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Stems, new cleaning experiment went well
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<blockquote data-quote="Kyle Weiss" data-source="post: 171782" data-attributes="member: 1969"><p>I know, I know it's crazy, but I think some of the stems on recent acquisitions were smoked by pit bulls or something... the teeth marks were amazingly deep. 250 worked okay in very controlled areas. One pipe I had to actually file down the teeth marks to mere soft "dents," I was worried about going through the stem walls! :x I'm pragmatic in my approach and my results have been far, far better than I expected, for sure. Who knew old vulcanite could go through such an amazing transformation? </p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm only comfortable working on the vulcanite stems right now, as they happen to be on my cheap estates, and it's teaching me a few things. I do find going wet towards the finer grain usage on the sandpaper helps a little. I'll try using the 2000 as an additional step and see how that fares!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kyle Weiss, post: 171782, member: 1969"] I know, I know it's crazy, but I think some of the stems on recent acquisitions were smoked by pit bulls or something... the teeth marks were amazingly deep. 250 worked okay in very controlled areas. One pipe I had to actually file down the teeth marks to mere soft "dents," I was worried about going through the stem walls! :x I'm pragmatic in my approach and my results have been far, far better than I expected, for sure. Who knew old vulcanite could go through such an amazing transformation? I'm only comfortable working on the vulcanite stems right now, as they happen to be on my cheap estates, and it's teaching me a few things. I do find going wet towards the finer grain usage on the sandpaper helps a little. I'll try using the 2000 as an additional step and see how that fares! [/QUOTE]
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