It was, and the duct tape
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Liberty Haze and chemdawg #4 did this to meā¦I hated the smell tbh
That fresh soil OG gas skunk smell I love @FicklePickle
Its one my favorites. Seems the new earth OG is different than that old school sweet skunk I cant find anymore
The buds were dense but never cone shapes. Like velvet but still dense fluffy. I miss this texture ,taste and high. Just isnāt the same. Bud taste just as good on last hit as the first hit
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Yeah the duct tape has an extra special funk to it too
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Shes a FN cal-mag whore too. She said SURPRISE at wk 5 in flower. Duct tapeā¦
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trimming weed can defiantly get nauseating.
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Iām a little confused on whatās going on here. You use the hot water coming out of your collection on your condenser after the pump?
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Can you elaborate on this one just a bit more. Are you simply filling your mason jars, capping them, and then put them in a sonication bath? If that simple, what temp is the bath and how long do your leave the mason jar in there? Also relevant here, what size mason jar? Thanks!
Is this a typical hot scrub, i.e., in 80C ethanol for ~30 min with stir?
Run water through the jacket of your evaporator, then through a jacketed coil (like an Xergy coil) post pump vapor to heat it back up. Cycling through your jacket on your evaporator to cool it back down. On an active system, that would work.
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My recovery pump is heating the water on my condenser as it pushes vapors against the tube and shell. I use this same water to run against the evaporation base. The evaporation cools down the water enough to recover your gas.
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Life is about solutions 
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Thatās fucken awesome. Gotta do what you gotta doā¦
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ā¦and when your done, dispense your ice cold acetone or alcohol with the pour spout. I like it, but a little top heavy for me. 
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seems worthyā¦
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1000%.
Dry gaskets wear far faster than lubricated gaskets. I was an industrial mechanic, and QMED certified marine engineer before the cannabis industry, and I would have been fired for improper gasket installation a few times over if I didnāt lubricate O rings and gaskets of this type.
As you tighten the tri clamp, the gasket compresses and squishes out, creating friction between the metal and gasket and significantly accelerated wear if dry. Lubricant negates this friction. Dry, it will tend to bind, doesnāt create as good of a seal when compared to properly lubricated. Iām not saying to slather a ton of excess oil all over the placeā¦ Careful and controlled application of lube is pretty easy. I use Q tips lightly dipped in MCT oil that I dispense out of a plastic Klean pump.
I tap a six inch triclamp 4-6 places in the inner groove (for even distribution without over applying) and wipe the entire groove and outside rim. I wipe the outside edge of the gasket with that used and lubricated Q tip (Not inside the groove closer to product side.) That lubes about 3/4 the gasket while minimizing lubricant exposed to process. Its not just twice as longā¦ My gaskets last 5-10 times longer when properly cleaned and lubricated. I had a set of 4x Rubber Fab FKM screen gaskets on the bottoms of cold material columns last over a year cleaned with etoh and a tile and grout brush, lubricated w/each install, and three of them literally looked brand new after over a yearās use (On an EX40 that ran 5 days as week at -50F and colder). I had spares but literally zero reason to replace any of those gaskets, ever.
When the gasket is lubricated and parts mated, you can twist and spin the bowl or bottom cap to ensure perfect alignment, pull a vacuum and then take your time to assemble the tri-clamp. When the gasket is not lubricated more often than not the parts can not be spun to ensure proper alignment. Makes a big difference on big 12" bottom bowls.
I have worked on equipment and done training / consulting at several facilities that donāt lubricate gaskets and use gaskets that are degrading badly. I would rather have gallons of food grade MCT or coconut oil in my extract than tenths of grams of sluffing FKM gasket material contaminating my product. Donāt use gaskets that look like this
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I can appreciate the time you took to write all that. But, I still wonāt use any lube and will Continue to rotate and swap out my gaskets as I have been for 10 years. Like I said to Phil, to each there own, and I aināt putting no lube in any of my systems. Iām bout to even stop using apeizion on my spd and switch to a greaseless solution. And Iām running a completely dry vacuum system. Thatās just me. You do you. Love & light.
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Hey good thing Iām in the knowledge and fact sharing business and certainly not the mind changing business.
A cannabis oil based solution would be sweet. I love the distillate as grease trick on the short path. Iām not aware of a solution to replace a much thinner lubricant on triclamp gaskets, but would love to learn.
You know all the valves in your lube free closed loop system are lubricated right? Even the fancy Swagelok ones. Metal on metal would gall due to friction without lubrication, so to prevent wear and contamination, internal parts are lubricated with Dow Molykote 111.
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You share my thoughts. Over a year I used A few tablespoons of MCT oil to process tens of thousands of pounds of biomass so the dilution of MCT oil is quite low. Not at all like cutting cartridges.
The gaskets dry out because alcohol dries them out when you clean them? My understanding, Just like alcohol dries out your skin, Lubricating with MCT with actually keeps them āhydratedā (not the proper term I know, sorry) which is why lubed gaskets donāt crack apart from being too dry as easily. edit, Obviously Iām not a chemist and Iād love to learn more about why this happens. or maybe it doesnāt and its purely abrasion/friction damage
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I was under the impression that the PTFE seat was all the lubrication needed
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