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I am a newbie pipe smoker, I have two pipes. One is supposed to have the paper tube filter, I have them but don't have one installed and it works fine.
The other pipe is giving me problems, instead of a space for a filter, it has a metal tit in the mouthpiece end that pokes into the bowl tube. This pipe gets wet inside when I smoke it. I think the smoke hitting the metal causes condensation.
Am I right? If so, can I remove the metal tit?
Yes, you can remove it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkD60
That might be the reason...Is your tobacco wet.
i was running in to this problem before when i was packing my pipe to much, but now that I'm doing it half way right i don't see that much moister collecting,
I'm having trouble uploading a picture of one of mine. It had that barb that MarkD60 is talking about. I was told that's there purposely to collect any moisture, through a condensation mechanism, to avoid the fluid from coming into the mouthpiece.
I took that piece off, and have not had any trouble.
Will
I'm going to take the metal tit out, I suppose it unscrews or will pull out if I heat it a bit.
Actually (kind of embarrassing) I sometimes cut an inch off the foot of a cigar and it fits perfectly in one of my two pipes. I selected the bowl diameter to match my most commonly smoked cigars ring gauges. I have pipe tobacco, but cigar tobacco is much better.
http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/r...Picture008.jpg
There's the pic I was trying to upload last night.
Will
That is very similar to the one I removed. It smokes great now! No moisture or bubbling sound.