| Archive for Dr. Grabow Pipes "America's One and Only" |
| ozark southpaw |
More work!!Mac must have gotten the idea that I needed something to do,so to keep me from getting bored he sent me a box of pipes. These will keep me busy for a while.There is quite an assortment. Half a dozen or so Grabows including one Westbrook Bulldog shape that I have never seen.More of a squashed bulldog,wider,thicker bowl than I've seen on Grabow bulldogs. Also a really neat MM cob with a vulcanite shank extension and stem with a stinger!!.There are several small nose burners and several small 10 minute pipes and a couple that appeared to have had the bowl shortened quite a bit including one Grabow. Someone must have liked short bowls. 
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| ted |
Bulldog must be an #82...Short, fat, In the second picture, on the right....ted | ||||||
| steverino |
Good grief! Instant collection.
I like the bents near the edge of the table in the front center of the top picture. Especially the dublin-shaped one. |
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| ozark southpaw |
Macs PipesActually there was a catch to these pipes. In return for the box of pipes he wants me to restore this nasty old Viscount that he left outside for 10 years!!(more or less).I really should drive down to Hide the hammer,Texas and take a switch to him for abusing this poor little pipe like that!! 
I think I can save it but it may take me 6-8 months or more which ain't gonna leave me ANY time to work on the others!! 
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| ted |
OS...You'll understand if he ever tells the tale. I actually thought it would look worse than it does.
Want me to pick up some trademark material when I go by the factory? If the spade insert is pretty solid you can use a "grease pencil"...ted |
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| ozark southpaw |
Ted,that's it!! All it needs is the button rebuilt.
Steve, that Dublin bent is a Grabow meer lined--without the lining!! The other two are no names, the carved pipe says only Italy on the stem,no marking at all on the other. |
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| ted |
Ed, you're going to be busy for a while...See ya' when you get ahead of them...ted | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
I might have exaggerated just a little about the condition of Macs Viscount! | ||||||
| ted |
Kinda' looks like he needs to smoke it "left handed". Cover that side up...ted |
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| ozark southpaw |
What do you mean by using a grease pencil Ted?? If I can I will take the spade from another stem and glue it in Macs stem.If not I will probably fill it with several layers of white paint. |
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| ted |
OS...If the "spade" hole is fairly well defined, a white Grease Pencil will restore the T/M. Just a smeared dot of crazy glue to seal the repair. It'll look like the original...ted | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
If I cant replace the spade I will try that Ted! Sounds easier and quicker than waiting for several coats of paint to dry!! | ||||||
| BWThomas |
white Plastex is what you want for that. | ||||||
| Terry292 |
No rest for the wicked, eh, Ed?
Terry |
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| Lion |
The #82 is one of my favorite shapes. I have three of them. A Viscount Ajustomatic, a Grand Duke and a Royal Duke. Three might not sound like many, but considering I only have 12 pipes, not counting cobs, I think its significant.
Below is a quick picture I just took. Sorry about the quality. 
Leo |
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| ted |
Great trio....ted | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
I want to get some Plaxtex for stem work. The white would be great for replacing spades-white ones any way! |
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| BWThomas |
Besides black and white, it comes in orange, red, yellow, blue and green. |
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| ozark southpaw |
None!! The wife wants these pipes restored and on ebag yesterday! |
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| ozark southpaw |
Well,that pretty much covers ALL the bases!! 
