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When BHO Goes Horribly Wrong

midwestHIGHS

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That would be the bubble hash section, which is a safe technique for noobies, especially those who don't follow directions well, or are unable to walk and chew gum at the same time.
You can also vaporize the resins and re-condense them again, avoiding all solvent.

Zing!


I have dabbed the clear translucent gold resin that was once vaporized from flowers and recondensed in my whip. Leaves no residue on the nail and the effects were very stoney. Not the best flavor however.
 

gaiusmarius

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who wants to start a thread with links to bho explosions so we can make it a sticky as a warning against blasting indoors?
 

gaiusmarius

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cool let me know when you get it started so i can stick it. then we can all add news stories and youtube links about blasting gone horribly wrong. we might actually save some lives, or at least stop a few fires.
 

tehmaster

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Btw, keep it coming!

A guy my friend knows usually does a friendly handshake whenever they see each other. But for some reason everytime he saw him lately he kept just giving him the fist bump, knuckle to knuckle.
:bump:

Well it turns out that the guy was holding the tube when he tried blasting the first time, and ended up with nasty open wounds, exactly where he would grip any other thing

Protect your hands, it's cold dummy :comfort:
And don't blast indoors :smoky:
 

gaiusmarius

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I designed ours, which works by pressurizing the sealed cabinet from the top, with open vents along the floor at ground level. The air exchange rate is once every three seconds and the ceiling and roof panels are designed to lift off before the walls flatten.

You might consider building the room out of fireproof cinder block, and sprinklering it to make the fire marshal happy.

what i wonder is where the butane goes once you exhaust it? how can you be sure it does not find some low ground nearby and start pooling there? i bet you the law will not allow an indoor blasting op unless you have a closed system that stops any large amounts butane being let escape? what do you think? is there really a way to make a safe blasting structure which will be used to blast for many hours a day, without having to worry where the butane is ending up?
 

Gray Wolf

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what i wonder is where the butane goes once you exhaust it? how can you be sure it does not find some low ground nearby and start pooling there? i bet you the law will not allow an indoor blasting op unless you have a closed system that stops any large amounts butane being let escape? what do you think? is there really a way to make a safe blasting structure which will be used to blast for many hours a day, without having to worry where the butane is ending up?

The dilution solution. Once well diluted with air, beyond its ignition range, it is unlikely to pool again.

The fire marshal is unlikely to ever embrace a system that dumps large amounts of butane into the atmosphere of a building. They have worked with me on systems that contains the flammable material and safely deal with the issues if something does go wrong. Consider how explosive a paint booth is during spraying.

For instance, our arc melt Titanium vacuum furnaces sometimes detonated if a water leak developed in the crucible cooling system and the water got to the molten Titanium. Not common, but we blew up two while I was there.

We put them in a cinder block enclosure, with a blast door, and no roof on the enclosure. When they blew, they took the sheet metal an fiberglass roof off the building, but nothing leveled the building by blasting sideways.

My office was next to one which blew, and except for blowing everything off my walls and leaving the sheet rock screws sticking out where the wall diaphram deflected from the shock wave, there was no damage. That blast launched a camera from inside the furnace, to a parking lot two blocks away however.

There were also no operators in the furnace enclosure while the furnace was operating, they were in a separate fully enclosed blast room, that protected them even when the furnaces did blow.

Aside from the fire marshal, DEQ is also unlikely to approve large releases of VOC's, so I doubt that open column extraction is going to get many salutes or approvals.
 
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