I recently purchased a pipe that had a clear acrylic stem with airhole and slot that were dyed/painted black on the interior.
Once I brought it home I discovered the draw was really restricted due to the stem, so I drilled it out, thus loosing the black interior.
What is the best way to color the interor of an acrylic stem black?
Thanks for the help,
-Scott
Clear acrylic stems - black airhole
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Oh, and welcome to the forum Munkey! You'll find lots of useful information in here, just like may answer to this question.
In all seriousness, I have no idea what one might use stain acrylic. It is pretty impervious to such things, and whatever you use seems likely foul the smoke. If it was me, I think I'd just leave it alone. It will turn black over time. I'm sure it was stained so that it would be evenly black.
Tyler
In all seriousness, I have no idea what one might use stain acrylic. It is pretty impervious to such things, and whatever you use seems likely foul the smoke. If it was me, I think I'd just leave it alone. It will turn black over time. I'm sure it was stained so that it would be evenly black.
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Several pipe manufactures do this, BC, Radice, etc. even on some high end pipes, so I would expect there are ways to do this without adversely affecting the flavor.Tyler wrote:In all seriousness, I have no idea what one might use stain acrylic. It is pretty impervious to such things, and whatever you use seems likely foul the smoke.
-Scott
Interesting point, that would be one approach. However I doubt the stems I've seen have been done like this.
For one, the slot in the end of the BC is also black and the airhole was not a consistant diameter. Secondly, I've seen this on a radice twin-bore and highly doubt they cast around tubing that has been set up in the twin-bore configuration:
-Scott
For one, the slot in the end of the BC is also black and the airhole was not a consistant diameter. Secondly, I've seen this on a radice twin-bore and highly doubt they cast around tubing that has been set up in the twin-bore configuration:
-Scott