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| Flycruiser |
Is that bulldog gonna go on the bag? If so send me an message before it does. |
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| ozark southpaw |
Nah,that one I will keep. Actually I doubt that any of them will get on the bag!! I just ain't to happy with it anymore-for selling anyway! If I do list any it will be as a lot, after I cherry pick them!! | ||||||
| Flycruiser |
I figured as much. I do like that shape. I may have to keep an eye out for one. |
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| LokoMac8 |
I liked that dublin shaped bent, too. Apparently the meerschaum lining was damaged when I got it and after a couple of smokes, it kept coming out in chunks until there was hardly any left. Well, I scraped it clean and thought I would just have a BIG bowled pipe. Tried smoking it a couple of times without the lining and it just never did work satisfactorily for me. Too bad. I had considered working up a huge batch of pipe mud and "relining" the bowl with it -- just as I considered cleaning up ALL those pipes and selling them individually on eBay and get rich. Naw, wasn't ever going to happen . . . The bent to the left was also meerschaum lined and a great smoker -- it looked JUST LIKE a meerschaum lined pipe Dr. Grabow imported and had their brand name on. Probably most of those no-brand meerschaum lined pipes were made by the same folks that made the ones for Dr. Grabow. At that point, a light came on in my head and I decided I just wasn't going to collect anymore Dr. Grabow meerschaum-lined pipes because, in my mind anyway, they just weren't really Dr. Grabows. I still have three or four left, though. Seems like I recall TED saying that Sparta did eventually obtain meerschaum plugs and tried their hand at making their own meerschaum-lined pipes, but I can't say that I ever came across one, even if the pipe or stem wasn't stamped "ITALY". The pipe shapes just weren't quite like anything in Sparta's usual lines. --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
I get the feeling that I would not be a welcome guest in your home right now. I see that table still needs your refinishing expertise -- harder to tell with all those pipes laying on it though. Maybe you should point that out to the wife . . . --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
Well, OK, it looks like I will have a few minutes here, so I will relate the story as I recall it happening. Here's the story. The pipe I carried along on this trip was a #36 Viscount -- one of five in a boxed set that the fellow I got it from said he received as a gift in 1972. Anyhow, I'm running along on a train in the wee hours of the morning and my Conductor and I are both fighting fatigue and trying to stay awake. We are on an older locomotive with the cab windows open and I decide to smoke my pipe while running to help keep me awake. We have RULES by the way, created because of the PC crowd, that forbid me smoking while in the cab of the locomotive, so I usually only smoke it when we stop for awhile at meets when I can walk around outside At this point I feel as though breaking a rule to ensure my Conductor and I stay ALIVE trumps the rule). Anyway, we are rolling along, trying to pace our speed to match the train ahead of us so that we don't have to stop or slow down much more than we have already. When I go to knock some ashes out of my bowl and bring my arm back in through the window, my arm hits the window sill and I drop my pipe out the window at about 45 or 50 MPH. I stop the train (takes about a half mile or so) and walk back to check for it -- can't take but a moment or the whole railroad will start backing up. I didn't find it. Every trip I thought about that pipe, but I would never get a chance to stop in the area. I only gave ten dollars for it, but still, I get this sentimental attachment to things as simple as a BIC ink pen, and I absolutely hate losing things. Finally, many months later we have a short train and were going to get delayed for awhile near the area I thought the pipe was, so I stopped and looked for a needle in a haystack. I walked back about a mile, and then back and hadn't found it. No telling where it might have bounced when it hit the rocks and tumbled for the ditch. Finally I run into a crazy bull that was on the right-of-way and I couldn't scare him away. I'd throw rocks at him which he would never really see fly by and occasionally I registered a hit or two, including one right between the eyes. I've been around cattle before, and a few bulls, but this one had a weird look about him and he had some awesome and mean looking long pointy horns. He hardly reacted and he wasn't budging, so I turned around and headed back to the locomotive. Almost when I had given up hope and it looked like we would have to leave, there I see it! I was happy to have it back, but the exposed side had lost all of it's finish and most of the stain. Regardless, I had found an old friend and took it back home where it waited on me to refurbish it. What I went through to get my pipe back! But in the end, it was probably that stubborn old bull that helped me find it. Maybe him refusing to give ground was he was of telling me, "Turn around dummy, I saw your pipe back there!" What I really didn't know then was there was a reason I never got around to fix'n the pipe. I was waiting for destiny or fate or whatever to intervene so that it would be placed in Ed's healing hands for his special magic touch! I thought I had noted somewhere when I lost it and when I found it, but I couldn't find any notes to that effect. I would say it laid out there in the elements seven months to almost a year. --RJ-- |
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| ozark southpaw |
Mac,you did relate part of the story before in answer to me asking if you had ever lost a pipe out the window of your locomotive. You may be right about the bull! | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
WorkWell I got Mac's pipe done-finally!! Usually takes me 4-6 hours to completely refinish a pipe. This one took at least three times that .Well maybe not that long.  Along with the pipe I am going to send him a lanyard to attach to his pipes when he is smokin' aboard the locomotive! 
