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Originally Posted by Hooligan
Please for the love of god don't use steel wool. Some tobacco shops carry a solution they use to clean pipes and get rid of old tobacco (the black stuff) forgot the name of it in the pipes. They also sell replacement stems which can be had fairly cheap.
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Cake is the word you're lookin for
Also, I severely doubt any shops sell replacement stems save for cobs. For a briar, each stem is unique, as long as its not a screw in stem, and even then it varies from company to company what the size is used, and even different lines require different size threads.
Best bet for fixing the stem is heading over to Home Depot/Lowes/etc. and grabbing some of the highest grit sand paper you can find and a nontoxic polishing kit and putting some elbow grease into it. Shouldn't take a whole lot of work, but will require some.
Google turned me to this:
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/de-oxidize-a-stem
Those guys are probably a bit more knowledgeable than me on the whole stem repair