I re-ran some bad wax and made THCa isolate. Why?

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So long story short. I had to re-run some wax, because I had a filter blow and leave small bits of viton in my product. I re-dissolved the wax in propane, and kept dumping more solvent over it until it was completely dissolved. To my surprise I found a very powdery form of THCa in my column filter along with my viton bits I wax trying to filter. Disclaimer… I almost clogged my column with hash…no bueno… I may recommend putting some sorta barrier/surface area before loading your product to spread out the hash during the extraction so it wont clog. Needless to say I was wondering if anyone else has every done this, and just maybe someone has done it in a safer way avoid column clogging! Thanks again! Any feedback (positive or negative) will be greatly appreciated.

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Every time I rerun hash/concentrate, I slather it in a micron sock, wrap it up, and toss it into the extraction column. Usually don’t have any clogging problems with that method.

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It wasn’t made, it was washed out of the concentrate. The wax must of started crystallizing before re-running and left you what didn’t dissolve on the filters which is clean crystalline THCa. I’ve done a considerable amount of cold and warm washes on crystal for either recrystallizing or cleaning purposes.

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Thanks for the info terlord420! Have you ever found isolate in your sock? Which hydrocarbons do you run?

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Thanks for the response Hairetsu, and forgive me for my grammar. “Made” implies a lot more cool things happened that actually didn’t.

I think your “wash” description was more accurate. That was my best guess as well for the THCa left behind. Unfortunately the THCa was riddled with viton bits… so I disposed of the product. I also found super buddery product dissolved almost entirely, and the “waxier” or dry crumbly product left behind more THCa in the column. So this supports that theory.

I did want to ask you one question though if you don’t mind? You say you’ve done cold and warm hydrocarbon washes on THCa, and I was wondering what hydrocarbons you preferred warm vs cold?

I like the cold propane and butane injection myself, but due to the regulations here where I’m at they won’t let me play with much else.

Thanks again homie:+1:

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It’ll take ages to fully dissolve with cold solvent. You losing yields to filter