Twitch Extracts pneumatic press

WarMachine said:
Yup harbor has a one ton press for $49.99 and a half to press for $39.99 so deff a good deal from there.

@Twitch what size plates should i use for my dewalt clamp? Posted a link with the specs on the prior page.
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I just wonder the quality of those presses. Great deal yes. Will they break. The reviews on them are mixed.

On machinist forums they all recommend famco or dake.
 
Most of the reviews on the 1 ton arbor press from HF, seem to be about bad shipping experiences with missing parts and such. But there are a few mentioning the lack of power. Hard to say really, they do have a good warranty too lol.
 
WarMachine said:
Most of the reviews on the 1 ton arbor press from HF, seem to be about bad shipping experiences with missing parts and such. But there are a few mentioning the lack of power. Hard to say really, they do have a good warranty too lol.
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There's a harbour freight like 5 min from me. With that 1 ton and the 2.5x2.5 around $350 to build then. Not bad.
 
hyroot said:
There's a harbour freight like 5 min from me. With that 1 ton and the 2.5x2.5 around $350 to build then. Not bad.
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the other name brand ones are made a little better like the handle on the hf is a little weak, but that can easily be replaced, and i would recommend a longer rod/handle or cheater bar to help get the force with less force on your end

post up a link to the plates you are talking about... is it the cylindrical ones?
 
a 1 ton press with a 2.5x2.5 plate will give you 320 psi
2x2 will give you 500 psi
2.25x2.25 395 psi
 
@Twitch I was thinking rosin works combo. Rufio said they work with arbor presses. The cylindrical plates alone are $300 not including pid and coils.
 
hyroot said:
@Twitch I was think rosin works combo. Rufio said they work with arbor presses. The cylindrical plates alone are $300 not including pid and coils.
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pid and coils, milling all that out seemed like a lot of work. By attaching the heat to the sides,my plates heat from the outside to the inside with heat coming from both sides, once they heat up, they stay perfect all day, and they only cost $150 total, just sayin.
 
Twitch said:
what flat iron do you have? I can try to find the video of a guy pressing 4 grams of keif with that clamp got a 70% return and what is funny you see the rosin technologies press in the back ground.
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I got the same flat iron as you. He must be using fire keif! I've never seen that video before, recall who uploaded it?
 
I am here to answer questions and show people how they can make these presses for a fraction of what all these companies are charging. Anyone looking into having plates made, call your local machine shop and talk to them they can make plates dirt cheap with a fast turn around.
 
Twitch said:
I am here to answer questions and show people how they can make these presses for a fraction of what all these companies are charging. Anyone looking into having plates made, call your local machine shop and talk to them they can make plates dirt cheap with a fast turn around.
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So how would you explain having them made to heat up with coils. That part I don't understand. I would like to use sic plates if I can.

can you post a pic of how your plates work or whatever.

I thought of rosin works. Because it's plug and play so to speak. Use them for at least one press to figure everything out. But if I can go a different route....

I can get enails / pid's whole sale through my buddy.
 
well the problem I encountered with the plates, is they are not milled perfectly to the size of the coil, which is hard becuase the coils vary in size themselves, so there is a bit of a air in the milled out area, the coils are loose inside, they do have a set screw so they don't fall out. but in actuality the coils only touch the plate in a few areas on the inside which makes it heating up through conduction difficult. so it is heating up by heating the air in the gap and that heat transfers to the plate. This was my experience with these plates and the e nail as the heating device. This is why I have scraped that route and i am looking into probes, so I can drill a hole the size of the probe and have a better fit and heat more accurately. In the conversation I had with them, they said "You'll need to build a reference chart for your individual PID to know what to set it on" basically you set it to 300 on the pid and it will be 150 on the plates.
 
I am playing around now with taking my flat iron plates out of the flat iron and fixing them to a plate 1/4 inch plate on the back where the press comes down on and a 1/8 inch plate on the heating surface.
 
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