Dabpress Rosin Plates

[psychonaut]

Press is dropping today . Will do a few videos today. So happy because it originally said Monday and there was no way I was going to be able to squish because I have so much work to do on Monday. Excited to smash some goodies

Did the press arrive?! That's great you're getting deliveries today from UPS! Enjoy your pressing!

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Roger is always looking to improve every product. If he re-thinks the container, I'd like to see one with a vacuum plug in the cover, where you use any $10 home hand pump to lay down a vacuum.
IMO, you don't need temp or RH as temp is "room temp" and RH is whatever Boveda % you use.

One could also use/sell that as a bulk tea storage unit (SS with vacuum) to all the zillions of tea drinkers.....

Yes I'd like to take another crack at air tight storage, I like the RH you can see from the outside, that's slick but it does add a level of sealing which is not really necessary, most of the time you can open the jar and see the RH.

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I did a lil squish today on some 7 week cured orange hill special 62% RH. 5g in 0.87g out, buds were not de-stemmed and was a combo of tops and larf. Quite happy with that yield, I know the colas are gonna be up there!

I just did a 30mm pre-press with 5g and used a 160u rosin filter tube cut to about 3", pressed the puck, close to the edge, tilted forward for drip tech and started to get a nice blob going and noticed that the rosin was buddering up right at the edge of the plates. The honeycomb eventually fell off but it was too late as it dammed up the flow! 200F on PID @ 3 mins 1700 PSI on strongway gauge (approx 1500 PSI on puck)

That's single layer kirkland parchment, real nice stuff, gonna go get more next week at costco No bleed through or tearing at 1500 PSI.

 

[Zow237]

Did the press arrive?! That's great you're getting deliveries today from UPS! Enjoy your pressing!



Yes I'd like to take another crack at air tight storage, I like the RH you can see from the outside, that's slick but it does add a level of sealing which is not really necessary, most of the time you can open the jar and see the RH.

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I did a lil squish today on some 7 week cured orange hill special 62% RH. 5g in 0.87g out, buds were not de-stemmed and was a combo of tops and larf. Quite happy with that yield, I know the colas are gonna be up there!

I just did a 30mm pre-press with 5g and used a 160u rosin filter tube cut to about 3", pressed the puck, close to the edge, tilted forward for drip tech and started to get a nice blob going and noticed that the rosin was buddering up right at the edge of the plates. The honeycomb eventually fell off but it was too late as it dammed up the flow! 200F on PID @ 3 mins 1700 PSI on strongway gauge (approx 1500 PSI on puck)

That's single layer kirkland parchment, real nice stuff, gonna go get more next week at costco No bleed through or tearing at 1500 PSI.

Good to know that parchment is good to go. I’ll have to get some. The press did arrive

1.5 gs of rosin from 4.5 grams
Squished a sativa called lohigh. when i did 190 for 3 mins i got some nice golden budder, then i went up to 220 to do a 2nd squish and got more of a shatter. got me a 12 dollar g of rosin with those sqishes . I like that strain for sure! Next up will prolly be some berkel.

 

[FlyingLow]

Where are you all sourcing humidity packs?

Is Boveda still the choice??

What is the optimum % for the dabpress?

Any of you ever run some sugary grease monkey?

 

[bizwaxzion]

Very nice! What did you think of the effects and flavor? We're glad to have you as a customer

The flavor and effect are on point, but the rosin was difficult to collect.

 

[psychonaut]

The flavor and effect are on point, but the rosin was difficult to collect.

What was the consistancy? Usually a cold plate from the freezer help me collect the runny stuff like sap.

Good to know that parchment is good to go. I’ll have to get some. The press did arrive

1.5 gs of rosin from 4.5 grams
Squished a sativa called lohigh. when i did 190 for 3 mins i got some nice golden budder, then i went up to 220 to do a 2nd squish and got more of a shatter. got me a 12 dollar g of rosin with those sqishes . I like that strain for sure! Next up will prolly be some berkel.

My rosin looked a lot like that, that's a hell of a return. Was that your first press? Congrats, enjoy those high yields and clean dabs =)

Where are you all sourcing humidity packs?

Is Boveda still the choice??

What is the optimum % for the dabpress?

Any of you ever run some sugary grease monkey?

I was using boveda 62s from eBay for quite a while, trying boost 62s now and they seem to be doing the trick and are a lil cheaper. I get those on ebay as well.

I think 62s are about perfect but you can experiment from 58-62 and get good results.

