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GuyLeDuche: Dick's Drive-In restaurants and I were both born in 1954, and I lived one block away from their first burger stand in Wallingford when I was small. My dog got fat from walking to Dicks and begging for food. Cool that a local company has survived and thrived for 64 years. :)

I'll offer a wild guess (because that's what the Internet is for) that putting the ABP pucks in something like a Volcano that vaporizes with a large volume of hot air might be the best bet to effectively vape off the last of the THC. Somehow stuffing it in something like a heated ceramic bowl...

Typing is one of the first faculties that diminishes when I'm high, but it looks like you're managing. ;)

Progress report: A friend gave me some Pink Cookies buds that the label says are 30% cannabinoids(!) I left them in a jar that my Caliber Mk IV hygrometer said was 75% RH all day. I pressed at 220F for about 2 minutes between the plates of my Kapozi straightener that I have removed and mounted...

Good answers. Thanks very much!

What do you think is best, squishing buds directly or making dry ice hash first and then squishing? (I'm using hair straightener plates installed on a bench vice.) I'll be harvesting my White Widow in a month and so need to figure out next steps. Thanks again for your help!

Thanks for the schooling, guys! ;)

Thanks mc! :) Can someone please explain to me "caged" and "uncaged" plates?

Hi everyone--Here are some principles that I have collected since my first appearance here after trying to squish dried out bunk weed in a hair straightener at 300 degrees. Please comment, correct, or add any thoughts that you have. Thanks! ROSIN PRESSING BEST PRACTICES AND QUESTIONS 1. Best...

Do 194 'murikan degrees. ;) Looks like I'm still overheating... I have this feeling that you get shatter when the rosin is very low in water. Does that make any sense? Don't laugh, I'm new to this. :P

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Thanks CP, that's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for (and kind of expected, but I'm new, so I have to ask.) As long as I've got your ear... Do you think that people squishing with hair straighteners (or in my case, hair straightener plates epoxied to a bench vice) need to squish at a...

When I was trying to calibrate my heating plates, I tried putting water right on them at settings of 210, 220, 230... I did eventually determine that the digital settings on the straightener were about right, but the water only slowly disappeared over many minutes at those temperatures, so I...

The common terpenes--pinene, myrcene, and limonene--all have boiling points around 340F, so I don't think it's boiling, I think your idea of bursting trichomes makes the most sense. You suddenly apply heat and pressure and stuff starts bursting as vapor starts to form? I need to listen next...

John Berfelo, using 230 F with a CannaClamp, squishes until he "hears the sizzle" after about 20 seconds, and then counts to 20. I measured it as a 36-second squish. He's the second guy on YouTube who mentions listening for the sizzle, which I assume would mean vigorous boiling. Does anyone...

The post and the vid say 190F for two minutes. I'm trying to work out what the moisture is doing. Part of it must be just to prevent the rosin from reabsorbing into an overly dry cellulose matrix, but I'm guessing that some of it must also be boiling and helping to make pressure to drive off...

Given that he doesn't have a federal grant and is doing kitchen table science, I think he's doing pretty well--a lot better than 99.9% of us who just repeat the folklore that we inherited. Those tests looked pretty good to me, though I laughed a couple of times when he measured to a hundredth of...

OK, I learned something today. ;) That's amazing. He did a great job with his testing. Thank you both so much! :)

I used it straight out of the (commercial) package. My calibrated fingertips registered that it was more like 50%--not dry for sure, but a little dryer than well cured 62%. So does hydration make that much difference? I think I can see intuitively how it would, but I'd love to hear about actual...

Just an update on another test I ran just for fun with my bench vice plus hair straightener heating plates rig: I bought a gram of "Fucking Incredible" that says 27% THC on the label. I squeezed two quarter grams and then all the rest, and squeezed them all three times. 2 min at 240 F (after...