Wish me luck fam
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You got this! Take your time.
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Slow and steady wins the race! And thank you for the support l!
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Well I done did it lol there were some good times and there were some bad times learned a lot hopefully I’ll get to do a second pass this week on it thank you!!! @future4200 I’ll keep on reading, searching, and reading.
Was wondering if anyone might be willing to learn me up lol on why my head temp is so far off from my mantle temp compared to everything I have read I had to get the mantel to 210c before I could hit 175+ head temp and unfortunately I believe this caused me to pull main and tails I’m guessing it’s the vacuum pump I’m using atm. Any advice would be greatly appreciate much love future4200 fam bam
I would wrap that long neck coming out of your boiling flask and at least the bottom part of your distillation head with a few layers of aluminum foil for insulation and to reflect heat back in.
Make sure you do not have any vacuum leaks anywhere. Check to see that you pump can pull deep enough vacuum. When all of that is done you should be able to distill at Significantly lower boiling flask temperature.
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Thank you so much!! I have a vac gauge on the way and I’ll definitely wrap up in foil I’m using a cps 12cfm and I’m pretty sure it’s not doing the job but without a gauge it’s just theoretic at this point
I can’t swear to it because it’s been a long time but if my memory holds true then when I first started distilling THC about 8 years ago I too tried using a CPS pump and it just didn’t work for me I had to upgrade to an Edwards
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That’s what I’m thinking I’m a lead lab tec (well the only lab employee) for a wa state rec lab and I’m just using what the last employees were so I know there’s a lot I can do to get this bad boy tuned up and running tits
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Seems like it’s flowing pretty fast can you take a video of the flow through the whole head? Also I’m assuming this is first pass?
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Definitely first pass sorry I allready had the spd shut down by the time I saw your message so I’m assuming by your comment that I need to slow down my ramp up on head and mantel temps to have a slower stream happen during the run?? Thank you for your time I greatly appreciate it I’m about to fire the spd up agin and I’ll send a video when i get her rollin agin
No I can’t tell that you running too fast by the video you posted. I wanted to see what the flow through your head and your condenser looks like to see if you’re not flooding the head. Roughly how fast are you collecting at? It looks like you’re working with a 10 L boiling flask? Also yes you should always ramp up temperature very slowly once you are getting close to your collecting temperature. What I mean is if you think you’re collecting temperature is xxx°c then when you get to about 5°c below that, you go up by 1 or 2° set point at a time letting it stabilize at that temperature for a short period and then raising it up another 1 or 2° (if you have not done enough runs to know what’s the “happy place temperature” your specific system runs at, then while learning your system, start that ramp up procedure much lower than what you think it is, this way you will get much better idea without overshooting it). You will see the vapor line start going up in the head as you get to the right temperature this way you can affect better separation of fractions.
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I started at 40c ramped up 10c let it stabilize and continued same ramp up till 160c then went 5c up and let stabilize until I got to 200c then I did ramp ups till 207c and let her run had to shut down due to time constraints I also had a lot of problems with head temps yesterday due to not having foil or fireplace rope I’ll have foil today and hopefully I’ll be able to control head temps better
Definitely wish my first spd run wasn’t a 10l boiling flask that was full but it was left by the lab guys that got fired so I’m trying to run it so I can start fresh with the material I’ve been pre process working
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Well here’s the rest of my first pass the color sucks but I happy with the stability the first flask I filled is super runny I’m pretty sure that’s due to getting heads and even volatiles in it didn’t have control or an understanding of the mantel at the start of the run. But my second day on the run was able to hone in a little bit more caught the itch now!!! Can’t wait to do another run!! Mad love future4200 fam bam
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love that short path, took over a lab last year and first thing i did was trade their 4" WPD POPE for this SPD set up. You can get some great product of this, just keep it slow steady and keep a deep vacuum when pulling your main body.
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Why?!?
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I’ll get red disty runs like yours usually from RSO distillation. I’ve noticed that ethanol pulls substantially more CBN and CBC content from biomass (up to 8% w/w) as well as plenty of chlorophylls.
If you set yourself up right with some CRC scrubbed bho with good winterization and filtering, you can get some water clear goodness (this is a 1.7L mason jar). Gotta vacuum seal immediately though and store in a dark place to prevent oxidation. If I could nitrogen sweep during the capping process, it would stay pretty in carts.
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