 

[maxvapor710]

I will probably end up getting one of these for the shop soon, looks like a nice size

 

[psychonaut]

I will probably end up getting one of these for the shop soon, looks like a nice size

Great! Yes it is pretty compact. The press and pump fit on a 2x2' area and have full functionality. My work table is 2x4' and it's perfect, one side for prep the other side for press.

 

[Zow237]

What was the consistancy? Usually a cold plate from the freezer help me collect the runny stuff like sap.



My rosin looked a lot like that, that's a hell of a return. Was that your first press? Congrats, enjoy those high yields and clean dabs =)



I was using boveda 62s from eBay for quite a while, trying boost 62s now and they seem to be doing the trick and are a lil cheaper. I get those on ebay as well.

I think 62s are about perfect but you can experiment from 58-62 and get good results.

It was my first 3 presses . That strain just spewed out oil. This shit is super fun. My first press was lost to my glove it was super funny because it’s typical I fuck up something some how. I just wish I went with the 3x5 just because it’s probably easier to get the nug lined up. Either way I’m happy and I’m sure I will upgrade eventually. The low temps are very buttery and the higher temps seem to turn into a shatter. Now I need to figure out all the cool shit I can do with my rosin before I consume it

 

[GreenHopper]

I made quite a few mistakes.

However this was my first press ever, I was in a hurry and I was not being careful in any way.

Errors I made:

• I cut the PTFE paper too small so goo got on the plates. Not too much but enough, It was hard to photo the rosin on the plates as the camera flash kept bleaching it out. I used an alcohol wipe to clean it all off.
• I used too much pressure, too quickly and blew the filter bag out.
• The rosin was very brittle, when collecting I could see small bits pinging off all over the place. I think I got most of it but some specks got away.

Now on to the good bits:

The starting material was home grown Gorilla Glue #4 by fast buds (not the DHG genetics). It had been cured for about 7-8 months and was stored roughly around 62%. The RH went up when I popped the jar open.

'Dabpress iBudtek dp-pm3015r Cylinder Pre-press Mould Made of Anodized Aluminium' was used to create the puck:

The puck fit perfectly into 'Dabpress iBudtek dp-bt160ns Stitched Extraction Filter Bag - 160 Micron Bags':

Damn scales powered down just as taking pic but it was reading 3.60g

I set the temp on the PID's to 200 and pressed at about 5000PSI. I wasn't particularly smooth about applying the pressure so I'm not surprised by the blowout:

Despite the blowout the squish actually looks ok.

You can see I didn't use enough PTFE, Rosin flowed out on the left and so I lost some to the plates. This is all down to my technique, which is n00b level right now.

You can see the indentations in the PTFE sheet in this pic.

Blob of goo, this was quite brittle stuff actually, it did not flow that much and collecting it was fairly easy but the thinner bits were breaking up and pinging around a bit.

So what did we get:

Well, considering I went at this like a brute with zero experience and lost some rosin to the plates I'd say this is ok for my first ever run.

The puck was still gleaming as well so I suspect going slower and applying the pressure with more care would allow me to improve significantly on yields.

I have kept the puck and will do something like an ETH extraction when I have enough chips. Getting the chip out of the filter bag seems like trouble and a lot of the resin was on the bag so I'm keeping the filer bags on the chips.

This pic was supposed to show the Rosin still on the plates but I lost patience trying to work an angle where you could actually see the mess I made.

There is a bit of rosin on the front lip but there was also more further back.

I think the 'Dabpress dp-hr10t35v 10-Ton Hydraulic Cylinder Rosin Press' is a great Rosin Extraction device and I look forward to learning how to properly use it.

Right I'm now off to try my first ever dab, wish me luck.

 

[sarkunit]

I made quite a few mistakes.

However this was my first press ever, I was in a hurry and I was not being careful in any way.

Errors I made:

• I cut the PTFE paper too small so goo got on the plates. Not too much but enough, It was hard to photo the rosin on the plates as the camera flash kept bleaching it out. I used an alcohol wipe to clean it all off.
• I used too much pressure, too quickly and blew the filter bag out.
• The rosin was very brittle, when collecting I could see small bits pinging off all over the place. I think I got most of it but some specks got away.

Now on to the good bits:

The starting material was home grown Gorilla Glue #4 by fast buds (not the DHG genetics). It had been cured for about 7-8 months and was stored roughly around 62%. The RH went up when I popped the jar open.

