How to clean a pipe?

[centurycigar]

Hey Guys,

How do you properly clean a pipe?
How often should you clean them?

Thanks

E

 

[Mr Peat]

Hey Guys,

How do you properly clean a pipe?
How often should you clean them?

Thanks

E

Depends on what type of cleaning you want to do. Generally after you smoke a bowl, let the pipe cool down. You then can take the stem out and run a pipe cleaner through it. Also a pipe cleaner in the bowl and the hole where the stem goes into the pipe and bowl.

If the stem is really bad I run some water down it and then run several pipe cleaners through it. I generally let the bowl cool down and wait till I want to smoke it again to clean it out.

 

[centurycigar]

Hey Guys,

How do you properly clean a pipe?
How often should you clean them?

Thanks

E

Depends on what type of cleaning you want to do. Generally after you smoke a bowl, let the pipe cool down. You then can take the stem out and run a pipe cleaner through it. Also a pipe cleaner in the bowl and the hole where the stem goes into the pipe and bowl.

If the stem is really bad I run some water down it and then run several pipe cleaners through it. I generally let the bowl cool down and wait till I want to smoke it again to clean it out.

Thanks for the advice....

Im looking for tips on general maintenence of my pipes.
Are there any good websites that have a step-by-step process?

 

[geldor1]

Cleaning Linky

This looks to be a good read.

 

[centurycigar]

Cleaning Linky

This looks to be a good read.

Thanks bro

 

[Wascal]

The link covers it fairly well except for one thing I do. Before reinserting the stem I rub a bit of bee's wax on it to help ease insertion. I run a cleaner through the stem into the bowl right after each smoke. Every 10 pipefulls I wait till it's cool and do the full clean with the alchol. Perhaps a personal preference, but I use a shank brush instead of a bristle cleaner.

 

[emperor91108]

I like to use a little rum to clean my pipes instead of alcohol.

 

[IgwanaRob]

Alcohol and cotton balls every other week or so, alcohol soaked cleaner through the stem into the bowl after each smoke (or at the end of the day). The next day, I pull out the cleaner, fold it in half, take the stem off, and clean the inside of the shank and clean off the tenon (there's usually some residual gunk on the face of it). I've only need to use a shank brush a couple times since I started, but that was before I started more regular cleaning.

 

[diguo87]

Hey Guys,

How do you properly clean a pipe?
How often should you clean them?

Thanks

E

The simplest and cheapest way, imo, is Epsom salt and 91% isopropyl alcohol. Get a Ziplock bag, put the salt and alcohol in it with the pipe, close the bag, shake it around a lot then rinse.