Hi everyone, I’m new here. I have such an amateur 5L SPD set as in the picture. I need a distillate because I have 2 sick relatives and I want to help them. I live in a country where the law is very bad when it comes to hemp. Please, I need your help because I’m a little desperate. I admire the knowledge and skills of some people here. I read a lot about SPD but I still haven’t done it yet.
Where should I start ? I have crushed grass and 96% ethanol. I know you have to pour half a 5L dish, but first freeze it and pour through a coffee filter, right? What can anyone tell me next? I will give relationships and with your help it will succeed … … Sorry for my English Regards to all people on the forum
You’ll need a stir bar, vacuum grease (search function here and you’ll find type), and spare GL connectors. Also extra tubing laying around is always good.
You haven’t even done 10% of the reading required. Why don’t you do that first. Not a fan of spoon🥄 feeding. I got relatives who I make medicine for as well. So go read up on this before you potentially kill them.
Thanks for the quick reply, this forum is awesome. I already have a stir bar , vacuum grease and extra tubing . I don;t know what is exacly spare GL connetors but i doing reserch now
You want to get your alcohol as cold as you can. Soak your crushed grass in the cold alcohol. This part is easy. You’re making “rso” except with cold cold alcohol. All the THC and good stuff will come dissolve into your alcohol
You then need to separate your crushed grass. from your alcohol. Most people will have their grass in a tea bag to make this easier.
Once you have your alcohol/THC “solution”, you need to filter particulates out. This is the coffee filter part, but the problem is the “solution” will take very long to pass through. Most people use a vacuum assisted filter. Search for “Buchner funnel”. Your vacuum pump (in your photo) would work for this application.
You will then need to evaporate your alcohol (be safe please!) until there is very little left. Just enough to make it easy to poor THC oil into your short path kit.
Unfortunately your vacuum pump will not work for your short distillation . I am sad they sold you that pump with that kit. You will need a stronger vacuum to get a good product.
If your family is sick, your cold alcohol extract (after you evaporate alcohol) could work for them just as well as distillate.
I am sorry your country doesn’t allow you to enjoy cannabis. I hope you have success
Definitely a no on the water aspirator. If you want to try it out anyways, make sure the water is ice cold, but as it heats a up, you loose vacuum performance. Nonetheless, the pump is very useful for other things, requires little maintenance.
That chiller though… What’s the cost of that compared with the rest of the setup?
Do NOT buy that kit.
The chiller is 1000% not needed. You need a heater. That aspirator is a joke. It will never in a million years pull a deep enough vac. That aspirator is for filtering or rotovap use.
Regards to all people on the forum