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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In the clear etho forum, they talk about using a cake of celite, bentonite and activated carbon to really pull out the color from the material. There they show nice yellow etho shatter there, I wonder if it’s the same thing but with butane where less has been pulled form the material compared to etho
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Man at first i was using a showerhead with nopt port on my filtering spool from the dewax chamber so i could direct the flow straight into the sock. Which i secure with a filter place compression ring from bvv, i just squeeze it as hard as i can and it fits snugly inside the sock pushing against the inside of the spool. However the hose was too large and i felt like maybe some waxes were dissoving back.
So now i just have flat end cap and i make sort of a ladder from the top of the sock filter where the b eads are to the triclamp port. Well a roll of 304l wool to be precise, i always open the valve real slow like so the flux is gentle.
Thamn, maybe i fucked upo there, i did not wet the medium, just ripped it though hoping the 1um sock filter would capture any particles?
It took a bit longer to recover maybe 10 min, i do have a huge collection pot plus assist with the low pressure from 30lb solvent tank. I usually never run much more than 3l of solvent on a 3’’ x 24’’ spool for material.
Lol it must be barbie sized comparing to what you yanks play with.
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I just know carbon likes to create a dust but your extract Looks perfect so I’m betting you’re good, I didn’t realize you were using just mesh socks, most people I know use the socks that are part of a gasket as well. Good to know that you can indeed use just the mesh. Ordering the parts to make a sock filtering chamber, today and will load it to the same specs you did and let her rip maybe I can turn of matieral that’s fresh but runs dark into gold. Results will be posted!
(I started with a machine your size, don’t worry size doesn’t matter ;))
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Redissolve in ethanol, rewinterize, re-filter repeat
The most effective way to use bleaching earth is to just mix the powder with your solvent mixture.
In order to achieve maximum efficiency during a bleaching step on an extract in ethanol you combine the bleaching clay with your mixture, then gently apply heat to the solution and stir with magnetic stir bar to allow for maximum interaction between the molecules and the clay particles.
This process could be adapted for butane easily, but efficiency of adsorption is still going to be determined mostly by temperature during filtration and the amount of physical interactions taking place between the clay particles and the color bodies in the solution.
It would make more sense to try and build a vessel that has the capability of magnetic stirring so you can agitate the butane/clay/extract mixture adequately.
Edit: I’m sure static electricity would be something to be very mindful of in this situation but I don’t actually have any info for you.
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That is as simple as setting a pressure pot on a stirrer 
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I bet a snot rocket sized dab that he scrubs it with water somehow…
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