Bench notes
Control tower inserts and the tower bangers that take them
A control tower insert is a quartz pillar. The control tower kit here calls its pillar a "pillar insert", and its listing says the pillar sits in the center to control airflow. Every tower here ships with its own pillar or pearls.
What a tower banger is
A banger whose bucket is a tall, narrow chamber. Makers publish the sizes. Bear Quartz's Lowrider tower is 15 mm across and 75 mm tall, by Aqua Lab's listing. Highly Educated's custom tower has a 70 mm chamber as standard, and it can be ordered from 50 mm to 120 mm.
Shops don't all use the name the same way. The extra wide kit here is called a control tower, and its listing describes a wide slurper-style bucket with a pillar standing in its center.
What the insert is
A quartz pillar. Highly Educated makes its pillars 5, 6 or 7 mm across and 30 mm tall by default, from 10 mm to 50 mm on request. Encore sells a solid insert in two sizes, 17 mm and 30 mm. Aqua Lab's Lowrider listing includes a 25 mm hollow pillar.
Highly Educated recommends "at least 17mm between the pillar and chamber height", and gives the reason: "Your pillar height may not leave enough clearance for a carb cap."
The tower kits here
Every tower here comes with its pillar or pearls, and a marble or cap, so nothing has to be matched by hand. They come in 10 mm and 14 mm male joints, at 45° or 90°, and the Fit Index lists them by joint.
| Banger | Joints | Comes with | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass House Opaque Tower Splash Guard | 14 mm male 90° | Banger, Marble carb cap, Terp pillar | $34.99 |
| Extra Wide Control Tower Banger Kit | 14 mm male 90° | Banger, Marble, Pillar | $37.99 |
| 3 in Tower Slurper Set with Etch Pillar & Dichro Marble | 14 mm male 90° | Tower slurper banger, Etched pillar, 12 mm dichro top marble | $39.99 |
| Tower Slurper Banger | 10 mm male 45°, 14 mm male 45° | Banger, Etched hollow pillar, Cap | $28.99 |
Extra Wide Control Tower Banger Kit
$37.99
- 14 mm male 90°
Fits your rig
3 in Tower Slurper Set with Etch Pillar & Dichro Marble
$39.99
- 14 mm male 90°
Top marble in the boxFits your rig
Loose pillars
Two pillars are sold on their own: the 35 mm Whistle Cut Pillar ($9.49), 35 mm long, whose listing says it's for terp slurper bangers, and the Mateo Gonzalez Glass Q Tip Pillar ($27.99), in glass. To replace a kit's pillar, match its length and width to the one that came in the box.
Caps for towers
Every tower kit here comes with its own marble or cap, sized to it. Three caps are also sold on their own under tower names: the 1.5 in Quartz Tower Cap ($12.99), the 1.5 in Opaline Tower Top Carb Cap ($29.99) and the 1.5 in Rainbow on Cloud Tower Top Carb Cap ($19.99).