Old Reviews NewVape ErrlPress 6 ton Rosin kit

[Ozone69]

Solvent less oil extraction, here we go.....

Received my 6 ton press kit in from NewVape today, and figured I'd do an unboxing and initial impressions review on it for anyone that might be looking at them for making their own [HASHTAG]#dabs[/HASHTAG] .

http://www.newvape.com/6-ton-rosin-press-kit-9075/

They make a number of kits. The 20 ton would be kind of the "top of the line", but I went with the 6 ton because it's heavy duty enough to handle some quantity if I love it the way I'm hoping I will, but wasn't the super expensive high end model if it ends up collecting dust more than making oil.

So with no further ado...

Kit comes in a plain brown box. The company website/name does appear in the return address as newvape.com, but that's about the only thing to indicate contents. The kit itself is pretty simple: two plates with the insulator plates, the adapter for the 6 ton press, two e-nail controllers and flat coils, one thermometer, a bag of 120 micro pressing bags, a couple of stickers, and a hex key wrench to assemble things with.

There aren't any instructions that come with it, but it's fairly intuitive. If you've watched the vids while deciding on ordering, you should be able to figure it out. Heck, if you figured out how to put together the 6 ton press from Harbor Freight with the so so instructions THAT came with, you should be able to get this. :smoking:

Removed the four screws holding the plates together, installed the heating coils and installed the adapter collar on one of the plates.

After that, the adapter collar will slid right over the ram on the press, and then the same hex key will tighten the side bolt to hold it in place. I recommend using the press to put a smidge of pressure on it and hold the ram in good and tight while tightening up the retaining bolt.

I did find one minor little gripe at this point. If you leave the little pin in that holds the shelf on the press, the press plates will have too little clearance to work with between then when the press is fully open. So I had to remove the pins for the cross beam on the press and let it just set on the bottom. Seems like it's fine to use and safe this way, just would seem to me to be more "ideal" to be able to fit with the pins for the pressing plate shelf on the press.

With pins in:

Without the pins:

Got a little chuckle out of the fact they feel it necessary in the instructions for the e-nail controllers that you should not bathe with them:

Then it's just plugging everything in, turning it on, and waiting. It took about 15 minutes with the controllers set to 400F for the thermometer to read that the plates were up to 275(ish).

Coming up next......the first presses....
(after I go have another dab)

 

[Ozone69]

For the first press I picked out some Berry Bomb Auto that's been jarred up and curing for about four and a half months now. Going for about 2 grams at a shot to start, but with the scale I've got it's hard to say for sure. It's smallest increment is 1 gram, so not that great for this sort of thing. I've got a better suited scale on order, but will be a couple days. I'll loop back and do some return testing then (ie...how much oil returned for how much product pressed).

For the first press I went ahead and used one of the little 120 micro pressing bags that came with the kit.

I did a second press with skipping using the pressing bag screen:

Initial impressions are that I won't be using the screens. They will give you a cleaner end product, but in my opinion cut down on yield. There seemed to be quite a bit of oil that was stuck to the screen itself. Also worth noting that it doesn't seem like there is any way too easily remove the pressed product and re-use the screen.

Both presses together. Roughly the same amount of starting material.

Dab of the non-screen oil:

 

[Ozone69]

Initial impressions are that this thing is going to be AWESOME. Easy to use. I worked through about five or six quick smaller presses, and once you start getting in the groove and have the workflow it goes pretty quick. This is one place where the filter bags would be a plus, I'll admit. Would make it easy to load up a bunch of packets ready to go, then just press them all in a batch. The oil hits nicely, and getting some nice taste profile out of the oil. Will have to do some playing with the temp of the plates. They say you get better taste, less yield in the 250-300 range and more yield, less flavor in the 300-330 range. Also supposed to vary from strain to strain. But with how easy it is to use, will be no problem to do a couple presses of a strain at lower end, then couple at higher end. And once I start getting a feel for how the temp change affects things and where my personal preference lies dialing in for a particular strain should be not too difficult I would think.

I'll try to get some more details added once the more granular scale gets here in a few days.

 

[briman]

Great tutorial ozone! Nice looking, functional setup to boot and the price is right!! Gave you max rep fo ra killer setup and tutorial!

 

[Ozone69]

Worked through a few jars of flower, and still really liking the press. Got in the more granular scale, so was able to so a quick test this AM on what kind of return I'm getting. Also thought I'd toss up a blurb on a cold pre-press idea I've been playing with.

