Old Reviews NewVape ErrlPress 6 ton Rosin kit

[Ozone69]

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.

The PVC press technique sounds slightly familiar. Seem to remember seeing someone doing pucks with nickles or quarters in a video while I was searching around. The system I've got going with the narrow mouth jar lid setup is working really well for me. Doing the pre-pressed pucks really does make things go really nice and quick. Next up is I want to find something metal in nature or similar that I could toss in the freezer or a cooler with an ice pack and use as a cold post press. Right now I find I tend to press all my pucks out, then stack the parchments up as is and put them in the fridge with a little weight on them for a half hour or so before scraping and it helps a lot.

 

[Dudeski]

Could you find a machine shope with metal bar stock to cut you a couple discs? quarter inch or so?

 

[Ozone69]

Could you find a machine shope with metal bar stock to cut you a couple discs? quarter inch or so?

That might work. I'd probably do a thicker piece for the bottom and have 'em weld on a little knob or handle if possible. I found one of the vids I saw them in again. They talk about them at about the 1:25 mark and then again at about 2:30.

 

[Ozone69]

Followed the trail to their site from the vid. They sell the cooling plates in the vid, but they're eighty bucks. Bit pricey for my taste.

 

[Dudeski]

That is steep, but it will need to be good steel that wont deform or break under pressure .

 

[jondough]

The PVC press technique sounds slightly familiar. Seem to remember seeing someone doing pucks with nickles or quarters in a video while I was searching around. The system I've got going with the narrow mouth jar lid setup is working really well for me. Doing the pre-pressed pucks really does make things go really nice and quick. Next up is I want to find something metal in nature or similar that I could toss in the freezer or a cooler with an ice pack and use as a cold post press. Right now I find I tend to press all my pucks out, then stack the parchments up as is and put them in the fridge with a little weight on them for a half hour or so before scraping and it helps a lot.

Yeah, I think I must have seen the same video or at least read a tutorial. I didn't invent it, but couldn't recall exactly where I got it from, it was a while back.

I've been using two iron frying pans as a heat sink to pull the heat out of the resin. I think it makes a big difference. I didn't want to go for the $80 ones so I tried ordering a tortilla press from amazon.com. It should be here today, I'll report back if it works. Seems like it should. Heavy metal to pull the heat out right away. The tortilla press is pretty heavy. We'll see how it works later. If it doesn't, then it will end up being the $80 set for me. No handy machine shop to just have one whipped up. Hell, I'll have a machine shop by the time I'm done with this rosin.

Otherwise, this thing is exceeding all expectations. I dunno what the hell I'm gonna do with all this errl. ;-)

 

[Ozone69]

Hadn't thought of a frying pan. Wonder if they make a cast iron one without a handle. Pair one with something like a griddle press could work.

 

[jondough]

Right. Griddle press was where I started looking when I found the tortilla press I hit on. This thing works great and looks kind of cool as well. I didn't install the handle.

Small problem popped up today, and I do mean popped. The two bolts at the top of the back two upper supports for the crossbar ripped right through the holes. I must have gotten a particularly robust bottle jack. Harbor responded nicely, are sending four new supports (they volunteered to send a whole new unit I could either keep as a replacement and ship back the first or cannibalize for parts to fix the broken one but I said four supports would do nicely thanks.) so I can't really complain. Probably, no, definitely, I should have checked the tightness of all those bolts before using it today. They will go back together with a good dose of loc-tite on them.

 

[Ozone69]

The tortilla press looks like it would be perfect!! I'll have to look around for one. Could also be interesting to see someone test it as another possible rosin pressing device. Get some really good heat resistant gloves to work with, and maybe have something like a cinder block on hand. Toss the press in the oven for 20-30 min, yank it out and set it on the cinder block, toss in a ready to go parchment pack of bud and pressssssssss. I'd rather stick with the hydraulic ram press, but could be interesting to see how it stacked up with hair straighteners for folks looking to press on the cheap.

Glad to hear the Harbor is taking care of you on the press. I should probably work it into a monthly or other regular routine to double check all the bolts on mine. They were all pretty well cranked down solid when I loosened everything up to flip the guide cross beam a few nights ago, though.

Little Auto Berry Bomb pressed this evening....

 

[jondough]

Quick update. I finally got the parts from Harbor Freight but they didn't come until December 14th. The replacement parts had the same quality control that everything else that company touches has, none at all. None of the bends matched exactly and one of the four looked like it had been removed from the last project it was part of with a very large hammer. I would never, not for any reason, ever do business with Harbor Freight again. All the plates from newvape.com will work with many other presses though. They are selling good parts but I don't know that they should be recommending something that is really just a piece of junk from a company that thinks 4 days handling and processing and ten days shipping is timely customer service. Kind of a tough sell in the days of amazon prime. The press itself is the only part of this purchase that I regret at all and it will be replaced very soon with something that doesn't resemble an Erector Set project. (anybody but me here even know what an Erector Set is?)

I'm sold on this production method for sure. I wish I'd saved every single puck I pressed on the hair iron this past year, though. I had just a few in a tray with some ABV in a drawer and tossed them in a filter bag and squished the crap out of them. It was like they were brand new buds, I collected far more than I ever remember getting with a single press of the hair iron.