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"The Clear" Solventless hash from harborside

G.O. Joe

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Perhaps a stream of hot oxygen-free gas on buds - steam distillation but with something other than steam. That would be far out. Other than that, how can you get high THC with no solvents at any point - and - few GC peaks? Kugelrohring hash might accomplish this. Ice hashes shouldn't count as using water even if it does count. Assuming ice hash would be a more economical and reliable source than dry sift, unless you happen to have super sized tumblers in the basement.
 
Dude it's called subcritical water, it's a tunable solvent from ethanol to methanol through the non-polar regions of hexane as it's requires 374C and 250-300 bar pressure and things like plc and automatic valves, because at 705F is hot enough to start a fire on your clothes or rip the flesh right off the bone. But that's where the science is looking towards and I hope to be the clincher for this grant as its definately happening shit to have water behave throughout a spectrum of various strengths of oil by simplely varying the temperature and pressure.
 

Gray Wolf

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Perhaps a stream of hot oxygen-free gas on buds - steam distillation but with something other than steam. That would be far out. Other than that, how can you get high THC with no solvents at any point - and - few GC peaks? Kugelrohring hash might accomplish this. Ice hashes shouldn't count as using water even if it does count. Assuming ice hash would be a more economical and reliable source than dry sift, unless you happen to have super sized tumblers in the basement.

Vaporizing and recondensing the vapors would be one way to extract a decarbed oil without solvents.
 

G.O. Joe

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It sounds like a small challenge to make practical at scale, even if it's just big long heated and cooled SS pipes, and the volatiles have already been preheated off. A "slightly modified" microwave oven shouldn't work, so it probably works great. Naturally I specified no oxygen (or water), but in the real world, people would just heat air. It's easy to imagine a scheme, for instance air at a certain velocity heated to 200-230C in a horizontal pipe in an oven on the floor, rising in an insulated vertical pipe full of loose buds, falling to another vertical pipe (cooled with a larger pipe around it with flowing ice water) to the floor - and this pipe can be detached, heated, and cleaned out with a pig, but that's wishful thinking. In the real world, the vapor may not condense so easily.
 

MildeStoner

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In the real world, the vapor may not condense so easily.
Anyone who owns a good vaporizer and indulges with a water-pipe can tell you vapour moving through glassware at cool temperatures encourages recondensation, which seems easy enough ;)
 

G.O. Joe

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Anyone who owns a good vaporizer and indulges with a water-pipe can tell you vapour moving through glassware at cool temperatures encourages recondensation, which seems easy enough ;)

Yes, and I've written a post here saying I was completely unable to smoke my oil through Pyrex tubing because it would simply condense just past the heating zone. (settled on a piece of coathanger going down the bowl stem of the bong) BUT, in my last post I was thinking specifically of vaporizers - the Volcano - where you get a bag of aerosol, and a full hour later only half the THC has condensed on the bag.
 

MildeStoner

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The bag is not cold, therefore vapor is less likely to recondense? I find more recondensation on my glassware on a cold day than a warm one, also more when vaping through cold water than warm.
I don't claim any insider knowledge, but as I mentioned a few pages ago a few signs seem to be pointing towards an extraction tech involving vaporization and collection, especially taking into account the claims made on their IG feed...
 

Gray Wolf

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Yes, except for some reason my reclaim is always brown, while some "Clear Concentrates" are light yellow.

Our vapor pipe reclaim is darker as well, but interestingly, when I cleaned up reclaim from combusted bud pipes, roaches, and pipe scrapings, using hexane and brine, it turned from dark black, to a pretty yellow.
 

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nakadashi

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Our vapor pipe reclaim is darker as well, but interestingly, when I cleaned up reclaim from combusted bud pipes, roaches, and pipe scrapings, using hexane and brine, it turned from dark black, to a pretty yellow.
Interesting, have you tried the hexane/brine wash with something besides reclaim? The reason I ask is because I did a hexane/brine wash with some dark shatter and was only able to lighten it a few shades, so I am now wondering if I performed it incorrectly, or if this is something unique to decarb'd oil.
 

RHH

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Interesting, have you tried the hexane/brine wash with something besides reclaim? The reason I ask is because I did a hexane/brine wash with some dark shatter and was only able to lighten it a few shades, so I am now wondering if I performed it incorrectly, or if this is something unique to decarb'd oil.

I had similarly unsuccessful results. During a meditation sesh a bird told me you may want to basify the brine to for better results.
 

midwestHIGHS

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I love the crackpipe probably more than the Ti nail set-up. But I've been saying that shit for years.
lol are you farckin serious! you smoke oil in glass stem with brillo pad? A fucking crack pipe better than grade 2 titanium, wow just wow. lol

You should start an academy for trolling cannabis concentrate forums, you seem to be much more qualified for something like that than teaching back alley co2 extraction.
 
Dubbed the crackpipe because it looks like a crackpipe. There's no brillo you newb. You just heat one end w a torch, then do a safety pin size dab from it shit for brains.
 
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