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<blockquote data-quote="user 4351" data-source="post: 536745" data-attributes="member: 4351"><p>I just bought a pipe with a regular black stem in what looks like some kind of plastic. Because the pipe was sitting on a shelf for God knows how long, the first thing I did was give it a good and gentle cleaning...or so I thought. I dipped a pipe cleaner in the bourbon whiskey I've cleaned my other pipes with, and rubbed the inside and outside of the stem. Within seconds, the top of my pipe stem went from solid black to a lighter gray. Wetting the pipe stem returns it to black, but as soon as it dries, it's got that gray "scrape" pattern on it, though there's no roughness to it.</p><p></p><p>While I don't really care from an aesthetic perspective, I'm concerned about whether I've damaged my new pipe and whether I should take steps to replace the stem now. What about cleaning it in the future?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4351, post: 536745, member: 4351"] I just bought a pipe with a regular black stem in what looks like some kind of plastic. Because the pipe was sitting on a shelf for God knows how long, the first thing I did was give it a good and gentle cleaning...or so I thought. I dipped a pipe cleaner in the bourbon whiskey I've cleaned my other pipes with, and rubbed the inside and outside of the stem. Within seconds, the top of my pipe stem went from solid black to a lighter gray. Wetting the pipe stem returns it to black, but as soon as it dries, it's got that gray "scrape" pattern on it, though there's no roughness to it. While I don't really care from an aesthetic perspective, I'm concerned about whether I've damaged my new pipe and whether I should take steps to replace the stem now. What about cleaning it in the future? [/QUOTE]
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