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[Singlemalt]

I bought a black widow 20 ton press and 4x7 plates from lowtemp about 1000 bucks.
Dudes are paying 5k for their presses that do the same thing.

Reminds me of the presses they used to have in old fashioned laundries

 

[Aeroknow]

Reminds me of the presses they used to have in old fashioned laundries

The bigger the plates, more tonnage needed though psi. Plus, the rosin could end up getting cooked on there too long, burning the precious terps.

 

[Aeroknow]

Reminds me of the presses they used to have in old fashioned laundries

I predict something that huge for the near future though

 

[Singlemalt]

Yeah, these also just belched out steam, make a big mess of the rosin. Mom used to take Dad's uniform (pants/shirts) to a laundry and I'd watch the folks for seemed ike hours; steam blasting, snatch it off and put on hangers assembly-line style. Fun to watch but I'd say miserable to work there lol

 

[Aeroknow]

Reminds me of the presses they used to have in old fashioned laundries

You know though, heads were squishing rosin with hair straighteners just a year ago. Then teeshirt presses. Now, it's lower temps with more psi. Even though the psi makes heat too, it's still at the infant stage for sure bro.

 

[Singlemalt]

You know though, heads were squishing rosin with hair straighteners just a year ago. Then teeshirt presses. Now, it's lower temps with more psi. Even though the psi makes heat too, it's still at the infant stage for sure bro.

Yes, your unit is new style but now that you mentioned tee shirt presses, it kinda looks like the ones in the late 60s-70s for the iron on decals for tees

 

[Aeroknow]

Yes, your unit is new style but now that you mentioned tee shirt presses, it kinda looks like the ones in the late 60s-70s for the iron on decals for tees

I squish and make rosin with this

I use the old school teeshirt press to press out slabs

 

[Singlemalt]

Nice. Gotcha now

 

[Indacouch]

A patient of mine uses a digital hair straightener to do that .....I'd like to start messing around with it ....maybe after this years big crop I will ......I don't like chemical extraction at all ....I make lots of ice hash and my peeps love it .....but lots of them have been urging me to press .......so will see ....guess the old dog may have to learn a new trick soon .....I've got several black bags of popcorn/trim ATM ....but it's probably bad I left it in my shed at one of my spots ....made lots of bubble this year but wife had our new baby boy so I had to stick close to home

 

[Singlemalt]

I squish and make rosin with this
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I use the old school teeshirt press to press out slabs
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So those silk bags you wanted to clean (another thread) go into the press'squish?

 

[Aeroknow]

So those silk bags you wanted to clean (another thread) go into the press'squish?

Yup. You load the bags up with flower(160 micron bags) or bubble or kief(37 micron) and squish. It's a little bit more complicated than that, but no biggie.
I do 10g's at a time with both

 

[Singlemalt]

Yup. You load the bags up with flower(160 micron bags) or bubble or kief(37 micron) and squish. It's a little bit more complicated than that, but no biggie.
I do 10g's at a time with both

what is your approx weight recovery from 10g?

 

[Aeroknow]

Here's one of the empty bags i use. This is one of korlor420 silk 160 micron bags i use for flower

 

[Aeroknow]

what is your approx weight recovery from 10g?

So, it really is all about the strain, and getting it at around 62% humidity first is key too.
15% low, 20+ high.
Some strains, no matter how bomb they are, don't squish well. Most of the bomb flavors do though.

 

[Singlemalt]

Cool, so what prevents the squished rosin from sticking to the bag? Or do you have to scrape and fuck with it?

 

[Aeroknow]

Cool, so what prevents the squished rosin from sticking to the bag? Or do you have to scrape and fuck with it?

When i squish bubble, i get right around 50%
The rosin oozes out of the bag and sticks to the parchment paper. Or ptfe paper.
What i want to do with the spent bags is extract what's left. Here's one of the spent 10g loaded with flower bags:

There's def some good stuff stuck to the bag, and that squished flower has got to have some medicine left in it too i would think

 

[StonedFarmer]

Wonderful stuff man.

 

[Aeroknow]

oh, @Singlemalt here's what it looks like after one squish with flower before i collect it

 

[Singlemalt]

When i squish bubble, i get right around 50%
The rosin oozes out of the bag and sticks to the parchment paper. Or ptfe paper.
What i want to do with the spent bags is extract what's left. Here's one of the spent 10g loaded with flower bags:
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There's def some good stuff stuck to the bag, and that material has got to have some medicine left in it too i would think

Oh yeah, betcha there is a ton of stuff left. Alcohol extraction, but it won't be as clean, chlorophyll will go with it; but would be useful

 

[Indacouch]

@Aeroknow so playing around with a straightener or something similar small ....will I learn anything from that or should I just dive into a decent press like you show above and learn that way ???