephant logo), and it's pretty badly overclocked. There's a threaded metal insert in the stummel, and a threaded mortice in the stem; when I screw in the stem, the top points to 1-2 o'clock instead of 12 o'clock.
I don't have a lot of money to spend sending out pipes for repair, so I hoped I could fix this myself. If it's possible to reclock it without significant risk to the pipe, I'd rather do that than make a gasket. Searching forums like this one, it sounded like I could heat the tenon and give it a twist, but the more I searched the more I doubted that idea.
Does anyone have any suggestion? I bought it because I've been bitten by the meerschaum bug, and I wanted at least one African pipe -- which are getting harder to find and more expensive. They're reputed to be fairly hardy and good smokers, but not worth breaking the bank for.
Thanks!
PS I made the topic a bit more general than "reclocking a Kiko pipe stem," because I expect I'll have more questions which I'll just add to this thread.