Bottle Sealers as Rosin Presses

[BobCajun]

Here's a unit that may be good for rosin pressing. I don't know if it's necessary to have the bottom heated or not. Maybe they would sell a second round heating plate and you could put it on the bottom. That heating plate is flat all over btw, you can see it in their YT video. The site is here. Unfortunately they're in India, but then isn't everything in India or China these days? It might also be good for going into business selling supplements or whatever. Or if you had little bottle cap sized containers you could seal your rosin for freshness. To get higher pressure you could stick a piece of iron pipe on the handle to make it longer. It says adjustable to 3" minimum bottle height so I guess you'd have to put something on the bottom to get more height so the plate will go flat on it. That's where you put your second element.

 

[Joker1121]

I checked out your link, but they wanted to give a quote instead of giving the price so that's as far as I went. It seems to me there are too many things you need to redesign as it were for the bottle press to be a good investment. You may need to do the experiment yourself. Good luck and thanks for the link/idea.

 

[BobCajun]

I checked out your link, but they wanted to give a quote instead of giving the price so that's as far as I went. It seems to me there are too many things you need to redesign as it were for the bottle press to be a good investment. You may need to do the experiment yourself. Good luck and thanks for the link/idea.

Yeah you're right. Anyway I found something better, tortilla/roti makers, also called presses. See a bunch here. They compress to 1 mm. Chips don't need to get thinner than that do they? If so, I guess put something metal that's 1 mm thick on the bottom plate. They also have top and bottom heat.

Don't know if it would press hard enough, probably, with that lever. Could probably get a bar clamp around it anyway, and the housing on this looks like metal not plastic like hair irons. I'll post an example image.

 

[BobCajun]

Sears is a gold mine of tortilla makers.

 

[Joker1121]

Putting an extended lever is a good idea, but would the appliance (tortilla maker) stand up to the pressure? Guess it's not any different than the abuse a hair iron gets..

 

[BobCajun]

Putting an extended lever is a good idea, but would the appliance (tortilla maker) stand up to the pressure? Guess it's not any different than the abuse a hair iron gets..

At least it looks like real metal casing, could be plastic with a metallic finish, idk. Anyway, might be possible to work with somehow or other. I guess the hair irons may be the best choice though, because the pressure is only on the area of the weed/hash and the rosin oozes out beyond the heating plates and is then no longer being heated, at least not as much. If the whole parchment is under the plates then it's still being heated after being squeezed out. The downside is that you can only do a gram or so at a time.

 

[Dr.Nick Riviera]

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[BobCajun]

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That's a great one. Good work finding that. Pneumatic and everything. I'll have to look into those. Thanks for your valuable contribution. The surfaces are small enough for the rosin to ooze out beyond them and not be heated as much as if the whole thing was under the plates. This looks like it really has potential, if it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

I checked the links and the temperature ranges are a little high but you could still just use a heat gun to tell when it gets hot enough and then turn it off.

 

[BobCajun]

You know, I still favor the tortilla/roti makers out of all of them. Cheap, readily available. Here's a nice heavy duty one, shipped from LA, on sale for $89. I don't see a heat control. Might have to scavenge one from a hair iron. Looks like the plates go flat together too, unlike some of the more common ones. To help with compressing, I would put a piece of wood or metal on top the lid under the handle arm, to get good leverage.