The other pipe is one of mine that I was working on. I stained it with the stains I used on Mac's to see what the color would look like. Both pipes are lighter in color than the pics show.The little plastic "pipe" was in the box he sent. Neglected to send a stem for it. Mac,where is the stem??
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| LokoMac8 |
Re: Work
My old pipe sure looks GREAT now!!!! As far as I know, that little pipe had the stem in it. There were several broekn and loose stems in the box also unless they fell out or were confiscated. You might double check and make sure they didn't slip under a flap in the box, stick to the tape or fell out on the floor. If it ain't there, I don't know where it went! --RJ-- |
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| BWThomas |
That looks fantastic Ed. What did you do for the spade? | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
I'll dump the box again and dig around!! | ||||||
| ted |
OS....Question for you.
In my box of "barn pipes" I got a Bonnie Briar Ravina. It is a large apple...#11ish, one of my favorite shapes, and cleaned up beautifully. The "owner" was very careful with this pipe. It has a plastic bit of some sorts that refuses to be bent. I did hot water, flame, alcohol in boiling water (probably to 240 degrees), but it refuses to budge. What's up? Maybe nylon? It does feel really slick. Never had this problem. Just wanted to put a slight bend in the stem...ted |
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| ozark southpaw |
That's a new one on me Ted! Never had one that could not be bent. Nylon (like those used on Medicos) is easier to bend than vulcanite in my experience. Maybe it is an acrylic of some sort? | ||||||
| BWThomas |
Acrylic will bend with heat. Is it black...probably bakelite. Most Bakelite is stable to 250º, unless it is reinforced with nylon. And...cannot be reshaped with heat. |
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| Terry292 |
RJ, never lost a pipe out the car window, but one did slip out of my pocket when I was on a motorcycle on US Hwy 1 in California once. I didn't notice it was gone until I got to my destination. Turned right around and retraced the route until I found it. Fortunately, it only took a couple of hours.
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| ozark southpaw |
Ted,here a link for testing bakelite.
http://antiques.about.com/od/bakeliteandplastics/tp/aa041506.htm |
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| ted |
Thanks Ed. don't/didn't think it was bakelite. It has a soft bite that is not familiar to me. Certainly not lucite, not acrylic....similar to the feel of Viking bits. They were "nylon" and could be bent with difficulty (mostly because they were so short). This "buffalo's" me. To be honest, I didn't give it a long bath in the boiling water and alcohol......my wife was due home, and I didn't want her to see me cooking in her new pot. I'll try again the next time she is out. This quickly became my favorite pipe and I want it to "suit" me. The owner had a cake in it about the width of a silver dollar. I took off the finish, and the grain was beautiful. Cleaned it from shank to tip, and debated for 3 hours about reaming it. Decided to smoke it once before reaming. Glad I waited. No ghosts, no residual taste, just a marvelous cake that is well "manicured". I think this one is a keeper.....ted |
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| BWThomas |
ted... is this the pipe?
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| ted |
BW....Yes, except for it being a smooth apple.....Where did you find it? Thanks a bunch....ted |
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| LokoMac8 |
I remember the name on that pipe, but I can't recall it in detail. I am glad it worked out as a "keeper". Glad there is someone besides me that is actually daring enough to leave cake in a bowl. After scraping many a bowl down and "overcleaning" pipes, I have settled in now to generally a lighter cleaning, a good sanitizing and evaluating the caking before scraping. I have enjoyed the results much, much more! --RJ-- |
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| ozark southpaw |
Mac, I found the stem for that little pipe!! Gonna put it with my dinky Grabow in my miniature smoking set. | ||||||
| BWThomas |
...found it in the photo...shop |
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| ted |
Mine is just a straight apple....Grabow#11ish.
