ACME Hash extraction manual
About ACME
The concept and spirit of the ACME products and production methods have always been
to design the absolute top quality tool for the intended work, and leave nothing to
chance — overkill is the name of the game — everything is planned so that each
filter tube is a long lasting tool and efficient to but without an over usage of
materials or excessive weight — thus no wasted costs. These are our 3 inspired
guidelines here at ACME:
When choosing the nylon we want it to be very strong, of high-density, a tight
thread count nylon of a medium weight. Colors are basic, keeping our prices low but
not sacrificing on quality. The filter screen mesh we use is the safest, toughest
and surest available, manufactured exclusively by the Italian, Swiss and German
weavers we source from. This mesh is €uro costly, so we have designed and cut our
screen pieces to perfection. After assembly, we sew it twice more for a total of 3
times around, at 10+ stitches per inch. Then our unique product labeling, with large
numbering, assures you will be able to identify your micron sizes even after
thousands of uses.
Ease of use is paramount, that's why we do don't make any tools that need batteries
or any source of electrical power. People power and simple physics are what moves
your plant material from a raw state into one of very high purity. Conveniences like
color-coded wrap ties and loops are just a day at the factory here in Nepal, as we
strive to make our product super user-friendly.
The three ACME FreezeShatter kits (CURE, SHAKE & SHATTER) are specially designed
extraction systems to do what their names imply, and each kit comes with all you
need to complete that process. Over time, individual components may wear out, so we
offer you the option of purchasing just what you need (see Individual Parts for the
list) instead if re-purchasing the entire kit again.
In addition to our stock kits, we often make available other parts that will enhance
the kit process being used. For example, we are currently offering this further
refinement of the ACME SHATTER Kit: Both ACME Cones & Tubes can be ordered in
smaller micron sizes: 18µm ~ 29µm & 38µm.
The ACME CURE Kit is a curing device made to protect the plant materials inside and
allow them to cure at a consistent humidity. The kit consists of a tube marked
ACME220, a vented cover and a closed cover both covers marked just ACME. The covers
protect the plant material and allow the resin to cure free from dust, insects,
sunrays, and fluctuations of ambient temperature & humidity, while also allowing
humidity to slowly be released from the 45µm vent running the full length of the
vented cover. The second closed Cure cover is put over the vented Cure once the
plant has dried. This second cover can be removed for a few hours every week for a
few weeks if the humidity needs to be lowered or evenly spread within the material.
Step 1
Fill the ACME CURE, marked ACME220 red in color, with your plant material and tie it
closed, then place the closed red Cure screen tube inside the black-vented cover,
tying it closed with attached wrap ties. Once filled, the ACME Cure Kit should be
hung and not stacked; there are red hooks at the top of both Cure bags just for this
purpose, use both of them. Hang the Cure in a well-ventilated area like a shaded
attic ≈ better than the basement.
About Temperature... a high of 23°C in the daytime and a low of 10°C at night is
just right as far as ambient temperatures go. Use a hi-low thermometer and adjust
the ventilation of the space to have the right reading in the middle of the day and
not too much below 10°C as a low point at night. If the temperature drops below 10°C
the drying process is very slow. Don’t allow direct sun to pass over the Cure.
About Humidity... depending on where you live, if an outside ambient humidity rises
above 85%, Cure drying will require special attention use a de-humidifier; if the
humidity is between 85% and 75%, curing will be slow so you might add a few lights
with a fan. With humidity below 75% there will be no trouble drying plant materials
in the ACME CURE Kit.
Step 2
Plant material should cure for 2 months and when tied tightly can be stored up to 6
months inside both Cure covers when the temperature and humidity is under control.
Alternatively, you can dry the plant material for only 15 to 20 days in the ACME
CURE Kit, and then make the first extraction using the ACME SHAKE Kit. Then finish
the cure for 50 days and make a second extraction.
The properly cured glandular resin will be far less sticky after curing, and less
apt to conglomerate (which is not good for the extraction). Properly cured material
will allow the resin to easily shake loose from the plant and become a free-flowing
trichome rich crude powder when worked inside the ACME SHAKE Kit.
