Ash Catchers
What is ash catcher
Ash catcher is a glass accessory for water pipes or bongs designed to collect and retain ash and unwanted particles, preventing them from entering the main chamber of the smoking device. When you inhale using a bong or pipe, the smoke passes through the downstem and into the ash catcher's water chamber. The water cools and filters the smoke, capturing any ash or particles. This helps to keep the bong clean and enhances the smoking experience.
As a customizable and functional accessory that improves the smoking experience, it's important to consider compatibility with bongs or water pipes when using an ash catcher. Ensuring perfect compatibility involves paying attention to size, joint gender, joint size, and joint angle when selecting an ash catcher.
• Size: Choose an ash catcher that matches the size of your bong or water pipe to avoid issues like top-heaviness, which could affect stability during use.
• Joint Gender: Water pipe joints have either a male or female joint, which needs to be paired accordingly. Therefore, selecting the right ash catcher requires determining the gender of your bong's joint.
• Joint Size: The standard joint sizes for bongs or water pipes are 10mm, 14mm, and 18mm. When choosing an ash catcher, make sure to select one that matches the joint size.
• Joint Angle: Ash catchers come with joints at two different angles—45 degrees and 90 degrees. Make sure the angle matches the joint angle of your water pipe.
Different Types of Ash Catchers
• Tree Perc Ash Catcher: This type of ash catcher has arms resembling tree branches, designed to efficiently diffuse smoke, providing excellent filtration for a smooth burn.
• Showerhead Perc Ash Catcher: The showerhead perc ash catcher filters smoke through its vertical tube and showerhead-like slits, delivering a smooth smoking experience.
• Inline Perc Ash Catcher: The inline perc ash catcher consists of a horizontal tube with slits or holes that disperse the smoke, effectively cooling and filtering it for a smoother, more enjoyable smoking experience.
• Turbine Perc Ash Catcher: The turbine perc ash catcher uses angled blades to create a spinning motion, cooling and filtering the smoke for a smoother smoking experience.
• Recycler Ash Catcher: The recycler ash catcher is uniquely designed to keep water and smoke constantly circulating, providing optimal filtration and delivering a smoother, more flavorful hit.
The advantage of ash catchers
The ash catcher is an innovative and functional weed accessory that can significantly enhance the smoking experience. It offers several notable advantages:
• Cleanliness and Hygiene: Using an ash catcher helps maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of your pipe. By capturing ash, particulates, resin, and other impurities before they enter the main chamber of the pipe, the ash catcher keeps the pipe clean for longer periods. This reduces the frequency of cleaning and maintenance, extending the pipe's lifespan.
• Enhanced Smoking Quality: In addition to trapping ash and other particulates, preventing harmful substances from entering the main chamber, ash catchers usually come with specialized filters. These filters further cool and purify the smoke. The additional filtration provides a cooler, smoother, and purer smoking experience. The flavor of the smoke is more refined and milder, reducing irritation to the lungs. For smokers who seek a high-quality and sophisticated smoking experience, an ash catcher is an indispensable functional accessory.
Factors to Consider for Bulk Purchasing Ash Catchers
Ash catchers, as functional accessories that enhance the smoking experience, are indispensable products for wholesale suppliers of smoking accessories. When purchasing ash catchers in bulk, it is crucial to consider not only the quality of the products but also to choose suppliers with a good reputation to ensure the selection of the most suitable ash catchers.
1. Materials: Ensure that the ash catchers are made of high-quality, durable materials such as borosilicate glass, which offers excellent heat resistance and durability.
2. Compatibility: Ensure the ash catchers seamlessly fit with your pipes or bongs. Firstly, consider the size and dimensions of the ash catchers to ensure they align well with the pipes, avoiding instability or imbalance. Secondly, focus on three key factors: size, gender, and joint size, which are crucial for seamless connection.
- Size: Typically 14mm or 18mm.
- Gender: Whether the joint is male or female.
- Angle: Usually 45 degrees or 90 degrees.
3. Filtration Efficiency: Ash catchers equipped with percolators can provide better filtration and cooling, enhancing the smoking experience. Common types of percolators in ash catchers include:
- Tree percolator: Offers excellent diffusion through multiple tree arms.
- Honeycomb percolator: Simple design providing smoother filtration.
- Showerhead percolator: High diffusion providing optimal cooling and filtration.
- Matrix percolator: Highly efficient cooling and filtration with an outstanding appearance.
4. Innovative Design: Choose ash catchers with innovative features and aesthetic designs to attract a broad customer base. Ensuring that the supplier can provide innovative ash catchers is crucial for maintaining brand vitality and enhancing brand competitiveness.
5. Customization:Glass products offer numerous customization options.When making bulk purchases,it”s important to clearly outline customization options and the extent of customization with the supplier.
6. Delivery timelines:Communicate with the supplier to establish clear delivery schedules and determine reasonable delivery timelines and penalties for delayed deliveries.
7. Supplier stability:Assessing supplier stability can effectively mitigate risks in the supply chain.Choose a reliable,reputable supplier with a proven track record of delivering high-quality products on time.
8. Compliance and Regulations:Ensure that smoking accessories you purchase comply with relevant regulations and safety standards.Ensure compliance with local laws and regulations throughout the procurement and sales processes,especially concerning import duties,tariffs,and product safety standards.Most wholesalers require factories to assume freight and customs clearance risks.
MS Glass Pipe, through continuous research and market analysis, produces high-quality ash catchers in various sizes and with premium functionality. We are constantly expanding our inventory and variety of smoking accessories. Contact us to find the ash catcher that meets your specific business needs.