Water Rinse Cleaning

[jerseysam]

Haha, these are my favorite threads on here. I starting water flushing when it came up in the forum a few years back....$100 pipes to $5k pipes. New pipes to 19th century pipes. Zero damage, zero issue, to me a better holistic result than pipe cleaner/alcohol (what I used prior). Don't want to do it? Don't. I think the 'biggest' factor on cleaning your pipe is giving it the once-over prior to all the funk n' gunk cooling and hardening. Water flush, for me, takes it an extra mile in odor and mortisse TLC.

 

[jpberg]

It’s a conversation anywhere. No need to try and put down others.

976 posts! Well done! You’ll hit 1k before the thread is finished.

 

[coming to_falling too]

IBTL

 

[sablebrush52]

Anecdotal

Kind of like 99% of posts, including yours. You’ve offered an opinion not set a standard.

 

[sablebrush52]

Who is starting an argument? You made a BS statement and I simply asked for proof. And flush your pipes with water and you won't need Q tips and only a minimal amount of pipe cleaners and paper towels. Again, I don't care how you choose to clean your own pipes but I do have a problem with all the negative comments from people who have absolutely zero experience with water flush to speak from. That's the definition of BS.

With a thread like this, people with personal experience on the subject, whether positive or negative, have something of value to contribute.
The rest are kind of beside the point.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

With a thread like this, people with personal experience on the subject, whether positive or negative, have something of value to contribute.
The rest are kind of beside the point.

People have experience outside pipe smokers anecdotal experience which may be considered. It’s your choice and
your pipe.

someone may have personal experience that they drove a vehicle 100k miles and never did an oil change. That experience is YMMV at best.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

976 posts! Well done! You’ll hit 1k before the thread is finished.

 

[sablebrush52]

But to argue the merits of not doing it when others so clearly find it helpful and beneficial makes you look.... obtuse.

You’re being too polite. Troll, ignorant, stupid, irrational come to mind, especially when the statements come from someone with zero actual experience.
Threads on this topic never fail to bring the trolls out from under their bridges.

 

[weezell]

Here we go again...

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[jpberg]

You’re being too polite. Troll, ignorant, stupid, irrational come to mind, especially when the statements come from someone with zero actual experience.
Threads on this topic never fail to bring the trolls out from under their bridges.

No no, Jesse.
It’s conversation.

 

[sablebrush52]

People have experience outside pipe smokers anecdotal experience which may be considered. It’s your choice and
your pipe.

someone may have personal experience that they drove a vehicle 100k miles and never did an oil change. That experience is YMMV at best.

What is your personal actual experience with water cleaning a pipe that actually informs your contributions to this thread?
Because THAT is what the OP is asking for.

 

[charf]

I started pouring hot tap water down the bowl for about 30 seconds about a year ago. Total convert. If I do that I don’t often wipe out the bowl with a paper towel but if I do the minimal cake will wipe away.

I haven’t pulled my pipes apart since I started.

 

[sablebrush52]

Here we go again...

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Hey! Did you pull that from my Imgur account? One of my faves.

 

[jpberg]

People have experience outside pipe smokers anecdotal experience which may be considered. It’s your choice and
your pipe.

someone may have personal experience that they drove a vehicle 100k miles and never did an oil change. That experience is YMMV at best.

Bless your heart, you really are an overachiever, and you’re not smart enough to quit while you’re behind.
Good Stuff!

 

[sablebrush52]

What amazes me is someone who would apply alcohol to their briar would have concerns about water. SMH

Because alcohol wicks out the silicate that helps briar withstand the heat?

 

[mingc]

No no, Jesse.
It’s conversation.

Haha! Unfortunately, and with apologies to Monty Python, the automatic gainsaying of what another person says is not conversation, it is simply contradiction. In this case, unintelligible contradiction.

 

[coming to_falling too]

"Water good"
"No water bad"

This really is one of the most polarizing topics I see on Forums, except the people who say it's bad really have no first hand evidence to support their claim. We have evidence of a cracked stem, but it's not even made of briar.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Kind of like 99% of posts, including yours. You’ve offered an opinion not set a standard.

99% of pipe smoking is nothing but opinion

 

[niblicck]

It’s been recommended to wipe the tenon with a wet q tip to swell the wood to repair a loose stem.

Tried this on several estates I've refurbished with ZERO fixes.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Tried this on several estates I've refurbished with ZERO fixes.

I've had it work but prefer to return the tenon to its original size.