The Original Resinator XL Base Model, Cryo-Sieve

The XL Cryo-Sieve Base model kit includes everything you need to get started:

• Durable food grade 200 Micron screen
• 3 pack food grade agitation balls
• thermometer
• stopwatch
• CO2 hose with fittings
• kief scraper and brush

Cryo-Sieve Throughput: 672 dry lb\day or 2,016 wet lb\day

Using Co2 with The Original Resinator on DRY/CURED material has no adverse effect. Co2 is hydrophobic meaning it repels water. Co2 also displaces oxygen. These factors play a role when processing naturally cured biomass. Once removed from the Resinator the biomass will normalize within minutes. It will inherently take on the humidity from the localized environment so we should be mindful to maintain ideal operating temperatures and relative humidity levels.

We recommend that you start with a 150 to 200 micron bag (depending on strains and needs) and gradually reduce the screen size according to the gland concentration you want. Available screen sizes range from 25μm to 400μm (and even 600μm). As always, there are different types and sizes of trichomes. The morpholXLy of these glands mainly depend on plant genetics, so we can find high quality glands of up to 150μm, and ranging as high as 500μm, and others measuring the opposite end of the spectrum even less than 50-25μm. (Even lower when using color remediation or charcoal filters with things like ethanol extraction for short path distillation.)

To obtain a clean and professional extraction, we should try to recover those glands measuring between 75μm and 100μm (but up to 125μm), which normally yield the best quality. If the screen sizes are smaller than the collected glands, than the dry sift extraction will also be smaller (the used screen size mainly depends on user preferences).

It’s only the use of liquid Co2 which allows us to work with the plant biomass in its Live’ WET/UNCURED state. This is extremely helpful for a myriad of applications. Please be mindful that when working with fresh frozen or Live’ applications it is vital to “maintain the cold chain”. Once the plant has been frozen and dropped below the freeze rate of 32°F the cellular wall of the plant ruptures. This leads to oxidation and discoloration if biomass was left unattended or allowed to thaw above that same 32°F temperature point. When working with Live’ material we can use a deep freezer to suspend the biomass in a frozen state.

Not only does a deep freezer solve a problem where a bottleneck occurs when dealing with freeze dryer capacity, but it acts as a staging area as well. This allows for complete harvest of a crop while awaiting availability of technicians, freeze dryers or extraction equipment prior to processing. When properly stored under a deep freeze the flower will remain suspended “frozen in time” until we are ready to process, for up to a year if stored correctly. If going from a fresh frozen state to a hydrocarbon extraction, being that there is no adverse reaction with water, the biomass can be processed directly out of the deep freezer into a closed loop system for immediate extraction. When going from a fresh frozen state to a solventless application we must use a freeze dryer and the lyophilization process where we sublimate the water as opposed to traditional means of drying where evaporation is employed.

The XL Ice Water Wash base model kit includes everything you need (except ice water) to get started:

• Durable food grade 200 micron drum screen
• thermometer
• stopwatch
• set of 20 gallon Bubble Bags™ in 73, 90, 190, and 220 microns with pressing screen

Ice Water Washing Throughput: 224 dry lb\day or 672 wet lb\day

A clean, rich concentrate has so many fantastic benefits. It’s almost impossible to explain them all in words! And words are a problem when you’re talking about the cleanest type of naturally-made extractions, because there are so many different phrases used to describe the same thing.

People can’t agree on whether to call it bubble, ice-resin, ice-water resin, full melt, water-extracted resin, ice resin, cold water extraction resin, or whatever comes to mind.

Pure water extracted resin has all of the benefits of a concentrate and it doesn’t contain solvents or other chemicals that you may find in butane, isopropyl and other forms of solvent-made concentrates.

Bubble Hash is resin made by placing dried flowers and plant clippings in iced water and “washing” the material to gather high potency resin glands for use as a concentrate.

When you isolate resin glands from other material plants produce, you get the purest dose of high quality resin that can be derived without using solvent-assisted extraction. When you use iced water to make bubble hash, you’re using temperature, stirring, and wet sifting to isolate the resin glands. There’s no butane, C02, or alcohol solvents to worry about…and no explosions either. Most people who’ve heard of water-made ice-resin are familiar with resin bags and bubble. Long ago a bubble-making methodology was popularized involving micron bags that have different micron sizes of screens. The bubble production process involves putting plant material in a “work bag” along with plenty of ice, then stirring and settling the mixture for a period of time.

After that, you’re gently squeezing the mixture through a screen built into the working bag so a slurry of ice water and resin glands travel through the screen and into a stacked set of other bags that have different sized, progressively smaller screens. After you’ve squeezed all the water and resin glands from the working bag, you discard the plant material in it, although some resin makers will rewash or rescreen that material to get as much out of it as they can. Then you work through each remaining bag or screen size, squeezing, or in our case tumbling, and the water-resin slurries out so it goes into the bags from out of our Resinator Chamber.