That looks gorgeous!!
I’m going to talk to my brother/co-Owner and see if we can do a media give away to folks that have posted results using our gear so far.
Like a pro bono 500g T41 or something.
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I have one strain in particular that is all of a sudden letting go of ALOT of anthocyanins all of a sudden… I DID switch to an unfamiliar 40/40/20blend n/iso/pro from a 70/30 at the ssame time as purple showed up heavier. Nothing else changed… I ha e enough to run 1 3x36" this evening of that matireal. Will try activated alumina in mix.
Has anyone run any the medias packed into a 1 or 1 1/2 x 12" spool… instead of filter stacks?
Just now got most the stuffs and such in and wanna give a more prepared go today at it while Im waiting on more stackins and a fabbed c.r.c.
@Dred_pirate can i show ya what im working with? …
and props on jumping in and throttlin fwd for science… been rootin for ya since early in other thread… Any words of wisdom??
Imma be running a strain known to be dropping mad purple hues. A 40/40/20 blend, i DO have a variety of filter stacks , and a few filter plates and rings. As well as a few powders to choose…
Mind if i dm you and get ya input?
As far as ive read here youve done alot of trials and feel ya may have some insight could use.
Edit… Questions may have (likekly) answered while i was typing this …lol…
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Ask away, sir. I am on the road for the next few hours, so I don’t know how attentive I can be.
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Hey @Shadownaught currently im using the t-41 inline in my extractor in a filter stack 6” column. I feel like after two or three runs the color starts to darken. Is there a certain amount of t-41 I should be using per so much of material or gas I pass through? Do you have a recommended amount or ratio?
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How much material in each run, how much t41 are you using until spent, what type of material are you running, how cold is your solvent?
At the moment each run is only 2.5# of material. The material is fresh sugar trim, the solvent is coming in at 0c it’s a 70/30 blend. I tried doing a full run in my 5# system and it came out dark. The drop was a beautiful gold and as it got about 20# of gas through, it darken up. Really hurt to see it get that dark after all the beautiful slabs that came out. It was older material that sat, all the previous runs came out great, by the fourth run on the same filter stack it came out dark smh all bad. Wondering if I should be using so many grams of t-41 to gas going through it
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Clay isn’t magic, eventually it gives up what its caught.
A good trial would be washing the clay with hydrocarbon to see what falls off. If you are getting up to 3 runs with the same clay I’d call that amazing and stick to 2 runs before wasting out the clay or trying to clean it.
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How much would you recommend to use?
How hard would it be to use less and switch it out more often? I’m figuring out how much I’ll need for each run and make media cakes
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I understand this is also used in filteration of crude. What is the recommendation is that scenario?
T5 is the product we sell for filtering crude, usually when stripping precipitated fats. You can think of it fitting where many people use DE, rough silica, or Celite 545.
T41 is normally used in a hot scrub prior to first pass distillation to degrade color and pesticides.
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I honestly haven’t Wieghed how much I use. I put about 4-6 full tablespoons in the filter stack for about three runs
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Is there a recommendation of use per gram of crude?
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We rarely suggest using more than 10% clay:crude which is up to 100g:kg. So like an 8th inch in a filter element?
I would put T41 as a thinner layer on top of a neutral absorbent like T5 or alumina to help catch color bodies on that 2nd and 3rd run.
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@Shadownaught The filter i have been using from top down is Silica, t-41, magnesol, silica. Do you think that seems like a proper order of media?
If it’s working, doesn’t sound like it’s wrong? But the ones that aren’t capable of as much color retention, would want to be first, right?
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Which order would you run those in?
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I would put the mag first and followed by the silica, then the t41 last. I have been using t5 with pretty much that same mixture. But, I have alumina after the mag. I didn’t use the mag last time and used alumina instead, but I will again with both.
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