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Journey Into The Birth And Grow Into White Blaze

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Journey Into The Birth And Grow Into White Blaze

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Farmer P said:
I guess I'll try to take the White Blaze a little longer and see what she's capable of. I hear you on the roaches. I keep a jar I call the roach motel for hard times. I've been hitting rosin made from my homemade rosin press. Shit's killer strong. I smoked some with a friend last night he said man I like to get a mellow buzz, but this shit is a little too strong lol. Had him feeling paranoid like a first timer. I just replaced my 3x4 rectangle plates with some 4" round ones.
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hell ya
 
#1,342
Farmer P said:
I guess I'll try to take the White Blaze a little longer and see what she's capable of. I hear you on the roaches. I keep a jar I call the roach motel for hard times. I've been hitting rosin made from my homemade rosin press. Shit's killer strong. I smoked some with a friend last night he said man I like to get a mellow buzz, but this shit is a little too strong lol. Had him feeling paranoid like a first timer. I just replaced my 3x4 rectangle plates with some 4" round ones.
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if you can, try to find a 2-3" circle of aluminum. you could use it to press your herb.. so the rosin bleeds over the edge of the aluminum. seems like a good idea. just need be like 1/8" thick or so.. you know, not much, just a little a ridge for the rosin to gooze out of with ease. or maybe that is a bad idea. laughs.
 
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jipp said:
if you can, try to find a 2-3" circle of aluminum. you could use it to press your herb.. so the rosin bleeds over the edge of the aluminum. seems like a good idea. just need be like 1/8" thick or so.. you know, not much, just a little a ridge for the rosin to gooze out of with ease. or maybe that is a bad idea. laughs.
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Yeah it's nice when it bleeds out and makes a puddle outside the blocks, but I was getting weed squishing out the side of the plates. Not too big of a deal since I always do a second squish but it's kind of a pain. I mashed 3 grams yesterday on the new plates and had no weed squish out so mission accomplished. I guess I could have bought some screens to press in, but I'm happy with the rosin already without the screen and the screens aren't cheap. I think the next plates I make will be 5x6 rectangles. It was a lot harder machining the round plates. I'm using a cheap harbor freight drill press and I had to use an end-mill to level out a spot to drill into for the heater rods. It's kind of scary the way that cheap drill press rattles. I'm gonna find an old heavy duty drill press on craigslist. One of the ones from the 60's or 70's back when they made machines to last.
Dab up Homie!
 
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Farmer P said:
Yeah it's nice when it bleeds out and makes a puddle outside the blocks, but I was getting weed squishing out the side of the plates. Not too big of a deal since I always do a second squish but it's kind of a pain. I mashed 3 grams yesterday on the new plates and had no weed squish out so mission accomplished. I guess I could have bought some screens to press in, but I'm happy with the rosin already without the screen and the screens aren't cheap. I think the next plates I make will be 5x6 rectangles. It was a lot harder machining the round plates. I'm using a cheap harbor freight drill press and I had to use an end-mill to level out a spot to drill into for the heater rods. It's kind of scary the way that cheap drill press rattles. I'm gonna find an old heavy duty drill press on craigslist. One of the ones from the 60's or 70's back when they made machines to last.
Dab up Homie!
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you dont have a edge finder,,if you center the part with edge finder ,the piece and drill wont rattle,,the rattle is from being off center
 
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oldskol4evr said:
you dont have a edge finder,,if you center the part with edge finder ,the piece and drill wont rattle,,the rattle is from being off center
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take your part ,vice tight,edge finder is 1/4 inch ball with the tool in drill chuck,slowly walk the part into the ball till it centers and running straight and true,thats your edge,subtract the ball size by half,then you have your zero,move machine over how far you need,and dont matter what type edge you have round square jagged or what ever ,when the drill flutes hit the steel it will drop down centered and make its own seat and then just drill,,doesnt burn the bit or walk on you,,if it walking ,drill is dull
 
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oldskol4evr said:
you dont have a edge finder,,if you center the part with edge finder ,the piece and drill wont rattle,,the rattle is from being off center
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I got it centered, but the drill press is so cheap that it has a lot of run out. You can grab the chuck and move it back and forth at least 10 thousandths even when it's all the way up. It gets worse when you get it farther away from home. I got the job done without killing or maiming myself lol so all good for now. I'll be looking for a heavy duty drill press.
 
