Then why buy a Deluxe system? The whole point of a deluxe system is for the condensate to run off the condenser into the trap. Without a condenser the trap is useless? Peterson hasn’t been putting them in pipes for 130 years because they don’t work.I have a tin full of them, definitely take them straight out of my Peterson deluxe's, see no point of them, Davidoff still uses them but it's black, like that makes a difference, a good pipe doesn't need them.
Pipe cleaners were not widely available until after WWII. The stinger was a solution to a very real problem, and it worked. It kept the moisture out of the smoke and in the pipe where it could be taken care of buy simply twisting the stem out and giving it a shake. In the absence of pipe cleaners, a wet pipe gets to be a bit of a problem.Where people chugging the crap out of their pipes back in the 50's, when stingers were popular or what?
I can't imagine needing a condenser etc unless you are puffing like a freight train.
Mind you, back then I suppose you could clench and smoke all day, wherever you pleased.
That's an interesting theory although I'm not entirely convinced. First, I've not seen anything in the literature that indicates that the stinger is supposed to be used in the way that you suggest, i.e., removed and dried mid-smoke (a half measure anyway which leaves the moisture in the shank right where it is). Second, fuzzy pipe cleaners were supposedly invented in the early 1900s and, therefore, would have made stingers redundant far earlier than the demise of the Kaywoodie stinger in, what, the 70s? SeePipe cleaners were not widely available until after WWII. The stinger was a solution to a very real problem, and it worked. It kept the moisture out of the smoke and in the pipe where it could be taken care of buy simply twisting the stem out and giving it a shake. In the absence of pipe cleaners, a wet pipe gets to be a bit of a problem.
It worked so well that the largest briar pipe empire ever to exist was built upon it. Kaywoodie did not sell more pipes than anyone by selling snake oil.
Viewed through the modern lens of readily available pipe cleaners they seem kinda silly, but they served their purpose until they were no longer needed and faded into history.
I didn’t say the pipe cleaner didn’t exist, I said they weren’t widely available.That's an interesting theory although I'm not entirely convinced. First, I've not seen anything in the literature that indicates that the stinger is supposed to be used in the way that you suggest, i.e., removed and dried mid-smoke (a half measure anyway which leaves the moisture in the shank right where it is). Second, fuzzy pipe cleaners were supposedly invented in the early 1900s and, therefore, would have made stingers redundant far earlier than the demise of the Kaywoodie stinger in, what, the 70s? See
How do you know when pipe cleaners became widely available?I didn’t say the pipe cleaner didn’t exist, I said they weren’t widely available.
The Synchro Stem replaced the push tenon Drinkless because the push tenon version trapped moisture in the shank with no way to get it out. The synchro stem allowed the smoker to remove the stem to deal with moisture without causing damage to the tenon.
You can look at any number of old trade publications, trade catalogs, Wally Frank Pipe lore, Roger’s imports, pipe lovers magazine, and see that ads for pipe cleaners while sporadically presenting are not really prevalent until into the 50’s.How do you know when pipe cleaners became widely available?
I could have sworn that the Synchro Stem was designed so that the stem would ultimately overclock and get all wonky.