@Soxhlet 5lb I use a grinder dedicated just for the trim
Does that actually work well? Have you found that it’s cutting it or just mulching it?
It grinds it up pretty well, especally it you let it “walk” around the walls of the ss pot. I used to do this when I ran trim.
why? do you have data showing it helps?
there is nothing inside those cells that you want, breaking them open just makes for more mess. machine trim should already be an appropriate size.
Edit: stuffing more biomass in the tube, using grinding, and brute force will increase yields. I believe both extraction efficiency, and product quality suffer. I don’t have hard data.
It lets you pack more in the coumn, I was not concerned with “quality” when I was making crude. Although when running bud I grind it, I use a “bud buster” to process it. All my yeild data says that grinding improves yeild with buds.
shoutout to graywolf for this nugget!
design can be found in the ancient ruins of the skunkpharm
I like those SS paint stirrers too.
never used them to grind dry biomass.
Edit: note that my original post was incorrect. those won’t fit through a 4’ hole.
try it!
yep. frozen at -80C then run through a screen like that is my preferred grind for hydrocarbon extraction. fresh or cured.
I will, even though it means going out and buying my own at this point
But how do you grind 30 lbs a day, I use to rock a screen like that when I didn’t have to run so much but recently we haven’t even been grinding. Any ideas on how to grind up that much material?
Have you considered reducing material to rough bubble hash before blasting? I have a lot of trim to run and am personally going to give this a try as soon as the 20gal machine arrives this week. It would be really nice to cut way down on solvent and hopefully time.
I remember reading about that thing
The water may wash away terpenes though, wouldn’t it? They are a soluble of sorts. So, in theory you would be washing away some of the terps, but also blasting less plant matter. In turn, might equal itself out…? Maybe…?
We shall see!
I’m sure you could get through mad quantity but if you looked over your yield of total finished extract to biomass would be less then just extracting with hydrocarbons, perhaps just keifing it heavily
May help it shatter more…
Less plant fats and vegetable oils in the bubble. So it would probably come off more snap and pull or tacky, but not so much “shatter”
are you referring to running keif or bubble?
I think it will be more “keify” rather than a nice refined hash. I will also probably use a thermos method type extraction rather than blasting though. If I were to blast, I’d probably mix it up with a little trim, nug or marbles first.
Either, or. The lipids, inactive compounds, vegetable oils, etc are what make shatter, “shatter”. The lack of those being present would give you a more pure extract. It may shatter up with great clarity. Depending on how dry you let the resin heads (terps drying out and turning into fats from oleresin), it would still shatter up but not as stable as the latter.
Not wasting time on washing it with water and drying. You could leave the plant matter in place, run your solvent as cold as possible
I will probably dry it out a bit in a spinner and then freeze it at -40 or -50C and I do need some material for edibles and carts, so if the terps are gone, no biggie this go around. Will see how it shatters up along the way too.