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Farmer P said:
I got it centered, but the drill press is so cheap that it has a lot of run out. You can grab the chuck and move it back and forth at least 10 thousandths even when it's all the way up. It gets worse when you get it farther away from home. I got the job done without killing or maiming myself lol so all good for now. I'll be looking for a heavy duty drill press.
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Sounds like you have some machinist experience. I worked in a machine shop (grandpa owned) for a couple years, plus in an injection molding shop for 11. Lots of machining going on in a molding shop. My Dad and Grandpa were machinists so I know my way around mills and lathes pretty well. Believe me when I tell you this little drill press is a scary sumbitch. And using an end mill on it is borderline insane.
 
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Farmer P said:
Sounds like you have some machinist experience. I worked in a machine shop (grandpa owned) for a couple years, plus in an injection molding shop for 11. Lots of machining going on in a molding shop. My Dad and Grandpa were machinists so I know my way around mills and lathes pretty well. Believe me when I tell you this little drill press is a scary sumbitch. And using an end mill on it is borderline insane.
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hahah right,ya a few decades under my belt too,,is it the jacob chuck or the collar wore out
 
#1,350
oldskol4evr said:
hahah right,ya a few decades under my belt too,,is it the jacob chuck or the collar wore out
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I'd say it's the collar, but I don't know about wore out. I think it was made that way. My buddy got it at harbor freight for 60 bucks and it was already like that from the factory. Just some cheap chinese junk. Hell I probably could have done better with my hand drill lol. It got the job done, but I wouldn't recommend buying one. I was looking at a Ryobi last night at home depot that is a lot more solid and has a laser light to line up your drill, but I think I'll take my time and find a good deal on craigslist or ebay.
 
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Farmer P said:
I'd say it's the collar, but I don't know about wore out. I think it was made that way. My buddy got it at harbor freight for 60 bucks and it was already like that from the factory. Just some cheap chinese junk. Hell I probably could have done better with my hand drill lol. It got the job done, but I wouldn't recommend buying one. I was looking at a Ryobi last night at home depot that is a lot more solid and has a laser light to line up your drill, but I think I'll take my time and find a good deal on craigslist or ebay.
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just my opinion,but if you enjoy machining,get a good one,,look in your local papers for auction sales,oil field has gone to shit again,just as it does every 10 yrs,,thats why i got out of it,,but you could pick up and small lathe and mill cheap right now,mill can do all your drill work too as you know,,and with a lathe,if you know how to do off center work ,you can even drill with lathe,when i got out of it,was when they first came out with horizntal drilling,we made fishing tools that had 4 and sometimes 5 holes all the way threw 4ft long by 8in od parts,,crazy shit,,and doing it stoned wasnt a great idea unless you dont have a problem eating stell coming out a chuck at 350 rpm's hahah,,ya to old for job shop work anymore,but something you never forget ,always a backup plan and trade,i went on to mechanic work ,so machinery and shit like that comes pretty easy,body just cant keep up,lmao started messing with cnc in early 90's wasnt really my bag of tea,,now i wish i would have hung with it,,hardest part is programing,setup and shit,,i never put a single tape in that worked ,days programming then boring ass 3weeks of same part after part,,i enjoyed and considered job shop as art and technic from cutting it off a roll to shipping it out the door it was mine
 
#1,352
Farmer P said:
Sounds like you have some machinist experience. I worked in a machine shop (grandpa owned) for a couple years, plus in an injection molding shop for 11. Lots of machining going on in a molding shop. My Dad and Grandpa were machinists so I know my way around mills and lathes pretty well. Believe me when I tell you this little drill press is a scary sumbitch. And using an end mill on it is borderline insane.
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theres a few of us with some machining experience... common sense goes a long way
 
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yup another successful breed
 

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