My thought with the pollen press was use something like a micron screen "tea bag" around a little bud, then wrap that in some parchment paper. Compress the whole thing in the press than hook up the coil and heat for a bit.
My thinking was that if someone has already shelled out hundreds of dollars for a good e-nail, some sort of relatively cheap accessory that would let them leverage that controlled heat source could save them a few $$'s over buying a pricey (but arguably worth it) press like the ones from Rosin Tech. Hair straightener is alright, but sort of hit or miss. For example, the one I picked up turned out that it's low is too high temperature and it tends to vape stuff off. So have to heat it up, unplug, wait a few seconds, hope that you're in the right ball park temp wise, then press and also hope the cheap plastic case that wasn't designed for this pressure doesn't crack. But really it just comes back to an e-nail being the type of accessory a serious dabber might already have or be considering. I know that I saw one outfit a while back that makes a set of metal adapter plates to fit common hydraulic hand presses that used four e-nails to provide heat for doing pressed oil. But they were like $300 just for the plates.
I think another potential issue is that something like this would be such a small batch that you would probably be looking at all that work to get one dab's worth out of it.
Maybe just talking to myself, but thinking on it some more a pollen press may be the wrong way to go. Maybe something along the lines of a vice grip clamp would be an even better starting point....
Sorry for the random thoughts...good sativa kicking in today and the gears in the brain are churning. :smoking: