It’s basically the same at the nuts and bolts level. But yours is a stand up inline standard extractor. His is rack mounted with tons of little goodies. The reflux condenser that he is specifically referring to is to help keep the light volatile terps by having them fall back into pot versus co-distilling with the butane back into the recovery tank.
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@Capttripppp Both are cars yes… and I believe his condenser is setup to separate the terps entirely in the second picture
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What @Capttripppp said
I’m also using this lid on a jacketed column to spray the butane/oil towards the walls to speed up recovery
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Thank you guys for the explanation, truly grateful for the information.
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Holy shit I’m jealous
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I know right!
I’d love to spit shine that stainless long into the night. I wouldn’t clean it… I’d make love to it!
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Is this mounted on a regular jacketed column or a tubed condenser?
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Bruh, Captain Zissou is my Spirit Animal…
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve watched that movie… If you eat enough mushrooms you can be there with them Man!
Anyway, derail over
I might have mentioned this before, but weed “causes short term memory loss!”
Because he mentioned solvent being dispersed to the walls, my best guess is a jacketed spool.
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That would be my guess but I know people were having trouble with evenly distributing within the shotguns and if anyone would be able to solve an issue like that I would bet on @Waxplug1. Didn’t know if this style was just as fast or the shotguns were too difficult etc.
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Doesn’t look like a screw sprayer. Just filter plate top filled with column packing? It wouldn’t make sense not to have screw sprayer for disperstion…
What’s the volume of the solvent going through this thing? Like the sweet spot? You have to have some nice numbers as far as moving solvent. Passive only? The whole science behind it is fucking rad!
How about crc ? Is it over kill to use a jacketed crc to keep ur crc cold ? I use no nitro and no propane so trying to make her push butane as quick and easy as possible
Use it…
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Rather not
it’s very difficult to disperse evenly on so many tubes.
most solutions only hit ~30% of the surfaces at best
If you have to run crc using n-tane the best option is to pack the bottom of your columns. Place your sintered on the bottom, depth filter or paper, powders packed, lock up the bottom, pack with material, and run that shit like a raped dated!
If you use nitro the only thing you have to do is keep the lpg liquid, and literally push that shit (every bit of place) to where you want it to go. Keep the shit liquid, and the only pressure in the system should be the nitro. Vent as needed, prv for safety, gauges on everything, and an fundamental understanding of the process you’re attempting. First times the scariest, but you can’t really understand a process that you haven’t done with your hands.
So, use it or not, but understanding the basics helps. Read info how they transfer lpg from a train tank to wherever. Learn the process, it’s to your advantage.
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Why not?
Reasons?..
So far I haven’t needed it and I like to run it low pressure , like 60-70 max psi . I haven’t dont it yet but I hear u can push ur liquid butane with butane gas . I’m gonna try that and hope it’s enough for this new system . running my crc in-line right under material column , i hear this may slightly help ? And gonna put bi directional hoses from the collection up to the top of the material to help clear the collection from any pressure… lastly I may need to get a different solvent tank just for recovery that I can pull a vac on and recover as I run . Thanks for the help guys 
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I’ve never had to much trouble pushing gas with good old thermal dynamics.Is putting ur collection and or solvent tank in a deep freezer frowned upon ? I’m sure if enough things go wrong it could blow but seems like the freezer would have to stop working, the tank would have to leak , and the freezer would need to have some sort of short issues that causes a spark … feel like that’s safe enough no ?
I have A 3x8 inch crc attached to the bottom of my 8x36 inch monster material column . Might use a old jacketed material column for the crc that’s 3x18 tho . Don’t think I’d fill it nearly all the way but might need a little bigger than 3 by 8 and the jacket might help keep everything cold and moving in the right direction