Looking for Guidance on making Rosin with my press, and turning that into Vape Oil

manfredo said:

I remembered you saying the waxes were a problem...I think the BL Bubba is a less waxy strain, probably why it did do well. But yeah I hate the idea of adding alcohol to rosin to winterize....because there goes your great taste.

I wonder if squeezing rosin through a syringe filter while hot would remove enough wax to help, or do we need the cold factor to separate them? It's tough to get all the alcohol out, but hopefully a vacuum chamber will help there if needed I'm thinking.

This rosin cart was tasty AF and so long lasting!! I did order up a few syringe filters tonight, and I'm going to be attempting some distillate from various methods in the coming days/weeks too.

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There’s a thread from a few yrs back where somebody was using the syringe filters. I never tried it.

Well here we are with the next experiment. I decarbed the remaining rosin longer than I should have probably, over 4 hours. I then added a couple more drops of the terpenes and attempted to pull it up through a syringe filter. Haha no luck there! I did load it and we'll see how this does this time. So it looks like I would have got three full one gram cartridges out of that ounce. They look clearer this time.

Okay keep us posted thanks! What happened with the syringe filter -- it just wouldnt press through? What temperature did you decarb at for 4 hrs? Maybe too high? (I thought that with slow decarb you wanna lower the temp a lot).

Overgrowtho said:

Okay keep us posted thanks! What happened with the syringe filter -- it just wouldnt press through? What temperature did you decarb at for 4 hrs? Maybe too high? (I thought that with slow decarb you wanna lower the temp a lot).

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No I couldn't get it to press through a syringe filter, even after thinning it. I decarbed at 200f for approx. 4 hours(too long I know)...I wasn't planning on that long but it happened.

So personally the only way I see this working well, is to add alcohol to winterize the rosin, then remove the alcohol....and that defeats the whole purpose of using rosin, so for me it's the end of this experiment , and I am next on to attempting to make a decent distillate.

Oh I will say after none of my batteries would work, a friend suggested using his Yocan adjustable temp battery...That did work for about half the cart, but then it plugged again, pretty sure from the waxes in the rosin.

OKay I was thinking if going for 4-6 hours or even longer... it might have more success at like 110 degrees f or so. Anyways thanks for sharing your experiences. For the distilate, we wish you better luck and looking forward to knowing what you learn from it.

Also to avoid the alcohol, did you consider to cut with PG/VG and use an ejuice cartridge? Perhaps this is a good route too?

manfredo said:

So personally the only way I see this working well, is to add alcohol to winterize the rosin, then remove the alcohol....and that defeats the whole purpose of using rosin, so for me it's the end of this experiment

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How about trying with bubble hash? I've heard and likely you've head, that it works best with that type of starter material.

Overgrowtho said:

How about trying with bubble hash? I've heard and likely you've head, that it works best with that type of starter material.

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That might work.

I actually made distillate from my rosin pucks yesterday, just as an experiment, and i was amazed how good it turned out!

manfredo said:

That might work.

I actually made distillate from my rosin pucks yesterday, just as an experiment, and i was amazed how good it turned out!

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Okay so give us a full report PLEASE! What was your technique? I need to try this soon too!!!!

Been experimenting a lot myself and still fighting it. Taste great early and then either taste like burned coils or viscosity locks up and I need to gently heat to get running again.
avoiding the alcohol for now due to kids, smell and not wanting to blow up my house.
been pressing around 220 straight flower that is recently finished curing. Getting 4.5-6.5 grams per ounce.
I think my best run came with mixing press (203-225) temps then combining this presses. That was the first run and have not been able to repeat but will try that again.
still not sure about the original question- decarb or not?
Been decarbing and using ~11% terpenes.

Any progress from the original posters or did you all move on?