Ultrasonic Cleaner For Meer?

[jhowell]

Title says it all. I have a couple of lattice meers that need deep cleaning down inside the lattice openings. I kinda leery about putting them in the tank. What do you guys think?

 

[chilllucky]

Water softens meerschaum. Soaking the mineral in a crock pot is how the carvers prepare the blocks for their work. So, I would not recommend it.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Why don't you just throw them away and save yourself the wasted effort?

 

[chilllucky]

Also: meers aren't meant to stay white. They color from honey to deep amber brown as the tars and oils given off by burning tobacco migrate through the material.

Without pictures I can't say, but there's a fair chance that what you're seeing in the lattice isn't "dirt".

 

[Chasing Embers]

I just use a toothbrush.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yeah, that and water, perhaps some Q-tips.

 

[Pipingntrucking]

Toothbrush, painters (art) detail brush, toothpicks. Any will work if its tobacco bits from scooping or the ones that just find their way down. If its coloring from use. Leave it be.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Though coloring from use includes dirt and oils.

 

[craig61a]

I’d go with a laser, I mean hell, they use em to remove tattoos…

 

[cshubhra]

My memory has been a little hazy, but I thought you were the one who dipped your meerschaum in water for an extended period of time about 3 years back?

It will still work

 

[warren]

If you are speaking to dirt and not the normal coloring process, a damp Q-tip should work fine.

 

[jhowell]

Also: meers aren't meant to stay white. They color from honey to deep amber brown as the tars and oils given off by burning tobacco migrate through the material.

Without pictures I can't say, but there's a fair chance that what you're seeing in the lattice isn't "dirt".

Definitely dirt... It was filthy when I got it...

 

[jhowell]

My memory has been a little hazy, but I thought you were the one who dipped your meerschaum in water for an extended period of time about 3 years back?

It will still work

That was me. That was a pipe I didn't care about. Since this pipe is a lattice and the lattice, I am worried about the ultrasonic vibrations causing damage to a 100 year old pipe.

 

[jhowell]

If you are speaking to dirt and not the normal coloring process, a damp Q-tip should work fine.

Already tried that. The pipe is what I call a pierced lattice. The areas under the exterior lattice are carved out. It's kinda a pipe within a pipe...

 

[jhowell]

Though coloring from use includes dirt and oils.

There is definitely gunk (looks like mud) down inside the lattice...

 

[jhowell]

I just use a toothbrush.

Can't get down into the crevasses that way...

 

[jhowell]

Water softens meerschaum. Soaking the mineral in a crock pot is how the carvers prepare the blocks for their work. So, I would not recommend it.

I am well aware of that, having wiped the lattice right off the finest lattice pipe I ever owned trying to hasten the drying with a towel - now I let them air-dry...

 

[jhowell]

Toothbrush, painters (art) detail brush, toothpicks. Any will work if its tobacco bits from scooping or the ones that just find their way down. If its coloring from use. Leave it be.

None of those will get around and underneath the hollow lattice.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

As a jeweler... read the instructions on any ultrasonic cleaner. You can only put a few stones in one. Diamonds, garnets, and rubies... if you know with 100% certainty that they are real. You put turquoise in one, and you get turquoise dust, or mud. The softer the stone, the more it will just get pulverized into mud.

But, sure.... give it a try.

 

[Briar Lee]

I looked up what liquids are used for ultrasonic cleaning. There’s a bunch.

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Most all meerschaums I’ve seen or heard of were boiled in wax.

I’d try a toothbrush and Q tips first.

Otherwise it might be one of them there dee-sasters.