Ok more reading done and now I have more questions. I don’t have endless time to just search. I have a job.
AC pulls out thca? Saw someone else say there’s no evidence to support that. Has to be hardwood to remove color? Can it be any hardwood carbon?
Bentonite has to be baked before use? At what temp? For how long? What’s it for if AC is what removes the color?
Are all these different filter powders necessary for removing the dark and green color? Which ones do I use? Acidic? Neutral? I’m seeing all different kinds of people use all different kinds of stuff. From bentonite to silica to alumina and magisil.
Do all these filter powders change the taste of the end product? I’m seeing people say yes and others saying it’s fine.
I don’t need it to be crystal clear. Ideally I just want to remove the green color while preserving thca and terps and flavor.
I’ve got my jars, I’ve got my everclear, I’ve got my buchner, vac flask, and vacuum pump, I’ve got filter papers and duda sheets. I got the wrong charcoal.
I DO search and read. As much as my free time allows.
BVV also makes a stainless one but it’s a little more price wise
You could get a stainless ice bucket with a minium of 4" diameter modified to have a triclamp top and however many holes you want drilled into it for ports and then you can get a 6" triclamp base and a 6" to 4" reducer put the modified ice bucket with pre drilled ports into the 6" base and make sure it’s a flat bottom base with a 1" or 2" port on the side match up the pre-made ports on the modified stainless 4" ice bucket and there ya go a cold trap that would be expensive to make but neat to see be made.
personally if you’re small use and not industrial just get a simple bvv one and modify as needed
I’m in the process of reading all that. I’ve read a bunch of it though, and all the reading is what created more questions. And then you all just point me back to the same shit I’ve already read. Which didn’t answer my questions in the first place.
Come on man. I literally was searching for hours trying to find the bake temp. How is that a spoon? If the info is buried under a thousand posts doing a search isn’t going to help that much now is it? Unless you want to spend all day searching and reading, which I do not have the time to do. And I doubt anyone else has the time to do either.
To answer that, my search query was “@Photon_noir bake” which lead me to this thread started by one of our dearly departed…
Because I’m pretty sure @Photon_noir gives explicit process instructions somewhere on baking of the magic dirt.
Possibly the opaline silica thread.
My response would be 150C o/n under vac. I think we have our oven all the way up. Reasonably sure we’re not baking anything but our molsieves these days.
Did you catch what the Bentonite is doing? (Catching…)
I have performed this trick many times without baking the T5, and it worked as expected each and every time. Not saying it isn’t better to have the last bit of moisture removed, but it is not necessary for performing it at the scale and frequency you will be doing this. I could filter nealry 100 gallons of tincture without seeing dimishing returns on the same bed of T5 and AC.
See now how in the hell would I have known to put @photon_noir in the search query? No one would have known that except the people who already knew. And none of those threads really dive into whether AC removes thca or not. It’s looking like since I use .5um duda sheets I don’t really need bento? Since All I’m trying to do is remove color?
I used 0.02um below the media bed, and if you only have a thin layer of AC (1/8-1/4"), there should be no loss of potency. I never experienced any loss, and we tested the tincture before and after filtration.
for the bentonite question of baking it.