Did a bit of research and found that Bonnie Briar were made by Finsbury Products Co. in NY. I remember Finsbury from many of the RTDA shows. Also remembered that one of my best friends in the pipe business, Nick Weeks, was a representative of Finsbury. Reminds me... At Mastercraft we all ate lunch at the same time. The office girls and I would go out for lunch and the employees would eat lunch in the office. If the phone rang during lunch somebody would get it and take a message for us. I came back from lunch one day and Doughton Tedder told me "Call somebody next week". Who do I call Doughton? "I don't know, but he insisted that you call him next week"! The conversation went on for a while, and I still didn't know who to call. A few days later a call came in from Nick Weeks and suddenly I understood.....ted |
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| BWThomas |
Sorry, should have look at the charts, am I getting close?  
good story ted! |
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| LokoMac8 |
What a great story!!! Amazing how all this tied into that! --RJ-- |
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| ozark southpaw |
Barry,missed your question. I took a spade from a junk stem and used some clear epoxy to glue it in.PITA !! Because they are so small! Tweezers!! |
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| ted |
LION... By the way, we're glad to have among us. Keep on posting. We'll keep on talking but just jump right in......ted |
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| ted |
bonnie briarOS, Her is the actual pipe. Joy left again today and I added grain alcohol (keep it around for medicinal purposes) to water. The meat thermometer was at 225 degrees. Heated, bent, dipped in cold water....the bit straightened out. Did it again.....the bit straightened out. Did it again and held it without cold water, and it stayed as it cooled. It may be straight the next time I smoke it, but at least it's the way I want it.You can probably tell that I like matt finish pipes. Many of the Grabow matt's were my idea. Much better than the heavy lacquer finish. Thank you RJ. This is a keeper.....ted 
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| ozark southpaw |
I agree Ted.Looks like a keeper.Even with a matte finish it shows very nice grain. I like an 1/8 bent stem too,although I don't bend mine usually. Got this thing about originality. Since Barry sent me that Alpha I have come to appreciate full bents.Gonna rebend the stem on my Dr. Duncan.Have picked out a couple full bents from those that RJ sent for possible use. | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
Re: bonnie briar
You know you are very welcome! It has been a real joy seeing and reading about the pipes you have selected and those you have shared and traded with others. I now remember this pipe -- definitely one of the betters ones, though I never would have guessed that it would look THAT good!!! --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
Re: Macs Pipes
I got my old VISCOUNT #36 from Ed the other day, but haven't had a chance to comment on it. The transformation is ASTOUNDING!!! I am so pleased that I can't find the right words to express myself. It looks so beautiful I am hesitant to smoke it -- BUT I AM GOING TO. The pipe looks beautiful and I kid you not, if they finished pipes like this at Sparta they would be gobbled up like parachutes in a doomed airplane. I have a very few other pipes that have the stems polished up like this (I've NEVER done one myself like this) -- almost looks like it is sprayed with clear coat! Stems ploished to this luster sure hold up to use, etc., much, much better. Hard to believe it is the same rubber stem! And the metal cleaner and threads!!! Ed polished those to such a shine that they look like expensive triple chrome plated parts! I had NO IDEA that these simple aluminum parts would buff up that good. If the company wanted to show off the internals of their pipes, THIS would be the way to do it. They NEVER looked that good when new! I'll try and shoot some quick pictues and add them to my post ASAP. Ed, thanks very much! All the good that everyone has been saying about your work is certainly accurate -- YOU ARE THE MASTER! If IP&A would let you do a few of their pipes for a FULL-COLOR page of their offerings, I am sure their business would increase by leaps and bounds. Only thing is, they would probably have to do a bit more finish work themselves or the buyers would be disappointed in the difference of what they saw in the brochure and what they received. But like every used car salesman knows when it comes to detailing cars, JUST A BIT MORE ATTENTION IN THIS AREA WOULD DO A WORLD OF GOOD IN MAKING A TEMPTING, EYE-CATCHING PRODUCT that would otherwise get passed over. Now I MUST take those photos BEFORE I smoke the first bowl in it! --RJ-- |
