Dry sift screen materials?

Fadedawg said:

Silk screen has more resilience than stainless mesh. I use 150 mesh stainless for the first cut for wear and silk screen to refine at 110 and 70 micron.

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Shaawing said:

So you're telling me that polyester ( silk screen is made from polyester ) is stronger than steel? How so?

Resilience has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with bounce.

If you used the word resilient as in it has flexibility to it and it will bounce back I would think that's a bad thing.. if it stretches that makes the holes bigger, needless to say that would not be good...

It doesn't have to stretch far enough to negate the process, and the sizes I gave you are based on tensioning so that there is bounce/rebound when you tap the screen. The stainless works OK for carding or for bouncing against your palm, but not much using a finger tapping technique.

Also you said you use 150 lpi mesh to start and 110 micron next? So you know 110 micron is in the area of 135 lpi mesh.. the hole difference between 150-135 mesh isn't enough to put them side by side and actually do anything different that the previous one... you might want to go to 110 lpi instead of 110 micron so there's a bit of a gap between the size of holes you're using.. or keep the 110 micron and move your 150 lpi mesh for start a bit bigger for your first startup mesh maybe go to 100 lpi mesh to start then 110 micron (135lpi mesh) and then finally your finer meshes for however super pure you want the sift..

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Fadedawg said:

I suggest that you experiment for what best works for until your hearts content. Here is more information on what I've tried.

https://skunkpharmresearch.com/diy-sieving-frames/

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Shaawing said:

Thank you for clarifying and that's a great link thanks for that too! I'm new to cultivating and processing..

I'm going to be getting my first grow tent soon after my wedding in july ( promised i would wait lol too busy anyways ) I've been doing lots and lots of research for different things about growing and processing and I really like ( pressed (( pliable)) hash ) hash so I'm going to buy one of those jack puck hash presses that you can heat up ( so i can make pliable hash not rock hard blonde pucks ) and make some hash out of my trim and probably some bud just to make more hash lol figure it's good to know as much as I can before I start up.

Thanks again for that link it explained everything I've been trying to figure out

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Shaawing said:

I work with stainless steel mesh, we have mesh sizes from 1 inch wire all the way down to 8 micron. Needless to say, I have whatever size I need.. I know the proper sizes and all for microns but I've only ever heared of people using silk screen.. is there a reason? Less coarse..? Does metal affect the weed or the resin? Or is silk screen just cheaper so that's why it is what's used by the masses?

There is also another fabric micron made from polyester called organza.. just learned about it 5 mins ago so that's all I can say about that.

I'm hoping that I'm good to go with the steel because I make strainers with perforated sheet metal and steel mesh and I can make the best pollinator ever!

Thank you

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Fadedawg said:

We use 10 mesh to break up the flowers and remove the stems.

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Lazzo said:

Hi Fadedawg,
Thanks for reply. Not sure what you mean, could you please share more info?
The input material is flower, do you think we can start with 115u or 120u ?
This is just for getting good shake material for making pre-rolls, no mesh for collecting kief, live resin, etc.
We use a shredder for breaking down the buds prior this step.
Thank you

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