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 $150.
Not sure about safety but it’s lived for 3 months so far. I put the collection base and solvent tank in the liquid and stack the material column, dewax spool, filter stack horizontally on top of the base and tank. Builds enough cooling to do a passive extraction. Will even recover to a vacuum with the hot side at only 65f. Liquid is usually 0f after done recovering from collection tank and material column.
Have a suspicion your vacuum chamber isn’t getting down to -29.9" Hg? Don’t have an extra vacuum gauge laying around to check?? Place a new (never been opened) ZipLock (generic will do) gallon bag in the chamber with no heat, it will expand fully at ‘full vac.’
Allright we are getting a Nice tread formed here so another trick i haven t seen yet
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A low budget artists or large volume filtration and i still use iT since 2012 same machine
drilled a hole in the top put a funnel trough
Inside the spinner i put a 1 micron filtration sock (5$) set inside a hard metal mesh tube ( starded with a piece of pvc pipe then a paint Bucket i stabbed to death to make holes) and now a hard metal mesh piece of pipe height of the iner spinning chamber held on iT s place by pieces of styro foam
If putten in Carbon , SS scrubing sponges for the kithen then put iT on to spin and pourd
Its a speed filter for large amounts of fluid
A 1 micron filterbag with Some Carbon inside spins at 3200 rpm fluid go s in to the funnel falls inside the filterbag deu to centrifuge force gets pushed out treu the filter media and runs out filtered
Thats iT works way faster than vacuum asisted filtration
Just another mad mans solution😂
Recommend adding a pressure release valve to your honeypot, preferably with a hose leading outside. Really helps slurp locked/absorbed solvent from the material in the columns. Sure, wastes a bit vaporized solvent but more than enough is salvaged to make up for the vapor lost, as well as variably higher yields.
Does anyone know the secret splatter platter loading tek?
Im sure those if you with rack mounted extractors have had the pleasure of mounting a heavy platter to the bottom of a 12" sanataty spool. You have to hold the heavy bastard in place with the gasket alligned, and somehow manage to get the clamps around it at the same time.
This is my trick to mounting these unwildey platters.
allign the gasket on the platter.
connect a vaccum pump to the spools lid and turn the pump on.
hold the platter up to the bottom of the spool with the gasket alligned.
The pump will hold the entire weight of the platter, this allows you to let go of the platter and use both of your hands to attach the clamp.
This trick saves a bunch of time, and allows one person to do the work of what used to be two.
This is awesome. I dont have a 12" extractor nor is it rack mounted…BUT i do have a 10" extractor which is not rack mounted and its such a PITA to get my platter back on by myself ive been dis-assembling my whole collection pot to mount the spool to the platter then the lid.
Im gonna have to try this vacuum technique! Thanks a bunch
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