InjectTruth
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P.S. Anyway to get in touch with greyfox outside of Instagram?
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heady's maine adventure: gavitas, blumats, and the wicked lobstah soil mix
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Tea bags Lapi, well usually
happy holidaze to all of you, my friends!
lappy---
i use unbleached paper tea and coffee filters. i have these pouches i'm very fond of, the brand is "t-sac," although now that i'm making these pre-squished patties i've gone back to a normal brown paper coffee filter so i can wrap it easily.
injecttruth---
greyfox has an ICmag handle but i think he hasn't been visiting much. IG is definitely the fastest. i can ask about an email contact if you'd like....
ya i can't wait to see what sunfire has been working so diligently on!
EVERYONE who is squishing rosin should check out sunfire's youtube videos on prep-work, just search for "elysian research" that's his company name. he's made several tutorials explaining his whole technique. i cant give this guy enough credit for how much he's influenced my squishing.
actually i'm pretty impressed with soilgrown's new commercial press the sasquash---20t pneumatic but it's fully controllable speed, heat, and pressure. i watched a bunch of vids on their IG account and they definitely seem to be able to get that finesse i always criticize other pneumatic presses for lacking.
GET MO---
the reason i went with the 10 ton dake and the 3x5 platens was partially because that was the most press we could assemble within our budget, and partly because we run such a wide variety on a perpetual schedule that i rarely have more than a couple ounces of trim, so pressing 14/15g per squish is ideal for our output.
if i had gotten larger platens, i'd need stronger press to keep my PSI in the range i like (1k--2k), but the next size up in press capacity is almost double the price i found for the 10t dake! we just couldn't swing it.
also square footage is extremely tight in our little garden so this press already takes up about as large a footprint as we could spare. anything bigger would have needed some serious rearranging. as it was we had to totally break down and repurpose our metro-shelving unit.
one day we'll have all the space and capacity and budget to go bigger, but for now i think we settled on the perfect press for our current scale.
lappy---
i use unbleached paper tea and coffee filters. i have these pouches i'm very fond of, the brand is "t-sac," although now that i'm making these pre-squished patties i've gone back to a normal brown paper coffee filter so i can wrap it easily.
injecttruth---
greyfox has an ICmag handle but i think he hasn't been visiting much. IG is definitely the fastest. i can ask about an email contact if you'd like....
ya i can't wait to see what sunfire has been working so diligently on!
EVERYONE who is squishing rosin should check out sunfire's youtube videos on prep-work, just search for "elysian research" that's his company name. he's made several tutorials explaining his whole technique. i cant give this guy enough credit for how much he's influenced my squishing.
actually i'm pretty impressed with soilgrown's new commercial press the sasquash---20t pneumatic but it's fully controllable speed, heat, and pressure. i watched a bunch of vids on their IG account and they definitely seem to be able to get that finesse i always criticize other pneumatic presses for lacking.
GET MO---
the reason i went with the 10 ton dake and the 3x5 platens was partially because that was the most press we could assemble within our budget, and partly because we run such a wide variety on a perpetual schedule that i rarely have more than a couple ounces of trim, so pressing 14/15g per squish is ideal for our output.
if i had gotten larger platens, i'd need stronger press to keep my PSI in the range i like (1k--2k), but the next size up in press capacity is almost double the price i found for the 10t dake! we just couldn't swing it.
also square footage is extremely tight in our little garden so this press already takes up about as large a footprint as we could spare. anything bigger would have needed some serious rearranging. as it was we had to totally break down and repurpose our metro-shelving unit.
one day we'll have all the space and capacity and budget to go bigger, but for now i think we settled on the perfect press for our current scale.
FoothillFarming
Active member
Heady, you are setting new standards for growers. Keep up the good work.
squanch
Dude, that press and way you were working with it was very impressive. Super efficient! And sublime end product, that first dab, wheew!
d3adh3ad0g
Member
I want to thank the person who started this unbelievble thread. After trying several gorw sites I swore never again and then I stumbled on to this pehnominal piece of work. I have read it over 3 times! I had to join Iternational Cannagraphic! Very excitging.
sorry i missed this question GM.
i got my pre-press dies made at a local metal shop. ask for cold rolled flat steel bar. the hot rolled steel bar has a flakey black patina on it that is not ideal. they should cost about the same.
i have one with 1/4" margins and one with 1/2" margins. with larger squishes it's nice to have a little more room to squish into before overshooting the platens.
you can get it welded, but labor is the most expensive part of the whole thing, so for the second one i just had them cut and i use some little quick grip clamps or c-clamps to hold the frame together. works great.
my 1/2" margin one was all cut from 1/2" cold rolled steel flat bar.
base piece = 3" x 5" (size of my platens)
insert piece = 2" x 4" (fits inside the die)
die frame = two 2" x 1" (x 1/2") for the short ends, two 5" x 1" (x 1/2") for the long ends.
here's some pics to make the post prettier. this is the first die, with welded 1/4" margins.
gg4 x snowman no. 2 trim
ACDC cookies no. 2 patty, filter wrapped patty, and squished patty. these were 12g patties.
a squanch. click on the pic for a short vid clip.
activated rosin sublinguals, two ways.
