i got the hillbilly version!!!!! no insulation needed where i live!!
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i can see i'm gonna luv this thread!!!!!!!!!
I actually think that with a few changes and a good fitting bag, your vortex compost tea brewer would make an excellent extractor.
There's so really wild similarities between making tea and making hash. They're both forms of extraction and lines blur often between the two.
A high psi air powered vortex is ideal but a motor and propeller is a decent option if air power can't be done.
And now that you have a 3D printer you can revisit this design and totally improve it!
I'd ditch the ice cream mixer and go with something like what's in the bottom of a washing machine that will create a vortex or tornado of water inside the washing bag.
You don't want the paddle beating the shit out of the material and instead have the material swirling around and rubbing up against the bag and removing the trichs.
Very much like a tumbler but way more gentle not shredding trichs and leaves more plant material behind inside the bag rather than letting it slip past the sieve.
I'm still working on my perfected mixer but I think it's getting very close..I found a transparent bucket which has made testing it out a little easier being able to kinda see how the action is happening inside..
This one is super close but could be about 2" longer down inside the bucket....
This is the one that finished up today for the next round and I think this is it.
More long than wide and still keeps a good helix. Gotta sand it and clean it up to get it ready. May also dip my propellers in polyurethane as well.
It's kind of a weird fit to find the right fit between depth of the propeller and water level because when this thing gets spinning and making that tornado, the walls of the water rise and can easily rise above the rim of the bucket and spill over so then the water level needs to drop and slow the rpm down to find the sweet spot.
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