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Dec 10, 2013
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A lot of posts on here urge members to post pictures of their pipes be they meerschaum, briar or anything between the two. I have just noticed that from previous posts there lurk on this forum members ever devoted to reducing their 'Carbon Foot Print' who wash and recycle their pipe cleaners. In essence they toss a bunch of used Dills in with the socks and Y fronts for that Sunday morning wash cycle. My question is simply this, not unreasonable to my mind, what becomes of these cherished and much sanitized pipe cleaners when the owner passes on? Does anyone here own or admit to owning 'used' Estate Pipe Cleaners? Are there collectors of such things?
Are you serious ?
 
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Lifer
Dec 22, 2013
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It is true. Somewhere buried in the digital meta verse of Pipes Magazine also known as 'Kevin World' is a gentlemen whose name escapes me who I got into quite a conversation with about washing and reusing pipe cleaners. He used to put them in the washing machine with his 'smalls' every weekend. I jest not! My interest is if he is a unique case of one of many practicing pipe cleaner washers unknown to broader society.
 

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Lifer
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Update: after hours of scrubbing with Oxiclean and then with 600 proof everclear, I dried them out on my charcoal grill with some hickory smoke. I then used my wife’s hair straightener to get them perfectly straight. For more tips just DM me. image.jpg