Stainless Steel Micron Buckets

[corky1968]

Have you ever wanted to make water hashish with something more durable than those weak fabric mesh bags?
Well this is what you want people. They make Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Bucket Filters with holes of 1000, 800,
600, 500, 400, 300, 234, 177, 100, 74, 43, 15, & 5 Micron in size.

I bought a 5 micron and 15 micron sheet of stainless steel for another project than making hashish and
really like this stuff. I suspect you hashish makers will like these stainless steel filters as well. Watch the
video on following link as well.

Stainless Bucket Filters

 

[corky1968]

To make water hashish I personally would choose the 15 and 234 size only.

The large one would be used to screen most of the leaf material out.
While the smaller one would catch all the resin glands.

I wouldn't be interested in separating all the gland sizes.
Like what they do with those Bubblebag bag kits do.
If your going to smoke it anyways. Who cares?

I can't wait to make Super Afghani Hashish one day with these stainless steel bucket filters.

 

[99%]

too bad they don't have any mesh bucket sizes in between 177 and 100 Micron meshes.

To make water hashish I personally would choose the 15 and 234 size only.

Meshes from 25 micron up to 160 micron (with several mesh sizes in between) is what the experts use for ice water as this is the min. and max. size range (for 95% of strains)...a 200 ~ 250 micron mesh can be used to strain off the plant matter...check out the 8 bag kits from freshheadies . com for ideal mesh sizes to use.

 

[corky1968]

A mesh size of 15 microns will catch everything larger than it.
These stainless steel filters will outlast those bag kits just saying.

I personally think trying to separate all the gland size is a waste of time.
The hashish they made in the Middle East wasn't sieved with bag kits into
different glands sizes. They put all the resin glands together.

I'll be going with these when I'm ready to make hashish.

Go with those bag kits if that's what you want.

Cheers.

 

[corky1968]

All the hash I've smoked which has been made by extracting via ice/water into separate gland sizes has been quite bland and tasteless to me. I much prefer what corky is suggesting as the flavours are not separated.

Thanks Oldbean,

This is the water hashish I made in 2009 and I used all the glands.
Sadly I only used coffee filters then and no doubt lost a lot of product.

It was very nice and soft. I wish I had some now.

Corky's Lebanese Hash

 

[Bud Buddington]

Corky, if you end up buying these steel filters please give a review. I love this idea but would really like to hear first hand experience of someone actually using them.

Are they easy to work with?
Do they drain well?
Are they easy to handle and clean?

 

[corky1968]

Corky, if you end up buying these steel filters please give a review. I love this idea but would really like to hear first hand experience of someone actually using them.

Are they easy to work with?
Do they drain well?
Are they easy to handle and clean?

Watch the video in the 1st post.
Water travels thru ok.
How hard is it to clean Stainless Steel? Use vinegar and it will be all nice and shiny again.

Once I grow two types Afghanis that I'll be buying seeds soon. I will be buying the two bucket filters
I mentioned above. Because I know they'll work out fine. My plan is to make water hashish like I did
before with 50% ice and 50% water. The link how I did it last time is in my last post above.

Once it's all done then I'm going to filter the golden resin water thru the stainless steel filters.
I emailed the coffee filter place and they told me they suspected their filters had a pore size
of around 100-120 micron in size. So I know I lots a lot of product. This won't happen with
a 15 micron bucket screen like these.

BTW: Doing it with coffee filters sucked and took forever.

 

[Mikell]

Sam and Frenchy (more Sam) reference different refining techniques used in traditional hash regions, from refining plant matter/contaminant out of farmer sift to removing microcontaminate from semi purified heads. Temperature control is also employed by processing during cold dry monthes or locale.

Hash is a process of concentration, chaff to grain. It stands to reason some will always look to make a more refined product. Look no further than the different grades of raw pressed in any producing region. Export, domestic and the cooks treat, ascending in cost.

I can't recall the manufacturer, and they're pricey (avoiding discount imports), but the stainless steel pans that pop up in the background of a few of Bubbleman's videos can be stacked, gasketed and clamped in series. Probably not feasible for flower but it looked interesting for washing raw sift on a small scale.

 

[Dropped Cat]

Here's my set up:

Obviously for small runs, but even the 74 micron hashish blew
everyone away.

First run was with 30 plus grams of Zamaldelica cured long time.

Dried, ready to smoke. Yield just under 4 grams.

The stainless mesh is available by the square .5 foot as samples.

If it weren't for this set up I would not know the sublime pleasure
afforded to those that produce their own solvent less concentrates.

For me, dry sift was just too tedious.

Thanks to member noreason for the funnel method.

 

[corky1968]

Nice and portable.

I can see people making hashish in the back of a car with that.

While the driver yells out: "Hurry up I want some before we get there."

BTW: Where did you get that?

 

[99%]

I personally think trying to separate all the gland size is a waste of time.
The hashish they made in the Middle East wasn't sieved with bag kits into
different glands sizes. They put all the resin glands together

Good one Corky

I do the same with dry sift, more often than not, but I've found that the hash (dry sifted and ice water) with the best high was usually isolated within a narrow size range eg 70 ~ 100 micron or 75 ~ 90 micron.

 

[Dropped Cat]

BTW: Where did you get that?

I can't recall, in US, I'm sure Amazon or any website
that carries canning supplies.

It is available in larger sizes, so scaling up production
is possible.

The two part deal makes getting the final wet hashish
easy from the rig.

That big strainer thing from the OP seems likely to
hamper the harvest, so to speak.