anthracosis + pipe filters
This is the first part of a video reply to ‘ahmedsadik1983′, who smokes his beloved pipes in a pathology lab and who kindly shows us viewers a microscopic slide of lung tissue with anthracosis. By a recent accidental experience in mini-drill cleaning the head of my Antoniewski trophy pipe, I would hence like to question the efficacy of pipe filters that are currently out on the market in hope for improved filter technologies in the near future. – en.wikipedia.org added on 13 Aug 2012: ec.europa.eu
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A wild type mouse was treated as described for Video S4. The movie shows a series of Z-slices through a large fungal mass with clearly detectable outgrowing hyphae as well as NET-structures at the periphery of the mass and the borders of alveoli. Afterwards, the whole Z-stack is 3-D rendered and rotated to demonstrate the 3-D appearance of the fungal ball relative to the lung structures. Dimensions of the stack are given at the bottom. Reference: Production of Extracellular Traps against Aspergillus fumigatus In Vitro and in Infected Lung Tissue Is Dependent on Invading Neutrophils and Influenced by Hydrophobin RodA. Bruns et. al. PLoS Pathog. 2010 Apr 29;6(4):e1000873. www.plospathogens.org
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The Dremel 4000 is one even YOU would handle, but if you won’t try it you’ll never know.;) amazon.co.uk/Dremel-4000-Rotary-Tool-4000-4/dp/B0033UWLX8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340992503&sr=8-1
Lol, terry, y love me now: charred chicken goes well through your digestive system. In fact if ya poisened yourself the medics use charcoal to absorb the poison while y r sitting it out in A&E, got me? But inhaling it into yr lungs, that’s a completely different game. What goes in, never comes out again. It accumulates and blocks the end bits of yr airways (alveoli).
Barbecue? In the UK with out weather?
It’s gonna happen (much) is it? They are like air conditioning, something we’ve never mastered properly… but we’re pretty good at the food poisoning you get from badly charred chicken
What I’m in fact saying is, that the filter are simply NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Surely we can do better in this century, can’t we?
This is just for demonstration. Surely a pure pipe smokers wouldn’t ‘suck hard’ on it. What I wanted to demonstrate is that bits get through anyhow. You can tell how much gets through by the stains you get on your teeth as well (bottom incisors inside for example, if you ignore these by poor dental hygiene or not seeing yr dentist regular) they can affect the roots. But hey, as I say, I’m not the health apostle here. Enjoy!!!;))
Maybe, maybe not… I once was in Kairo and smoked the water pipe. It last in general a good hour, maybe even two so great to sit outdoors. In Egypt it’s a bloke’s thing, I was allowed to join being a tourist, lol. The tobacco is different, very thick cut and very sticky with all sorts of fruity flavours. (I loved orange most…). But you also need a piece of glowing coal to keep the tobacco burning. That maybe trickier to get if one is not sitting right next to a barbecue.
If it works for you, stick with it, I tend to be dangerous with power tools, (and probably not exactly safe with hand powered ones).
I can see a case being made for a really open draw, you need to suck less hard so are less likely to accidentally suck into your lungs. I think any research into improving filters has to include the engineering and mechanical aspects as well as the medical.
Yep, regards the pores, you got it!!! That’s what I’m exactly talking about…;) Greetings from the UK, Terry. Have a nice day/eve…- daggi.
An electro-static filter might work, but could you make it small enough, and would you need batteries?
I’ve tried reamers in my previous smoking life. I found it tricky, as sometimes bigger bits break off the hard way and put holes in the surface. Or when I stopped I got a rough vertical edge of anthracite in it. With the Dremel (or any mini drill) on a low setting (3-5k) I can see into the bowl while I’m sanding so I have the situation much better in control.
You ca’t put it in your pocket, (or handbag), and take it with you. You have to dedicate some “sit back and relax” time, something western culture is not good at.
I absolutely agree!!! That’s the nicest way of smoking and gives ya a cool flavour…;) Strangely it’s not that popular in Western societies as it is in N Africa. I wonder why.
Perhaps the only way to cut out the particulates is to smoke a hooka, the water should remove them all
I’ve got a couple of pipe reamers, hand operated so I can feel as they start to dig into the briar and stop before damage is done. An electric sander is too aggressive for me.
Filters don’t block the particulates because of the holes – if the holes were that small even smoke particles wouldn’t get through. They do condense a lot of moisture and some of the particulates will attach to the condensate and not get through the filter, some always will though, improvements are always welcome
I’ve got a couple of pipe reamers, hand powered so I can feel as they start to dig into the briar and stop before damage is done. An electric sander is too aggressive for me.
Filters don’t block the particulates because of the holes – if the holes were that small even smoke particles wouldn’t get through. They do condense the moisture and a lot of the particulates will attach to the condensate and not get through the filter, some always will though, improvements are always welcome
Thx for your comment, ‘terryloveuk’. I would not downplay anthracosis, that would be pampering one’s mind in ignorance. Just talk to a pathologist who is doing postmortems (or join their blog) or drop into a Respiratory Unit and talk to the patients. I love my Dremel, but I give you right: one need to know what one is doing (which I do, lol). If you are not sure, bring your pipe to an expert for maintenance or repair.
Black lung was one of the diseases affecting coal miners, breathing air full of coal dust.
In the 1990′s I think the black you were getting on your shirt collars etc. was probably from traffic fumes, (diesel engines in buses and taxis) as I think coal for domestic heating had been banned for some time by then. Traffic pollution is still with us but they are stricter on emissions these days.
That is a wonderful pipe, a great thing to have. I would be very nervous letting a Dremel near it