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发表于 2011-8-5 20:05:17
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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….."
…And now he knew….
by the way ….Everclear is a brand of neutral grain spirit manufactured by Luxco (formerly the David Sherman Company).[1]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.[2] 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.”
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… right?
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I think brandy is okay too if you do not soak your pipes over night 
发表于 2011-8-10 17:42:13