Guess who’s voice I’m hearing reading your text…
Cheers
G
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your altered ego 
The Brain
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LOL I’ll make a pdf 70 pages long, one page with a photo and a writeup for every day they are in bloom. ohh my. ahem… but I am going to do it once I gather enough data! I should be able to document the entire life-cycle of the capitate trichome. I just need to complete the study on a couple of plants, so I can show that there is a pattern to the development, not just something I imagined. Nothing like seeing it first hand! Oh shit! I gotta go scan for trichomes on the MALE plants!!! sheeeeeeeeit, I never even thought of that!
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Hey bro! Use the wire whisk! It will whip that shit up perfectly! Only do it for a couple minutes! I didn’t do a second wash the last time I made bubble hash cuz it yielded so well!
You don’t find that yield is linked to the plant you used instead of some process you performed?
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Well it definitely has something to do with it… but I used to mix by hand and it took forever and did 3 washes and would yield about the same… so… to answer your ? Yes and no. I did make butter with the mash tho cuz there’s definitely more goods In there! I just didn’t want it in my perfect pull! I got pics. ! Starting material and how frozen it is matters also. I like to leave it in the freezer at least 4 days. I want to experiment with some dry ice in the mix!
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well it’s definitely got to be frozen as cold as it’ll get from the freezer. I usually only give it 24h minimum, I mean I can freeze a 45lb turkey solid overnight if I use “fast freeze”. Settling out to be -18C in the end. I never tried doing it by hand I started with a cake mixer. Are you using a micron/micrometer bag set which bags?
Tomorrow I will pull the freeze dried hash out and see if it’s totally dry. It looks pretty white to me like some kind of insane 8 ball.
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Yeah I don’t use a few of the bag cuz I got the 8 bag set. So I only use the 25, 72, 90,190, and 220. I don’t know about any “fastfreeze” so 4 days is long enough to make sure even the chunkiest stickiest nuggets are frozen solid. No way your 45 pound turkey is frozen in the middle in 24hrs in a normal freezer.
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yah the turkey was too large for the regular freezer, it would have warmed the freezer up, but we have this “fast freezer” as well that can take lots of lbs of room temperature food, the secret is the compressor runs for up to 72 hours. Yah it definitely wouldn’t freeze in a normal freezer, that’s for sure!
Still a tiny bit of moisture in there. I’ll let it go a couple more days. Then I’ll have to make room for more hash material
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That turned out pretty! Do you smash it into rosin?
ahhh I have yet to do something like that. I really want to, though. Been looking at some nice rosins made with freeze dried hash. Oh man, jealousy!!! I should mention it to my sponsors, I can’t bleed em dry though lol! I’ll check in a month or so, see how “the people” are feeling…if they are exceptionally generous. I had been dreaming about that idea even before I got this new contract, but I’ve only been workin’ it for a few months now. I suppose if I constructed one myself I could do it for 500$.
I think you could do it for less depending on parts and what labor you do, at that price you could likely just buy a pretty legit one (press?).
You think I could construct one cheaper in canada? I could hunt around and see for sure! It’s hard to get anything out here in the boonies. I don’t live anywhere near an urban center. Lemme check retail for crap I can get around here.
cheapest one is a twist press for 715$ rosin tech.
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ok it’s easy enough to make or purchase a shop hydraulic press, those things are a dime a dozen. It’s those fucking caged heated plates, for uncaged ones I could get them for 250$, caged add another 100$. I’ll keep looking and shit.
I was trying to make up my mind about the merits of caged vs uncaged.
Mechanically I like the idea of caged but it seemed to me that a smaller caged unit might be difficult due to restricted access.
What’s your opinion?
Cheers
G
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My DIY is uncaged, and I have to readjust the plates every few months.
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I’d like to see the whipping of the bags lol! Do you look like a cowboy lassoing a cow?
I do not know if it is a concern or not but I wonder about the heat affecting the ram of the press if it is heated and cooled too much. The uncaged plates would heat the ram slowly if you left them turned on for a long period of time or accidentally left them on. The caged plates wouldn’t do it as you can release the ram until it just leaves the top of the plate. Just that I have heard a lot of people talk about their rosin presses failing. Wondering if it could be exacerbated from heat. I know they can take some heat as you often heat stuff in a press but most things degrade faster with heat.
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My 6-ton press has a ram separate from the jack’s ram. The original jack (Harbor Freight) failed after a couple years (leaking) so I replaced it with one from NAPA and have been good to go since.
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Ah yes. I never thought of that aspect when looking at those designs. Very cool. On mine the shaft seal on the shaft that the plates would bolt to is only about 8 inches away. 
not ideal.
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