Heat will work
Don t go to high on temps 125C
Is enough
You better take time to dry
Than to do it fast and hot
We bake our powders/absorbants at 200F for at least 2 hours. We basically bake them until we get no more condensation accumulating in the oven or on the glass of the oven. No vacuum needed.
No Iām not getting that lemon terp people talk about. But Iām not running as much media as a lot of people. A normal run for me is 100-120g of total media for 4lb of material.
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How are you liking the opaline silica?
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I stack them
I have heard the pesticide thing before, no doubt. But I personally have never had extracts fail for pesticides and this isnāt the only time Iāve used cotton in my CLS. I do believe I have read of other people using cotton without CoA coming back hot, on here as well but is definitely something to take note of - thanks for the heads-up!
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I like the results and ease of use. Making sure that itās completely safe before I go through with using it permanently
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re run through the same media, or pack new stuff?
Hoping to get a little help. Our colors are much lighter and weāre far from the old āāamber trim runā.
But weāre still pretty far from pulling clear. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated:
We just switched to a 6ā x5ā column. We no longer pre-chill our column.
We do run our butane cryo.
The pictures are all from using some form of T-5, D-earth and Silica 60.
In an earlier post it mentioned baking the media. To be 
we only baked the T-5. Only some many hours in the day.
We are also running our own rednecked engineered CRC.
Going to buy the real thing tonight.
Is there any other media we should be using?
Any suggestions on what type of filter paper we should be using under the media. We were using a Duda diesel filter but Iād rather go with something like a whatman.
Thanks guys your knowledge runs large around here.
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Try more depth on media filter
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Add t41 to the mix. 50g per lb
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Silica takes care of that lighter yellow. T5 alone gives that nice light yellow. Also baking and flow (like zoro said this can be accomplished a couple ways). Temperature of your solution can effect the potential of the powders as well.
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Thank you guys for the suggestions. Iām going to add some T41.
I think we were running the Silica 60 first.
Going to try it after the T-5 next run.
We are currently running our stacks in line with our column. Iām going to separate the two am I can have a CRC unit separate. Iām guessing this should allow me to get a slower filter.
THANKS AGAIN! I appreciate your time and help.
Theoretically speaking could you pack a BĆ¼chner funnel and filter with different mediaās to target different colors?
I charge the headspace of my solvent tank.
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Yes you could.
Thank you for the answer. I truly appreciate your time and help.
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what is your material?
iāve noticed itās hard to get water clear with stuff that would normally shoot dark. most water clear comes from fresh stuff.
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Hey guys, thanks in advanceā¦
Iām wondering why if Iām using enough powder to sufficiently filter 10 pounds of collected oil/crude. @10:1 ratio oil-butane pre soaked before introducing to media
Why is it that there is such a big color differential within the fractions.
( 5# mix of silica, t-5 and and about 1# t-41 / DE on top and bottom with glass wool top and bottom also)
then filter stacks down to .5
The depth of the amount of media fills the 6x12 heated media resivior with 6x36 jacketed resivoir above to sufficiently fill.
Iām trying to figure out a way to filter a lot at once and get more consistency through out. Our goal is yellow hard shatterā¦
Any suggestions?
@Killa12345 @BG305 @Soxhlet
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