'Dabpress iBudtek dp-pm3015r Cylinder Pre-press Mould Made of Anodized Aluminium' was used to create the puck:

The puck fit perfectly into 'Dabpress iBudtek dp-bt160ns Stitched Extraction Filter Bag - 160 Micron Bags':

Damn scales powered down just as taking pic but it was reading 3.60g

I set the temp on the PID's to 200 and pressed at about 5000PSI. I wasn't particularly smooth about applying the pressure so I'm not surprised by the blowout:

Despite the blowout the squish actually looks ok.

You can see I didn't use enough PTFE, Rosin flowed out on the left and so I lost some to the plates. This is all down to my technique, which is n00b level right now.

You can see the indentations in the PTFE sheet in this pic.

Blob of goo, this was quite brittle stuff actually, it did not flow that much and collecting it was fairly easy but the thinner bits were breaking up and pinging around a bit.

So what did we get:

Well, considering I went at this like a brute with zero experience and lost some rosin to the plates I'd say this is ok for my first ever run.

The puck was still gleaming as well so I suspect going slower and applying the pressure with more care would allow me to improve significantly on yields.

I have kept the puck and will do something like an ETH extraction when I have enough chips. Getting the chip out of the filter bag seems like trouble and a lot of the resin was on the bag so I'm keeping the filer bags on the chips.

This pic was supposed to show the Rosin still on the plates but I lost patience trying to work an angle where you could actually see the mess I made.

There is a bit of rosin on the front lip but there was also more further back.

I think the 'Dabpress dp-hr10t35v 10-Ton Hydraulic Cylinder Rosin Press' is a great Rosin Extraction device and I look forward to learning how to properly use it.

Right I'm now off to try my first ever dab, wish me luck.

Ten percent off a blown bag, rosin on the plates, rushed press? I think you did just fine. You will be getting killer yields in no time. Thanks for posting your experience. I will be buying one of these with my Christmas bonus, and plug and play results like these make my confidence high that I will get good results.

Could someone comment on how long it takes to do a 7 g squish with this press. I would like to be able to press a few ounces during a press day, because I will be helping other patients make their meds with my rig, and I don't want it to take all day. I am keeping the presses to 7 g for yield and quality sake, as I have heard the smaller squishes are actually better. I know that Psycho helped me out a while ago, but that was before this unit existed on the market. To add context I will be helping local collectives press, so I am not just doing this for my own use. I want something smaller, because I live in a town home, but still need more throughput than a average user. Thanks Psycho and Roger for doing all this. Great people all!

 

[psychonaut]

@GreenHopper that looks better than my first squish on my 3x5" dhgate plates with my 12-ton HF. I had no idea how much pressure I was applying so just cranked 'er down , ripped the paper all to hell in my circumstance. Learned a lot though.

I did a post a page back that had some "guesses" at puck PSI based on the pre-press mold used, it shouldn't give you any blowouts, 1500 PSI is a nice baseline. While I'm not confident my guesses are 100% accurate, by Monday Roger @dabpress.com will have the info on the cylinder so we'll know true PSI on the puck then.

For a 1.75" cylinder shaped puck from using 30mm pre-press mold, 2.4 sq/in at 1500 PSI you need 3600 pounds of pressure.

1593 PSI on gauge = 14.5 x 112 = 1633kg = 1.8 tons = 3600 pounds

I also have the pump PSI's guesses for 2x4" rectangle pucks for our pm4007s pre-press, and the pm40r (upcoming re-release). Once I have the 45mm mold I'll do one up for that too.

I've gone up to 2000-2300 PSI, it gets to be a bit much at a certain point so I'd suggest to play around with different amounts of force (3.5g is a good sample size)

@Zow237 if you're using the 30mm pre-press mold and putting the load right in the center of those 3x3" plates, it should flatten out and have about 2/3" plates still all around it, if you load it about 1/3" in from the edge of the plates (front or back depending if you're doing drip tech), it should squish out right about to the edge of the plates to help facilitate the flow outward. For anything more than 7g I'd definitely suggest an upgrade but you can always go the hash/sift route first to postpone an upgrade, and make more potent and clean rosin. I'd hate to see you upgrade so soon, we are always trying to save rosineers money.

@sarkunit I'd say its more based on how much surface area you're pressing. I use the same amount of time for 3.5-7g using the 30mm pre-press mold, I generally start my press timer once I start to see actual PSI happening which is when the puck's smashed down to about 1/3-1/2". I generally am somewhat mid speed in compressing the puck so it has some time to preheat a bit. So I am around 2-4 minutes with 3 being the general goal at 200F on the PID. I will reduce the pressing time with higher temperatures, some of my material has so much terpenes in it I have been squishing it hotter to try and get a different consistency than sap/syrup.

