Been having a helluva time with dottle in my old kaywoodie pipes (all have stingers). Starting to think the "drinkless" moniker was just a marketing gimmick.
Stingers and Dottle
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Everything is a marketing gimmick.
I own plenty of pipes with stingers and I’ve not had problems so I’m no help.
I own plenty of pipes with stingers and I’ve not had problems so I’m no help.
I prefer a pipe cleaner to pass all the way to the bottom of the bowl. Otherwise I have moisture collect there.
My Kaywoodie stinger was cut off and the reason is because of what you discribe. It didn't help. Fortunately, the stem can be removed during use to blow out the mosture.
A stinger's primary purpose is to act as a point for humidity in the smoke to condense on before it enters the stem. An unfortunate side effect of a working stinger is that the shank can get pretty swampy which in turn causes unburnable dottle at the heel. There are so many variables that play into how much moisture accumulates, relative humidity of where you are smoking, moisture level of tobacco, breath humidity backflow.. It's too bad Kaywoodie didn't make their stingers easily removeable like the old Ajustomatic Grabows.
My Drinkless has posed no dottle problems, about like most briar pipes, sometimes a little, but not any sort of problem. If the airway is clear and the stinger is clean, I'd look at the blend and the cut, and maybe dry the tobacco out a little more. It may not be the pipe.
And yes, "Stinger and Dottle, partners in law enforcement who never met a crook they couldn't bust, friends to the citizenry, peril to the criminals."
And yes, "Stinger and Dottle, partners in law enforcement who never met a crook they couldn't bust, friends to the citizenry, peril to the criminals."
sounds more like a bad comedy duo that works at resorts.
Oh and if the gimmick was pleasing you'd still find more new pipes with stingers.
I used to have a few Kaywoodie "drinkless" pipes. I never had a pipe more likely to give you a "drink" then those things.
that's the point. All that tobacco juice ruins the flavors of alcohol making sobriety a little easier.