So I have noticed that my Peterson B10 is drilled with a chamber much like a system pipe and you can't feed a pipe cleaner through it all the way. How do you guys approach pipe maintenance on a pipe like this?
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When I pull the stem from my System, I find that I have no problem swabbing a cleaner around to the parts that I can't get while it's together, so you just might have to sacrifice the post-smoking cleaning until the next day when it is completely cool.
this is why i have changed from using my system pipes, i only have 2 --one has to wait day to clean it out, sometimes even longer you always want the stem to be in when the moisture is drying inside, its kind of a hassle for me----- sometime i use a small cottonball in the spit chamber whilst smoking it, it take the main condensate out
Hijack time- I am want to get a Peterson spigot one day. These aren't system pipes, are they? System sounds like headache to me.
i believe they are drilled like one though, dont be set back these pipes are cool smokers, you just cant turn it upside down to get rid of the ashes for a day or so , i just pick it out and give a good blow, the moisture is still good for the wood if you smoke it alot , , i have 2 of the offset drilled ones and i still remove the stem after a couple hours and swab it out then put the stem back in and then let it dry out for a couple of days
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Yes, they are. But due to the metal you can easily remove the stem even while smoking the pipe with no ill effect.
Commander Quan
Commander Yellow Pantyhose
Only the System pipes have the System well. The reason all the other pipes have that ginormous space with the draft hole located at the top is that Most Peterson shapes are designed with wide shanks that can be drilled to accommodate the 9mm filter that is more prevalent in Europe. Smoke flows up the draft hole, enters the mortise and then continues up through the stem, the problem is when the smoke hits the void in the mortise turbulence is created and allows moisture to condense. The reason it is at the top is that when drilling the draft hole on a bent shaped pipe the shortest distance with the lowest angle for the bit to go is on the inside of a curve. So when there is a huge mortise with a draft hole coming out the corner of it there will always be some gap, and it's much larger than a smaller diameter mortise.
Commander Quan
Commander Yellow Pantyhose
Put a slight bend in the pipe cleaner about 1/2 an inch from the end, feed it down through the stem and when it stops push/pull and twist to try and walk the tip around until it reaches the draft hole. With some bent pipes the bend is just too great to do this effectively but yours shouldn't be a problem.
Would actually using a 9mm balsa filter in them help reduce that moisture issue then?
Commander Quan
Commander Yellow Pantyhose
The stems are drilled out to accept the European 9 mm filters
The stems are drilled out to accept the European 9 mm filters
The nice part of the balsa filters, they are easy to cut down to length.
If I ever get a Peterson drilled for a filter, I'll have to give it a trial and see. Or, some of the posters in the thread that have them can try it out maybe...
