I’m wondering if the have private plane allowance @BG305. Maybe they will allow you to expense that mclaren?? I’m sure the pay will cover the 5 houses I know about. 
All my questions were answered when you posted that home made COA. It would be nice if that worked here in Cali. I hired myself earlier this year on a 6 figure salary with a 7 figure bonus at the end of the year. I dont think your company is ready for someone like me.
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Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with who you are. I was just answering your question.
Cool, call our number and we’ll get you set up with an interview.
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What other information would you want from a solvent provider? I’m happy to look into providing you with more information if you feel that our in house COA isn’t adequate.
@Capttripppp @BigM Make sure to check out this THC Gas Thread before trying their gas in your system. @Dxmimg had some of The Hydrocarbon Company’s gas tested and found the presence of diethyl disulfide and diethyl trisulfide. Both these compounds exhibit a foul odor, similar to garlic or strong onion-like flavor which is the reason he had it tested in the first place.
The test also found 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane in the gas which is a compound with a defined human risk established.
Several other members have also noticed onion/garlic from Cortland/THC gas but do not have test results. (THC gas is the sole distributor for Cortland Energy)
This particular thread is @thc_gas 's attempt to sweep the issue of their contaminated gas under the rug without explanation. IMO it doesn’t matter if they can show a million clean COA’s if they don’t find the bad batch they put out into the community, acknowledge it and explain what they’re doing to assure it doesn’t happen again.
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No worries, I had them try to convince me NOT to use n-Butane because I live in Alaska, and it’s expensive to ship. So, he WAS successful in convincing me that I sure as hell don’t need to use their butane to extract…
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I told them in a dm the home made COA was a bad look around here. As we see they have had problems before with dirty solvent in more ways than one.
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To be completely honest, and I mean this with no disrespect, but the lab results that @Dxmimg used did not actually say Cortland Energy on it. They also weren’t our customer, but had bought from Elite Solvents in Oregon. THC Gas only got involved with that thread because we were responding to an issue with Cortland Energy, and we motivated them to assess and fix the situation, which they did. But @dxmimg was never our customer.
While I understand your emotions around the possibility of being exposed to these toxic chemicals, I can say with confidence that we’ve done our due diligence to not only recall any possible tainted gas, but spent time, money, and a lot of energy to make sure that we are providing safe solvents for extractors.
I’m not sure if you’re interested, but I’d like for you to try our gas yourself. I can send you a free 20 lb tank for you to distill, test, use, whatever you want. We have hundreds of happy customers that are producing quality concentrates with our gas, we’d like for you to be one of them.
I’m not sure why you keep referring to our COA as homemade, as any company providing information is going to be “homemade”. Our company is using gas chromotography equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, plus we hire scientists who are responsible for monitoring the quality of gas that we’re providing. I’m not sure what the difference between our COA and Solvent Directs signature of approval from a cleaning technician is, but it’s all the same. No other gas company that I’ve seen has gone through the trouble of getting their gas tested third party either, which we did, because of a complaint from someone who wasn’t even working with us. I think we’ve gone above and beyond for @dxmimg, and he wasn’t even our customer. Thank you.
Yes, I did recommend that you try using solventless extraction methods, as I thought that charging you 1500$+ for a single tank of butane would not make much sense, for you. I tried recommending that you source from canada as the shipping costs would be less. My apologies, I was just trying to be a good business professional. I’d rather not extort a customer, but if you want that, I’m sure there are many who will do so gladly.
I thought that the $1,500 was for a pallet, or 4 tanks shipping? It’s not a big deal really, and I am going to get gas no matter what. I understand what you meant, and don’t feel bad you’re not the first and I doubt you’ll be the last. As soon as people see that I am in Alaska shit goes south quick when it comes to shipping. That’s the cost for living up here… Expensive shipping. I’ve been up here for going on 9 years, and have made my amends with the shipping many many moons ago.
I just thought it was funny because you are literally the first person to recommend just not using butane. I’ve already purchased my gear, and I’m not in a position to purchase a press, or go the solvent less route. I can’t even say that I wish things were different because that would be a lie. I’m happy with my choice, and will stay with it. Thank you though
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My dude, if you reread our texts, I quoted you $450 a tank for just the pallet. I said for 4 tanks, it’d be 1800, and then you’d want to sell the other 5. The delivery charges are $2398 - that’s just for the shipping charges, our price, from our logistics company. That’s without marking you up. Altogether, a pallet of butane would cost you $6,448. Plus tax.
I had no intention of making you feel like I didn’t want your business, and in fact tried to help you out by suggesting solventless. Because, despite what you might think, I am actually trying to look out for your best interest. My philosophy is, I’m not the end all be all for everybody. If I feel like you’re better served in a way that’s not going to pay me, I’m still going to tell you about it so you have all the options.
If you are dead set on using butane, then go for it. If I were you, I’d look at canada - they’ve got a shit ton of extraction suppliers everywhere and depending on your situation, you could just pick it up yourself. Best of luck with whatever you do though.
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Why not save all that change and just send out your solvent for a COA from a reputable lab? Do you guys refine the solvent in-house?
Because we’re using $160,000 equipment to test our gas. Thanks. I know you like to stick to this really weird idea that we’re just doing some homemade fart bag test to prove our gas is clean, but we aren’t.
And yes, we refine it at Cortland Energy, which is an independent gas processing plant. Most companies that you buy your solvents from are resellers of Gas Innovations, who has the lions share of the solvent market. That’s also the reason why, when you get bad gas from another company, they don’t do anything about it. We got our testing from a third party, you can check it in the thread. We also pulled any and all Cortland Energy products that may have been contaminated, refused to continue selling until we were sure that we had clean gas, AND got the gas tested third party because we wanted to make sure our equipment was matching another certified labs.
If there’s another solvents company who’s done that much to make sure people can smoke fantastic dabs, I’d love to know about it.
Can you show us what that looks like. Never heard that method of hplc?
Can you test cannabis potency like this too. Throw some weed in a bag. Fart in it. And the smell gives the potency??
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This is also the reason why Specialty Analytical, who @Dxmimg got their lab results from, had contaminants of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other environmental gases in both samples that they tested. That test is not standard for the hydrocarbon industry, and that lab is not in the cannabis industry. You should maybe look up their company and see what they specialise in. https://specialtyanalytical.com/
As everyone on future4200 seems to trust this lab explicitly, I’ve spoken with them and we’re going to get our gas tested there, despite them not actually being in the hydrocarbon space. It makes no sense to me why this company is so trusted yet our $160k COA is not, but we’ll play by ya’lls rules.
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And I mean I’ve known guys to smoke fart weed but they’re not exactly the experts in the field that I’m asking for advice. I tend to prefer to work with people who are actually in the same industry as I am.