Recent content by KatManDude

Money shot. 25.43% by weight total. Pictured is first presses collection in one pile then a collection from stacking all chips folded-in-half and repressing 20 seconds. It's .86% of the flower's weight, 3.5% of the total rosin. Doing the math based off my solvent runs, which give me 27.5% for...

Close up of 1 plate and a 22.53% by weight smash of Mr. Nice Guy. Seriously thanks to everyone who contributed something to this thread as it all inspired me to stop using solvents entirely.

So, I settled on aluminum. This baby kicks butt. I'll get pics of inner workings later. I'm busy using it lol. A 50mm long 50mm diameter rod of aircraft spec aluminum was loaded on a lathe. And 2/3rd the length was turned to 16.15mm then half of that was turned down and threaded. The 50mm face...

That's what I figured regarding their hardness thanks. Hard to ask my father he's very conservative regarding cannabis. I'm gonna tell him it's for a theoretical coffee extraction machine. Then tell him my theory sucked lol. A skin would need to be affixed and add complications as well as reduce...

Would machining plates to be used with e-nail coils from aluminum or brass be fine? I have killed my hair straightener plates with this. Prior to the plates deforming I was consistently achieving 85-92% by weight of my very dialed in solvent runs using between 190°-240°F 7-25second smashes...