Hi Elliot,
I hope you are doing well. I think you misunderstood what I was saying. The vacuum is kept as low as possible during the process and the temperature is raised. The first two fractions are collected below 100°C. Those fractions are individually removed and the process can be carried on to decarb and residual volatile removal. That allows the wiped film to be used after on the cannabinoid portion left over in the boiling flask.
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The waxes their boiling point is way over your terpen fractions
Main isseu with them is that they add to the viscosity making stirring a thingy
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My name is Connor.
is that your middle name
Pictures would help. If you have dark fractions, then it would be harder to see. It kinda looks like spit in water, it looks sorta hazy and moves like its sorta floating in water(terps). The orange bit you say could be raw cannabinoids if the pressures were off. More than likely your buddies pressure was too high and pulled something extra with the terps.
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When I was doing this stuff I worked with a license in California that cleaned up crude terpene fractions from supercritical co2 runs. The way they did it was basically using a small bench scale centrifgue and norit (activated carbon). I think they were using about 5% norit per mass of terpene fraction added to centrifuge tube. Run a high RPM cycle for 20-30 minutes. The waxes and carbon settle to the bottom and you can decant the supernatant. The color and claritty was improved and you didnt need any heat.
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Your guy that gave you the terps needs to learn how to run a co2 machine properly. They are fully capable of removing the waxes prior to the terps. We are using terps straight out of our machine in MS in vape carts.
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…that’s why they were freebies.
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Pics?
What type of machine ?
Running parameters?
Anything else I can tell him?
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How to use the search function?
May be useful…my recollection is there are at least a couple more.
Edit: just so they’re cross-linked Refining and Purifying CO2 Terpenes
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…and more importantly from a vacuum distillation standpoint, their vapor pressures are considerably lower than those of your targets ( @d8mademegay)
(Just like they are when distilling BHO HTE…)
?!? Can’t tell who that one is aimed at?
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I’m getting some more jars of co2 terps from my buddy and it seems to be a regular thing so I’m going to grab one of these baby short paths for terps
Should I go with the @AlexSiegel kit or the one from @goldleaf_scientific
Any input is appreciated. Thanks
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Neither. There’s way better stuff out there.
I got this recently and I’ve never been happier. If you have mantles, it’s alot less! I get higher terp yields and able to capture more of the finer aromatics. Anything else on market tends to have considerable blow by past the collection and trap.
I got mine on sale, and won’t ever use anything else from my steam terps or pour off terps.
Forgot to mention, they sent me a detailed terpene sop that exceptionally outperformed anything I’ve seen. Most people apply short path sops where as summit has a sop just for terps that has so much information it’s overwhelming. I’m pulling 99.5 to 99.9 percent of my terps regularly. Nothing in traps unlike the repurposed short paths or unsellable surplus people are pushing. Don’t get bamboozled. This kit is the bees knees for terps. The the step forward instead of the leap backwards.
I maybe lost 2-3mL to the cold traps, idk what you’re talking about
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If you ask me, any system with that much over engineered glass to do something as simple as condense terpenes is not designed properly. The user ends up having to pick up the slack until the glassware is either broken or tabled for something better.
@d8mademegay I would stay far away from the Summit headache. Your wallet, daily work flow, and the quality of your products will thank you. Simplicity goes a long way.
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Hi Alex, I have regularly been extracting terps for years. I have used just about every glass part on the market. Never broke glass ever, unlike some people in labs I don’t consume product and develop butter fingers and drop glass. Is that something you struggle with?
I’m not going to sit here and take advice from a poser struggling to get rid of unwanted parts.
I’m not going to sit here and take advice from a Wana be making statements that aren’t even remotely true about glass setups.
@d8mademegay please take a moment to look at the offerings and make good judgement calls. I would not trust anyone who calls themselves a professional or skilled, and then demonstrates a short path kit with a dual vane vacuum pump (garbage one to be clear) on a attempted failure of a terpene distiller. As well when you see product offerings with zero temperature control, basic cold traps that do not trap fine volatile aromatics, and vacuum gauges that don’t even give off accurate readings in the ranges you want to work with, you can assured someone is trying to lie to you and bamboozle you. When it comes to gl, you should pay close attention to the surplus and unsellable glass parts that were retorched into whatever you can imagine that nonsense to be. Terpenes are to be extracted with exquisitely fine vacuum control, accurate heat management and multiple different temperature controlled zones as well as the correct and appropriate vacuum control systems and pumps. If the sellers don’t have the ability to use the correct hardware or pumps themselves then you can be assured you are talking to the wrong sellers.
I hate to break it to you but these yahoos running around showing you bunk ass setups are just that. Bunk. Things they can’t sell, about to offload it on you. They will lie up and down the block about the process and then you’ll realize most of your terps aren’t being handled properly and blown by the trap into vacuum pump or just burned up from excess heat.
I used a spd systems untill I saw two terp companies I was visiting using the spd7 and was blown away. Don’t trust anyone who accuses modern distillation technology as a complex over engineered product.
There’s a reason why the largest terps companies and small boutique companies use summits spd7. I found out the hard way untill I got mine.
Almost sounds like you are summit
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And call me connor
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