Thanks for the replies fellers! Yep I could and may revive some of those failures but think will just look at em for awhile. That pappyite comes in so many different colors and hardness I guess you could say that it's hard to figure what type of nipple ya need and besides I'm still trying to figure this out

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Yup Bob them pesky reverse flutes. Finally realized I was making the tips too thin and weak before fluting but that ain't the half of it. Lol.
Steven: yes, pappyite is from pappys creek and what we jokingly call it but I'm not sure what it's real name is.