Step 3
Fill the ACME220 SHAKE handle with cured plant material from the ACME CURE and
grind and shake away to begin your extraction. See the ACME SHAKE Kit tutorial for
more info. Don't forget to clean your CURE Kit after use. Refill and start the next
batch to dry and cure. These Cure tools are made to last for years, if there should
be any damage ≈ please repair with a strong thread and many stitches.
The ACME SHAKE Kit is our dry mechanical extraction kit with 2 red-top ACME220’s a
handle and a half-handle, and 5 small tubes of different screen sizes 180µm, 150µm,
120µm, 104µm & 90µm and a tie top black dust proof cover with a bladder at the
bottom to catch the crude resin rich powder, all 8 tools are given to you in a
sturdy red nylon carry tube marked ACME SHAKE.
This is the traditional method since millennia! This phase of dry creative manual
extraction gives either a higher quality with less quantity or higher quantity with
a lower quality.
Step 1
Fill the red top ACME220 SHAKE with your cured material and tie at the top using
the black and white wrap ties. Then insert the handle SHAKE tube into the black
bladder and tie at the top using the attached wrap ties. Next tie closed the bottom
open end of the bladder using a rubber band or hair tie a few inches above the
bottom. Now just hold the black dust proof cover at the top and feel the handle at
the bottom of the ACME220 handle inside, grab the handle and have fun grinding it
against the top in your other hand, grind them around. The more you grind and shake
the more you make. You can also strike the bulb of plant material through the black
cover to help loosen the resin from the plant. The bottom of the bladder will
slowly fill up with the crude resin rich powder mixed with contaminants.
Step 2
Strike, grind and shake away! Move through the steps repeatedly, after 60 minutes
or more of agitation remove the rubber band or hair tie at the bottom of the
bladder and release the crude powder into a container for safe keeping. This is
your 220µm crude resin rich extraction.
Step 3
Next work the resulting 220µm crude resin rich extraction using the red top ACME120
SHAKE tube. That's right, just shake and tap on the lump of powder through the
bladder, the ACME220 extraction inside the 120µm tube will become a better, more
refined grade of extraction after passing through the 120µm mesh. All of the 220µm
crude powder is not going to pass the 120µm mesh. Remember, the longer you shake
the more you make and the lower the quality. Shake just a little for a super dry
shake.
Step 4
To continue refining your dry ‘Shake’ into a more and more refined ‘Super Shake’,
go all the way through the work passing the powder from the 180µm extraction on
down to the 150, 120 and 104 mesh Shake slips. Put this semi-refined resin in the
red top ACME90 SHAKE tube to work out the finest of refined resins from your
material. Touch these resin powders for just a few gentle minutes to make a small
amount of high quality refined resin. All of these dry extraction ACME SHAKE tubes
can be used to work the resin powder a 1st , 2nd ,& 3rd time for descending
qualities.
If the dry SHAKE resins please you? Keep the refined resin that you worked with the
ACME SHAKE refining tools! And go straight ahead and process all these remaining
crude powders inside the ACME SHATTER Kit for the ultimate 100% pure resin
cleaning.
Step 5
Now, in this next phase of this dry creative manual extraction process, the ACME
FreezeShatter method is used for the cleaning of the contaminants. This unique ACME
process permits 1st a deep and thorough extraction of all available resin glands
bringing with them a great quantity of leaf and plant contaminants and 2nd the
complete cleaning of contaminants because this ACME FreezeShatter process can
remove all of the vegetal based cells by shattering them into very fine ice dust.
Conclusion
To get the maximum quantity and highest quality use only the ACME220 SHAKE handle
tube and complete the cleaning of the crude powder inside the ACME SHATTER Kit. You
can also FreezeShatter all the powders you have extracted using all ACME SHAKE
tubes inside the ACME SHATTER Kit.
Don't forget to clean your ACME SHAKE Kit after use, store in the carry tube and
hang on the wall to keep your workspace clean and tidy.