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| BWThomas |
I've been saying it, and now you Know....he IS the MASTER! | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
Re: Macs Pipes
OK, I took some hasty shots, forgot to wipe my greasy fingerprints off the pipe after being mindful to do so, and here they are. They just don't do justice to Ed's work. One of these days I am going to take the time and invest in some LIGHTING for taking pipe photos! Anyway, the flourescent lighting, flash, etc., all sort of serve to chance the colors a bit. The pipe is actually a little lighter than the photos make it appear. And not only did Ed fix and refinish my pipe, but he's such a swell guy that he also inlcuded the Ajustomatic "pot" pipe that is stamped ADVENTURER that he told me about over a year ago! This was a TOTAL surprise and again, I am just overwhelmed with gratitude! --RJ-- 
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| ozark southpaw |
Mac,I'm glad you are happy with your pipe. If you're happy then I'm happy! Enjoy! | ||||||
| steverino |
Wow, that is un-daggone-believable. OS, you done fabulistic! | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
I forgot to ask if you personally "pre-smoked" it before shipping it out. Anyway, just loaded up and smoked a bowl in it. For a first smoke in a pipe I will usually stick to Prince Albert or Carter Hall as they are consistent, easy and even burning, low moisture and gunk content, so I know what to expect. I chose CH for this. What a grand smoke it was! It smokes every bit as good as it looks and better than I ever remember it smoking. Did you enlarge the flue hole? It drafts perfectly, and if that is what you did, I may do that to my other pipes. Thanks again, my friend! You did a splendid job of it! --RJ-- |
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| ozark southpaw |
No,I didn't "pre-smoke" it,didn't want to have to re-buff the stem as my razor sharp teeth are guaranteed to leave some marks!! I did run a 5/32" drill through it but it didn't take out much wood indicating that it was already pretty close to that size. I have found that most Grabows are pretty close to 5/32 and some are a little bigger.You are quite welcome! I enjoyed working on it! | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
I don't recall the size, but I have always reamed out my flue holes with the bit on the Kleen-Reem pipe reamer (which I think I noticed in picture where you used one them for a novel clamp and pipe holder!). It is a very tight fit in most of my Grabows, and I end up "drilling" the bore out a bit. --RJ-- |
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| Gig |
You certainly do beautiful refurbishing work Mac, stunning 
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| Codger |
Hey OS - Beautiful work. | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
Using the Kleen Reem to hold the pipe is a trick I swiped from one of the pipe makers web sites. Works great when you need a extra hand!! My reamer was missing the shank cleanin drill dohickey when I got it.so I use a drill bit which is fine except for long shank canadians etc. |
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| ozark southpaw |
RJ,Ted. You will be glad to know that most of those pipes you sent me have found a new home--in FRANCE!!
After cherry picking them,put the rest on ebag this morning and they sold in less than 2 hours!! |
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| ted |
Way to go Ed. Did you clean them up? I'd like to have seen the listing just to see if any of them looked familiar....ted | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
Ted,no I did not clean them up. Got several other pipes to work on and didn't want to mess with those. More work than it's worth to clean and shine them up and try to sell individually. | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
It has made me feel good that you and TED found a few keepers and have passed the other pipes on to new homes. That's more than I had been doing with them and more than I could have hoped for. --RJ-- |
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| ozark southpaw |
Out of what you and Ted sent I kept 6-8. There were others that I would have liked to keep but gotta draw a line some where! Have about 3 dozen,most are not Grabows that need restored. When I do get them cleaned up think I'll use them as X-mas and birthday present for the grandbrats! | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
Viscount #82Finally got around to working on the Viscount that was in the box RJ sent me. This one had a good sized chunk broke out of the button and lip. Thanks to Barry-who sent me some Plastex-it is lookin'g good again.
