Branzig's How I Restore An Estate Batch!!!!

[Branzig]

*HUGE thanks to @Emperor Zurg ...Without him, bringing this thread back would of been close to impossible. He was able to nab all the missing text for me from my old post on Puff, so all I had to do was find my pictures and put it all back together....huge help. Thanks Zurg!!!!

So here we go, a little thread that shows the process that I go through when restoring a fresh batch of Estates. I will update this thread in segments depending on how much I get done each day. Any questions or comments please ask.

Day 1

Here they are, farm fresh from Ebay!


The first thing I do is give them an overall check, look for dings, dents, and overall condition. Give them a whiff to see if they need a S/A treatment all that. Next I separate out all the stems, and start cleaning them out with bristled pipe cleaners and 91% Isoproypl Alcohol. After I scrub around 2 or 3 alcohol soaked bristled pipe cleaners in the stems, I use some extra fluffly pipe cleaners and see how they look when I pull them out. I rinse and repeat this process until when I pull out the pipe cleaner they come out white and as clean as they went in. You will go through a ton of pipe cleaners...These pipes were advertised as "cleaned and ready to smoke" and this is how many cleaning supplies I went through...


After some cleaning, I pop the stems in a bowl full of warm water and half a scoop of Oxi-Clean powder. Depending on how bad the oxidation is on the stems decides how long I let them soak. This batch was a little over a hour. I could tell that the Peterson stem was pretty bad and so was the Mastersen.

Before Oxi Bath:


After Bath: