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I recently took advantage of a 25% off sale of Dunhill pipes on Intl Pipe Smoking Day and picked up a beautiful Group 3 Chestnut Dublin.
Well, I smoked my first bowl in it, and it wasn't until I was all smoked out that I realized that the metal shaft that they put in their pipes was loosey-goosey in this one - it just plain didn't fit. Oh sure, there was never a problem passing a pipe cleaner down the shaft, but along with the pipe cleaner would come the metal shaft for the ride. No harm done at all to the pipe, just annoying to try to decide what to do.
Right now I just took the dang thing out of the pipe completely. Has this happened to any of you out there with one of your Dunhills? Aside from which, dja think just smoking the pipe without the metal thingy will present problems?
The only thing I can foresee is that cleaning up will be more of a job since all the gunk will not have that nice slick metal half-tube to stick to but rather the raw, exposed briar.
Anybody?
Well, I smoked my first bowl in it, and it wasn't until I was all smoked out that I realized that the metal shaft that they put in their pipes was loosey-goosey in this one - it just plain didn't fit. Oh sure, there was never a problem passing a pipe cleaner down the shaft, but along with the pipe cleaner would come the metal shaft for the ride. No harm done at all to the pipe, just annoying to try to decide what to do.
Right now I just took the dang thing out of the pipe completely. Has this happened to any of you out there with one of your Dunhills? Aside from which, dja think just smoking the pipe without the metal thingy will present problems?
The only thing I can foresee is that cleaning up will be more of a job since all the gunk will not have that nice slick metal half-tube to stick to but rather the raw, exposed briar.
Anybody?