This is the side where it was broke. If you look close,right by the button you can see a fine line where the Plastex and vulcanite meet.The plastex is actually blacker that the vulcanite! Filed down the button on this side till it was flat and built it back up with the plastex. 
This is the other side of button. Kinda hard to see but if you compare the two pics you can see that the button on the side I rebuilt is a little wider. 
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| ozark southpaw |
Anybody know why the pictures I tried to upload have expired?? | ||||||
| drbridges |
Faulty upload I suspect. They don't show in the Gallery either. Perhaps Mac broke the Gallery. He is the last one to successfully upload image files. | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
Pictures here-I hope!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fastredx/4003634474/in/photostream/ |
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| ozark southpaw |
I have noticed some strange things when I sign in here!! Sometimes whenever I try to post a reply I'm taken to the sign in page(even though I am already signed in) and after I sign in again my reply is gone!! I have found that if I preview first this doesn't happen!! Anyone else having problems? | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
The thing that causes it most for me is BAD FILE NAMES, since I have a habit of renaming files. The filename cannot inlcude symbols and stuff like "* # % / & ^ ( )" and so forth. Dashes and underscores work, but that's about it. Files that I had named years ago and have thought nothing about often get stopped by the Forum. Also, apparently some glitch sneaks in after having been logged into Windows several days that affects being able to stay logged in and in uploading photos -- I've had to shut down my computer and restart and when I got back in, everything worked like normal again and I was able to upload photos, etc. --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
It HAS "timed out" on me quite a bit -- that's how I miss so many new contributions because I rely on "view posts since last visit" to help me find them. When I get knocked off like that and use the option again after signing on, it only brings up the posts since the previous log in. Some days this happens more than others. I have lost quite a few replies like you have also. --RJ-- |
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| steverino |
I have not had this problem on DGCF at all.
It may be a problem similar to a problem we have on the CPS board. For some reason, the PHP board software freaks out when you type the word "uni0n". Notice I used a zero instead of an "o" to keep this from happening here (in case it is a problem here - don't know if it is). No one seems to know why this is a problem, but if you use that word in a post, your post is toast. |
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| BWThomas |
Look magnificent Ed!, How are you liking that Plastex? |
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| ozark southpaw |
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| ozark southpaw |
SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
Who is the administrator for the forum??
Could my problems be a browser setting? Using Firefox. |
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| ozark southpaw |
Barry,really liking this stuff on the ABS,court still out on vulcanite. It makes a nice repair,just don't know how long it will stay there!! | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
Yes, GREAT WORK once again, Ed! I am thinking I need to try some Plastex, especially if it is available in black. I have three stems I am going to need to repair on the newly acquired ALPHAs that have those neat little holes all the way through that were either punched or drilled (almost looks more like they were punched!). One stem is broken off where it looked like the first hole punching caused the break. That would be a MAJOR reconstruction job as the best I can tell, a good 1/2" of the stem is gone. I am anxious to fix these pipes and start smoking them!!! --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
I guess it harkens back to the old MS-DOS file naming conventions. Don't know why, but apparently it was decided by someone that using symbols (some password thingies online don't cotton to them either) was just bad computer etiquette or something. I believe Tom Martin is the one that told me that the symbols in my filenames might be the cause of the problem -- up until then I was hitting a brick wall trying to upload a few particular files and the Forum never gave a hint as to why they wouldn't upload. --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
We're sort of running amok -- I think TM was the only administrator and we haven't been able to entice him back. --RJ-- |
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| BWThomas |
It's been over a month and a half since I did my first bit repairs with Plastex. I have been smoking them all, not daily, but regularly, cleaning with alcohol weekly...no problems |
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| ted |
We need an adminiatrator. One day this Forum is going to crash and leave us all wondering where to go and what to do. I can probably ask TM to share his expertise with someone, but I have too little knowledge for it to be me. I feel like we have been on thin ice for quite a while.
