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Do you use them at all? I hate getting asteroids (when little chunks suck through the bowl and into your throat) and it happens sooo bad on a new pipe until you get a little bit of resin to catch the chunks. I prefer glass screens over metal, but I can't seem to find them for less than 2 for $1 and really, they're made with little scraps of glass that would have been thrown out by the blower, so I'm thinking that's a bit expensive...

I went on amazon and got a pack of 100 metal screens for $4.20 (win!) and since we have probably around 15 pipes, slides, and one-hitters, I've been using those with little success...

For a new pipe, the screen almost always gets tapped out - any tricks on how to get them to stay quicker and better? My friends are idiots and will scrape the screen into the ashtray when they're too stoned. Another problem we have is that in a metal pipe, the screen resonates REALLY quickly to the point where we can't smoke the pipe unless we clean off/change the screen.

Anyway, I'm high, any suggestions/similar experiences?

-Lilly-

That's pretty strange. I use many a metal pipe, with screens and don't have much of a problem. I think it's a long time user thing though, you get used to smoking the resin off the screen, so you can reload. One easy thing to do it pull the screen out, hold it in pliers and burn it off. Get the screen red hot, all the resin will turn to ash and can be brushed off. You should burn your screens prior to use as well. That will anneal them, making them a bit more flexible and burning off any oils left from the manufacturing process. When you first smoke a bowl on a new screen, you can tap it out into the ashtray with the ashes, then pick it up and stick it to the fresh resin in the bowl, that will keep it in place. A good poker to use with metal screens is something with a rounded tip. Not blunt mind you, but something like a 16 penny nail, with the tip rounded, so you could draw it across your hand without scratching. This will prolong the life of the screen. Also, when installing a fresh screen it's good to find an object slightly smaller in diameter than the bowl of the piece, center the screen on the bowl and gently force the screen in. Ideally, you wouldn't want the screen bottomed out, this limits the airflow in the bowl and makes it burn unevenly, say, just from one side, as I'm sure you've experienced. If you feel like being adventurous, a convex screen will provide some of the best tasting hits, put a screen in the bowl, then carefully remove it and put it back in upside down. This will allow for maximum airflow over the screen into the pipe, it gives you a really nice burn, if you don't over pack the bowl. I've rambled a bit here. Let me know if I missed something.

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hey thats a good idea with the converse screen, i read the post and tried it and it works great. i dont think i could ever use a glass screen like you said because i just dont want the chance of a piece breaking off at some point and i inhale it though. but most people have problems with screens. my biggest is the screen will get a hole in the bottom where the bottom of the pipe is. I dunno if it gets too hot at that point or what but it happens once every couple of weeks.

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That is indeed from the heat. The repeated heating and cooling in the center of the screen weakens the metal until it simply crumbles.

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that means i need to smoke less??? nah ill just buy more screens

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Thanks for your suggestions, I will try them. I just love using a pipe that has a screen already resinated in so that I can just smoke away, clean it out, not worry about asteroids and not worry about loosing the screen! But I always want to use my newest pipe which, inevitably, has the shittiest screen setup until I get it just right :/ and even then, if I'm not smoking alone, people screw up the screen almost every time. >.< Thanks for the advice Osprey!

why use it with smoking with other people then? be greedy lilly!

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Well, as I am fairly OCD about all things to do with my paraphernalia, one thing that will make a screen last is grinding your herb and smoking a bowl with out relighting. I like to start the bowl on a corner and keep it lit by toking and don't scrape until the ash is tapped out.

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