it fits in the most rotors that i think a lot of fuges use. it needs a lip to put in a sink strainer type device… i’ll draw a picture and send 2 u
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What’s up bro, still looking for those cups?
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Yah! I have tried many different vessels and sink strainers but I’m not having much luck…
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I think we need to find the vessel of choice and then I can machine adapters for them. since I saw it the other day…my mind has been chewing on it…
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What do you do with the terps you separate in the end? Not the bulk, the little bit left over from when you finish it warm. I made some carts this way, I didn’t end up with as much micro thca crystals and the carts actually worked better because the oil wasn’t as thick.
So what do you do with the left over terp sauce? I have some, not sure what to do with it. Decarb it with the thca? Mix it back in with some live resin for dabs?
I like to decarb my isolate and use my terp sauce to flavor it if going into carts or mix the sauce back into the isolate at specific ratios under specific conditions to get different consistencies of finished product.
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I mix the warmer terps in with some of the fresh terps and add back some diamonds and dab it.
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Turns out you can order any bucket you want for it. Was talking with Scales+ at mjbizcon and they can make custom buckets for the centrifuges they sell.
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Anyone have some pointers for my new centrifuge?
So my lcd-3 died. It would get too hot at max rpm, roughly 100-110’f, so I would prop open the lid to allow more airflow or just run it at much lower rpm to keep temps around 90.
I wanted to upgrade, so I went with this one
Has a much larger motor, so uses less effort to spin and produces less heat because it’s not working very hard. It also has good ventilation with the lid shut, even at 4k rpm for 24 hours, it will only reach 85-88’f max. Because it doesn’t get as warm as the lcd-3, it does a better separation, but it takes forever. What I could do in 12 hours on the lcd-3, takes 24-36 hours.
It’s very weird, with the lcd-3, you would see the terps flow out of the bottom of the filter and you would see the progression from the top down. With this new centrifuge, it’s goes left to right for some reason. I guess the lcd-3 has the tubes sitting more horizontally whereas the new one has them more vertically.
This is from the lcd-3, easy to see the progression top down
This is from the new one. The photo was taken near the end of the run, but you can see the progression is more left to right instead of top down. You can even see a terp ring on the centrifuge lid where terps actually worked their way out the top of the tube instead of down to the bottom.
Should I run the new centrifuge at lower rpm? Then it will produce less heat, roughly 80’f and the terps don’t move much. Did I make a mistake buying this one? I can still return it I believe. Looking for advice/suggestions
God this hurts to watch.
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Lmao 
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What’s your average yield on some like live resin sugar type shit if thats what you’re running for terps? I’d be sad getting less than a 7 back lol
Maybe someone already said this, but I made a micro-centrifuge scale filter for mechanically separating crystalized thca from terpenes. I just prick a small hole in the bottom of a 1.5ml tube with a scratch awl, and press fit that tube onto another tube. The terpenes can flow through the hole, but the sugar is trapped in the upper tube. I can post photos soon if anyone is interested.
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How do you get those filters to not pop at high RPM? I can’t go above like 1000 without the filter popping and ruining everything. I switched back to rosin bags after a few wasteful attempts.
So to follow up with the story of what I did. This is an inexpensive project for fun, not optimized to be a commercially viable method. So at first I was told that I would be able to pour off terp sauce with a centrifuge, but I was doubtful. But I went ahead and tried it anyway. After 15 minutes at 4000rpm I had this:
Obviously the sauce was denser, but it was not able to displace the crystals very much. Essentially the top 10% seperated, and the rest was still a mix of sauce and crystalized THCa. This is probably very obvious stuff to some but to me this was all a learning experience
I liked the idea of the two-part Corning Costar Spin-X tubes. For a filter, I decided to prick a single hole with a sharp awl. My experience has been that a single hole is enough to allow terpenes could flow, but crystalized THC-a to remain in the upper chamber. This is a pic of a practice tube I poked holes in:
All I needed for this was a hole smaller than the crystals, so using a sharp tool is important. I use a scratch awl for this.
I tried some variants but ultimately I like the most simple setup: two tubes that are press-fit, with a hole in the end of the upper tube. I decided one hole was best because fewer holes means fewer chances to make a hole big enough to let crystals through. All seemed great, but it was actually unbalanced so I stopped right away. I then realized that I had not pressed the tubes onto each other the same distance. From this point on, I pressed up to the first .5ml line on each tube, and this solved the vibration issues.
This is a photo after 15 minutes. Clearly one has a wider pore and drains terp sauce faster.
And after an hour (always 4000rpm) it’s done:
Once the terp sauce fully drained, I decarb the crystalized THC-a, which I then mixed back with terp sauce to make yummy carts. This is my novice solution to this, I hope it helps someone who is also doing small scale mechanical separations. Finally, pics of product:
I am surely letting some crystalized THC-a through however it’s not visible to the naked eye. It’s possible that having small crystals left in the sauce could form nucleation sites for crystals if there is unstable THC-a in the sauce.
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What was your terp yield like?
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Using this method on average 1 gram of the live sugar yields 0.235G of sauce per gram of live sugar.
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I’ve been wanting to make something like this for 1.5mL tubes, true poverty cart farming
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Yeah I don’t wanna get a Crazy fuge but I will idc it’s just they’re for personals so I’ll end up storing terps in the freezer lol
Get a drill some long shit and glue the tube kr something to it and just run that bitch for however long you can manage prolly works in like gram scales