Its for multiple reasons, one my columns can fit alot more material at once, grinded up it take up 75% less space and becomes more compacted, there’s no study that says there is no residual cannabinoids internally. Butane doesnt pick up any undesirables anyways, with polar solvents its alot different.
Cannabinoids and most terpenes are clear. Just because it picks up less undesirables doesn’t mean it doesn’t pick up any. Also, fats and waxes are non-polar, must be dissolved to some degree to even get to your cannabinoid-terpene soup, and precipitate at similar temperatures as acidic cannabinoids.
Whats also tends to happen sometimes is when youve extracted youll notice trichomes still attached to biomass this helps get just about most of it out.
Trichromes are a bitch to extract in columns
Thee clog the system pretty quick
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That and removing 100% of them from material is no trivial matter.
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You have to use bigger spools for filterting sections if your column, I use 6 inch to 8 inch sintered disks anything less will always clog
Yes probably treu
Using stainlessteel scrubie layers in n between kief pollen layers helemaal s to avoid cloging as well
Bit I prefure grinding to 1/8”partical size
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Lol, that’s why You use high pH base water and a stainless bucket! You know I am just being humorous. Yes there is no doubt it is all a sticky mess, Have you ever looked at them after stripping terpenes at -60 plus..are they still sticky? After stripping, What about a direct ACN pass through column, , then H20 precip step (add a little HCl)..You have me interested in what cannabis matrix is like after terpene strip. Of course we have others here that strip both terp and cannabinoid (bho higher temp) and do the terpene separation with sugared concentrate and centrifuge. But a two step column procedure may work.???
I have to write that guy. He has some conceptual problems.
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It works but the volumes needed of acn are high and the not beeing able to centrifuge the biomassa make it costly
Acn is a solvent that needs warming yust like pentane
It s NOT a good solvent to be emptying spools
Volitile and hard to keep yourself from Harm
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This patent is also worth reading in detail, I assume you have already, but each time I go back through and look at the variations if makes me think..think..
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