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Happy New Year, Donkey! And, Congrats on winning GJOTM for December! Your journal is so good, I even voted for it.
Fabulous garden as always Bubba! Happy New Year to you and yours and congrats on the GJOTM! Absolutely well deserved!
I have the 6-ton Dabpress and have tried to make rosin a couple of times now to no avail. All I get is a hard puck:
The way I did it was plug in the unit and let heat to 190 degrees and then press slowly. What am I doing wrong?
HG I feel your pain. Upside down from the other hemisphere that looks like 87-88 degrees Celsius. That is a variable to play with.
The coolest squishing I do is 98℃ and I get pretty consistent results there.
I go a little hotter sometimes. I set my gear up for 108℃ for a while, but came back a little. I’ve seen people run much hotter too.
It’s frustrating! Have a play.
Try different flower sources as well as temperatures. When you get gorgeous goo sticking the place up you might want to give those pucks you’ve already run another go? Just in case you can still coax something out of them.
Squish bags are scarce and expensive here so that’s why I started making pucks instead of stuffing bags. I like the bags though all the same.
I'm not squisher but I wonder how tall your pucks are before you squish them? And do you compress the puck before putting it in the bag?The way I did it was plug in the unit and let heat to 190 degrees and then press slowly. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you, Donkey. So, the issue is that I didn't let it get hot enough? 98C = 208F, roughly?
I'm not squisher but I wonder how tall your pucks are before you squish them?
And do you compress the puck before putting it in the bag?
Hey HG. IDK if the temp is the issue, as it were. I would definitely have a play with it though.
We like nice round numbers that are easy to remember. Why not set your rig for 210℉ on the basis that it’s half of 420?
Are you also giving your material a 45 second preheat with low pressure before you squeeze? That really helps.
That might be part of the issue you're having as well as the temps and pre-heating. Most of the pucks I've seen look to be at least an inch tall after compressing, and don't end up as flat as yours even after giving up all the rosin.Less than half an inch.
That might be part of the issue you're having as well as the temps and pre-heating. Most of the pucks I've seen look to be at least an inch tall after compressing, and don't end up as flat as yours even after giving up all the rosin.
What's the starting thickness of your puck before it gets squished? I feel like starting with a short puck make the pressure less effective. I'm sure a mechanical engineer can explain it!
I'm pretty sure I've seen folks here press at 190° and still get rosin.
Can you take the metaphor out of that?You can be as sure as you like that when you put a few miles on a new car you can flick it around with confidence. How are you at doing a reverse hill start into a parallel park in the ice in someone else’s car?