Assistance in purchasing my Buchner Funnel setup for QWET

Hello I am looking for assistance in purchasing my Buchner Funnel setup for QWET. I plan on making very strong edibles and I want to use ethanol qwet extraction. I have purchased an Ardent FX and a ExtractCraft Source Turbo.

https://kit.co/JoeCocio/ethanol-extraction

I have been looking at this list of items and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a high quality hand pump that accept 3/8ths tubing?

Everything on that list is available on amazon except the flask , which I have to buy from another distributor the buchner collars which I can just buy another brands version and no hand pump is linked. I just want a reliable one if there is a specific hand pump model to recommend that accepts the 3/8 tubing?

What is QWET?

Quick wash ethanol, old wook tech

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what is a modern tech?

Pretty much the same panda tech but with a proper centrifuge. Plenty of people still use the panda, @rocksteady makes an adapter you might find useful as well

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can you give me a link to this panda tech? iā€™ve never heard of it and iā€™m not getting any luck in google swearch results. Has it displaced QWET for ethanol extraction? what is this adapter that @rockstteaady makes? I want to buy all the equipment so I can do ethanol extract and make strong edibles.

itā€™s the same as QWET, just scaled up. Thatā€™s an old term that doesnā€™t get used much now, ethanol crude is the modern term

https://future4200.com/search?q=panda

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On the source extractor, you can use the vacuum pump on the unit to connect to the flask. I purchased the Source Extractor and then the components through amazon like you are intending. I did buy the adapter from soure for $5 but had to add the 3/8" tubing. You could buy this at Home Depot w/ no issue.

I am not sure the Buchner filtration is better than just straining it through a filter. I have only done 1 batch and doing more research on how much can be extracted in this method.

Thatā€™s ā€˜cause you didnā€™t ask the all knowing one to look HERE.

https://www.google.com/search?q=panda+site%3Afuture4200.com

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A hand pump is going to be a bitch, Iā€™d use the vac from the source turbo if you can.

I do NOT recommend that cheap Amazon buchnerā€¦. They arenā€™t flat and the paper will not seal to them well at all, grab a used coorstek off eBay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224577285235?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=224577285235&targetid=1264870805944&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9027581&poi=&campaignid=13920229889&mkgroupid=125280043855&rlsatarget=pla-1264870805944&abcId=9300614&merchantid=101648432&gclid=Cj0KCQjwnoqLBhD4ARIsAL5JedJNfOWnLgmtiDZfgKMwXROcAa4jQ7DUy97uHfanYitQUOXCN8dmKtkaAlWUEALw_wcB

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Like others have said, a hand pump is going to be a real pain. If you donā€™t feel like pulling a vac with your source turbo, a cheap vac pump of Amazon or eBay would work about a million times better than a hand pump. Heck, you can even get a cheap pump from harbor freight that will do the job pulling on a buchner just fine.

Add a little cake of celite on top of your filter paper to step up your filtration game.

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I have some hochstroms forsale on ebay. I posted a thread about it. :man_shrugging: