you are getting shatter when using a spreading method and not doing pours
5 micron should do it. I used a 5 micron n-buna mesh screen between my CRC and collection pot when I first started using adsorbents and found that it was effective at catching any loose particles that leaked through my CRC setup. Always had nice clear extracts when using that screen.
You want a 1 micron Sintered disc or a depth filter made with 1 micron or .5 micron filter sheeting
Stage your filtration prior to the 1 micron sintered disc or depth filter…
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dont you feel like 1 micron is over kill and would be bottle necking the flow of gas. im feeling like the 5 might be the way to go but those sintered discs look pretty impressive what else would it pick up that low of a micron
Nope.
would this be a good one do you think its ok to go 4inch spool with b80 to a 10um then to this disk
Not If they are dissolved in it
These disc and papers are to keep back particulate. But getting these micro parts out can really help w getting more pure extract while running cold.
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The more staging down to 1 micron the better…imo
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If ur running cold already u really dont even have to stage down. (Non crc and not warm runs)
Now crc I do same thing just with couple more 2-4um.
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thank you for your response does your crc set up run thru a separate column ? like a add on kit i run mine together on extensions off my extract column.
if i freeze my gas do i have to assist the gas for it to transfer to the extract column or would the condensing coil help that
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Nitro assist if ur rig is outfitted.
But a coil and warm gas to push will work
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The search bar is your friend.
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I’ve been warming my tanks for a while and im not set up to change that but i have wondered if doing that is effecting my color and picking up more fats there for making my slabs not stable. or terp pour off sometimes tends to budder up
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Are u trying to make shatter or sugar
I’m shocked people still want shatter…
If it won’t crash out, finish decarbing and eat it lol.
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yea defiantly but sometimes i feel like i navigate the site for ever going in circles 
. iv been reading this site for a couple years and just signed up finally cause im rethinking some of my basics.
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i make both but right now focusing on shatter it really made a come back this year in volume but iv been having issues with the stability
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Dont run as cold with shatter.
Although the best shatter I ever made was ran dry ice cold then straight to vac. Was glass. So much glass it wouldn’t stick to dabber. Was straight N tane if I remember correctly
My current setup has inline CRC at the bottom of my material column. I put filter paper on top of the sintered disk inside the hemispherical reducer with a ring to help hold it down while then loading my adsorbents, followed with filter paper, then 200 mesh screen, then punched-out filter plate, then filter paper, and lastly a ring to hold that paper down while loading biomass.
This works fine for me, especially when I only allow pressure to travel in one direction (avoiding possible channeling in the filter stack).
That said I’m upgrading my setup to be more like Precision Labs’ MX40 and plan to be using my old material column as a giant CRC column. I don’t like the idea of oil getting stuck in transfer hoses so I am building it as bi-directional on all sections as possible to allow me to flood any transfer hose with clean solvent at will and without having to re-configure any hookups, just valves. Certainly looking at insulating the transfer hoses to avoid solvent boil while moving the oil-laden solvent.
I was thinking about using a modular CRC where I would add a PTFE (or nylon?) dip tube to one of the ports on the collection pot and then use that to move oil-laden solvent into a CRC column and into a second collection pot (or a sucker pot) for final removal of the extract. Really still want to add a dip tube to my collection pot so that I don’t have to disassemble the splatter platter for pouring and can instead “pour” out via a chilled-handheld-nozzle of sorts hooked up to aforementioned dip tube port on collection pot…of course after some solvent recovery to thicken the good stuff before removal from the system.
There seems to be some debate on that topic of fats/waxes being an essential part to hard snapping (no taffy pull) but as @StoneD said:
The consensus I have seen, if any, is that n-butane is preferred for shatter runs, sometimes above zero temps. I think also starting material plays a big role in how well that run turns out. (As the “proverb” goes, garbage in - garbage out). Personally I stick to n-tane as my clients want shatters. Lately I have been wondering why my stuff isn’t so snappy and seems that I may be running too cold (pre chilled solvent to -20°C and chilled material column to about 5°C)…my thinking as to why the result is such is that it is caused by not getting all the THCa in the extract as when you go cold enough with THCa in butane you can crash it out as particulate which then gets filtered instead of going down with the extract/message. If anything, perhaps stay in the range of just around 0°C as you “net temperature” across your system. That’s what I’m going to aim for on my next run.