Dude’s a loucher!
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@cyclopath what do you mean by loucher?
Someone who louches their cannabinoids.
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Makes sense thx
3900 rpm was enough to cleanly seperate the waxes in the centrifuge?
In that fuge…
You need to look at RCF not rpm when comparing fuges.
What is your goal?!?
My goal is to winterize 3-5kg per day. I have had success with this method just doing one pass using a thermo scientific Sorvall lynx 4000 which is a 4 x 1L bottle fuge with a fixed angle rotor that does 10,500 RPM (20,500 RCF). Centrifuge -80C 3:1 ethanol/crude mix for 15 min at 10,500 RPM → filter through buchner funnel. collect waxes and spin those again → filter. I am looking into getting a fuge for a new facility to do a similar process and also use to help clean up co2 terps. They have benchtop fuges for about a third of the price of the lynx 4000 but are swing bucket rotors and only achieve 6000RPM and 7000 RCF but not sure it ill cleanly pelletize the waxes. Any input or advice?
If your waxes are cleanly pelleted, what is the buchner for?
If 15min with the gravity turned up by 7000 fold doesn’t do the trick, 30min should.
You should certainly be able to test that hypothesis with your current Fuge… (just don’t turn it all the way up!!)
The buchner is a safety measure as we were only doing one pass of wax filtration and there were sometimes little floaters of waxes that got dislodged from the pellet.
I no longer have access to the old fuge otherwise I would certainly try out different parameters. I see @Soxhlet has had success with 30 min @2272 rcf… so it seems this cheaper benchtop fuge will do the trick…
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You can settle overnight, then decant and get much (probably not most) of it out, so turning up gravity even 100x will get the job done eventually.