I feel so lost rn.
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If your confused I can try my best to explain, what are you confused about?
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Scroll up, we had a convo about putting crude in the material column instead of flower.
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I was doing a standard run today and just had the media at the bottom of the column
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So I either run a 4# machine with n2 assist or a manifold to recirculate with double coils. This is to make sure my recirculated solvent is still cold. I do this to avoid a hot vapor loop. Worried about the last of the last comin through warm. Rather would waste the gas for quality. I just ordered my array of absorbents. Should b gettin started in r&d next week. But will definatley be testing the warm vapor loop. Save me using 2 coils. Recovering all solvent. And still top quality end product. Anyone who runs some r&d in this direction dm me. Thanks to everyone whoâs made this thread what it is. Hope to add my part soon
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Can anyone offer a quick explanation as to why my âmushroom bubblesâ never popped in the oven even after sitting all night under vac
The material was ran through silica 60 and bleaching clay and a bit of bentonite
Maybe your bentonite wasnât filtered properly from your solution.
Extremely small particles of clay distributed evenly throughout the extract may be increasing the surface tension of your bubbles thus making them much harder to pop?
Just a guess.
I mean this thread isnât about that⌠What are you trying to ask?
Mushroom bubbles�
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I just feel out of my league at the moment lol
I actually switched to ethanol, not that Iâve done any extractions yet, because I decided it was more economical than investing in cle equipment.
I do have a cle, but itâs a passive 45g unit, and I feel like itâs just too dinky to do anything with aside from maybe classroom presentation lol
I have run a lot of material out of it, but my material kept turning dark as the all hell during my open purge at temps around 105°F. That might have just been the cost of open air purging with whipping action and cake flips lol that was before I started working with different color remediation techniques.
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@Californialab. Did you have mesh gaskets and or filter plates and or coffee filters/ filter paper anywhere after the absorbents? Need to get down to atleast 20 micron to filter the residual absorbents
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This thread is about running bho through different filters/clays. I ran some trim thru silica gel and bleaching clay and bentonite. My resulted ended with a product with bubbles that never popped in the oven. I think my question is very appropriate for this thread.
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Well it sounds like you need more adult lego pieces before youâre able to really give this a good try.
If you pay attention to this thread in the coming weeks Iâll be testing the feasibility of using hot/pressurized solvent gas to extract from biomass, if it works like how Iâm thinking it will then itâs going to allow people to use a material column with a capacity that exceeds the collection chambers capacity.
Which means small systems like yours can be adapted without much extra money being spent.
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Youe question is appropriate but nobody could have guess all that from your initial comment.
Details please, what solvent did you use to run the extract through the filter column.
Yeah I used 2 filter plates with those items mixed into both. I had about (6) 11 micron filters in place. It was an odd result. I placed it in the oven at night and then the next morning I went to check on it and all the bubbles were the same size as when I first put it in. Weird
Maybe redissolve and filter over celite
Should a new thread be started in this direction? Sopâs are gettin dialed in with cold runs. Start a new one with warm runs? Really get to the bottom of the CRC Tek in every aspect?
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Did you pull vac on your oven? And what temp were you pulling vac?
Are you looking for this thread?
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Iâll probably start another thread when I start trying this if someone doesnt have one up by then for me to add to.
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Yo yo yooo
Finally got to play around with this and I gotta say something Iâm really gonna tinker with, my solvent/oil mixture straight from the material column was heated to 75°F and filtered through my 6x6 spool which was packed as Dred recommended, amounts were a guesstimate.
(Milpore)Celite 1cup
(Small bag off amazon) Activated alumina 1.33 cups
(Milpore) silica 60 1 cup
(Carbon chemistry) t5 1 cup
(Carbon chemistry) t-41 1 cup
(Milpore) Celite 1.33 cups
Then filtered through a 1um filter sock.
Everything was packed with a 1in rod then once all layers were in place I pressed with a hydraulic press until I felt it was pressed enough(I donât have a pressure gauge unfortunately on it) I did have a top end cap machined down to filt prefectly in the spool (would be useful for a hydraulic ram for packing columnsâŚ) these are roughly 3600g runs.
First run came out pretty decent, second run I opened the valve to the filtering chamber before the solvent was at the valve and caused it to rush in all to quickly and distroyed the nice pack job.
Material used would run very dark amber brown.
Photos
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Second run
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Filter cake
Activated alumina layer
I did not take many photos as my layers were quite mixed up so it was hard to define each. today I will be running it again in the same order plus the magsol I forgot about but minus the celite on top as I donât have enough filter plate rings. I noticed it did not catch all of the browner tints any ideas?
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