If you need to be pressing 1-3 ounce a day at most I would say 3x3 3-ton or 3x5 6-ton units are sufficient. If you want a gauge, the hr10t35v is the best choice with the gauge integrated into the strongway pump. With that you'd have enough pressure to do 21-28g buds at a time, or 28g hash/sift.

If you wanna keep your load size down under 7g then I dunno if anything more than the 3x3 plate size is needed and the bj3t33 will squish 7g in a shot all day long. The downside is the cost of filters pressing smaller loads.

 

[GreenHopper]

Ten percent off a blown bag, rosin on the plates, rushed press? I think you did just fine. You will be getting killer yields in no time. Thanks for posting your experience. I will be buying one of these with my Christmas bonus, and plug and play results like these make my confidence high that I will get good results.

Thanks fella, I agree. I put near zero effort into the planning of this press and still got a good ball of resin.

I think you can have maximum confidence in Dabpress.

This was literally a quick Proof Of Concept Press (PoCP), next comes the lessons learnt and then some progress. If I'm lucky I may one day get perfection .

@GreenHopper that looks better than my first squish on my 3x5" dhgate plates with my 12-ton HF.

I think the advice I got from all you guys on preparing the puck and filter went along way towards helping. I really like the DabPress pre-press mould.

I did a post a page back that had some "guesses" at puck PSI based on the pre-press mold used, it shouldn't give you any blowouts, 1500 PSI is a nice baseline. While I'm not confident my guesses are 100% accurate, by Monday Roger @dabpress.com will have the info on the cylinder so we'll know true PSI on the puck then.

Awesome, I did read the post but then in the heat of the moment I went a little trigger happy with the pressure . I was expecting more to drip down/out but it seems the rosin went up and to the sides. It was very sticky, very viscous so I think maybe next time I'll crank the temp up by 10° and apply pressure much more slowly.

I've gone up to 2000-2300 PSI, it gets to be a bit much at a certain point so I'd suggest to play around with different amounts of force (3.5g is a good sample size)

Also I'm sure I went way over the 2300 PSI, It was reading 5000 in the gauge.

Next time I'll keep within 2000-2300 PSI range.​

 

[mephisto]

All of the action in here is great. I don't have the need to squish more than 3-4g at a time and I really don't want to casually throw away filter bags. My intention is to squish without bags if at all possible. The hr10t35
has the capacity plus some for me. As soon as I get to squeezin' I will report back on the smaller amount/ bagless approach. Any other rosineers that have had success going bagless?

 

[Baron23]

I'm sure most of us know this, but this is the formula for calculating actual PSI on the puck from a PSI line pressure gauge. The key here is that the gauge is measuring the internal pressure of the entire amount of hydro fluid on the other side of the pump's check valve. That is, fluid in the line and fluid in the hydro cylinder. Therefore, EVERY square inch of the cylinder surface is experiencing that line gauge PSI.

If you have a large cylinder and reasonably small puck (say 2 in/sq), you can readily see that a pretty low gauge pressure will give you a LOT PSI on the puck.

(PSI from Gauge x Jack cylinder area) / area of load = PSI on the Puck

E.g.

3,000 PSI x 4.37 (square inches of the cylinder of my BVA jack) = 13,110

13,110 divided by our 2 square in puck = 6,555 PSI on the puck which is a LOT.

Got to know jack cylinder area or the gauge is, IMO, useless except as a relative indicator.

 

[gunmetalshark]

wow, so much action going on here...great vibes
Also have two new strains available and can't wait to test them out, one (Harambe) is frosty af,
can't wait...and I am missing a release date for the 40mm pre-press

Its been a week or two without rosin, tomorrow is gonna be a goooooooood day

 

[Alexis]

Good one you @GreenHopper for getting right stuck in. Hoping things are going well for you and that you are managing your usage for maximum enjoyment and benefit without too many complications.

Nice report too. It did remind me of my own "first time" (I DID use a johnny lol!). Def some parallels there in how we both, when it finally came down to it, just kind of walsed through the process making numerous errors in a slap dash, suck it and see fashion.

Best way to learn right? Well you beat me on yield. I got 0.225 I think, (or was it 0.25 now?) from 3.5 gr. But Im sure your GG is much better than the weak outdoor auto I used. So we maybe did similarly well with what we started with.

I still have some left from that press, not sure if or when I might try rosin again. But a part of me would like to try some in my unused 710 coil and banger, just in case it is somehow magically tolerated with that delivery method at a precise lower temp but I doubt it.