Maybe the Forum is safer than I think, but at the very least, we need maintenance and some "clean up" on our topics.....and a few more "headings" My .02 worth......ted |
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| BWThomas |
Well, if it crashes, we're covered, I'm still doing weekly backups. I'll help anyway that I can. |
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| ted |
BW....Thank you...I had forgotten about that. WHEW!
I do occasionally get aggravated because we have so many great topics and so few places to put them. Again, just me being "grumpy". ted |
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| LokoMac8 |
Hmm, sounds like we might have an excellent candidate for an administrator! I move that we nominate BWT for consideration -- do I hear a second? --RJ-- |
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| ted |
SECOND.....All in favor.....AYE......ted | ||||||
| LokoMac8 |
I am probably the world's worse of straying off topic or starting new topics within old topics, etc. I have found the search feature REAL handy in tracking down some things that I couldn't locate any other way (actually, now that has become the FIRST way I go looking for things), but some moving around and organization (more topic headers?) as TED mentioned might help, too. There IS a LOT of great info here, it's just some of it is scattered about like shrapnel from a hand grenade. --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
AYE!!!! Oh wait! First, were there any other "nominations" before we close the nominations? Any volunteers that we might have offended in our hasty bid to secure an administrator? --RJ-- |
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| ozark southpaw |
Didn't offend me at all !! | ||||||
| BWThomas |
In my spare time...yeah right, spare time.....when I stay up past midnight and cannot sleep, I come down here and read through some of the old posts that I have archived. GREAT GREAT STUFF!!! I find myself sitting here in the dark and wee hours laughing my ass off at some of this. I plan to pick out some of the funniest and group it all together. I am also going to get together all of teds splainin' of this and that. RJ's and DrBs contributions as they go into detailed history is especially interesting, especially when accompanied by pictures. And speaking of pictures, I can make a picture book of Ed's postings of pipes brought back from the grave. A lot of really good stuff here Gents! If nothing else comes of this, I hope to at least get all your words and wisdom put together and printed on paper with a digital backup as well. So...someday all your grandkids can read it and say...Hey, he wasn't such a dumb ol' sh!t after all! |
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| ozark southpaw |
I've got some CH burning in the Viscount bull dog now.Taste like crap. Me thinks this pipe has some ghosts and will need a couple of bowls to exorcise them. This pipe was really cruddy! I thought at first the st--oops cleaner was missing. Turned out it was in the shank-all gummed up!! First thing I noticed is that the Plastex feels like vulcanite,harder than ABS! Thinkin' maybe it would be a good idea to cover about 3/4" up from the button on my ABS stemmed pipes to make them more bite resistant!! File 'em down and build 'em back up!! |
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| BWThomas |
Do that salt and alcohol treatment Ed. I did that to all my ebay pipes, and what a world of difference, really freshens them. I agree about Plastex, I like the feel, that's not a bad idea! |
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| ozark southpaw |
May need to do the S/A treatment to this pipe! | ||||||
| steverino |
I vote for Barry at the appropriate parlimentary moment.
The only thing I would say is, let's don't get too heavily moderated. I have been a member of a pipe board that has regular, heavy moderation, and I've been on three or four more that don't. "Don't" is the better way, in my opinion. |
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| BWThomas |
From what I have seen on this board, I don't see that there is much need for 'moderation'. Yes, there may be some going off topic, but then, that's part of what makes this place 'the place to be'. |
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| steverino |
Here here. | ||||||
| ozark southpaw |
Here here? I thought it was-
hear-hear or was it hear here or here hear? What ever--I agree!! |
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| LokoMac8 |
I believe it is, "Hear! Hear!" -- or at least that is what I remember from one of Jules Verne's books -- either Journey to the Moon, or Around the Moon, wherein some of the characters say that during a meeting. Of course, It's been about 35 years or so since I read the books . . . --RJ-- |
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