BubbleBagDude's (8) bag & Washer Kit

hydra-glide

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I made two runs using 600g of mature, frozen, (not fresh-frozen) bud on thin sticks. Careful how you order bags. I've used both solid-wall and Full Mesh and find the FM to be easier to roll-collar down, and keep the bottom mesh flat in a rectangle using the forefinger and thumb, and then carry it over to the 9-1/2 s/s pail that I use for scraping. What I cannot find are silicone cards that can be used to scrape trichs without fraying on the edges. A couple of silicone playing cards (like a Bondo squeege) - a couple of them to herd trichs off the surface and transfer, then be able cricket-scrape against their edges to clean them. Google can't find any. Note: If there's a problem with BubbleBagProducts, email David @bubblebagdude.com/ or go to his site and he'll respond quickly for returns or exchanges. If you send the bags, etc; back to amazon, they'll throw the returns away!
See the white plastic "hook" catch they provide for the hose? Push it's "hook" through the hanger opening on the side of the washer or the hose will hang too low. Note: Use large ice cubes. Half-moon are perfect. There needs to be hard, solid, surfaces crashing into bud's. Pack the 220 bag with: some ice, some bud, some ice, some bud, some ice. You'll need at least 3-gallons of ice cold water on hand. Don't Use Crushed-Ice. Raid the refrigerator. You'll need a 2-gal bucket of ice cubes. These seen floating in the water are from old-style ice cube trays and will stay together. That's what works best. When it comes time to run the machine to rinse the interior using a quart of plain water, the cubes will rinse more thoroughly than crushed ice, and crushed ice melts. The second run of hash is placed to the right of the first run on the group pic of 25-micron screens.
The yellow stopper is a tapered fit. You have to have one. It's a throwaway protector for corrugated-copper water heater supply lines. A plumbing shop will save one or more for you. Ask them.
There wasn't much of the 190, or 160 and both were flaky (food grade), but the 120 is sticky, as well as all of them on down. Malleable like they should be. The 90, 73, 45 all of them, and the 25 can be stretched and rolled into a snake just like Clarke's photo in Hashish!. I've arrived! :)
 

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bubb.1.JPG More bubble. I'm now running the machine for 30-minutes, then draining. The second run is 30 minutes. And the third run is 30 minutes. I got much less product on the third run, but the hash was as good as the first run.
Shown: 90-mesh from the first run.
 

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Will you freeze, micro plane and cure your finished product?
I won't freeze the finished hash. Sometimes micro-planing is possible, sometimes if crumbles too much. When I micro-plane it becomes crumble. If the crumble hardens, then every speck is a pipe-hit. The specks fly-off if pressed on a hard surface.
I like to roll 8-10g in a ball, once the water has been completely pressed-out when it was a flat patty sitting on a 25-micron sheet. 73-mesh is a good piece with a mild balance of trichs. It will stay balled, but flake-off in moist one-hits. 25-mesh is more jittery, contains more thc and definitely stay balled-up. To me, 25-micron is real hash. It always remain pliable, and it stays together without re-pressing.
If all of the water isn't removed within the first two day of harvest, then it can begin to emulsify and you'll never get the water out. I let it cure on s5-micron sheets, on a thick towel, and a clip fan set on LOW moving air in the room 24/7, but with the fan not directed on the hash, but angled-away.
I keep the hash balls in amber glass screw top 1 oz. jars with the lids loose for the following week. Note: I trace FTTP paper circles using the top of the jar turned upside-down, then cut out circles for the bottom of the jars for the hash balls to sit on. The hash won't stick to the film, and falls right out when inverted and tapped.
If the hash molds, and it will in about 30-days, if water was left in the hash. Then spread the hash out on paper where the morning sun hits it each day. Mold cannot live without some form of moisture. My "wet" 73u hash dried-out in a week and smokes fine, with a slight musty aftertaste, but still stays pliable. (I was a 27-yr. repair plumber and leak detector and had to explain mold to my customers, who let slab leaks run-on without repair for weeks.)
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I've been making square ice cubes and storing them in a big s/s bowl. I think a mixture of square and half-moon will do a smashing job of knocking trichs off their stalks.
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I'm not getting email notices when someone posts here. I happen upon this bubble post by accident. I'll report the fact.
 
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