herbivore21
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Here's the thread for all of your discussion of The People's extraction method: Rosin Tek.
If you have any related questions please post them here!
I'll modify this post in the coming weeks with basic starting pointers for rosin initiates. For now, this is here to get the thread started :)
Rule for Rosin Tek Posts: Please specify temps and the setup (ie: vise or hydraulic press, which plates and heaters etc) that you have used when reporting results or discussing your situation in this thread. Temps must be as measured from the plates themselves (consider using a simple SS stem thermometer for this purpose, like what we use on an outdoor grill). Do not rely on your heater coil/soldering iron/cartridge thermocouples as the temp reported at the thermocouple is not the temp you are getting at the plates (which after all is what makes contact with your material).
If for any reason you do not have the requisite thermometer etc to record the temp from the plates, try as carefully as possible to explain what kind of heater setup you used (hair straightener, coil heated plates on a press etc) and provide any nominal temp measurement from the heater used (this is your temp as read on the heater controller for your coils, or on your hair straightener etc).
Where possible, please record your local Relative Humidity in the space you are storing/processing (this can be measured with a cheap product called a hygrometer, every cannabis user should have one). If you use boveda packs, you can assume that your RH in storage vessel will be ~62% (in the case that you are using a 62% boveda pack).
Here's an example of the rosin you can produce with very little learning and a little help from your friends in this thread:
This was pressed in a 1 ton vise in 2 inch round plates (.6g nugs preballed by hand but not pre-pressed in any plates etc - stored at ~62% RH and processed in a room @ 70% RH) at 230f. This is taken at 300x zoom, where the contaminant has nowhere to hide :D
Here I am going to start discussing a few important factors in rosin pressing:
1. Your nug/hash must stay inside the pressing plates. Especially if you use a small press/press with small plates, you need to be sure that what you're squishing stays in place. One important way to achieve this is with folding tek. There are many folding teks out there, find one that suits you.
If you have any related questions please post them here!
I'll modify this post in the coming weeks with basic starting pointers for rosin initiates. For now, this is here to get the thread started :)
Rule for Rosin Tek Posts: Please specify temps and the setup (ie: vise or hydraulic press, which plates and heaters etc) that you have used when reporting results or discussing your situation in this thread. Temps must be as measured from the plates themselves (consider using a simple SS stem thermometer for this purpose, like what we use on an outdoor grill). Do not rely on your heater coil/soldering iron/cartridge thermocouples as the temp reported at the thermocouple is not the temp you are getting at the plates (which after all is what makes contact with your material).
If for any reason you do not have the requisite thermometer etc to record the temp from the plates, try as carefully as possible to explain what kind of heater setup you used (hair straightener, coil heated plates on a press etc) and provide any nominal temp measurement from the heater used (this is your temp as read on the heater controller for your coils, or on your hair straightener etc).
Where possible, please record your local Relative Humidity in the space you are storing/processing (this can be measured with a cheap product called a hygrometer, every cannabis user should have one). If you use boveda packs, you can assume that your RH in storage vessel will be ~62% (in the case that you are using a 62% boveda pack).
Here's an example of the rosin you can produce with very little learning and a little help from your friends in this thread:
This was pressed in a 1 ton vise in 2 inch round plates (.6g nugs preballed by hand but not pre-pressed in any plates etc - stored at ~62% RH and processed in a room @ 70% RH) at 230f. This is taken at 300x zoom, where the contaminant has nowhere to hide :D
Here I am going to start discussing a few important factors in rosin pressing:
1. Your nug/hash must stay inside the pressing plates. Especially if you use a small press/press with small plates, you need to be sure that what you're squishing stays in place. One important way to achieve this is with folding tek. There are many folding teks out there, find one that suits you.
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