Pipe Screens?

Brass -n- Stainless steel are the 2 most common screen materails .
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Crispi :jointsmile:

screens are fine to smoke with, not the greatest thing but waaaaaay beter than aluminum foil. as for glass, id strongly suggest glass screens; they keep bud from falling through and you aint smoking shit but the buddah, quite quality:thumbsup:
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I'm gonna quote the chick from my local head shop.

"If you grind your 'tobacco' what you want to do is grab some and roll it into a nice compacted ball and then drop it into the pipe before filling it up. It'll keep the rest of it slipping through and it'll all be fine."

I tried that last night with my new bubbler and it works pretty good. Most the residue in the water was from when I changed the bowl, then I just repeated the whole rolling of the ball before filling it up.

BTW: if you plan to smoke a lot, you might wanna roll a couple of little balls before you start smoking, cause it gets REALLY hard and it seems so time consumig when you're high.

Actually the best and safest material for screens is stainless 309 in particular. Brass is particularly bad as it emits toxic vapors at critical temps.