MM Cob maintenance?

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Hitzy
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Got me a cob, and just wondering if I should treat it different then my briars when it comes to cleaning and maintenance.
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Houtenziel
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Smoke it, let cake form or don't - I haven't noticed one bit of difference either way. I will run a pipe cleaner through the bit and then a doubled over pipe cleaner through the shank after a day's worth of smoking on one(about 3-4 bowls). That's all I do.
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Hitzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:54 pm Got me a cob, and just wondering if I should treat it different then my briars when it comes to cleaning and maintenance.
Some of the best corn cob advice given by John Patton

https://pipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Corncob_primer
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Mikeb717
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I’m with houtenziel,I really can’t tell a difference with or without cake built up,I have a CG that has a pretty good carbon layer and smoke everything from aroes to gaslight in it and haven’t had any problems,all my other cobs I scrape out every 4 or 5 bowls, they all smoke good
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Ray Mackessy
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This may help https://pipedia.org/index.php?title=The ... cob_primer
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Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:37 pm
Hitzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:54 pm Got me a cob, and just wondering if I should treat it different then my briars when it comes to cleaning and maintenance.
Some of the best corn cob advice given by John Patton

https://pipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Corncob_primer
Good stuff.
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simplepipes
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Maintain as you would any fine pipe and you will be happily rewarded . . .

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Hitzy
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Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:37 pm
Hitzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:54 pm Got me a cob, and just wondering if I should treat it different then my briars when it comes to cleaning and maintenance.
Some of the best corn cob advice given by John Patton

https://pipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Corncob_primer
Good stuff in there... Thanks!
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Mr Beardsley
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One of these days I should smoke some of my cobs. I just like the dang briars so much that they always get grabbed first
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Middle Earth
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I treat my cobs like Simplepipes. Common sense. Not going to make it a science project.
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