I would just redissolve in butane or pentane, and then put it through a 0.2 micron filter. I don’t see how anything smaller than that could do any harm.
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I just don’t understand the point of ever going that route. Danger aside, you can dissolve using butane much easier using heated jackets and solvent than you can just mixing together in an open setting. If you are already dissolving it inside a jacketed closed loop, why pour it when you can easily use nitrogen to push it through a filter and then easily recover your solvent and have your crude oil.
The danger behind it just adds to the fact. A flash point is the temperature a chemical reaches when it will put off enough vapor to cause a fire or explosion. Butane is around -60 flash point at atmosphere, Propane far below. You don’t want to breathe that in. As soon as you pull vac, the temperature for flash point and boiling point dramatically lower. This means you need a very very cold, cold trap to keep vapor that has condensed a liquid or risk vapor slipping into your pump which will then be discharged out the exhaust and back into the room.
So then you have to decide if you want to go slow and not pull vac, or pull vac and have butane in the air.
Or you can just dissolve it and filter it in a closed loop safely. Which to me seems like the only logical, safe and scalable option.
There are a lot of people on this site so I want to be clear, I’m not attacking anyone or trying to be a dick. I just know someone could easily read that, give it a go and then hurt/kill themselves or others.
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That’s dope man thank you for your explanation, I personally don’t need your advice. I do what I do and I don’t give a fuck. Fume hoods, diaphragm pump, regulator, cold trap and filtration setup. Do it right and you will not get injured. Have you ever even done some shit like that? I doubt it dogg, I’ve done R&D with many solvents, I read each sds sheet before using anything so I can know what the dangers of each solvent is, I know wtf a flash point is. I’m probably safer than you bro, I got my osha-30 cert and study it every year. I’ve used solvents such a as ethyl, propane, butane, heptane, hexane, pentane and ether. Chill the fuck out I get your point. I hope you get mine.
Edit: I’ve even tried your method and it’s a waste of time, over kill. Your going to stop production to do some small work on the closed loop when you can use other gear, go for it. Like I said I’ve had this problem and fixed it. Have you?
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I love the way you approach a situation with the words you expel. You have people coming in for a door prize and have them leaving with knowledge they never thought they needed. You are the type of person that can lead a horse to water and make them drink too.
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Yeah man, I’ve never used a solvent except butane. Can you please explain to me what a fume hood is?
You don’t know me I don’t know you, let’s leave it at that. Cool? Cool
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Ah the good old days buchnering butane after a 24 hr dry ice crash. So much thca left in my “fats” lmao
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ether ftw!
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Ethernet…something to remember when trying to catch the ether bunny 
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After the beatings there will be carts…
See: Decarb under pressure to retain terps? or A Theory on BHO/Rosin Decarboxylation with Natural Terpene Preservation
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