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Congratulations on your purchase of this rosin press from Juno Industrial Technologies.
This press is designed to extract rosin from plants under moderate heat and pressure.
The key word here is ‘extract.”
When operating your rosin press, it is important to remember that it’s not about crushing
the plant like one would a piece of fruit when making juice nor “melting” the rosin within
the plant as one would heat up a piece of bacon to remove the fat. Instead, the combi-
nation of heat, pressure and time is used to coax the terpenes from the small outgrowths
called trichromes that exist on the plant – particularly on the leaves and flowers.
If you use too much heat, you can actually harm the terpene by burning it or degrading
the potency, and too much pressure can crush plant material into the terpines which also
reduces the quality of your yield.
Instead, use of the lowest possible heat combined with a high even pressure over a reason-
able amount of time makes for the best quality and output.
Your Juno press comes equipped with two independently controlled heating plates
(platens) and has the ability to deliver up to 800 lbs of pressure at the pull of a handle.
Though each type of plant is dierent and comes with dierent strains, you can use this
equipment to quickly identify the best combination of temperature, pressure and time to
extract high quality rosins.
