[Roji]

Originally Posted by Sunfire

Roji - I'm a shirt press noob. What the deal with the bit in the middle of the one you just linked?

Hashmasta - idk above the tube idea. You would need to get heat all the way through it, and then I feel like oil would gather on the sides of the tube? Maybe not a bad thing? line a 4x36 spool with 25 micron bag material, fill with your flowers, and heat the whole tube and press the shit out of it? Still I think the shirt press sounds faster and easier. My point is there's going to be a breaking point as to how thick you can do your presses for the material in the middle won't get enough heat.

Holy cow on the test results roji! All those terps and it's still shatter like? I've heard once you approach 10% terpenes with bho you will never have a stable product? This is getting fun! Keep working. I wasn't joking about grant money. Once you get this dialed down I'll come buy the first custom machine you make and drop you some extra for R&D. I want to to see yield and production of this technique rival cls!

The triclamp endcap you see on my press is for maximizing application pressure. By reducing the footprint of the bottom plate it allows a huge amount of pressure to be applied to a small area as opposed to it pressing on the 15x15 plate. I use this 1.5" as well as a 6" end cap. It makes a difference.

[JColtrane]

So I was impressed by the 25 ui screen idea on Hash Church yesterday. Gonna play around with lower quality sieve ... I think that's where you might see the 20%+ yields

[hawper]

Just did a recent run of some low quality trim (old, fan leaves, etc) into BHO. It came out decent, but you can tell there's waxes/impurities in there. Would I be able to press this into rosin? Maybe at a lower temp than using kief/buds, as the good rosin will seperate quickly from BHO?

Basically using the rosin tek to clean up lower quality errls. Hmmm.... I'll have to start experimenting.

[Cannabliss420]

agreed jcoltrane, i tried using some of a friends lower quality hash but i wasnt able to get any oil to seperate from it, it just kinda cooked :( but worked fine for the flowers

does anyone else notice that their still has to be a minimal quality to allow separation? i tried with his very very low grade flowers that he grows, and the same thing happened. no separation... but with my high quality, it works fine into a beautiful bright gold color

[Cannabliss420]

Hawper, im not sure how well it will work with BHO. im sure itll work to a degree, but this is a solventless tek, not a tek to clean up solvents or debri in your solvent extracts

[SkyHighLer]

Originally Posted by Roji

Hell ya, c'mon up .
The pressed weed coin deal in pic one and 2 will be an avenue to using viable trim, I'm sure of it. I'm also sure there is fancy heat presses with all the bells and whistles to make this tech more efficient. Something like THIS

How about commercial ironing machines? Here's a home version,

https://www.sewingmachinesplus.com/smp-220001112.php

[Roji]

Im pretty sure any machine we want to use is going to have to be able to produce some very serious pressures along with having highly controllable heated surfaces.

[Humpi]

That's a very smart idea roji. Thanks for sharing your technique and being so open about everything.

[Roji]

Sharing is caring. Free the weed etc etc etc...

[SkyHighLer]

Originally Posted by Roji

Im pretty sure any machine we want to use is going to have to be able to produce some very serious pressures along with having highly controllable heated surfaces.

When I first read of this tech, the industrial press Vincent Price squashed The Fly's head with came to mind...