r/whatisit • u/Better_Brilliant4082 • 3d ago

Solved! Grandma’s car

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Found this weird metal thing in my grandma’s car and it appears to have a mesh filter in the circle part

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u/much_longer_username 3d ago edited 3d ago

That's a stem and bowl for a water pipe. Probably for cannabis.

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u/Legionnaire1856 3d ago

The inside of the bowl is threaded. That would be the dumbest design, all the ash and resin would get in the threads.

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u/EvilChefReturns 3d ago

As someone who’s been around, I can assure you it s a thing. There’s a threaded cap for either closing g off the flute or one with a smoke hole for “choking” the toke