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Post by roberted5 on Jul 12, 2019 21:41:18 GMT -5
Other than sending pipes to a repair shop of choice for ream and clean I can only touch up cake by using sandpaper on a thin flat stick.
I’ve used reamers but they don’t fit many tapered bowls and can end up gouging briar or enlarging chamber.
What do repair shops use to get the very thin layer of cake so even?
I’m guessing a lathe but I’ve seen oval chambers done and cake is close to briar and follows shape of chamber.
I can’t remember name of pipe made by Dunhill but chamber is oval not even close to round.
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Post by trailboss on Jul 12, 2019 21:54:54 GMT -5
I have the senior reamer for tapered bowls, and the Castleford reamer for wider bowls. Both do a great job, but both have their limitations.
You need the right tool for the right job.
I have one oval chambered pipe, a leather clad Longchamp that I have never smoked. If you care about an oval shaped bowl, I would just have a pro do the cake removal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2019 22:31:02 GMT -5
The oval shaped bowl is known as an Opera pipe.
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Post by captblack on Jul 12, 2019 23:39:12 GMT -5
Soak the pipe In Diet Coke for a day, then the old cake will fall right out with a gentle prod from a butter knife.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2019 23:44:44 GMT -5
Soak the pipe In Diet Coke for a day, then the old cake will fall right out with a gentle prod from a butter knife. This^^^^^
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Post by chasingembers on Jul 13, 2019 11:29:36 GMT -5
I just use the clip blade on my stockman.  |
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Post by daveinlax on Jul 13, 2019 13:16:37 GMT -5
What do repair shops use to get the very thin layer of cake so even? Sandpaper.  |
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Post by puffy on Jul 13, 2019 13:27:44 GMT -5
I have a knife with a rounded blade much like the one pictured above by chasingembers
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Post by Legend Lover on Jul 13, 2019 14:56:17 GMT -5
Soak the pipe In Diet Coke for a day, then the old cake will fall right out with a gentle prod from a butter knife. I never knew that. Cool |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2019 15:02:30 GMT -5
What do repair shops use to get the very thin layer of cake so even? Sandpaper. I've been known to use a wooden dowel round at the base and wrap 220 or a little heavier grit to ream with because as you said some reamers just aren't right, too big or too small. Works great and no worries of damaging the chamber, just be careful to keep the sandpaper away from the lip or the bowl.
Don't know if I'd trust Diet Coke, pretty acidic stuff there, if it can eat a penny I don't know if I would want it in my chamber. Use to be leased to Coke and had to placard the additive loads Dangerous Corrosive.
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Post by briarpipenyc on Jul 15, 2019 20:47:06 GMT -5
RD Pipes.......probably the best way. I sand away any extra cake buildup by doing it this way all the time.
I use a smaller diameter wood dowel. Use a hacksaw and cut a thin slit in the end of a rounded dowel, right down the diameter of the dowel and capture a short strip of 220/320 sandpaper in that slit and wrap the paper around the bottom of the dowel. Rub the inside of the bowl and sand away the cake, evenly from around the bowl. It's dirty work, and your hands will be covered with black soot, but this low-tech process and solution is easily controlled, cheap...and it works. It doesn't take much effort to trim that cake to the right thickness. Even a pencil can substitute for a dowel in a pinch.
Have fun restoring your pipes. Pour a cup of coffee and cut the cake.
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Post by Wizard on Sept 9, 2019 11:06:14 GMT -5
How important really is a cake layer? I have never been able to build one since after each smoke I scrape the bowl clean with my pipe knife. So how does one build a cake layer anyway? I have on Pipe forums that some guys ream their bowls down to the wood. That would seem hard to do. So what’s best, cake layer or down to the wood? 🧙🏼♂️
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Post by McWiggins on Sept 9, 2019 11:16:38 GMT -5
Cake is best. Reaming down to the wood is bad. Scraping the bowl with your knife is bad too.
Either just blow it out, wipe it with a pipe cleaner or wipe it with a paper towel or napkin.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 9, 2019 11:56:07 GMT -5
Cake is best. Reaming down to the wood is bad. Scraping the bowl with your knife is bad too. Either just blow it out, wipe it with a pipe cleaner or wipe it with a paper towel or napkin. This ^^^^ |
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Post by peteguy on Sept 9, 2019 12:38:59 GMT -5
Practice was the key for me. I have reamed so many bowls now that I can use the blade on a pocket knife and not touch wood. The Savinelli 'fitsall" is the best reamer I have ever used.
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Post by Wizard on Sept 9, 2019 13:36:21 GMT -5
Cake is best. Reaming down to the wood is bad. Scraping the bowl with your knife is bad too. Either just blow it out, wipe it with a pipe cleaner or wipe it with a paper towel or napkin. Thank you mcwiggins for answering my question from another post I just made. 🙂🧙🏼♂️ |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 18:52:58 GMT -5
Smoked the hell out of my Peterson Silver Spigot this summer and cake was a problem. Straight bowl but had to buy a reamer tool. Pipe knife wasn't going to cut it. Happy with the results.
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Post by monbla256 on Sept 11, 2019 22:31:13 GMT -5
I've used a Senior Pipe Reamer and a British Butner reamer for years and have been able to keep my cake the thickness I want. 
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