Upgraded Bubble Magic 5 Gallon Ice Water Extraction Machine - v2
Upgraded Bubble Magic 5 Gallon Ice Water Extraction Machine - v2
Wash your harvest with the same gentle agitation every single run
Ice water extraction comes down to one thing: moving the material enough to knock the resin loose without beating it into green sludge, and doing it the same way every time. That is hard to hold steady with a paddle once your arm gets tired, and it is the whole reason the Bubble Magic 5 Gallon v2 exists. It runs one fixed paddle speed on a mechanical timer and drains through a valve in the base of the tub. Load it. Start it. Walk away.
- Agitation speed drifts as your arm fatigues
- Wash length is whatever you counted in your head
- Loose material drifts into the bag stack while you pour
- You lift and tip the full bucket to drain it
- Both hands are busy for the entire wash
- Hard to repeat a run that came out well
- One motor driven paddle speed from start to finish
- Timer ends the wash at a set number of minutes
- Material stays sealed in the zippered wash bag
- Drain valve and hose empty the tub under gravity
- Set your bag stack up while the cycle runs
- Write down the time and repeat it exactly next season
Why fixed speed agitation matters more than force
Resin heads sit on the outside of the plant on a thin stalk. Chill the material and the water close to freezing and those stalks turn brittle, so light contact snaps them off and the heads sink through the water instead of floating with the leaf. The goal of the wash is to break the stalks without tearing the plant material around them. Torn leaf sheds fine green particles that ride straight down into your lower micron bags, and once they are in there, no amount of rinsing separates them back out.
That is why speed control matters more than power. The paddle in this machine oscillates at one rate for the whole cycle, which takes agitation off your list of variables and leaves you with a single lever: how long you run it. Wash short, drain, look at what you pulled, then put the same material back in for a longer run. Over two or three seasons you end up with a written recipe instead of a feel for it.
Keep your first pull separate from the rest 3 minute increments
A short first wash releases the ripest resin with the least plant matter, and that pull is worth keeping on its own. Draining and collecting between timed runs is how you split grades instead of blending everything into one jar.
Zippered wash bag keeps leaf out of your screens
Material goes into the included 220 micron bag and the zipper closes over it, so stems and leaf stay in the tub while resin passes through the mesh. Check that the zipper is fully closed before every cycle.
Drains under gravity instead of over your shoulder
Five gallons of water alone weighs more than 40 pounds before you add ice. Open the valve, drop the hose into the top bag of your stack, and the tub empties without a single lift.
No plumbing, no hookup, no dedicated room
Nothing gets plumbed in and nothing gets hooked to a faucet, so a basement bench, a garage table, or a spot next to the utility sink all work. An extension cord is the only accessory most people need.
Sized for one grower's harvest Up to 225 g per run
Material, ice, and water share the same tub, so the working load is roughly a half pound of frozen material at a time. That is a comfortable afternoon for most home growers and leaves room for the ice to move.
Light enough to carry to the water
The machine weighs about 14 pounds empty, so it moves to wherever the sink and the floor drain are and goes back on a shelf when the season ends. It does not need a permanent home.
How a wash session runs, start to finish
Freeze first, then load
Material should go in frozen solid, not fresh and not dry. Load it into the wash bag, zip it closed, and set it in the tub.
Build the bag stack before you start
Nest your collection bags in a bucket with the finest micron on the bottom and the coarsest on top. Set that bucket lower than the machine so the drain hose feeds it.
Ice, cold water, timer
Fill with cold water and ice until the bag is submerged and floating free. Start with a short cycle on your first run and let the water settle for a minute after it stops.
Drain, collect, repeat
Open the valve and let the water run through the stack, then lift each bag and collect what is sitting on the screen. Put the same material back in and run it again for a second pull.
- Bubble Magic 5 Gallon Extraction Machine v2
- One 220 micron zipper wash bag
- Drain hose, fitted to the tub valve
- Clear hinged lid
- Power cord, standard three prong plug
- Machine only: you already own collection bags
- Machine plus 3 bag set: 220, 73, 25 micron
- Machine plus 5 bag set: 220, 160, 120, 73, 25 micron
- Machine plus 8 bag set: 220, 190, 160, 120, 90, 73, 45, 25 micron
- Optional: a spare all mesh 5 gallon bag set drains faster than vinyl sided bags
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