Crooked Pipe Stem

[Bearded Texan]

I have a nice Kaywoodie bent pipe that has a stinger. The only issue with the pipe is that the stem appears to have been over tightened so it is now about an 1/8th of a turn to far when it is screwed into the tenon. The stinger doesn't look to be removable either. I have seen quite a few antique shop pipes that are like this. Does anyone have any suggestions on repairing this. Thanks in advance.

[Emperor Zurg]

Dunno the 'proper' way to do it but if need be I'd probably use a disk of paper or cardstock to shim it and use clear nail polish to glue the disk in place once I found the right thickness. That being said, I thought those screw-in stems were adjustable. I thought it was possible to rotate the stinger a bit to compensate for thread wear. Maybe have to warm the stem up a bit to get it to turn... not sure though because I never tried it. I don't have any pipes like that.

[Bearded Texan]

Dunno the 'proper' way to do it but if need be I'd probably use a disk of paper or cardstock to shim it and use clear nail polish to glue the disk in place once I found the right thickness. That being said, I thought those screw-in stems were adjustable. I thought it was possible to rotate the stinger a bit to compensate for thread wear. Maybe have to warm the stem up a bit to get it to turn... not sure though because I never tried it. I don't have any pipes like that.

I thought about using a ground down washer as a spacer just wanted to see if anyone on here had a better idea.

[Emperor Zurg]

I thought about using a ground down washer as a spacer just wanted to see if anyone on here had a better idea.

Well they do make plastic shim stock in 0.001" increments if you wanted to get really technical about it.

[Lostmason]

Has this issue been repaired? If not , I repaired a KB&B stem by removing the metal screw in tenon from the bit entirely,screwing into the
shank and epoxying the bit back onto the tenon. you would need to drill out the threads in the bit just enough to allow you to push the bit
back on. If the tenon piece wont unscrew from the bit try warming it in boiling water to pull it out.