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Originally Posted by smokeh
ahh thanks thats helped. so what i was really meant to ask was, do the slides have screens/ash catchers in them? so i can put my mix straight into to slide, burn,smoke, slide out without any hassle?
if not i guess i can just buy the slide seperate to fit the bong i want.
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slides usually come as just a downstem and a bowl at the top. some of them are an ashcatcher/bowl. the thing is the bong you showed earlier doesnt use a slide in the literal sense. ill try to explain everything with pics here
the bong you showed(the spot on glass on EDIT) is a glass on glass bong. this means that the bowl is attached by an all glass connection. the connection looks something like this:
you see the white part? thats a glass on glass connection. this particular bong is a 3 piece. it consists of the tube, a downstem, and a bowl.
heres what the downstem looks like
if you notice it has 2 white parts. the bottom one connects it to the tube(the main part of the bong) and the top is where the bowl goes.
heres what the bowl will look like
if you see it also has a white part to connect to the downstem.
now downstems can also be called diffusers. the difference is diffusers have either holes or slits cut in the bottom of the downstem that help spread the smoke out in the water making smaller bubbles that smooth the smoke out more. heres a pic of a diffuser:
another common type of bong is the o ring/slide type. this uses a slide(a bowl attached to the downstem. the slide has a rubber ring on the downstem part to seal it to the bong.
heres what a slide for one of these looks like:
now the inside of the slide or bowl for either type of bong is going to generally be the same. its really just like a pipe. they dont come with screens or ashcatchers or anything. if you think youll need a screen for yours then you should go ahead and get one.(one size fits all bro) basically its just a piece of glass that goes in the bottom and allows air to come through the hole but keeps the weed in the bowl(for the most part). heres what a screen looks like and how it goes in the bowl:
as for ashcatchers, they come in a couple different types.
(youll have trouble finding some for the slide type but im sure they make them) you can either get ones with the bowl/ashcatcher in one. or you can get one with glass on glass connections so you can put your bowl in there.
