InjectTruth
Active member
Good evening, all. I have been playing with oil here and there, but recently did a larger dry ice kif run, which left me with about a gallon of kif.
I originally was going to simply layer this kif in a parfait fashion with other trim and use in a typical pass through column extraction. However, after reading Jump's thread, skunkpharm research dot com, and some videos on youtube, I've begun thinking about the soak/thermos method.
My original intent was to reduce the volume via the dry ice method, thereby reducing the overall quantity of needed solvent and increasing the efficiency of each can used, hopefully resulting in large plates full of wax like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1QWLbGvCpg&feature=related.
Considering all the warnings about butanes explosive nature, I was somewhat shocked to see someone spraying butane into a sealed thermos and allowing it to sit outside for an hour. EVEN MORE shocking was this video of someone substituting a GLASS JAR for the stainless steel thermos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTVRYk0Zdg4&noredirect=1 :facepalm:
Maybe Im a nervous nellie, but that just doesnt seem right to me.
So I am here to ask the oil gurus what are the safety rules for the soak method? So far all I can tell is:
1) Add vent holes to your thermos lid along with your hole for the nozzle
2) Do the process outside
Is that all? Any special precautions for freezing the cans of butane before hand?
And finally, oil masters, is Butane really the ideal way to go for turning a gallon of kif into oil? Or is maybe something like Acetone superior? How about plain old ethanol (especially if the majority of the resulting oil will be used for edibles)?
I originally was going to simply layer this kif in a parfait fashion with other trim and use in a typical pass through column extraction. However, after reading Jump's thread, skunkpharm research dot com, and some videos on youtube, I've begun thinking about the soak/thermos method.
My original intent was to reduce the volume via the dry ice method, thereby reducing the overall quantity of needed solvent and increasing the efficiency of each can used, hopefully resulting in large plates full of wax like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1QWLbGvCpg&feature=related.
Considering all the warnings about butanes explosive nature, I was somewhat shocked to see someone spraying butane into a sealed thermos and allowing it to sit outside for an hour. EVEN MORE shocking was this video of someone substituting a GLASS JAR for the stainless steel thermos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTVRYk0Zdg4&noredirect=1 :facepalm:
Maybe Im a nervous nellie, but that just doesnt seem right to me.
So I am here to ask the oil gurus what are the safety rules for the soak method? So far all I can tell is:
1) Add vent holes to your thermos lid along with your hole for the nozzle
2) Do the process outside
Is that all? Any special precautions for freezing the cans of butane before hand?
And finally, oil masters, is Butane really the ideal way to go for turning a gallon of kif into oil? Or is maybe something like Acetone superior? How about plain old ethanol (especially if the majority of the resulting oil will be used for edibles)?