Maybe I missed something, but I have seen mentioning anywhere that you have used rotovap to evaporate alcohol before placing crude into the SPD flask.
To all US people: In Canada government charges us 100% excise tax on any drinkable alcohol. That is why its twice the price here. So ISO is preferred solvent.
Same tax structure here.
Reason EtOH is better has been linked twice
Op has a still and could make his own. If you’re recovering it, then price/tax is less relevant that suitability for task at hand.
82.5c is the boiling point of iso. Agitating in a heated flask will release the volatiles.
No need to be snarky about it.
Just pointing out why the Etoe no worky.
I blame the D8 cart in my hand. Just not the same…
Not just specific to solvent recovery: EtOH is more polar and therefore rejects the fats more easily hence being “better” (and methanol being “best”). I believe that link also mentions adding water to the IPA to make it more polar and function similarly but it is quite a bit more touchy to get right and there’s less data available for ratios
He’s using the Etoh Pro, which for all intents and purposes is the roto-vap in this situation
Canadian 100% tax is federal + Provincial (ON 61%) in USA Distilled spirits are taxed at $13.50 per proof gallon - fixed rate.
Some US states have higher tax than the other, but its in low digits.
I get that.
But, one thing I’ve seen is a lot of people getting misinformation on the basic solvents to use from YouTube, Reddit, etc.
They come here for help.
Feeding into the echo chamber of being a your typical Reddit egotistical asshole makes us know better then them. Difference being most of us know what the hell we are doing and specialize in certain fields. As a collective, we’ve fixed a lot of the misinformation that’s been touted for awhile.
Be better, man…
You wouldn’t be a dick to your kid if they came to you asking a (what we would consider) a trivial question, would you?
Long winded response, and not meant to be an attack. A lot of new comers here looking for help. Fix their issues and help em out!
I just meant for Iso… that’s what OP mentioned.
I might if I assigned reading to answer his questions and he didn’t do it…
I certainly would if he was trying to perform CLS hydrocarbon => distillate and failed to do any of his assigned reading.
Check my first response SPD vaper getting Through the trap - #19 by cyclopath
Links provided for what the problem is, how to solve it, and why ethanol is better…
If the horse won’t drink, sometimes you just want to hold its head under water and be done with it.
Thank you for your advice I really appreciate it I have set the mantle like you said and it is working it is distilling out the iso. So that would make me believe my ETOH Pro is not working correctly and has caused all this issue. I will just look for a good deal on a rotovap.
Again thanks
It’s one thing to tell your kid to read something and letting them “experiment” with volatiles that could potentially kill someone without walking them through it.
Absolutely
I’ll show you. But First you have to read…then you have to demonstrate understanding. Then we can get to the playing with solvents.
It’s not like I asked the OP to wrap his head around the Antoine equation. I linked to a table of empirically determined boiling points so they might grok why sucking was the problem & offered a hardware store solution.
I agree that your solution was simpler.
We’re fishing with dynamite here. Answers without context are dangerous.
If he was starting out and was just starting his set up, then yes…
He was already in the throes of it.
I just wanted to give him a solution to extinguish a possible lit fuse.
Metaphorically speaking…
All good, man! Glad I could help!
The EtOH Pro is made for…: EtOH! It’s not designed to be used with Iso, and that might be a huge issue in and of itself. 
Yeah, some dickhead suggested that…
OP started the experiment then asked for assistance, neglected to apply said assistance, and now @cyclopath is being chastised? Let’s not forget who has given out more spoons than probably anyone else on the site. He was awarded, by the community, the Dennis Parker (@Beaker) Award for a reason.
Having spent a lot of time around Cyclo and his family, I can attest to the validity of his response. Some people communicate very differently from the norm, and that’s okay if people don’t always understand. He wasn’t being mean.
Also spends way more time trying to resuscitate horses than drown them 
