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printer said:
I'm waiting for some snow to be able to keep the 5gal pail cold without having a bunch of little frozen water bottles that aren't as efficient. Got plenty of cold outside but barely any snow yet.

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A fan blowing cold air on it?
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I doubt that would do much unless I rigged cooling fins on the bucket but it's easy to add snow once we have enough. I want the snow deep enough so when I scoop some up I'm not picking up debris that could plug up the little pump. I drifted in over the driveway a few inches judging by the tracks the car made going in and out yesterday but I'm not set up to start yet anyways.

Damn tap water is froze up so that's my priority today.

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DIY-HP-LED said:
Put the pail outside, it should be frozen solid in an hour or so!
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It takes a little longer for a 5 gal pail. Mind you the sides and top are frozen over with a liquidy center (almost put a cherry in it and coat with chocolate). What the hell were those called again, cherry blossom? Looked it up.

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printer said:
It takes a little longer for a 5 gal pail. Mind you the sides and top are frozen over with a liquidy center (almost put a cherry in it and coat with chocolate). What the hell were those called again, cherry blossom? Looked it up.

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Agitate it while it freezes with an electric drill and paint mixer to make slush and that should work, it is usually cold enough in the peg or anywhere there to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. Snow works though.
 
Dry ice works great for hash, the problem is getting it, oil can be made from that. You could use compressed/liquid Co2 and make your own or a fire extinguisher and an old sock. Pouring liquid co2 on the trim should work too, the point is to freeze the resin glands, so they drop through the screen or bubble bag when shaken, recover rates are high. Best done in winter with low indoor humidity levels. Discharging a fire extinguisher directly into the bubble bag of trim should work too.
 
printer said:
It takes a little longer for a 5 gal pail. Mind you the sides and top are frozen over with a liquidy center (almost put a cherry in it and coat with chocolate). What the hell were those called again, cherry blossom? Looked it up.

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Haven't had one of those in many a year. Used to have one at least once a week and now if I see one in the store I'm gonna have to get one.

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You should be able to buy dry ice in Edmonton, Calgary or Winnipeg for a reasonable price. Mechanically separating the resin glands first makes a purer product, if that is what you are after, and makes rendering oil easier too using less of a better-quality solvent like ethanol and that can be easily recovered.
 
Speaking of oil, I've gotta get rid of some lab stuff and glassware sitting upstairs, I no longer grow and my oil making days are done. I've got a whack of LEDs, assembled light arrays, pumps, electronics, LED drivers, and gardening shit for coca coir and assorted other gear I'm trying to give away and have been for a while!

I'm thinking of putting it on the local facebook market for cheap.
 
printer said:
Without all that stinky cheese.
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They have best cheese.

At your temps you can simply shake the bubble bag dry. Afghanis wait for winter cold like that to beat their year’s harvest against rugs. The trichomes fall into the weave. The coarse stuff can be brushed off. Invert rug onto clean surface, lightly beat … dry-process hash.
 
We're at -28.2 right now and I just the water working again so as long as the power stays on we're good to go. Warmed up from -36 a couple days ago.

An emergency alert just popped up on the TV saying to turn off all unneeded electrical as the grid is close to being overloaded. We're at minimum now other than a couple TVs and my PC so have to hope it all doesn't fail. They specifically say not to be charging electric cars so what do we do when there's a hella lot more of those. My car isn't even plugged in as I wasn't planning on going anywhere and it starts at -30 no problem if I do need it.

Thanks to our conservative gov't handing control of the grid over to foreign companies years ago this is what we get.

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OldMedUser said:
We're at -28.2 right now and I just the water working again so as long as the power stays on we're good to go. Warmed up from -36 a couple days ago.

An emergency alert just popped up on the TV saying to turn off all unneeded electrical as the grid is close to being overloaded. We're at minimum now other than a couple TVs and my PC so have to hope it all doesn't fail. They specifically say not to be charging electric cars so what do we do when there's a hella lot more of those. My car isn't even plugged in as I wasn't planning on going anywhere and it starts at -30 no problem if I do need it.

Thanks to our conservative gov't handing control of the grid over to foreign companies years ago this is what we get.

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It might be a while before they have an EV that can handle your weather. Unlike the village optimist, I’ll wait and see what proves manufacturable, affordable and serviceable.

(As an amused aside, I once worked next door to a group involved in an ED drug. The clinicians spoke about achieving “durable and serviceable”* erections. Good times.)

*At the risk of being heterocentric, “that’s what she said”
 
cannabineer said:
It might be a while before they have an EV that can handle your weather. Unlike the village optimist, I’ll wait and see what proves manufacturable, affordable and serviceable.
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I'm in no rush to get an EV. There's no public plug ins available anywhere around here. Might be in Peace River an hour away but I haven't seen any nor have I been looking for them tho.

Barring an accident I'll probably be driving my '08 Saturn Vue the rest of my driving life. Runs like a top and only has 150K km on it now and I'm not racking up much mileage on it. About 5K a year so far on average. A trip to the coast every 2 or 3 years is only 3K round trip.

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OldMedUser said:
I'm in no rush to get an EV. There's no public plug ins available anywhere around here. Might be in Peace River an hour away but I haven't seen any nor have I been looking for them tho.

Barring an accident I'll probably be driving my '08 Saturn Vue the rest of my driving life. Runs like a top and only has 150K km on it now and I'm not racking up much mileage on it. About 5K a year so far on average. A trip to the coast every 2 or 3 years is only 3K round trip.

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I wouldn't get an EV in Alberta either, I'd at least wait to see how those quantumscape batteries did out there. I'm optimistic, but the batteries aren't there yet for wide adoption and especially for cold weather. Ok for commuting from the burbs to the city for work, the daily commute, in friendlier climate like here down east. As batteries improve though expect the objections to end. Electric transportation even with high power bills is cheaper than the cheapest gas, with solar at home it could be free transportation.

As for now turn off the grow lights or loose the grid!
 
OldMedUser said:
I'm in no rush to get an EV. There's no public plug ins available anywhere around here. Might be in Peace River an hour away but I haven't seen any nor have I been looking for them tho.

Barring an accident I'll probably be driving my '08 Saturn Vue the rest of my driving life. Runs like a top and only has 150K km on it now and I'm not racking up much mileage on it. About 5K a year so far on average. A trip to the coast every 2 or 3 years is only 3K round trip.

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My Fit has maybe 170k km on it and still runs quite well. And it gets me 50+ miles to the US gallon. Even with all the crap they put in gasoline to reduce emissions.

If it lasts me another ten years, I’m hoping that EVs will have improved to the point of being the cheapest (correcting for the inevitable taxes on non-EVs) to operate. I was floored when I read that a Treasla replacement motor (due every 85 kmi!) was five figures.

And, of course, battery tech. Let’s see if the solid-state batteries meet expectations.
 
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