Thank you Pat for kind words. There seems to be a tendency to put holes in the wrong places on my pipes, which i have managed to plug up, but it is not the kind of thing that cannot be fixed, In this case throwing some sinew on was just the right remedy, or at least the closest to tip top functioning order.
DC, indeed i agree, I can get quite a plume of smoke out of this little sucker anyway, but it's definitely more than functional for my purposes.