Do that thing where u smoke a blunt while you explain something to us and look like the guy from ancient aliens
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ROFLMFAO… Terpenes do not need anywhere near as much heat as cannabinoids. You can literally do a complete distillation of the terpenes without adding much heat to the system.
Not to mention, they are super volatile and want to distill on their own due to vapor pressure. This makes it extremely easy to distill and isolate them without a ton of heat input. (Go hit google for an hour or so)
So in fact, this setup would be a better unit for terpene isolation than a traditional mantle. 
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Elliot doesn’t sell them so they must be junk
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You are absolutely wrong.
Terps distill like solvent.
The fact that they want to distill and come out due to volatility forces the temperature to go down in the flask.
Try distilling any solvent adde to a crude that’s volatile like terps, the flask temps sink rapidly when the volatile solvent comes off.
When distilling high concentration terpene pour offs, refining from steam terps, or like distilling CO2 terps the system starts to cool and lose energy once the terps come off. Only in the case where the terps are such a low concentration it may be less effected. But the heat blocks are still a problem.
If you had any consistent experience with terpene distillation you would know this.
You can bombard yourself with nonsense posts about how heat blocks work, they do not
The only reason why gold leaf even sells them is due to stale inventory and excuses to sell old products.
Now you are on here trying to interject a false opinion due to your lack of experience with heat blocks.
Good luck using heat blocks, it is a huge waste of time you can enjoy engaging in.
They do not work well for teprenes or cannabis distillations. Anyone who buys it will be scratching thier heads in frustration wondering what the fuckk was sold to them.
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LOL. Wut?
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The hte is the more valuable fraction right this second. Fire hte is almost 4x more the price of any thca these days in bulk.
That’s the reason for all the “hemp thca”.
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The hte is also more valuable than cannabis terpenes unfortunately
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You can find single lbs of thca for under $1000 right now and it can get even closer to $1 a gram if your buying any quantity at this point
Try buying hte at $1 a gram
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People are thinking as business as a “circular economy” these days. People are more likely to do business with someone who minimizes waste streams. We just had a local place get shut down with huge fines for dumping spent biomass behind their shop. It may also be a money maker as @Killa12345 and @qma have stated.
Derp. Only if you’re not putting energy into the system. Like sweating cools you off the phase transition from liquid to vapor absorbs energy.
Fortunately in this case you have a nice heavy, solid hunk of amazing thermally conductive aluminum on top of a heat source to continie to feed energy into the system.
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Too bad it doesn’t actually work like that. It just sheds heat off in the room. Aluminum heat blocks or even ptfe Heaton blocks don’t transfer heat very well into a glass flask.
I implore you to go buy a heat block, and spend the next week struggling to maintain liquid temps and performance all just to settle back into your glass-col or china heating mantle with fabric material heat transfer.
A aluminum heat block does not apply wattage directly to glass like typical mantles do. In fact there is a extreme wattage application loss through the block. That is why a large aluminum heat source does not focus or continue to apply heat energy like traditional mantles do.
I have literally done hundreds of terpene distillations and the adiabatic cooling has NEVER made the temps sink rapidly like you are trying to make it out to be.
Edit: Even when I re-distill isolated terpenes on their own the flask NEVER gets cold.
The amount of terpenes in the HTE is so small that it does not provide much for enthalpy and therefore does not require much heat to boil. This is a pretty basic thermodynamic concept.
Any time you boil anything you have to add continuous heat or the boiling will stop. The amount of heat required is directly relative to the enthalpy content of the system.
Terpenes under vacuum are completely finished by 90c. You can easily hit those temperatures with a hot plate and aluminum foil. You loose more heat to the atmosphere than you do to the adiabatic cooling due to boiling under vacuum. 
Edit: unless of course you are running an improper distillation - aka like what you suggested above…
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Are you trying to argue that a base batch of 5% hte wasn’t enough for you to notice temp shifts?
I distill terps twice a week, I can assure you I manage and distill more terps than you. You are lying because if you have the equipment that showed you heater temps and liquid temps accurately you would see thermal reduction in the batch while distilling rapidly. Maybe you are only distilling a droplet every minute? Sounds like a struggle for you. Must be new to the process.
Have you ever actually distilled combined pour off batches at 20-30%. Have you ever distilled steam terps that were previously stripped of water. Have you ever distilled co2 terps?
No you haven’t. You are still green behind the ears. Distilling terps Rips temps off your flask. It doesn’t matter what temp. The lower the temp, the harder it is to maintain it generally.
You are making a joke of your comments when you clearly show you haven’t done this process as much as you claim.
And no, atmosphere with our ambient temps in the air is not going to remove temperature off a flask as rapid as a heavy terp fraction.
The evaporative effect itself removes temperature from a fluid batch while distilling. This is so rapid it will remove temperature faster than ambient air temps.
When distilling crude the terp fraction itself slowly locks and or drives back your batch temps about 5-20c at a time. That’s just fractioning off a terp heads fraction from a batch when evaporating rapidly. Terpenes act the same way, except the more you have the more temperature nis removed.
Your lack of experience and knowledge is showing.
If you actually think that room temp atmosphere “ambient” will remove more temperature from the inside of the flask or the flask, than compared to phase change energy reduction from thermal losses while distilling; then I think you need to stop giving advice and maybe go hire a private teacher to educate you.
A flask or the product in a flask once at temp will not alter itself at all with regards to temps while it’s sitting. You begin to create a rapid evaporation and the temps dips. The room isn’t doing anything. The process is doing much more.
If you are going to troll or talk shit at least get your facts and physics right rookie.
ROFLMFAO… Can you provide any proof of this accusation? Otherwise its just anoter tally of you making up lies in attempt to discredit myself and others… Not just slander but libel also.
Yes, plenty of times.
ROFLMFAO. I have been making water clear terps from heads fraction since early 2018. Have tested off the charts in purity many times. Terpenes are pretty easy to refine. Starts with distillation.
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What it really sounds like is you are running the distillation wrong by pulling vacuum faster & deeper than you can add heat to the system and it was your mantle that was failing to keep up. This will make a low quality product to begin with from the puking head & improper vapor separation. Usually, you want to run your terps under a slight vacuum, not a deep vacuum, allowing the vapors to stack until they pour over at a steady rate. This also makes it easier to condense them because it doesn’t need to be as cold.
Thermodynamics just so happens to be something I understand quite well.
Why are you melting down so bad? So Triggered…
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Why do you always try and interject with useless information that is not pertinent to the conversation. Are you just trying to derail comments or topics? We’re talking about the evaporative energy reduction in a batch. We are talking about how much efficiency issues occur while using a heat block with cannabis products such as crude or terpene or volatiles.
You should stay on topic.
I should add everything you said was innacurate and you’re spinning your wheels.
I have never had any issues with temperature management on mantles except for heat blocks.
I have never had any batches “puking”.
I don’t think you understand half the shit you talk about. You aren’t nearly as experienced in this distilling game as your peers.
The only thing failing to keep up is your lack of wittiness and experience with people who do this on a daily basis.
Terpenes react similar to solvents. Heat blocks are garbage. I’d rather use a cheap mantle and succeed instead of cause myself or others(through bad advice) to use heat blocks. What a waste of conversation.
Business must be dead over at Summit lately.
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I just bought a pig filter
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you got ripped off then. hows that green tax taste
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