ok i changed out the bricks for wood. Now i can only get down to 133 microns on a cold pump…should i run the pump blanked off for a 1/2 an hour to get warmed up. Or do you all think i need to re-adjust my joints.
The oil is just about finished decarbing. Looks to be a tad over 250ml. I think i should wait till tomorrow but im pretty anxious to run tonight.
I think it was @Soxhlet who tossed up the tricks of the trade idea of using distillate vs grease. And sleeves.
I also bought and used this
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No Need to be worried now
Tomorow before You really start last check
30 run without heat and set
I decarbed the oil at 120C until all bubbles stopped which took a bit over an hour. I have the GLG SOP on Decarbing and it states an optional step is to take it up to 140c for 10-15 mins. I think ill just stop at 120c. I saw the change from large bubbles to small bubbles to dead flat oil at 120c. I think i should be good now. Im gonna wake up at like 630am. I try to get this going. i would start tonight…but ive been at this practically since 10am and i need to help my kid with homework and stuff. Thanks guys. Ill have this done tomorrow.
Nice what time is iT on your side now
Don t want to miss iT
@reverandsin and soxhlet i hope they can be around
their guidance was fantastic last time with @Eastcoaststrange
Damn you
Lol
I have like 6 rolls of this.
I’m on eastern standard time.
Hey @Soxhlet where should I use the Teflon tape. I’m a little confused. By my thermometer adapters?
Checklist before starting
Ventilation
All Doors to other area s shove a towel to close large gaps once terpenes. Start evaporating from the vac pump iT smells
Aluminium foil always handy to create Some extra heat on the head by insulating
Some Grease to seal of Maybe to come leaks yust Ad Grease from the outside
Small spatula the glass is hot When having to Ad grease
Flashlight at times a little light on a spot comes handy
a decent chair can take up several hours
A piece of cloth or heat resistent glove If You have to intervene
Don tforget to put the stirbar in
And remember al Gods are on your side for this is a holly plant
I had a brain fart.
Lol
I thought there was some sort of special teflon tape used for sealing glass joint connections.
Do you use this on the gl threads?
you can tape a joint with it in a pinch, just wrap it candycane style around the male cone of the joint.
You da man! I was wondering but that makes a ton of sense!
Are you using distillate on the outside of the Teflon tape like you described when using the sleeves?
Hoping by using your method on my 2nd run I’ll be able to get under 200 microns. It looks like my main leak is on the connection on the 2l rbf to the condenser.
Just made a little hack al la @Beaker. Yesterday what was really bothering me is the amount of smoke my pump was making despite the mist filter on the pump.
I’m literally in the process of moving houses and my old garden house has practically been welded on the spigot. So I cut it off. Plumbed some of it outside. Electrical tapes it to the mist filter and it works. While it isn’t air tight. Most of the smoke bellows outside now this is going to make this much more livingable.
Well that was fast. Epic failure already. I don’t think I decarbed good enough. I pull vacuum on my system cold and a good amount of oil came threw my head into my receiving flask. My cow is all gunked up. I’m thinking I need to shut down and start over.
Sorry. Not giving up so fast. So I created a purpose vac leak with my vent. Everything looks cleared out. We are going forward. I’ll shut the vent went everything looks stable.
I think I’m definitely gonna have to shut it down and start over. Noticed the other receiving flasks are getting fluid in them as well. Chalk this up to inexperience.
clean up reset and start again bro. ill be learing here in the next few mos as well. first i want that behemoth Buchner setup made! ha
So this is where I’m at. I got to 140c under almost full vacuum. I didnt have my vent all the way closer because the oil was still pretty violent.
Even with the vacuum vent open somewhat. I was still getting down to around 200 micron.
So I’m shutting it down. I’m gonna clean everything out. And restart. Hopefully we can get this right today. I don’t feel like I failed. I learned a lot about decarbing and vacuum levels.
