I've been fooling around with trying to make kief more portable and easier to handle on the go. Pressing it into hash seemed logical and after some experimentation, I have gotten some pretty nice textured and burning hash. Here's a quick and easy home-made kief press that makes portable hash "coins" of between 1 and two grams each. Start with some kief, a 14mm 1/2" drive socket (deep), a few brass bolts, one nut, a vise or large C-clamp, and a hammer and nail punch. You also may need a metal file to make the bolt heads fit snugly into the socket, and a hack saw for cutting the bolts. To make the press, drop one of the brass bolts into the socket the wrong way, with the threaded part heading into the tube first, such that it comes out the bottom where the drive would normally go. Once fully seated in the bottom (drive end) of the socket, cut off the projecting bolt flush with the bottom of the socket. Next drop the second brass bolt head first down into the socket, and thread the nut on the bolt to measure depth (and also thickness and therefore weight) and provide lateral stability for the bolt head, ensuring an even coin. Here, I'm making a 1 gram hash coin. I have pre-cut the press bolt to make a 1 gram coin when flush with the socket top. Here's the press. You could stamp a design, logo, the weight or even small word into the hash coin if you could mill the bolt head. :eusa_eh: Dump the kief in. Try not to spill. Put the top bolt down into the socket, and press the bolt down onto the kief with a vise. A C-clamp works just as well. After letting it sit for 10 minutes or so, release the vise or clamp and use the nail punch to punch out the bottom (drive end) bolt, pushing out the top bolt and then the hash coin. Not much waste :thumbsup::thumbsup: :redbong::redbong: Burns good!
"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing." :thumbsup::redbong:
To be honest that looks like it works ten times better than the press our friends gave us a while back that we never use anymore and probably cost $30! :thumbs-up: