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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 106924"><p>Your Puffitude : </p><p></p><p>We're both referencing older pipes and less carefully made ones -- both with excessive headspace. (Which can also be from since-removed stingers or, with some Peterson standard shapes, incorporating moisture sumps by design).</p><p></p><p>We aren't conflicting here. I'm patient enough to let successive smokings gradually moisten/soften the crustage in the mortise into glop for removal after each smoking until it's <em>eventually</em> clean ; you want it all out of there, and out <strong>now</strong>. </p><p></p><p>LL's procedure with this is to ream the accumulated crust down to wood with tools custom-made for the job. It's not unlike reaming a caked bowl, only more claustrophobic. </p><p></p><p>Alcohol will, it's true, dissolve it for removal, but it will, at the same time, soak it <em><u>into</u></em> the briar -- stain the interior with it, as it were. You can chase it with alcohol literally forever and still be pulling cleaners out brown. </p><p></p><p>:face:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 106924"] Your Puffitude : We're both referencing older pipes and less carefully made ones -- both with excessive headspace. (Which can also be from since-removed stingers or, with some Peterson standard shapes, incorporating moisture sumps by design). We aren't conflicting here. I'm patient enough to let successive smokings gradually moisten/soften the crustage in the mortise into glop for removal after each smoking until it's [i]eventually[/i] clean ; you want it all out of there, and out [b]now[/b]. LL's procedure with this is to ream the accumulated crust down to wood with tools custom-made for the job. It's not unlike reaming a caked bowl, only more claustrophobic. Alcohol will, it's true, dissolve it for removal, but it will, at the same time, soak it [i][u]into[/u][/i] the briar -- stain the interior with it, as it were. You can chase it with alcohol literally forever and still be pulling cleaners out brown. :face: [/QUOTE]
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