Trust me i tried the search bar before writing this stupid question. I knew i would get called out on it and i did it anyway. I mean look at me im a god damn criminal. Love your whip it joke. Thanks for the help bud. Always appreciated.
I played that game for years. If it wasn’t shatter, the boss threw it back at me. My solution at the time was to winterize in ethanol. Lose those excess terps and fats, and get glass every time.
Then he discovered live resin…and quit bitching about it.
To sugar I usually just take the slab and put in jar(s) and place in oven starting at about 100°f slightly increasing heat every couple hours or so if sugaring doesn’t occur.
You can always throw it back into the collection pot, redisolve and pour out as shatter restarting the cycle, however the buddering is happening due to lipids/fats in your oil. You can help mitigate this by adding clarification medias such as UltraClear, Activated Alumina, or Silica in your runs to help pull these phospholipids/sopas/fats. Im sure you already know but try to chill your solvent as cold as possible as well. These lipids are what gives the oil some cloudiness when chilled and cause instability in shatter. Removing them will definitely prolong the shelf life of the oil in shatter form. Only other way to help mitigate this is by winterizing.
As of now i am trying to get the solvent to -30c or so. I dont have the means to get colder at this point. Soon i will have a -80c chiller running on the solvent tank and post chiller.
I am currently going to switch my coolant in the chiller to ethanol. Right now i am running a 50/50 proplyene glyco distilled water mix and the pump is having a hard time pumping due it the viscosity of the fluid. So maybe when i switch to ethanol i will give this a shot. Just waiting it to come in.
it might not like pumping fizzy either. tread slowly. you want to be very gentle with your additions. you’re NOT trying to make a slurry at -78C, you’re trying to assist your chiller down to -40 or -50.
if you do try this, it it absolutely imperative that the coolant has a free path back into the reservoir at all times.
other wise you risk imploding your rig from pressure building up in the jacket.
(you know: something like THIS)
most chillers will have a check valve on the output line, so that coolant doesn’t back flow when the system is shut down. if you’re connecting your system to your chiller with QC fittings, either remove them or don’t try this trick.