In butane
The original guy we’re trying to, I guess “mimic”, does claim to be getting extremely low yields. So he definitely is dewaxing and filtering something other than that. He does go on about “passes”, as well when he is mentioning his process. I’m thinking he may be passing warm solvent with extract through celite and into a dewax chamber. And maybe in his dewax chamber with some scrubbies for surface area he has the AC in there and then possibly celite is stacked in his filters. If I had an abundance of both laying around and the biomass to experiment with, I would try it next week.
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That cold crash should be abiut 50% crap 50% thca. Winterize it in alcohol or even do a liquid liquid separation whatever you can to make pure thca, purge residual alcohol and dissolve back into terp/butane. Might have to add more clean butane. You can do this in your jar or collection pot. You need to blend properly by stirring in warm solvent or else your product might sugar.
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So which part is the crap I dont want? I was gonna pour all of it into the funnel slowly with the ac and celite and filter paper and hope the filters filter.
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The solids that crash out to the bottom of your jar or collection tank
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I dont use ac it makes it orange and lowers yield
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Totally made it orange… filtered it like 4 times
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you guys are awesome in the name of science…this thread is just awesome now. This is gonna go somewhere. Thanks @Dabbedone for taking the bull by the horns homie!!!
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Pretty light gold now but not clear…
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So, we have canceled out AC and just need to figure out how much and when and what to use the celite. Too bad distilled for peanuts is way off for coming in and sounding like a dooosh all the time, instead of positive contributions.
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Does this have any pertinent information? I haven’t seen silica
hydrogel mentioned on this forum, but idk if it has any use for cannabis.chapman1994.pdf (356.0 KB)
Wouldn’t the techniques be similar to color control in other solvents like ethanol?
Could processing be done inline with pressure vessels to limit exposure to oxygen? Isn’t oxygen an important factor to color changes? How about how the material was stored? The og guy raves a lot about quality starting material
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I know this is way off topic by now, but did I see someone say they paid 7k for a lb of shatter?!
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In my experience quality material is important but we are all freaking out because we see at least 3 companies (@o.g.cannabis , @haggardextracts , @loudandclearlabs ) that claim to be utilizing technique rather than simply sourcing fresh material.
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What about future’s pesticide ramification tek? Is there any info we can pull from that? I’m just wondering how we can get a to a totally clear concentrate In general with out stepping into distillation.
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hi all
so ive had a chance to try cwlite and ac inline. bear in mind the material used is low quality trim (fan leafa and all) and over 1 year old.
i allowed for a 4h residence time with isodrice and then solvent passes through another dry ice spool that has a 4"*8" 1um filter sock in wich i placed about 1inch layers of celite and ac twice and stainless steel beads on top until the sock was full. i dont have a sight glass before filtration but ye the celite was quite dirty. i bet without any filtration it would have looked fairly brownish… not quite distillate grade though…
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Or online.
Links to your filter sock please good sir! Were you not afraid of crashing out your thca with the 4 hour Dewax?
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Before i did it it inline i used to do it just in a bucket, i never got thca crashing. I think solution is too dilluted in order for that happen in such a short period of time. I have noticed in longer residence times that oily type sybustances sometimes appear at the top. Unsure if its lipids or some kind of aromatic hydrocarbon, but ye some separation occurs. For my 4 inch spool i find 4h is the sweet time.
Man i dont think the supplier really matters, theyre used in both food and fuel industries. At the moment im getting i think theyre called pentek filter socks off ebay. I need to find a supplier in spain there has to be one since ye were the largest olive oil producer in the solar system.
You can reuse them 3 or 4 times but i will only use them once if adding scrubing agents inside.
Btw im running passive and im not getting any clogs, it did take some messing around finding a way to secure the bloody sock filter inside propperly and make sure the flow of solvent doesnt flow down the sides but right rough the center.
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Yeah absolutely there used in bio diesel industry a lot, how did you find a away to keep it from not coming out the sides, maybe a flat filter would be best in this case? How much pressure did you use to push the solvent through and how long did it take to filter? lastly how did you pre wet the filter medium? Sorry for all these questions trying to replicate your results and post back!
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