Once had a massive bump distilling and all My glasswear got dirty
I was still working with a classen glas setup (old school)
After trying to disstill iT out with etho ,aceton iT was all still black started fideling with q tips useless
I fild My flask with thinner Car paint solvent main component being touleen
Distilled that and glas got brand new clean
So whenever i Need to really clean touleen works for me
Ok so My seperatory funnel broke in the mountais of marocco luckely i had Some chromatography colums
Searchd for a big (5 gal) big bottel
Cut the botom of ( watch video)
Gleud the chromatograpy colomn in the bottel with epoxy Sanded the bottel rim and epoxy spils
Put a pipe insulation strip on the rim
Hang iT up and ready to gohttps://youtu.be/2keRTbA2zAQ
I keep my extra vac oven shelves in the deep freezer. once you transfer a slab from the oven to a cold tray flipping it becomes a breeze. after flip i slide it back to it’s original shelf as to not drop the temp of the oven. i also transfer slabs to these cold trays when packaging up grams. The trays have little mass so they warm up quick when using them for packaging so today i’m headed to pickup 2 slabs of marble or granite or whatever i can get cheapest that’s around 10"sq. I think with two 1"+ stone slabs by the time one started to warm up the one in the freezer should be cold and this is going to make packaging into grams so much easier.
You put a frozen material column inside of a material column? I really like that move @Roguelab …It’s like a sock but you can actually cram it full.
Heres my short list, mostly related to CLS:
-Use acetone, not isopropyl for cooling slurry (less slushy water retention)
-Got a roll of microfiber cloths for cleanup. Use 2 buckets: 1 for extremely dirty, one for kinda dirty. Keep some solvent in both to keep rags saturated. (Saves a lot of rags, cleaning solvent, and some additional product.)
-Average chiller coils fit perfectly in a paint can, do what you will with that.
-If material is moist, shoot nitrogen through material column, then vac at room temp for 15 mins or so, THEN run gas as usual. lower moisture = better yield, shattery-er shatter
-Use Auger styler drill bit to clear stubborn material columns
-Chimney sweep tools work great for gunked up material columns
-Some website, future4200.com has some decent tips too
go to placesthat fabricate countertops, ask them for a reminent peice, or better yet old samples. I Have gotten marble and granate samples that they were litterally throwing away.
Yes so i have 20 pipes of stainless steel wich diameter is in metric size they are thin walled fir there normal use is for gas exhaust of gas fireplaces
I pack them then trow em in the freezer packed
I use Thermo sientific. Freezer Wich is 45" high inside so the tubes are made to fit the freezer
then blast them out once put back in the freezer turn them upside down and blast again to get the last bit out
Works for me
I like your paint can idea with acetone, I’m going to try that instead of igloo coolers with denatured alcohol. Oh I’m gonna get that auger bit also - thank you so much for that - I bought a filter sock from xtractor depot recently and used it today. It’s trash, broke on first run. But that auger bit will make that sock obsolete!
What do you use to chill your solvent tank?
I filled a top-opening chest freezer with a mixture of water and propylene glycol (corrosion inhibited) that drops to -20f. $300 for freezer and 5 gallons of PG, another $100 for a thermostat controller or free bypassing of thermostats would get the compressor to run constantly and maintain -20f. Will suck on electricity and shorten lifespan but these freezers are $150.
Not sure about safety but it’s lived for 3 months so far. I put the collection base and solvent tank in the liquid and stack the material column, dewax spool, filter stack horizontally on top of the base and tank. Builds enough cooling to do a passive extraction. Will even recover to a vacuum with the hot side at only 65f. Liquid is usually 0f after done recovering from collection tank and material column.