Thanks for that reference, I’ve seen the issue allllll the time in programming contexts but it clearly applied here as well. Something for me to think a bit on
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If you don’t want to salt out your cannabinoids (amine process linked above) then adding the appropriate anti- solvent is another approach (see “louche”).
I’d wager you’re making “glass” not “crystals”
Define large?
A centrifuge enough to do a liter at a time
Im just tired of distilling if I can turn my etho extracts and crude into distillate and cut my processing times.
That’s tiny in my whirled
…and decarbed thca is not distilled, so calling it “distillate” would be inaccurate. We refer to ours as distyless
This Beckmann ran us $1k with rotor iirc & with the right bottles would have had a payload of around 1.5kg (6x 500g).
Current rig does 25kg comfortably.
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interesting
Even after purging the Ethanol and dissolving it in BHO some of it doesn’t associate with BHO it ends up being thick and running and builds a layer under the bho
What model Beckman is that ill buy one now
i didnt see anyone mention any specific amines in that thread
It’s a Beckman J-6B
See Separation Anxiety (mechanical)
We’ve got two that I would classify as “uncontrollable”
@thesk8nmidget might even sell you the rotor we have If you ask him nice.
I’d recommend a smidge more reading first.
There are pros and cons. you’d probably need to custom fab your “filter” solution or supports.
All documented around here somewhere.
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Correct.
Nor here New extraction method
Or here. Are you isolating in your lab?
I still suggest reading both if you’re curious.
the patent says triethylamine (mmmm…) for CBDa as far as I could understand it
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so long as you stick to NP solvents, a whole lotta amines work really well
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Terminology is important
You are trying to dissolve your ethanol extract in butane/propane, not BHO. BHO refers to the extract made from butane/propane extraction (butane hash oil). Trying to dissolve ethanol extract in BHO would be silly
The (likely) reason you can’t dissolve your ethanol extract in butane/propane is because you need a vessel that is rated to handle the high vapor pressure of those solvents at room temperature, like a diamond miner. Your butane is evaporating at a super low temperature that is not conducive to dissolution. The butane won’t get warm enough to dissolve the ethanol extract using a beaker, like in the videos you uploaded. If you are able to fill the diamond miner with your ethanol extract and solvent, close it up and throw it in a low temp oven overnight, it will for sure dissolve.
EDIT: my bad, your videos may be liquid nitrogen in those beakers. The rest of the post still stands, though!
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I do have a diamond miner thats what I tried to crash the etho turned BHO in, when I agitated it, I could see the coffee colored brown BHO origin material at the top and at the bottom I could still see some of that Etho crude which was blasted with butane, sitting moving at the bottom. Outside the vessel when not under pressure you couldn’t tell a difference but under pressure both behaved a little different. During the crash I could see the BHO origin material weas starting to crash when I got near -10c but the other stuff was still runny at the bottom
?!?
unpurged EHO (ie + ethanol) and BHO + butane?
redissolving purged EHO in butane to crash will work. pentane would probably work better. trying to crash from butane while there are small amounts of ethanol present might be a win (see Medusa discussions), but most would purge ethanol first.
sounds like significant ethanol in your crude, and a very strange approach.
what was the thought behind adding BHO to the mix?
did you use EHO + butane then decide to add BHO?
why not say YES when asked
because video was Ln2?
but you have added butane in previous attempts?
and BHO?!?
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I think he is using the terms butane and BHO interchangeably. He’s trying to dissolve EHO in butane, but he’s not heating or agitating it enough to dissolve, so he is left with a puddle of butane on top of EHO.
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Possibly. The distinction was explicitly made.
@ZREIKMIESTER care to elaborate?
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