hash press / Kief pucks.. should I heat the outside?

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Ok so I made a cheap home made hash press, and pressed my 75micron kief into 2 gram pucks. Should I take a lighter and kinda darken the outside of the puck, or just leave it blonde?
 
Yeah I am using a 1/2 piece of PVC that a nickle fits in nice and tight. I just place the nickle in, put it on concrete, fill up with about 2grams, place another nickle on top, and hammer the shit out if it using a socket a little smaller than the nickle. seems to have worked pretty damn good... Just didnt know if I should melt the outside if that would preserve it better for long term storage or not
 
PVC particles in the hash are not a good thing. Might I suggest replacing the PVC with steel?

I wouldn't darken it, I would seal it in a small glass jar and try to keep from oxidizing as much as possible.
 
I fully understand that, however the nickles were covering the hash, the pvc just acted as a tube. I looked for a steel tube, however I could not find one with the inside diameter I needed, only had 4 grams of kief to press, and so I dont think it would be an issue. I do plan on buying an actual hash press for my next batch, it was more just an experiment than anything, but I do hear what your saying fadedawg, and appreciate you looking out.
 
A 1" Schedule 40 pipe nipple has a 1" ID. I use a close nipple with a cap, in conjunction with a 1" hardened dowel that I split in half, to make an anvil and a ram.

We make Cannabuttons using such a die, as well as hash buttons.
 

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damn fade fadedawg, that looks like it would press it good!!!

I pressed pure kief one day so hard, that when I took it apart...it looked like my press walls, and the puck I used to crush the kief was covered in liquid oil. pure honey oil straight from squeezed crystal. not sure what it was from but boy did it look good. there wasnt enough to scrape and smoke.

but it makes me wonder... what if you pressed somethin like 20-30 grams of pure kief.... really really tight and hot, if you could squeeze a droplet out of that kief?
 
now that would be some pure shit!!!! no solvents needed. not even water.

let see someone try it!!!! I know someone here can ;)
 
Fadedawg, that info was awesome man! My pvc thing was just a quick experiment with 2, 2gram pucks. Thanks for the info on the type and size of pipe man! +rep!
 
the term rosin just recently got popular. being dabbable and anyone can do it at home it jumped pretty quick in this "new" market

back but a few years ago we had just known it as a hot melt extrusion. rosin was obviously around but we wouldnt apply that term that to hash oil as traditional rosin isnt really what you want, a solid resin thats lost lighter compounds. you can hold a lighter over a bud and see the oil residue drip.i mean these ideas are quite old. i remember talking about "rosin" when i really started in the early 90's
a few studies were done in early 200x's as well. on what we call rosin today 10+ years later

i know i dont normally advocate rosin. so to be clear, im not hating here. just saying its no newer than any other method. just gained alot of popularity in the last year
 
qwizoking said:
the term rosin just recently got popular. being dabbable and anyone can do it at home it jumped pretty quick in this "new" market

back but a few years ago we had just known it as a hot melt extrusion. rosin was obviously around but we wouldnt apply that term that to hash oil as traditional rosin isnt really what you want, a solid resin thats lost lighter compounds. you can hold a lighter over a bud and see the oil residue drip.i mean these ideas are quite old. i remember talking about "rosin" when i really started in the early 90's
a few studies were done in early 200x's as well. on what we call rosin today 10+ years later

i know i dont normally advocate rosin. so to be clear, im not hating here. just saying its no newer than any other method. just gained alot of popularity in the last year
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No shit. It was popular in europe in the 80's. But it was never to the tech and quality it is now. It's like Frenchy popularized press hash. And everyone calls it Frenchy tech. That method has been around for thousands of years.
 
tech and quality?
ok ill leave the latter alone.

yiu really think weve advanced in 30 years and still use a hair straightener?

hot melt extrusion tek i mentioned is drastically more advanced.
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and thats an outdated pic
pharm use is prerty cool

im just saying.
rosin hasnt changed at all in 30 years

its been popularized, but needs much improvement. the resurgent cannabis culture and use of concentrates is really what sparked it.

whereits at now is crude bho and whipping.
advance to a vac oven
then closed loop.

thats what i expect.. its in its infancy
 
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