Ok i gotcha sorry i just wasn’t connecting it in my head
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one could alternatively increase the contact time with the media by using a long skinny bed rather than a short fat one.
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my runs are 30lbs and it takes me 45 to recover. it’s passive and i don’t have a pump so out of luck on that one for me. i’ll try vacuuming the silica with some heat and see if it makes a difference?
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different pump too.
AtEx rated, air powered diaphragm pump designed for liquids.
(see foodboxer)
noisy fucker.
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Oh right on. I’ll stick with the soothing sounds of passive recovery. A good idea though
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if you’ve got a 1" or 2" x 24" or better spool laying around, and are willing to bake that sample out under vacuum, you will at least have given this particular magic dirt your best shot. the recirculation pump was not my favorite part of this particular trick.
here’s @Photon_noir extolling the virtues of drying first. again.
I’ve posted pictures of the $15k vacuum pump that died sucking on this (and other grit)…when @Photon_noir suggests protecting the pump with a filter of some flavor, he’s not kidding around.
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So…
Was this stuff all peletted? Or do we have it in powder anywhere?
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I think the point of this stuff is to get better flow. At least that’s why I would use it. Not a fan of nitro… I Think j12 needs to bake it tho for sure
So what is the reason i need to bake it to pull out all the moisture?
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The flow was the same as a run with no media. From what people were saying this stuff by itself could remediate color without any clays which in my opinion would be the best of both worlds because i feel it would leave the terp profile better then when run with clays. It seems though this stuff would work optimal if ground into a powder.
just checked yesterday’s runs and diamonds are growing as usual. so at the size of the media there mining it now it did little to nothing for improvement. I don’t think it did any harm but also no improvement? i’ll have to wait until it finishes out to see how the terps are though?
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You should bake it. Try again but add more media.
i’ll give it a shot. sucks though kinda limited at the moment cause he just sent me a sample size and i already ran 4 columns
one problem i see is that if moisture is frozen and stays frozen then it would create channeling?
So how are you guys getting all the moisture out of your fresh frozen? Don’t have any channeling in my runs. All about your material handling and packing. FF vs dry have different packing procedure to avoid channeling. Flow rate with the opaline was great but it didn’t do anything. It would probably work much better as a powder. or i got the wrong stuff?
OR it only works when the active sites DON’T have water in them…
the water you’ve locked up in your biomass by freezing is an entirely different critter.
not the problem here…
we are talking about water that is bound to the absorbant. Just like a layer of water on your trichome heads if you thaw then refreeze your fresh frozen biomass blocks access of your solvent to the goodies, I would expect a layer of water blocking the active sites in an absorbant to interfere with it’s ability to absorb.
not a chemist. which is why I refer to this stuff as “magic dirt”.
in order for the magic to happen, the wizard claims the water needs gone first. So I have always removed the water…and I’ve seen it work day-in-day-out
we have a single report of “doesn’t work…but I didn’t remove the water”.
what is the simplest explanation?
confound that with the “golden ticket” part of the problem, and I’m more than willing to say we got no clue…
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I wish my dumb ass took a picture. I can’t believe that I didn’t
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I’m tempted to try it tomorrow. If It doesn’t work, I can transfer it back through the (normal) media regularly.
I can transfer into the dewax chamber, if it doesn’t work. I can remove the material and the kitty litter. Load my crc like normal. Push from my dewax chamber through the material column, also this will equalize the solution so its not so concentrated with cannabinoids in the beginning of the flow. Also, warming it up to pass through the media.
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Speaking of kitty litter, I imagine oil dri’s subsidiaries brands of it probably contain the same ratio of golden tickets lol.
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wouldn’t that effect happen with B80 then if moisture is in it? and it wouldn’t work as well?