Yes that’s correct bolted to the work bench . To be honest the name escapes me it was on the manual and who knows where that is now , China made for sure going on 3 years and still works good I’m sure if you do a search online you’ll find similar as for price I’m not sure got it for a Xmas gift from my son I’m thinking at the time around 400.00 should be cheaper now .
It’s a tuff little bugger haven’t broke it yet. Thought for sure I’d twist a handle off burn it out within the year so far it’s been good using it a far bit also .
Works great for squishing bubble hash as long as you use a bag ,weed just parchment paper is fine no bag necessary.
Also makes nice bricks of hash with a homemade plate adapter.
If you can get Dry Ice locally, that would be the ticket. My local grocery store carries it, like $2/lb.
You will need:
A long as-flat-as-possible surface, table usually works, ~ 6ft long by 2ft wide should work but I wouldn’t go less than that.
1 pound of dry ice per 2 ounces of material.
160 or 220 Micron BubbleBag. I prefer the All-Mesh bags but the regular ones will work if you must.
I like the 5 gallon size, can get a 4 or 5pc kit of them for ~$35.
You want at least the 160 micron bag, I personally have been using 220 micron to ensure I get everything but it does also have some contaminate. The 160 will have less of both, less than 160 will be pure kief.
Whole process takes about 3 minutes to do.
Freeze herb/trim/larf
Thoroughly clean long flat surface, don’t leave any chemical residue.
Break apart dry ice into ~1inch chunks with a hammer, don’t touch it barehanded.
Put material from freezer into bag and pour dry ice on top. If you have a bunch to do then stagger the material and dry ice into layers.
Let sit for ~5 minutes
Carefully take bag to long flat surface and gently agitate/shake the bag ~6 or so inches above the surface.
Continue, slowly moving down the surface/table-whatever as the kief piles up.
Stop when you start seeing green. Should only take 2-3 minutes.
Scrap up all that sweet sweet dry sift to press or smoke or whatever
Nice. I don’t know if I’ve heard about this method. I’m trying to figure out what flat surface I could use. We have a dining room table that’s about six feet long, but it’s a custom-made thing and I don’t think my girl’d be too cool with me dumping a bunch of dry-ice-frozen weed onto it haha. I have one of those five bag hashmaking sets, the kind you put into a five gallon bucket etc, I may just use that. Or I may just toss what I have and start fresh when I get all of the stuff to make a press. I dunno.
I mean you totally could do that but if you’re using the 160 or 220 micron bags that let contaminate through towards the end of agitating there(2-3min mark), it’s better if you can limit the contaminated area to a small portion before stopping rather than shaking it all over your pristine kief. I mean if you’re just gonna press it or cook with it then it likely doesn’t matter but if you plan to smoke it or do some extractions or something, you generally want it as clean as possible.
Could also start with a small bag like the 73 micron, and work your way up to the 160 or 220 bag to get your varying levels of qualities of hash/keif/sift but I’d think you’get a lot more contaminate by the end there doing so. The dry ice makes it all really brittle really fast so more than a few minutes with it and it’s just disintegrating.
Shaking it out over a larger area also makes it a bit easier to see when it starts to turn from amber to green.
Yeah dry ice was my last attempt at hash making and I wish I started with it. I won’t go back to anything else, its just so quick and easy as to be crazy compared to all the effort needed to make bubble hash.
The returns with the dry ice are also higher than the returns from bubble hash. I’m not sure on a quality difference, again can use the different bags to get different grades just like you would with bubble if that’s something you care about. I just use the one 220 bag, collect it all with a card and a silicone container, and press it. I save the pressed pucks for cooking or campfire or a desperate day. Any Kief I don’t press gets used for edibles.
As for dry ice in a tumbler that might work just fine. I would be worried about dry ice coming through the tumbler or it freezing anything in there if there is something that could be at risk of freezing, but likely work out fine. If any does drop through with the kief it’ll just evap asap to nothing.
I make my tinctures and edibles from rosin pucks. I actually enjoy smoking a pipe packed with greenish kief sometimes. I like the flavor. Nothing goes to waste.
I suppose the tumbler motor could freeze up, but it is in separate compartment, so it will probably be ok. I added a thick piece of black glass for catching the kief. I don’t think dry ice will hurt it. Thanks for the tips.
Jesus, that looks intimidating haha! Seriously, since I ordered my press and stuff, I’ve been researching dab rigs and shit and I’m just like,”Pssshhhhh… I think I’ll roll a joint instead…” haha.
I run dry ice in a tumbler, pics are in the diy thread. I’m using a fine silk screen think it was 200 lpi have to look when I get home. I only get blonde hash. Should probably get a different screen to get more yield but I prefer quality. Never get any dry ice in mine. The upside is the chunks of dry ice pulverize the plant material very well
Are you then pressing that hash? Or just smoking it as is? I’m gonna try to find that diy thread, I wanna make a tumbler, too. How much did it cost to make yours? Cuz I’m over spending money haha.
Mine cost me $20 because I had most of it already. Just a big tote, some plywood, 1x2 strips, and silk screen fabric and a rotisserie motor off my grill
that might work just fine. I would be worried about dry ice coming through the tumbler or it freezing anything in there if there is something that could be at risk of freezing, but likely work out fine. If any does drop through with the kief it’ll just evap asap to nothing.
