maybe @precisionnick can share the tool they suggested for tightening DIN sightglasses back in 2015. I won’t.
Picture below are the oil filter wrench I picked up at St Vinnies, and a decent approximation of a DIN spanner. I used the oil wrench to get the sight-glasses on that PX1 tightened down for my initial pressure test when the PX1 first arrived.
I think it took me another week or two to run into that ($6?) spanner. Which is (pretty close to) the right tool for the job.
A seed crystal is a crystal that is placed in a saturated solution to encourage crystal growth.
Thats in the same general ballpark as etching the bottom of the crystalazation dish.
crystals grow by adding new molecules to an existing structure. without a seed, that “existing structure” is a single other molecule. it’s much harder to run into a buddy and stick than it is to run into an iceberg…
Can someone tell me if im doing something wrong, i dont want to open it up but it doesnt seem to seperate. Ive been doing jar tech method with using the oven at the end to purge.
place mixture in jar and let it sit in the oven at 90 for 12 hours or till its settled.
cap it and cover the glass with a sock (in case of explosion so it doesnt go everywhere and something about uv i was told?) and leave it for 3 weeks
take out of that place than put back into oven at 90 for another week.
seperate the sauce and diamonds than put back in oven for a few more days at 90.
i think im missing some steps here or maybe overdoing it.
im thinking i should just
put mixture in jar and let it reduce in oven.
take it out and cap it and put it back in oven for 3 weeks at 90.
i shoud see significant growth from what im reading just from that? id prefer to do it without seeding
This is what I do and get great results every time,
do a CLS run, recover until there’s just enough solvent left so you can pour cleanly
pour your contents into a jar
depending on how much solvent is left, I usually let it evap outside at ambient temp a little bit with the lid on loose so nothing can get in the jar, but gas can escape
when the solvent has reduced until it’s close to a honey consistency (still solvent in there, almost water thin) I close the lid tight and let it sit.
check on it periodically for the next few hrs to ensure you don’t have too much pressure in there (if the lid bulges or deforms, I burp it slightly)
let it sit somewhere at room temp for 2-3 weeks, don’t touch it or move it, just forget about it
come back and pour your terps into another jar
purge both on low to no heat, low vac, slowly raising vac over the course of a few days until no reaction occurs
dab it up!
Sometimes on stubborn strains I will place the jar in the oven on low heat (~70-80F) as it helps promote separation, but lately as i’ve dialed in my process I find room temp works the best.
@hwalker
Yep ^^ too easy.
I used pretty much the same method he explained. My CLS column isn’t jacketed tho so we would pack the column and let it sit in the freezer for 24 hours. That helps.
Very short soak time, if any at all. Maybe 1-2 minutes.
Never really needed to crash it out in the freezer, but I know a lot of people on here say that helps.
Just be patient, don’t fuck with it, and let it sit for a few weeks.
