New pipe question

[Slow Triathlete]

Originally Posted by TheRuckus13

How much is "often" suppose to be? I don't even know how often you should give it this treatment normally.

This is all pretty subjective. It depends on a lot of varibles such as how wet the blend is that you normally smoke, how much saliva gets down the pipe while you're smoking, time between smokes, etc.

I don't have a dead set time period that I do a salt treatment with my pipes but I usually only do it if I smoke a blend that I am familiar with and it tastes kind of funky. Then I clean that pipe. Because I have several pipes whenever I do one pipe I end up doing three or four just to knock it out for those pipes.

Now there are some people who say that you should do this monthly, bi-weekly, yearly......it really depends on how the pipe tastes and smokes.

Here are a few links to salt treatment techniques:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OlM8n4bAc

http://www.virtualsmokinglounge.com/..._treatment.pdf

There have been several discussions on here in which people have substituted the salt with cotton balls.

I usually use the salt myself but I only leave it in there for about 3 hours. Some say that if you leave it in for an extremely long time that it can actually crack the bowl although I have never seen this myself.