Lol yep, that was our previous solution. Always got sketchy if you got too good a seal on the bucket
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I like the concrete tray down low for spent biomass right?
Better than the bucket I use
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That why I put the screw-top lid ring on the bucket. It still pulls a light vacuum to help seat the gasket, but won’t hold it.
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im back and forth on that. I have a big crc and a little. 4x18 and 3 x12 i think if you arent running alot of material the 4 inch is too much and will kinda soak in the powder and not get washed out.
My recovery time is a bit slow. 2hrs per run about. 3lb column and using anywhere from 11lbs of butane to 15. All passive. Would adding a coil right before the solvent tank help with recovery? Im thinking of adding like dual 3/8 lines or a hardline 1.5" to the solvent tank for faster recovery?
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If you buried that tank in a garbage can with dry ice it’s gonna go faster for you. You gas is only gonna condense where your tank is cold. The part of the tank that remains out of dry ice will stay in a gaseous state and create pressure slowing down your recovery.
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Like Killa said! Also 1.5" hard line would be the most open bored (obviously), but there’s truly no reason to go there unless you intend to move much more gas than currently. Honestly, if you could upgrade 1 3/8" line to a 1/2" all the way to your recovery tank that would be the best thing you could probably do. Next best is 2 3/8" lines like you have stated, but none of that will do you any good unless you’re condensing all of the vapor. Hence burying your tank in a trash can. Doesn’t need to be a huge can, just enough to cover your tank.
But looks like a nice setup! How long have you been running like this? There’s people here moving 13+pounds a MINUTE passively
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His issue isn’t so much that he needs more lines. He should be able to recover that at 1lb a minute simply with a coil.
Icing the tank is nice, but incredibly wasteful. If you recover solvent into the tank fast enough, you’d never have to ice the tank.
He most likely has an injection coil that’s sitting sublimating ice during recovery, @Stevesm3 id suggest using your coil in reverse if possible. Grab a couple valves and tee’s and use that
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So @Stevesm3 , I think what fickle pickle is suggesting is a single coil, set up with a tee, so that it may be uses for injection and recovery.
When I was at your scale, I ran a single coil for injection and recovery and it worked very very well.
If you need help further understanding how to set up a coil in this way…do not hesitate to ask…
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I am actually using no injection coil at all honestly i was under the impression you needed an active system to run an injection coil partly bc iv never seen an injection coil on a passive system in use. i am wasteing alot of ice especially since its warmed up here in norcal. i average about 20-25lbs of ice per 3lb run just using iso and dry ice around my solvent tank. I manage a full run from packing column to pouring in mason jar in about 2.5hrs i deffinitly feel like it could be half of that if not even faster? I see all the suggustions and i really appreciate it i will be redsigning this on our rack to accomidate another column as well. I use to use about 30-45lbs of ice a run but since i figured out i could recover as i poured i saved more time and ice run time use to be 3+ hours.
About 4 months with the setup photod. I bought a tiny 1lb system from extractor solutions and realized it wasnt fit to do shit so i assembled this entire thing from this forum and talking to people . Probably ran like 150lbs of material through this thing its not efficient yet but its got the jobs done anyways this is all for fun.
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Picture from the old bone yard, this was used how there saying. Injected then valves turned for recovery
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I just bought the same injection coil from XD. I was do disappointed when it arrived. It was almost smaller in person than the picture of it on my phone. It fits in my coffee mug.
I have it in a 1-gallon cooler and I’ll try it tomorrow. I don’t think it’s going to bring my room temperature solvent down cold enough. Update: It worked just fine.
I need to tee off of this, instead.
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The best one are the jockey boxes off amazon, wither add compression fittings or npt. Return the other one, there is always a cheaper way than buying from extraction companies except @Killa12345. Plus he gives a shit. Feel free to ask if you need help been doing this a decade from .5# machines to 200 a day setups. My current one is 12 tubes so i got you covered from small to big
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You lost me with jockey boxes. Small spoon please.
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Type it into amazon, its what home brewers call them. Also wort chiller
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I’ve been looking at this giant clamp. Reading about how little pressure a 12-inch clamp can withstand. And, thinking this is a good thing to upgrade. How did you address it?
I’d thought of stringing coils together in a common cooler. I’m looking for one that will fit under my machine. I knew it couldn’t have been an original idea. Thanks for giving it a name before I called it some other goofy something.
I wanted to ask you the same question about the 12-inch tri-clamps. Who do you use?
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