Yeah probably. My second was still at freezer temp -56 so warmer but still seems cold enough.
Ive read the optimizing thread a few times now. Definitely need to start making notes.
Onto bump and the tlc thread now.
Appreciate all the handholding and useful directions
Maybe splitting hairs here, but it all depends on how fine your bags or strainer is, and especially how confident you are that it has no tears or rips that could allow plant material to bypass. Any plant material will still have fats, sugars and chlorophyll that can be pulled as your solvent warms up, whether thatās going to alter color or impurities by an unacceptable amount is up to OP
20um or better before it warms up has always been my go toā¦but I picked that up around here somewhere and didnāt bother doing the work to see if perhaps 30 or 45 were sufficient. 100um certainly wasnāt in my experience.
Bags donāt even have to rip to get biomass in your tincture. They are packed in rooms full of weed and often have weed all over the outside.
IMO ruptured bags need staged filtration and a plan for emptying those filters, BEFORE you start spinning. But that might just be the batch of essentially single use bags I encountered once upon a time
Not sure if ive screwed up a bit here or not.
Ive been waiting 2-3 days to recover all the ethanol from the 2 washes.
When a batch was done, Ive been pouring the remaining mix (as little ethanol as I can get away with still being able to pour) onto a parchment paper boat in the vacuum chamber.
I was waiting to get it all recovered before I start the purge. Iāve just finished the last batch and just noticed a sticky mess under the parchment. Im assuming somehow a bit of it has soaked through?
What am I best of doing now? Trying to maybe get it all off the parchment and into a pyrex dish and try the heatgun to get the rest out? Just run it with a bit of sticky mess underneath? Or will whatever is on the paper have leeched into my oil and contaminated it?
Or pour ethanol into the vac chamber pot and swill it all around including the paper, and run 1 or 2 oil heavy recoveries?
Its only a thin film underneath but can see it making an unholy mess if I just ran it as is?