alcohol treatment is a no no in the meerschaum pipe… of course, you must have know that…:funk: … right? 原帖由 jt 于 2011-8-5 19:39 发表 http://bbs.pipevillage.org/images/common/back.gif
one of our member did this to his estate pipe… AMEN….RIP...
alcohol treatment is a no no in the meerschaum pipe… of course, you must have know that…:funk: … right?
悲催，好处是又多了一个海泡石烟气渗透的例证，俺一直用白兰地清理海泡石而且每斗必清，看来得换湿纸巾了。
jt兄，你朋友是怎么把它干裂的，酒精还是酒？ this is what Jim said…
"I am not sure why this happened, but the cup to my gourd calabash cracked during a cotton ball and alcohol soak. I was cleaning a couple of briar pipes, and I thought why not clean my gourd. I performed the soak on the gourd itself as well as the meerschaum bowl. This morning, the bowl was cracked. Not just in two, but in many, many pieces.
In one of the sections that broke off, the bowl seems to have cracked along the border between the alcohol soaked block and the outer layers of the pipe. This is essentially a layer of dampness about an 1/8 of an inch thick. The cracks seem to have started after this layer.
I suppose that the majority of the alcohol drained out the bottom of the bowl and only the cotton balls were soaked. Maybe this caused some kind of problem.
I will also say that I had noticed several small cracks in the bowl when I took it apart to clean it. Maybe those initial small cracks blossomed into what happened last night.
Has anyone had a meerschaum crack from an alcohol cleaning? I recently cleaned an African meerschaum like this with no problems.
I don't know if this was pressed meershaum or not. The bowl will absord water fairly quickly, if that means anything to anyone. I think this was a Pioneer calabash, but I don't really know……".
"……I used Everclear for the soak. I felt the gourd needed some kind of solvent to help clean it out as it was a bit funky when I smoked it. It never provided the kind of smoke I would have suspected from a gourd calabash. This may have been because the bowl was carved from pressed meerschaum….."
…Andnow he knew….
by the way ….Everclear is a brand of neutral grain spirit manufactured by Luxco (formerly the David Sherman Company).Everclear is relatively low in congeners and is available in concentrations of 151- and 190-proof, which are 75.5 and 95 percent alcohol, respectively. In contrast, other hard liquors such as rum and vodka are typically 80 to 120 proof, which contain 40 to 60 percent alcohol.
Concentrations of 95.6 percent ethanol and 4.4 percent water form an azeotrope such that simple distillation cannot remove any of the remaining water. Consequently, 190-proof spirits are the maximum available from the distilled beverage industry. In 1979, the Guinness Book of World Records listed 190-proof Everclear as “the most alcoholic drink.”
I use rubbing alcohol(isopropyl alcohol 70%) for all my pipes (meerschaum included) and it seems fine:victory: I think brandy is okay too if you donot soak your pipesover night :victory:
[ 本帖最后由 jt 于 2011-8-5 20:16 编辑 ] 原帖由 jt 于 2011-8-5 20:14 发表 http://bbs.pipevillage.org/images/common/back.gif
I use rubbing alcohol(isopropyl alcohol 70%) for all my pipes (meerschaum included) and it seems fine:victory: I think brandy is okay too if you donot soak your pipesover night :victory:
Thanks a lot jt !:victory: 100刀搞了个品相很不错的二手老葫芦，抽起来烟气确实不烫也没感觉到特别淡，虽然是25mm内径但斗钵比较浅装不了太多烟草，葫芦内部很干净应该抽得次数不多，用通条试了一下可以在葫芦里穿过，抽时剪一小块纸巾垫在葫芦内吸水，分量比俺的海泡石还轻，用牙咬着还行。
原帖由 摇头 于 2011-8-10 15:44 发表 http://bbs.pipevillage.org/images/common/back.gif
100刀搞了个品相很不错的二手老葫芦，抽起来烟气确实不烫也没感觉到特别淡，虽然是25mm内径但斗钵比较浅装不了太多烟草，葫芦内部很干净应该抽得次数不多，用通条试了一下可以在葫芦里穿过，抽时剪一小块纸巾垫在葫芦 ...
其实底下塞点丝瓜络效果不错 好打理得很。
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恭喜纳宠。我的内径31，进气时的压强也就小，燃烧会弱些；同时相应的葫芦腔也大，所以较易察觉出淡。 原帖由 olo 于 2011-8-10 17:42 发表 http://bbs.pipevillage.org/images/common/back.gif
其实底下塞点丝瓜络效果不错 好打理得很。
这个办法好，也可以当木斗的滤芯。 原帖由 piggy 于 2011-8-10 23:10 发表 http://bbs.pipevillage.org/images/common/back.gif
恭喜纳宠。
我的内径31，进气时的压强也就小，燃烧会弱些；同时相应的葫芦腔也大，所以较易察觉出淡。
31的比较过瘾，俺25内径只能抽半小时，发现用葫芦每次抽完烟灰都能内缩成球状，打开斗钵看到葫芦内纸片上的水渍还是很多的。