Nice squish @gunmetalshark! Glad to see you got the gauge installed. I will be curious what you find to be the ideal pressure measured on the gauge.
Beautiful rosin there @Bunny Are you happy with your auto yields? I have been getting roughly 13-15% pretty regularly with mine, wish I had more but it is what it is, the rosin is slap yo momma good! BTW I can not say enough good things about Auto Ultimate, between yields and resin production and effects. I give it 4/5 stars which ain't bad for autoflowers!
@Grifo I get those wrinkles on occasion. I find that if I can get the filter compressed down enough to where it is not touching the top and bottom plate while loading, I can move the puck into position, while keeping the parchment nice and even. Then apply a couple of pumps to the hydraulic and tighten the load in-between the plates. The parchment should not be wrinkling at this point. The wrinkles really can be an issue as they'll tear the parchment. It helps to have the opening of the plates at eye level, or lean over to check the parchment. It's best to always try and have it nice and smooth in-between the plates prior to pressing.
I have the SS press here with the strongway pump. The fitting supplied needs to be re-worked so it's plug and play, I had to make some adjustments with my pieces to make it fit. Roger will be getting the fitting made however it will delay that part of the press for those curious.
The SS press is very tiny, much smaller than you would expect. It is also very heavy, which you may expect, as it's made of stainless steel.
With the pump and the SS press setup together, it takes up a considerable amount of table space, mostly because the strongway 10-ton pump is rather large, larger than the dabpress pump. I'll be comparing results of the pressure gauge on the strongway vs my Dake B-10 with dp-rp37. I have about 12oz of documentation regarding those presses for comparisons.
Considering this little unit basically just replaced an entire H-frame shop press sitting on my work table, I gained a lot of table space. Plus it can be moved without issue with a single person versus disassembling the H-frame press and moving it out with a helper.
The strongway pump, due to the smaller fitting, does not move as much hydraulic fluid into the cylinder with each pump, like an enerpac 3/8" NPT coupler would. I wanna say it took about 40 pumps to lower the ram completely (for those who have experience with a Dake B-10 unit, this is the same size fitting).
A benefit to this style pump is that when pressing hash, the likelihood of blowout with the slower ram action should be reduced.
Additionally, the rosin filters are in process however, they will not be sold under Dabpress brand, there will be news on these in the next few weeks. I have some samples here that need to be evaluated however I have a limited sample supply. I plan to send some to beta testers this week for comparison with their usual filters.
Regarding upcoming presses, what you will be seeing is a real evolution in product design. I've already seen one of the prototypes that is near completion and it is a stunner. I imagine it will also be quite heavy for it's size but it will be our best press yet.
Regarding a manual rosin press, hydraulics have proven to offer the best pressure rating with the least amount of effort by the rosineer. We feel this provides the end-user far better performance and least amount of effort during operation.
If these arbor type manual press designs can produce 1 ton per sq/in, we will have to take another look, but to only offer around half a ton of force is not within our acceptable range. We focus on amount of material used and pressure on tap, plate size is mostly to accommodate hash pressers due to lower pressure requirements. We want the end-user with 3x5" plates to be able to press 14g of buds per run.
Beautiful rosin there @Bunny Are you happy with your auto yields? I have been getting roughly 13-15% pretty regularly with mine, wish I had more but it is what it is, the rosin is slap yo momma good! BTW I can not say enough good things about Auto Ultimate, between yields and resin production and effects. I give it 4/5 stars which ain't bad for autoflowers!
@Grifo I get those wrinkles on occasion. I find that if I can get the filter compressed down enough to where it is not touching the top and bottom plate while loading, I can move the puck into position, while keeping the parchment nice and even. Then apply a couple of pumps to the hydraulic and tighten the load in-between the plates. The parchment should not be wrinkling at this point. The wrinkles really can be an issue as they'll tear the parchment. It helps to have the opening of the plates at eye level, or lean over to check the parchment. It's best to always try and have it nice and smooth in-between the plates prior to pressing.
I have the SS press here with the strongway pump. The fitting supplied needs to be re-worked so it's plug and play, I had to make some adjustments with my pieces to make it fit. Roger will be getting the fitting made however it will delay that part of the press for those curious.
The SS press is very tiny, much smaller than you would expect. It is also very heavy, which you may expect, as it's made of stainless steel.
With the pump and the SS press setup together, it takes up a considerable amount of table space, mostly because the strongway 10-ton pump is rather large, larger than the dabpress pump. I'll be comparing results of the pressure gauge on the strongway vs my Dake B-10 with dp-rp37. I have about 12oz of documentation regarding those presses for comparisons.
Considering this little unit basically just replaced an entire H-frame shop press sitting on my work table, I gained a lot of table space. Plus it can be moved without issue with a single person versus disassembling the H-frame press and moving it out with a helper.
The strongway pump, due to the smaller fitting, does not move as much hydraulic fluid into the cylinder with each pump, like an enerpac 3/8" NPT coupler would. I wanna say it took about 40 pumps to lower the ram completely (for those who have experience with a Dake B-10 unit, this is the same size fitting).
A benefit to this style pump is that when pressing hash, the likelihood of blowout with the slower ram action should be reduced.
Additionally, the rosin filters are in process however, they will not be sold under Dabpress brand, there will be news on these in the next few weeks. I have some samples here that need to be evaluated however I have a limited sample supply. I plan to send some to beta testers this week for comparison with their usual filters.
Regarding upcoming presses, what you will be seeing is a real evolution in product design. I've already seen one of the prototypes that is near completion and it is a stunner. I imagine it will also be quite heavy for it's size but it will be our best press yet.
Regarding a manual rosin press, hydraulics have proven to offer the best pressure rating with the least amount of effort by the rosineer. We feel this provides the end-user far better performance and least amount of effort during operation.
If these arbor type manual press designs can produce 1 ton per sq/in, we will have to take another look, but to only offer around half a ton of force is not within our acceptable range. We focus on amount of material used and pressure on tap, plate size is mostly to accommodate hash pressers due to lower pressure requirements. We want the end-user with 3x5" plates to be able to press 14g of buds per run.
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