Well after going the night at work without a smoke due to my stupidity I came home this morning to figure out a fix for my pipe. I checked it over and did find a thin crack at the end of the shank. What to do? Whatever it couldn't make it worse and being it's a drug store pipe I pulled out the superglue and place a small drop just inside the shank lip and slowly turned it till there was a thin coating all around the end of the lip. Let that set up a few minutes and repeated. After I let it dried a bit I tried inserting the stem. Tight fit but it worked. No more wiggle or partial pull out. Took it apart and back in. Still tight. I'm sure this is a temp fix, but until I acquire more pipes this will have to do. And speaking of more pipes my ebay win came in as I was finishing up the fix. An old Doc Grabow Viscount. Yea nothing fancy, but neither am I. Smaller than I would have thought, but got a good 40 minute smoke in.
Edit: Great post! Moved to Pipe Repair & Maintenance,L
Edit: Great post! Moved to Pipe Repair & Maintenance,L