Rockets Gearing Up For Mac
Dabbing concentrates is often seen as being an efficient and cost-effective means of consuming cannabis. With just a teensy dollop of hash on the head of a nail, tokers can get stonier than a rock garden. But when you're paying anywhere from $60 to $100 a gram for concentrate, those savings don't always add up. What's more, the process of extracting concentrate from the flower itself can involve a number of chemicals that you probably don't want in your body.
Of course, you could always make your own. And that's where the Rosinbomb Rocket comes in.
The Rocket is a $600, 13-pound tabletop extractor designed to squeeze and melt the THC crystals present on the surface of the flower into a solventless dabbable hash similar to. Think of it as a panini press for weed.
It's super-easy to use. Just plug in the Rocket, turn it on and wait a couple minutes for it to heat up to around 200 degrees F. While that's happening, you prepare the flower by setting it between two pieces of heavy-duty parchment paper. The press can handle loads from half a gram to half an ounce. Obviously, the more weed you put in (and the stickier that weed is), the more rosin you'll be able to extract.
I found that using full flowers rather than grinding the plant material beforehand gave the best results. Once the press reaches the desired temperature, you slide the parchment-shrouded weed between the heated plates and press them together. These plates, driven by a near-silent electric motor, exert more than 1,500 pounds of force, squashing the flowers into a paper-thin puck and causing the liquified rosin to flow out. After around two minutes of pressure and heat, you separate the press plates and remove the flattened sheets. Give them a few minutes to cool down and you've got yourself some high-test concentrate perfect for dabbing, vaping or just crumbling over a bowl of looseleaf - all without the residual hydrocarbons found in most commercial concentrates.
While the Rocket is much quieter than for pressure rather than an electric motor, it is purpose-built for home use. You're not going to be able to start your own hash-production business just because you pick one of these up. For that, you'll need the industrial-strength $1,800 Rosinbomb M50. The other stumbling point for the Rocket is its price.
This machine is roughly the price of a midrange dab rig. What's more, you can achieve the same general results, though not nearly as easily or efficiently, with a standard laundry iron and some wax paper.
On the other hand, the Rocket does offer some cost savings. The company's website figures 'if you assume $150 per ounce or per 28 grams for flowers, the yield you should anticipate with Rosinbomb is approximately 20 percent or around 5.6 grams of rosin. Given this estimate, the per gram cost of rosin produced with Rosinbomb would be approximately $27 per gram ($150/5.6 grams).' During testing, I managed to squeeze a surprisingly large amount of oil out of an eighth of weed. Specifically, I used an eighth of 33.7% Chem Dawg from split into two equally-sized batches, you can see the pressing results in the video above.
The resulting puck of plant matter can also be recycled for use in edibles or budder. There is very little waste involved in this process and virtually zero chance that you'll blow up your garage if something goes wrong. That's more than I can say about.
Say what you want about Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, what isn't up for debate is that he is always aggressive in trying to improve his team. Whether it be free agency or trades, the Rockets are always a team to watch in terms of taking big swings to chase an NBA title.
After they fell just one game short of the NBA Finals, the Rockets are gearing up for another big summer, He links the Rockets to Thunder All-Star Paul George, who is set to hit free agency in a few short weeks. The Rockets' interest in George isn't surprising, though it wouldn't be easy for them to acquire him. They would either need to clear major money to sign him outright or execute a sign-and-trade and those are always easier said than done. Say the Rockets do find a way to land George. Would that be enough to push them past the Golden State Warriors?
Houston was up 3-2 in their series before Chris Paul went down with a hamstring injury. On the face of it, a player like George could help the Rockets significantly in their quest to beat the Warriors.
But to sign George would require them parting with a lot of their key rotation players. They would likely need to let Trevor Ariza walk and also trade Ryan Anderson and probably P.J.
Tucker as well. They may not be able to re-sign big man Clint Capela in order to bring in George and Capela has proven crucial to their success.
Rockets Gearing Up For Mac 2017
Morey has proven adept at filling out his roster with good bench players on bargain deals. However, acquiring George and keeping the depth that helps make the Rockets great would be a monumental task. Certainly, George staying in the West instead of coming East would be good news for teams like the Washington Wizards. If George teams up with LeBron James or joins the Philadelphia Sixers, that would change the dynamic of the conference significantly. NBC Sports Washington is on. LeBron James and the media circus that comes along with him is coming to Washington, D.C., as the Lakers will face off with the Wizards at Capital One Arena.
Drew Gooden played with James for the better part of four seasons in Cleveland from 2004-08, and so he knows exactly what it's like when one of the NBA's greatest players comes to town. 'It's only real until you actually see it,' Gooden said.
'We used to joke and call ourselves not the Beatles, but the 'Cleatles,' because it was almost like a traveling rock band. And everybody played their part.'
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Gooden recounted one particular incident during a day off in Detroit in 2006, when he, James and a couple of their teammates went to a shopping mall to buy some watches. 'When we walked into the shopping mall in Detroit, it was like Michael Jackson had entered the shopping mall,' Gooden explained. 'Kids were running up, grownups were running up, everybody ran into the store we were in.
They had to shut it down with mall security, and wouldn't let anybody in.' 'The only thing I was thinking of is like, 'How are we gonna get out of here?' Because we came on our own with no security, so we were just thinking of how we were gonna get out of the mall now. And when I saw that star power of LeBron James back in 2006, this was before he won a championship, I couldn't imagine how it is now, and what he's become in today's game.' James' star power has only grown since then, and many have already declared him the greatest basketball player of all-time.
This label in reference to James is nothing new to Drew Gooden: he heard it when they were both teenagers playing AAU baskeball. 'Calvin Andrews, who was a sports agent of Carmelo Anthony, Calvin Andrews told me when LeBron was 15 years of age, he said, 'You see that guy right there?' ' Gooden recalled. 'I said, 'Yeah, what about him?' ' 'He's gonna be the best basketball player ever.'
' 'So it's no surprise to me, and this is not new to me, it's just I'm more amazed that it actually happened,' Gooden concluded. 'A lot of people say, 'Oh, he's gonna be the best ever or he has an opportunity of being the best ever.'
But I literally heard a man tell me that in Calvin Andrews, and that guy actually becoming one of the best ever, or the best ever.' For more on LeBron James and the Lakers' upcoming visit to D.C. To take on the Wizards, listen to the full Wizards Talk podcast below.