Making FMCD from the bubblebox. Dry sift hash thread.

[anhedonia]

Ive got 7 grams of sifted outdoor using a 220u. Bubblemans bubblebox should be in my possession within the week. This thread is a little premature but I would like it to be good enough that people could use it as reference. As bubbleman said, ice hash can be made easily by any plain joe, but making connoiseur dry sift is an art. Its also interesting to note that dry sift retains all of the water soluble turpenes while ice hash washes those away leaving a less tasty product.
Ive pressed some of the 220u dry sift into a soft pliable piece within minutes but unfortunately the quality is compromised. It mostly smouldered and burned right away instead of bubbling. It just sizzled a little. So what im going to attempt with the box is to isolate all those heads that bubble and see if it makes the FMCD.

Heres shots of the 220u hash and some white berry that I harvest this month. Even though bubbleman says you need dry aged trichomes to get the best product, I'll let my whiteberry material cure for a couple weeks then run it. I cant wait to see what it makes.

 

[Chuck420]

simply amazing man, look at all that kief!

 

[anhedonia]

You must be talking about the plants. 7 grams of contaminated hash isnt that much. We'll see this week what that stuff makes. I'll explain it furthur but my first method will be 220u sift then dumping all of that onto the bubblebox screens and going from there. And I need to get a jewelers loupe to inspect my product. But for the first run my goal is to get FMCD and thats it. I'll be able to make a more refined product as I get experienced with it Im guessing.

And please dry sifters post your methods. Or anyone that can contribute info to the thread. I dont think RIU has an official dry sieve thread so lets get this one off the ground.

 

[anhedonia]

unfortunately the hash you see in the vials did not make the full melt that I had been expevting. It did make a very fine grade though that is very clean and removed of contaminate. Why it doesn't bubble I dont know. Shitty trichomes maby. The stuff wouldn't even make decent bubble hash so I guess I shouldn't have expected it to make FMCD dry sift. I am a newb to making fine dry sift so Im learning as I go. I have about 20g of whiteberry trim curing in the box and I'll come back to this thread once the time is right to make the dry sieve with full photos and steps to getting FMCD. The whiteberry has made some melty ice hash so Im pretty sure the dry sift will be full melt.

 

[anhedonia]

Im not going into detail on this one simply because as a newb to sifting I have not yet procured the melty clear dome. Not sure what Im doing wrong exactly. The white berry should have made some bubbley dry sift IMO but it didnt. I harvested another plant yesterday so I'll try again in a few weeks. But heres pics of the white berry sift. I accidentally deleted the pic ot the original pile of 220u sift sitting on the 140u bubble box screen. The first pic is the close up of the 220 sift sitting on the 140 before being cleaned. That pile acctually turns into a dark green pile of what looks to be lint the more you sift it. The next pictures are of cleaned product on a 104u and finally a 70u on the black plate.

 

[anhedonia]

Heres what went through the box. Looks good to me. But Im seriously going to do some more research and maby some practice runs to get the hang of it since its all technique and an art according to the admin at fullmeltbubble. And funny enough, he seemed not to be the slightest bit helpful about discussing this technique but rather seemed to be elusive and pretentious.

 

[anhedonia]

Used about 6g of very resinous sugar leaf from the white berry and tried a different technique. Frose the trim, broke it up onto the 140u and sifted back and fourth a few times. The pile that fell through to the 104u screen was pure white frosty gland heads. Very small pile that lo and behold the shit still did not melt. WTF???

 

[floridasucks]

ive never been able to get mine to bubble either. the only thing that does for me is BHO.

nice plants btw!

heres some og kush kief.. 100 micron screen.

 

[anhedonia]

Thats so odd. I feel like I got taken on this bubble box thing. Its beautiful and everything and cleans your hash up nicely but that alone would not sell me on it. The entire week that I waited for it in the mail all I could think of was bubbley dry sift. And that advertisement I think I mentioned, Its not worth the trouble if it doesnt bubble??? A little erroneous.

 

[floridasucks]

how much was that box and it came with diff size screens?

 

[Night Claptoman]

I get my finger hash to bubble :S
I just get it off my fingers with a knife and hand press it down.
Last time I've tried using latex gloves while trimming, froze them and ripped the black greese off and created a black hash that looks like charas. Bubbles just fine.

I don't know much about screen hash but I'd guess the main reason it won't bubble is because Its ain't compressed well enough.
When you compress screen hash you need quite a bit of force. The kind of force that you need a vise to get.
It should bubble then to my understanding as long as its pretty pure.

If my finger hash bubbles yours should bubble too. Mine is full of contaminants.

 

[anhedonia]

I got it on sale and paid a grand total of $220 with postage. It has 3 layers of filtration, A 140u for initial seperation, a 104u then a 70u, Im guessing mainly to clean out the 104u sift. Finer cystolith trichs and stalks fall through this one leaving you with just heads. Im going to do another run with 30g whiteberry trim this thursday and will post some pictures of the stuff that falls through after a few light swipes on the 140u.

 

[anhedonia]

I get my finger hash to bubble :S
I just get it off my fingers with a knife and hand press it down.
Last time I've tried using latex gloves while trimming, froze them and ripped the black greese off and created a black hash that looks like charas. Bubbles just fine.

I don't know much about screen hash but I'd guess the main reason it won't bubble is because Its ain't compressed well enough.
When you compress screen hash you need quite a bit of force. The kind of force that you need a vise to get.
It should bubble then to my understanding as long as its pretty pure.

If my finger hash bubbles yours should bubble too. Mine is full of contaminants.

Well you have to take into consideration that the trichs are dry, but that doesnt mean that they wont melt. Think of putting something the consistency of powdered sugar onto a screen. Like the bubbleman himself said, any old joe can make bubble hash but full melt dry sift is an art and fine skill.

 

[Night Claptoman]

I see. You want to smoke it uncompressed. Haven't got that. Too many words I didn't really understood.

If its such a fine powder how come it doesn't fall through the pipe screen?

 

[floridasucks]

wow 220 is alot... mine was 70.

 

[anhedonia]

No, I first collect every last bit of resin I can first using a 220u work bag and a bowl. Then what is collected goes into the box on the first filtration screen 140u.
Anyway, is that what you were referring to?

 

[floridasucks]

oh haha i meant the price. it is alot better quality than mine tho.

 

[anhedonia]

Heres a pile of the 104u. Only swept it across the 70u a few times.
I took these pictures using a 5x magnifying glass. I obviously didnt get a perfect picture of 5x magnification. I'll see what I can do about getting one of those shots up.

 

[floridasucks]

good stuff but no bubble...

 

[mayan]

Thank you for this thread...I've been using a bubblebox, as well and am still not sure I got it down. It's nice to see others working with this as well. It took me a while to realize that the prize trichs were located on the bottom screen and that the stuff on the black plate is not the precious treasure. So...what do people do with the stuff on the black acetate and on the upper screen? Cook with it? ISO?

I'm not at all sure about technique either. It seems like the best thing to do, however, is to minimally handle the material on the work screen and then gently work the stuff that falls to the next screen. How to properly work the stuff on the bottom (70u) screen? Bubbleman says that you pretty much HAVE to card it because only active manipulation will get the hairs, fragments and non-THC gland stalks to go through the screen. Other than that? I'm not sure that even my bubble hash bubbles much less the dry sift. I think I'm gonna have to get a magnifying glass to study the process more intimately. In the meantime, this is a great thead for listening and learning.