See the SHATTER Kit Tutorial for more info.
The ACME SHATTER Kit consists of one all-mesh Tube and one smaller all-mesh Cone
both marked ACME 45. Both ACME Cones & Tubes can be ordered in smaller micron
sizes: 38µm ~ 29µm & 18µm. As accessories the Shatter kits has a white nylon
anti•condensation cover marked ACME ULTRA and a nylon dowel (later to be sold
separately). This kit is in a white carry tube marked ACME SHATTER. The ACME
SHATTER Kit is best filled with the resin dust collected using the ACME220 SHAKE
handle or half-handle.
Step 1
FreezeShattering with the ACME SHATTER Kit is best done by hand in the great
outdoors when the temperature is at least minus –20°C / minus –4°F. Either the
all-mesh Shatter Tube or the smaller Shatter Cone all-mesh ACME45 may be used,
depending on the quantity of material being freezeshattered. For example, if you
have a small quantity of material (1 to 10 ounces), use the smaller Shatter Cone
(white tipped in color), if you have a larger quantity of material (8 to 40
ounces), use the larger all-mesh Shatter Tube (black-tipped) and if you have
continuous work, use both Cone and Tube. Take your resin rich crude extracted
powder, collected and refined with the Shake extraction kit, fill the ACME45 then
just hang outdoors to freeze (from dusk till late works best) then work the
freezeshattered ice dust out of the ACME45 during the coldest moment of the night.
The Undiscovered Country... try working in a walk-in freezer @ minus –20°C … you
may be able to freezeshatter the materials without condensation from your breath
getting on the frozen resin, but we have yet to test that. However, please try that
out and then relay your experience via our product forum
Step 2
Once the resin to be cleaned is well frozen, hold the cone or tube at both ends
(mittens recommended) and pump the mesh in and out like you would a hand organ,
only faster. This will create a sucking and puffing within the bag and ice dust
will be expelled. Follow the agitation by shaking with the seam up.
Next, lay the plump to the bottom cone or tube on a heavy nylon cutting board and
using the nylon dowel to strike the plump of the materials slowly with precision so
as to shatter the frozen, cellular based, contaminant into ice dust ≈ careful not
to damage the fragile mesh.
Step 3
Repeat Step 2 with more agitating, sucking, puffing and shaking followed by careful
striking till no more ice dust is expelled, and this may take 30 minutes to an
hour.
Step 4
Now you are ready to collect from the Tube or Cone your cleaned resin powder. Most
contaminants are now expelled. Promptly put the clean resin powder in a sealed
glass container to prevent ambient humidity from absorbing into your extraction.
Don't forget to clean your kit when done store your fragile equipment in the kit's
carry cover and hang it on the wall. That's it you're done!
FreezeShatter is a simple dry manual extraction method created by ACME
Manufacturing NEPAL. ACME Creative Manual Extraction is a concept of plant drying,
resin extraction and resin refining tools made for the rural manual application, it
is one that uses no electricity or gadgets, and is a process and line of tools
simple enough that any mountain villager could easily learn to do in minutes. This
new process has been imagined into a full line of tools to take the novice or the
professional from harvest to the largest possible extraction and cleaning that to
the highest possible quality! This is going to be patented, and also published and
given as public domain. ACME Manufacturing brings you the manual tools for a new
industry and they come to you in the form of ACME Kits: CURE, SHAKE, & SHATTER.
FreezeShattering can be done anywhere by anyone, and it is only the final cleaning
out of contaminants that needs cold temperatures below minus –20°C to minus –4°F.
Essentially the process works like this:
This is a cleaning after the extraction:
Plant materials are properly cured using the ACME CURE Kit.
A dust rich in glandular resin is extracted using the ACME SHAKE Kit.
An extracted resin is cleaned using the ACME SHATTER Kit and very cold temperatures.
That's it, this simple and easy method of extracting plant essences has been
published for free here and now you too can produce high-quality resins from any
plant material rich in glandular resin. See our FreezeShatter Tutorial for more
details. Let us know how it goes in our forum, as we love hearing from our users.