So cool to see this thread REALLY taking off now as it rightly should, and most importantly that news of Roger's outstanding work for unbeatable prices is reaching more and more people.
I can see a bright future for Dabpress from here.

 

[anasrzi]

Did my first flower press today using the hr1035v much like @GreenHopper, I got blow outs on all three of my pucks. Here's a quick run down

Set the unit up, heat set at 190f (was set like this straight out the box so ran with it). I up'ed the temp to 200f for the second pick but found it did little and reset it to 190f, pretty happy with that number.

All pucks were 4g, all blew out but the second had no filter. Defiantly prefer the filter and will always use it in future. Now let's talk pressure, I did to much to quick imo hence the blow outs. I hit max 7500 psi on the first pressing, 5000 psi on the second filterless one (which subsequently got repressed), finally 3000 psi on the last one. Total pressing time varied from 5 to 8 mins.

I felt despite the blow outs that first press was the most successful, had more oil of a better colour too. Total yield was 1.2 of some beautiful, golden oil which smells just like the flowers, so that would be 10% return, not bad for there blow outs plus taken into account its wild Thai, an auto grown in a green house this summer.

Overall I'm really happy and I know it'll get better, I'll be pressing hash next weekend for the first time using SS 25u gauze and applying pressure slow and steady to hopefully not blow any more out.

 

[psychonaut]

If those PSI readings are with the 30mm prepress, try it at about 1500 PSI on the gauge, can go to 1750 and keep good color. No blowouts even with 7g in 160u filter for me this morning. The 7g puck did expand to 2" dia so gonna give it a lil more pressure next time.

Slowly bring the puck to pressure, it'll drop some as you reach your target PSI.

 

[FlyingLow]

Where are you all sourcing the Strongway pumps from?
Seems to be out of stock everywhere...

 

[psychonaut]

Where are you all sourcing the Strongway pumps from?
Seems to be out of stock everywhere...

Northern Tool & Equipment is the primary source, Amazon and ebay as well. Both are listed by NT&E. They're backordered 3-8 days =/

 

[anasrzi]

If those PSI readings are with the 30mm prepress, try it at about 1500 PSI on the gauge, can go to 1750 and keep good color. No blowouts even with 7g in 160u filter for me this morning. The 7g puck did expand to 2" dia so gonna give it a lil more pressure next time.

Slowly bring the puck to pressure, it'll drop some as you reach your target PSI.

Yes, pucks made with the pre press mould included in the FC deal @psychonaut would like to keep the blow outs down next time but it might be some time before I have more buds to press hard, moving intimate hash next weekend as I have more of that then herb right now.

Slow and steady huh, yeah I thought I was a bit to eager to power them pucks hard haha. If some is good then more must be better.......... until it isn't .

 

[psychonaut]

For hash you'll want around 500-800 psi. I still haven't pressed any hash. I was gonna do some ice hash today but all these clouds are making me lazy!

 

[GreenHopper]

@Alexis: All good mate, health has been great so I'd say I'm at maximum enjoyment , hope all is good with you.

Best way to learn indeed. I was mostly just short on time and really wanted to try a dab on the shower head.

I have a 710 coil/banger in my sights

@anasrzi, feels good to be making rosin

Looking forward to your hash run.

@Baron23 just waiting on the specs so we can work out the bottle Jack's area. I think @dabpress.com should put the details on the website in the description for the press. That way future rosineers can reference it for their calculations.

 

[Baron23]

@Alexis: All good mate, health has been great so I'd say I'm at maximum enjoyment , hope all is good with you.

Best way to learn indeed. I was mostly just short on time and really wanted to try a dab on the shower head.

I have a 710 coil/banger in my sights

@anasrzi, feels good to be making rosin

Looking forward to your hash run.

@Baron23 just waiting on the specs so we can work out the bottle Jack's area. I think @dabpress.com should put the details on the website in the description for the press. That way future rosineers can reference it for their calculations.

Absolutely. My press uses a BVA jack and that data was inthe manual for it

 

[farmerpalmersnt]

Have done a bubble hash press from fresh frozen. Yield was predictably superb, and quality excellent. I did press it a bit wet to be honest and so ended up a bit sappier than I would like. Pressed paperless.

Also have run a few with flower using the 2x4 and 30mm cylinder press. Devil Cookies and Black Cherry Punch. Both yields were excellent. Cylinder press flows better and makes less mess with slightly better yield. Still personally prefer bagless.

Mess and losses are lower with bare plates and this is now the only way I will use it. Superb!