So it just occured to me now that I've got a couple pipes on the way (and I think I've got a tenuous grip on all of my ADs temporarily at least), how does a guy maintain a churchwarden. All the pipe cleaners I've seen or have are only about 8" long, while the stem on a churchwarden is longer than that...Is it really as simple as not being able to pass the cleaner all the way through the stem and having to attack it from both ends, or is there someone out there that really wants our (or my) money and makes a longer pipe cleaner? You know, the more I write this and think it out, the more I realize this may be that dumb question...
Care for a churchwarden
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Not a silly question at all, I didn't know longer pipe cleaners existed til' I started this hobby. There are two different cleaners you can get:
12 inch pipe cleaners: http://pipesandcigars.com/bjlochpicl.html#.Uhsv8RusiSo
50 foot coil: http://www.cupojoes.com/cgi-bin/spgm?dpt=D&srch=DD&item=pcs50 and you can cut it to whatever length you need
12 inch pipe cleaners: http://pipesandcigars.com/bjlochpicl.html#.Uhsv8RusiSo
50 foot coil: http://www.cupojoes.com/cgi-bin/spgm?dpt=D&srch=DD&item=pcs50 and you can cut it to whatever length you need
Ed's suggestion is good but they are too much trouble to maintain. Why don't you just send it to me and I will get rid of it for you? 
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Ed's suggestion is good but they are too much trouble to maintain. Why don't you just send it to me and I will get rid of it for you?
Now that is just the kind of generosity that I would expect from a place like this. Offering to take up my burden out of the kindness of your heart. Thank you, but I bought it... I'll suffer through the cleaning and maintenance, I'd hate to inconvenience you.
It's no inconvenience, really. A burden I would carry for a friend!
Ed pretty much knocked it out of the park with that one. Here is the best tip I can give you though. During a smoke I regularly push a cleaner into the stem to collect any water in there. When I do this with my CW I remove the stem from the bowl, put the cleaner in the stem then into the bowl. Makes it a lot easier than pushing the cleaner in a foot which the chance of it bending on you and being more of a pain in the butt!
I'm still pretty new to the pipes, but many times on this and a few other places I've seen it said to never pull the stem from the bowl while either one is still warm. Even the pipe shops and the guys that make them say to let the pipe full cool off and rest before pulling the stem out for cleaning. Did I miss something where it's ok to pull it during a smoke?
I'm still pretty new to the pipes, but many times on this and a few other places I've seen it said to never pull the stem from the bowl while either one is still warm. Even the pipe shops and the guys that make them say to let the pipe full cool off and rest before pulling the stem out for cleaning. Did I miss something where it's ok to pull it during a smoke?
Yah, that's what I was told too. It can damage the stem and/or tenon and it won't fit back quite as snug the next time you put it back together.
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