Yet another diffuser

[dizzing]

Well,
I've been coming to this site since before anybody had ever posted
anything, but I've never done anything more than lurk around reading
other people's ideas.  The other day my friend and I were talking
about making some kind of diffuser for the bottom of our hookah stem,
and I got on here to read up and found 3 different threads discussing
the exact same thing.  Unfortunately I didn't find anything to
quite suit our purposes, but I got a lot of ideas.  We finally
made a diffuser last night that works, I must say, spectacularly.

The technology begins with a rubber bowl grommet, as I read in one of
the posts already up here.  Instead of using some kind of plastic
lid or some such, however, we took a piece of corrugated metal (the
kind you find on the back of things with big power supplies or
something... just a piece of metal that is uniformly filled with small
1-2mm holes - probably about 50% holes, 50% metal) and used a pair of
pliers to bend it into a cone shape with a flattened tip (it's shaped
kind of like a cake decorating tip, I apologize for not having any
pictures), which we then fit into the other end of the grommet. 
The whole thing was then secured to the stem by the wire from a pipe
cleaner - we just wrapped it around the top of the grommet a few times
to seal it to the stem.

The smoke now fills the chamber extremely smoothly, and it tastes
almost fluffier (I hesitate to make too many grand claims, because I am
of course biased).  It is definitely smoother and more
flavorful. 

Anyway, I just wanted to thank everyone on here for all the wonderful
ideas that appear here every day, and to try and give something back to
the only real hookah community I've found (there are no hookah cafes in
my area - although I believe one is coming soon).