Saw at least one video and one vendor product while I was researching involving a "cold press" to help out with doing the press. In a bit of sativa induced creativity, I came up with an idea that so far is working pretty well for my own little pre-press.

Pieces involved are one of the small mouth ball jar lid rings, two of the lids, and the parchment paper being used to press.

I take one of the lids and put it in the ring upside down from normal

Then I press the parchment paper down into the ring and load with flower. In this case I'm using about 2 grams of bud

Fold the other side of parchment over, press into ring using the other lid.

Then I clamp it all good and tight and hold for 10 seconds or so using a hand clamp

Result is a nice little easy to work with puck in the parchment, ready to press. I finding I can flip on the heaters and then sit at the desk and put together half a dozen or so packets and have them ready to go when the press warms up.

Making the ready to press "pucks" really helps with getting a workflow going. Makes it feel like it goes much quicker and easier when doing larger batches. I think there may also be some benefit in keeping the temperature more consistent between presses since the packets are ready to go so less delay than prepping little bits of weed between each press. You can feed one packet into the press after another, and they're a good size for the 4 inch plates on the press.

As for a quick yield test, I did presses this morning on five packets. Each was 2 grams (+/- .05g) to start. Was a mix of a couple nice top buds working down to the stuff left in the bottom of the jar. You can see a big difference in the yield between the high and low end due to this. Basically, good heavily frosty top buds will give good return, while lightly frosted popcorn and leftover not so much. For the five presses, I averaged about .20 gram per press from the 2 grams put in, so around a 10% return.


Can't wait to see how the Grilled Cheese currently curing presses out.

mmmmmmm....... [HASHTAG]#dabchurch[/HASHTAG]

 

[Dudeski]

Fantastic thread Ozone69!

 

[Tetra9]

Tried to rep ya , gotta hit some other folks first I guess. Nicely done, thanks for taking the time to put this together.
This is particularly helpful as it's practical and affordable.

Ya have me reconsidering rosin as yet another by-product of my plants.

It's cool to think how folks will be referencing this for years and years to come.

 

[jondough]

Ozone said:
"Result is a nice little easy to work with puck in the parchment, ready to press. I finding I can flip on the heaters and then sit at the desk and put together half a dozen or so packets and have them ready to go when the press warms up."

I've been making pucks with PVC while I've been using a hair iron. If you take a 1/2" pvc straight connector a nickel will fit right in it and be stopped by the ridge in the middle of the connector. Then pack the rest of it with bud as tight as you can and put another nickel on top. (It occurs to me that a quarter might work with 3/4' pvc but I've never tried it as I was using this with the hair iron). Whack it three or four times with a good sized hammer (I use an old ratchet extension for a punch) and then turn it over, whack it lightly once and out will pop a nice size puck of pressed bud ready to be pressed. (cutting two little circles of parchment the size of the nickels and using them will stop the nickels from attaching to the bud to badly.) With 4" plates you could put three on the plate with a couple 5" squares of parchment and let errl rip, so to speak. I just got one of these Errl press kits, did a first test run tonight and it looks like it will be a good one. I did get the pre-press mold and another 1 ton arbor press to make pucks for the 4" plates, but haven't received that press yet.

 

[jondough]

I did find one minor little gripe at this point. If you leave the little pin in that holds the shelf on the press, the press plates will have too little clearance to work with between then when the press is fully open. So I had to remove the pins for the cross beam on the press and let it just set on the bottom. Seems like it's fine to use and safe this way, just would seem to me to be more "ideal" to be able to fit with the pins for the pressing plate shelf on the press.

Turn the crossbar, the bottom of the two with the press bar guides, over. I saw one picture somewhere with this pointed out. When you do that, the guides still work, the adapter for the plates fits up under the crossbar, and the bottom bed sits on the pins the way it is intended.

 

[Ozone69]

Turn the crossbar, the bottom of the two with the press bar guides, over. I saw one picture somewhere with this pointed out. When you do that, the guides still work, the adapter for the plates fits up under the crossbar, and the bottom bed sits on the pins the way it is intended.

Thanks for the tip!!! Was a bit of a pain to get it turned over with the press all together, and there was kind of a "doh...why didn't I think of that moment" in there, but it looks like it did the trick nice. Can leave the pins in for the press shelf and get enough of a gap to still be able to work.

Before, guide bar installed normally per press assembly instructions:

After, flipped over:

Nice gap with the pins in place: