for what its worth, from the start I thought this guy was criminally retarded lol. Man just learned where to buy vacuum oil and what exhaust ventilation is, and he’s already running circles around the big dogs. What a legend - and to think all he has is a hammer, keyboard and a dream in his toolbox.
But real quick, to help @jazel0 understand just a small portion of precisely WHY he’s in idiot - the videos he’s referencing are of pumps pulling on a small empty static system - those HVAC guys are pulling vac on small empty cylinders with minimal connections (sources of leaks). That isn’t what a short path is - for one, its got more internal volume and more sources of leaks…but okay lets say both of those very real observations are negligible bc he’s operating in the PERFECTLY IDEAL ENVIRONMENT (some seedy apartment in Romania or whatever). The very basis of a short path is that you’re pulling on some hot liquid, converting/evolving some of it into vapor, and then condensing a portion of that vapor. There is a change in volume of the substance in the system that is actively disturbing and reducing the vacuum which the pump must be able to overcome, notably in the form of its ability to remove volume (the CFMs). Ultimate vac isn’t unimportant, but its far from the whole story.
So, maybe he can get away with a dinky HVAC pump if he’s running an itty bitty short path with perfect seals (high quality glass, cheap=leaky in this case)…but what that wont do is cure his perfectly smooth atrophied brain.
Yep I do and that’s not even all of them that’s just the ones that were in that room at the time.
Although…… I don’t have a HVAC pump….. I could have sucked for a lot less money
But if I’m to be 100% honest, the very first pump I tried to use for THC distillation (long long time ago in a galaxy far far away) was an HVAC pump and it didn’t work for me… but I’m sure he can make it work for him.
If I remember correctly the first pump that I actually had success with on my first THC distillation setup (2L) was a small precision scientific belt driven pump. The results weren’t great (decently good but not great) and distillation temperature were what nowadays I would call unacceptably high. It might be a cheap option if you find a new one but I wouldn’t buy one used unless I know exactly where it came from and I tested it first.
Me too. In leaky China glass. Miserable failure. Mostly D10 I believe. Very pretty red color though. Kept that jar around as a reminder for at least 5 years.
Pretty sure I killed two hvac style pumps before we got serious.
Yeah bro but you have to understand that you and I we don’t really know what the hell we’re doing and he is one of the world’s best so I’m sure it’s going to work out for him way better than what it did for you and I.
Skunk Pharmer Joe used to buy those crap harbor freight pumps with the lifetime warranty and swap them out after every couple of runs.
They ran their closed loop outside. That’s really the lowest bar to safety and. it’s not even that safe. Wasn’t there an urban legend and a guy running outside and his neighbor had a lower elevation yard and he started the bbq and it exploded?
Please Please Please take videos of your setup and a few runs with the same exact equipment and prove to us how stupid we are. It’s going to be very entertaining…. And maybe quite embarrassing to us to have you teach us proper hardware and proper techniques. (If you do not posts videos of successful runs with your equipment I will assume you have conceded to being wrong)
I for one hope that you can prove us wrong / stupid and find a significant cost saving way.
I’m going to start by reminding you that I’ve asked you before whether you are going to do this as a hobby or as a professional?!!!
So I forced myself to sit and watch this whole video and I can tell you that no professional worth their salt is going to be happy using that pump (I get it if you’re broke and you’re trying to get some money together until you can afford a professional pump but outside of that you’d have to be an idiot to believe you can use that pump in a professional setting).
The guy was distilling at over 210° c which is pretty damn hot.
He was not using hot condenser.
He collected some pretty dark shit into the same flask with the clearer (not clear but clearer) stuff.
He made the reference to distilling only ones and I think almost all of us do two passes.
He called the end result quality distillate…. Apparently he has no clue what quality distillate is. Personally I would never give something like this to any one of my customers because it will destroy my reputation.
And let me remind you I didn’t ask you send us a video of someone else doing it I asked you to send us a video of you doing it.
I have lightly look through some of your previous posts on different threads and the one constant that keeps repeating itself is you asking a question, you not being happy with the answer, you arguing against the answer.
Apparently you know it all so why the fuck are you asking questions?
Less oxidation sure…but that isn’t the only way one can wreck one’s cannabinoids.
Temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy in the system. The hotter you go, the faster molecules are moving…the faster they are moving, the harder they crash into each other. Which increases the probability of (unwanted in this case) chemical reactions. Eg isomerization, polymerization, and decomposition.
Oxidation is relatively easy (if there’s oxygen present), especially at elevated temperatures. Removing the oxygen (vacuum) solves that…but the molecules are still crashing into each other at high speed…so chemical changes will occur more frequently/quickly than they would at lower temperatures.
think perhaps of burning wood. Won’t happen in a vacuum…but you CAN turn wood into charcoal via heat under vacuum. If that wasn’t your goal, you’d be disappointed. No?
