so with 4700 lbs of force we've been getting mixed results, with different surface areas... 1.5 x 5.5" steel plates cant seem to press more than 1.7 grams until it presses flower outside the surface area? but with 1.7 or less we seem to be gettin full squirts in 1 press 2 or 3 seconds, but very inefficient having to waste a big pc of parchment for that little bit but this was to try and have the oil squirt off of the heated plates onto cooler parchment as it exits, so we have two more sets of custom plates ordered at 2.75 x 4.5 and then 1.5 x 3.5 to mimic the rosin technologies size pretty much, I am skeptical about how much that thing can press at a time tbh. and I havent been able to get squirts at 150 yet, just pressed bud....but at 175+ no issue (all flowers mind you)
with a bigger plate 4 x 5" marble heated to 200 we could press 2.5 grams at a time, with awesome results only the oil was not pressing outside the surface area much but not sure that matters.....after 7.5 grams we had a 1.6 so about a 20% return!! which was the best yet, but since then with different material that I didnt expect as much from we were getting really sappy, lower yields and just not digging it.........
So much more experimentation to come with proper steel (half inch thick) plates coming but for now we just have the 1.5 x 5.5 " ones where we just tripled up a 1/8" thick steel bar for a semi -plate....does the trick for the time being.
Not feeling the ease of use part so much but I am sure well get there, I wonder how much they are pressing on them Rosin Technolgies little plates? their press supposedly is about half the force lbs. as ours .. why at 150 arent we getting squirts??
to be continued with progress pics once they are half decent. for now the extra time it takes loading the plates into position and shit seems to be adding to the sap factor, and slightly degrading terps.... so I am going to try and pre flatten the buds to be presses and get them perfecltly uniform with a cold press so that were not playing such a balancing act. I am hoping that if we double up our surface area we can get back to doing 1.5gs at a time and getting them 20% numbers!!
with a bigger plate 4 x 5" marble heated to 200 we could press 2.5 grams at a time, with awesome results only the oil was not pressing outside the surface area much but not sure that matters.....after 7.5 grams we had a 1.6 so about a 20% return!! which was the best yet, but since then with different material that I didnt expect as much from we were getting really sappy, lower yields and just not digging it.........
So much more experimentation to come with proper steel (half inch thick) plates coming but for now we just have the 1.5 x 5.5 " ones where we just tripled up a 1/8" thick steel bar for a semi -plate....does the trick for the time being.
Not feeling the ease of use part so much but I am sure well get there, I wonder how much they are pressing on them Rosin Technolgies little plates? their press supposedly is about half the force lbs. as ours .. why at 150 arent we getting squirts??
to be continued with progress pics once they are half decent. for now the extra time it takes loading the plates into position and shit seems to be adding to the sap factor, and slightly degrading terps.... so I am going to try and pre flatten the buds to be presses and get them perfecltly uniform with a cold press so that were not playing such a balancing act. I am hoping that if we double up our surface area we can get back to doing 1.5gs at a time and getting them 20% numbers!!
, im all for rosin pressing man, BHO is and will be outlawed in the next year, just too many stupid stigmas in the news. so, now starts the hunt for large presses, like i said i think all these str8ing irons are cute, but will not be adequate for processing large quantities, nor are they really setup to interchangeably do different materials.
