What did you accomplish today?

manfredo

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I found that 190° gave me the best tasting rosin. I've been letting it sit for about 8 minutes.

I had some leg extensions made that are the same length as the jack arm so I can pull my full weight on it without it tipping over or having to hold it up.

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That's a nice press!! And when you wear out the bottle jack you can replace it with a 10 ton.

You are talking 190 Fahrenheit, right? I have mine at 90 Celsius currently. Which is close I think :lol:
 

Aeroknow

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My pot is great! Healthy as ever, it's a lime and an avocado I'm struggling with one in soil and one in hydro. The only thing common is the light. I'm chopping my flower room this week so I'll move them upstairs under the LED I'm running in veg and see if there's any change.
I dunno about growing limes and avocados but maybe they want some more nutes?
The very older bottles of the flora series had different formulas for different food crops but i doubt that even matters. I doubt you’re over feeding at that strength allz i’m saying :-)
 

Tangerine_

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My pot is great! Healthy as ever, it's a lime and an avocado I'm struggling with one in soil and one in hydro. The only thing common is the light. I'm chopping my flower room this week so I'll move them upstairs under the LED I'm running in veg and see if there's any change.
When I moved the clones downstairs to my veg room they perked up within a few days so in my case, it was the light.

Its just some off brand I picked up from Amazon for 40 bucks (with the coupon codes from the Best Deals thread.)

IMO, its a terrible light and had it been my first LED, it would've turned me off from them forever.
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Not enough IR? My other LEDs are better quality and my established plants seem to love them.
 

DarkWeb

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What goes out are the seals in that jack because of the heat that gets transferred from the plates directly from the ram to plate connection.
Pro tip, put a piece of leather in between the ram to plate connection :-). Helps a little
I have a piece of wood between the jack and the plates. And I'm able to remove the jack easy just because of that.
 

manfredo

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How do you wear out a bottle jack on a manual press?
They are mostly all cheap Chinese pumps and they don't last....They are inexpensive to buy too. A lot of people upgrade to air powered, like @doublejj did.

She could slide a 12 ton in there for $40


Or here's the 20 ton air model...No hand pumping required.

 

DarkWeb

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They are mostly all cheap Chinese pumps and they don't last....They are inexpensive to buy too. A lot of people upgrade to air powered, like @doublejj did.

She could slide a 12 ton in there for $40


Or here's the 20 ton air model...No hand pumping required.

Pressure and things under tension can be scary. You don't want to go overboard with it.
 
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