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Do you clean directly after smoking or let it cool?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fr_Tom" data-source="post: 535054" data-attributes="member: 3139"><p>Currently I am in a pattern where I have 10 or so pipes off the rack. Usually all or almost all will get smoked every day for the time they are off the rack. They get a cleaner as needed which is not every smoke for me. Sometimes it is hot if I think it needs one. Sometimes it is cold if that preliminary trial puff before lighting tastes like it would benefit or it seems restricted. </p><p></p><p>The one I take to work will get smoked all day, and it might get a cleaner mid-smoke around bowl 4. At the end of the week I will take them apart and run a pipe cleaner through all the stems and fold it over to clean out the shank. I have never done the pipe cleaner in the bowl that some people do. The Senior reamer drill thingy will open up the draft hole again if it is getting caked (or tarred) up. Any of them that might benefit from a reamer get one at this point. Then they go back on the rack, and I get the next 10 or so to repeat the process.</p><p></p><p>Each group of pipes I will be using will have at least one with a threaded tenon - a Grabow usually, and that will be the one that goes to work. If I HAVE to take it apart hot I can.</p><p></p><p>I use alcohol to clean estates before I smoke them, but I have never used it as part of any routine or ongoing cleaning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fr_Tom, post: 535054, member: 3139"] Currently I am in a pattern where I have 10 or so pipes off the rack. Usually all or almost all will get smoked every day for the time they are off the rack. They get a cleaner as needed which is not every smoke for me. Sometimes it is hot if I think it needs one. Sometimes it is cold if that preliminary trial puff before lighting tastes like it would benefit or it seems restricted. The one I take to work will get smoked all day, and it might get a cleaner mid-smoke around bowl 4. At the end of the week I will take them apart and run a pipe cleaner through all the stems and fold it over to clean out the shank. I have never done the pipe cleaner in the bowl that some people do. The Senior reamer drill thingy will open up the draft hole again if it is getting caked (or tarred) up. Any of them that might benefit from a reamer get one at this point. Then they go back on the rack, and I get the next 10 or so to repeat the process. Each group of pipes I will be using will have at least one with a threaded tenon - a Grabow usually, and that will be the one that goes to work. If I HAVE to take it apart hot I can. I use alcohol to clean estates before I smoke them, but I have never used it as part of any routine or ongoing cleaning. [/QUOTE]
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