InjectTruth
Active member
If you can get an email contact that would be rock solid. I'll try sending him a pm in the meantime. Just saw his more recent IG posts, feeling like homer simpson. Mmmmm, driptek.
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el boyo
nice garden bro
hi friends.
sorry to leave you guys hangin for a few weeks. IRL has been yuck.
bmac---
the press was just under $300 shipped to our door. the platens were just under $500. the pre-press plates were $100 for the welded set or $40 for the unwelded (both were cost of labor, steel is cheap as hell). the unwelded set requires two c-clamps or mini-quick-vices, so add another $25 for that. i already had the smaller shop press, originally a 6-ton from harbor freight, $75, but i had to replace the jack, $25.
looks like i got the main press for $800 and the whole set up for a bit less than $1100.
for that price i have 10 tons of pressure, and 15 square inches of platen surface, so i'm comfortably pressing ~half oz per squish at a minimum of 1333 PSI when fully engaged.
thats considerably more squishing power for less than a third the price of any comparable plug and play on the market rn.
mck---
i first was introduced to the idea of decarboxylation as a process to improve the bioavailability of orally ingested cannabinoids in badkittysmiles' cannapharm thread.
that doesn't totally match the THC decarboxylation curves graphs shared by jump177. i tend to follow that more these days if i'm decarbing in the oven.
also i've stopped bothering to cover them. i don't think a cover helps protect delicate mono and di terpenes from degrading in the presence of heat. i also am not convinced that terpene modulation plays any role when ingesting or in topical applications---certainly not to the extent that it modifies the high when smoking THC. so it feels to me like a wasted effort and a lot of wasted aluminum foil.
if i'm evaporating an ethanol extraction i'll just do the decarb in the evap vessel by watching the bubbles in the concentrate phase change as the last of the etoh is purged and then again after the carbon dioxide slows indicating the carboxyl groups have mostly been removed. i call that the grey wolf method. here's his article on decarboxylation on the skunk pharm site. he lost the most important image which is maddening but i figured it out watching the bubbles in situ.
i always prefer to decarboxylate my concentrates before combining with any carrier oils.
sorry to leave you guys hangin for a few weeks. IRL has been yuck.
bmac---
the press was just under $300 shipped to our door. the platens were just under $500. the pre-press plates were $100 for the welded set or $40 for the unwelded (both were cost of labor, steel is cheap as hell). the unwelded set requires two c-clamps or mini-quick-vices, so add another $25 for that. i already had the smaller shop press, originally a 6-ton from harbor freight, $75, but i had to replace the jack, $25.
looks like i got the main press for $800 and the whole set up for a bit less than $1100.
for that price i have 10 tons of pressure, and 15 square inches of platen surface, so i'm comfortably pressing ~half oz per squish at a minimum of 1333 PSI when fully engaged.
thats considerably more squishing power for less than a third the price of any comparable plug and play on the market rn.
mck---
i first was introduced to the idea of decarboxylation as a process to improve the bioavailability of orally ingested cannabinoids in badkittysmiles' cannapharm thread.
that doesn't totally match the THC decarboxylation curves graphs shared by jump177. i tend to follow that more these days if i'm decarbing in the oven.
also i've stopped bothering to cover them. i don't think a cover helps protect delicate mono and di terpenes from degrading in the presence of heat. i also am not convinced that terpene modulation plays any role when ingesting or in topical applications---certainly not to the extent that it modifies the high when smoking THC. so it feels to me like a wasted effort and a lot of wasted aluminum foil.
if i'm evaporating an ethanol extraction i'll just do the decarb in the evap vessel by watching the bubbles in the concentrate phase change as the last of the etoh is purged and then again after the carbon dioxide slows indicating the carboxyl groups have mostly been removed. i call that the grey wolf method. here's his article on decarboxylation on the skunk pharm site. he lost the most important image which is maddening but i figured it out watching the bubbles in situ.
i always prefer to decarboxylate my concentrates before combining with any carrier oils.
OGX x snowman, no. 9. big dense nuggets with a million to one calyx to leaf ratio. took 5 mins to trim the whole plant. smells like culinary herbs and dead teeth.
gg4 x snowman no. 1 is fully revegged and lookin good! here's some with some 420 tulips.
the gg4 x snowmans are great hash plants, look at this trim from the no. 2
our first lazy lightning is nearly ripe
missed this girl, CTOG:
gg4 x snowman no. 1 is fully revegged and lookin good! here's some with some 420 tulips.
the gg4 x snowmans are great hash plants, look at this trim from the no. 2
our first lazy lightning is nearly ripe
missed this girl, CTOG:
over six an a half grams of rosin from that bag of trim in the post above, almost 20% return! my best so far.
various rosin shots:
click this one to watch it twirl in the sun!
various rosin shots:
click this one to watch it twirl in the sun!
gage green freedom baby (harlequin x joseph OG)
i'll post results when we get samples out to the lab.
no. 9
no. 5.
mega makes some solid hash btw. here's a shot of his fresh frozen full melt gg4 bubble on my sapphire insert.
click for clear domes!
coming attractions:
i'll post results when we get samples out to the lab.
no. 9
no. 5.
mega makes some solid hash btw. here's a shot of his fresh frozen full melt gg4 bubble on my sapphire insert.
click for clear domes!
coming attractions:
