My BHO Method

[adablldoya]

Howdy y'all, this is my very first actual post on this site, and I hope that i can get as much useful information directly from the community as I have in the last few months lurking around the site reading threads that sparked my interest. Well, here's my method:

1) I fill my glass extraction tube (1ft long, 1 inch diameter) with a quad of some decent sugar trim (from indica dominant plants) as tightly as I can, packing with all my might with a broom handle.

2) Then I take a 300 ml can of power 5X, and spray one can through my tube into a 8 oz mason jar. Then I take about a half of a cup of 99% iso alcohol and pour it into the butane in the mason jar.

3) I then take the butane/iso mixture and pour into a 8x11 pyrex dish which is floating in a hot water bath at 110-115 degrees till all of the liquid is evaporated, then I let it sit for a half hour at 105, hoping to get rid of any residual alcohol in my wax. Then I scrape, and store in my nogoo containers.

My problem is, when i put my first run in a container, it is always really runny, and my second run is shatter, everytime. Then, a day or two later, Ill open the containers, and its starting to dry up and get buddery. The first run will turn into a clumpy runny mess, and my second turns into a thick, soft chocolate-like substance. Although they both smoke like a dream, I feel like with a little advice I could improve my method a hundred fold.

Feel free to call me an idiot, tell me Ive done everything wrong, I promise I wont take offense. Just be sure to let me know why Im an idiot, and how I can adjust my process to improve the quality of my product. I just want to make the cleanest, tastiest product possible!

 

[CarefulGrower]

Skip the ISO, butane only. Spray directly into your pyrex, skip your mason jar. ISO / Everclear is good if you're freezing to winterize, otherwise you just make the boiling temps higher for your solvent.

Fill tube per norm. Spray your can directly into a pyrex floating on 110-115 water. When bubbles the size of a quarter stop forming, scrape and vacuum purge till no reaction. Oven @ 115f for 20 minutes, then vacuum purge till no reaction.

If you don't have a vacuum purge, keep it on 110-115f water until there is no visible reaction. You can use a torch (do not hit it with flame. the heat after the flame you want) or heat gun to quickly pass over the top, popping stubborn bubbles. Without vacuum 7grams of oil can take hours to purge with low heat alone. Be careful 'razing' your bubbles with a torch/heat gun, too much heat (too close, or too long) you'll slowly cook away taste.

 

[adablldoya]

The only reason that I use iso alcohol at all is to purge my BHO, because I find that heat purged BHO always seems to have a strong butane taste, which exacerbates my asthma. How long do you typically heat purge it for? Is it possible to completely heat purge BHO?

 

[SpaceshipNelson]

The only reason that I use iso alcohol at all is to purge my BHO, because I find that heat purged BHO always seems to have a strong butane taste, which exacerbates my asthma. How long do you typically heat purge it for? Is it possible to completely heat purge BHO?

You need a thinner layer to increase your purge, if you are not winterizing, I agree that you should cut out the ISO and just hot water bath, but in the biggest casserole dish you can...


Edit: "winterization" will REALLY help your asthma...

 

[Gray Wolf]

The only reason that I use iso alcohol at all is to purge my BHO, because I find that heat purged BHO always seems to have a strong butane taste, which exacerbates my asthma. How long do you typically heat purge it for? Is it possible to completely heat purge BHO?

The alcohol is harder to get rid of than the butane, so if it is simple butane purging that you seek, while retaining aroma and taste, may I suggest purging in a thin film under vacuum?

We pack firmly, but certainly not as hard as we can. I just press my weight on it until it stops moving and call it good.

 

[adablldoya]

I would definitely use a vacuum if I had one, but me being a poor college student racking up debt every semester I shouldn't be spending too much on equipment lol. But is it possible to get out a significant amount of butane through strictly heat purging? I have kept my oil on my pyrex dish for 12+ hrs at 110-115 (checking hourly with my infrared thermometer) and when I scrape it off and take a dab I can instantly taste that awful butane taste.

 

[BredForMeds]

without a vacuum your going to want to get your temps a lil higher.. atleast that's wat I do.
130-140 is wat im reading and doing without a vacuum.. with a vac u can do at 110-115.

 

[adablldoya]

Ok now this is the information Im looking for. So at 130-140 for a good couple of hours you think i could get my wax to retain most of its aroma and flavor, but without that god-awful butane taste?

 

[CarefulGrower]

No vacuum, raze it with heat from above. You can do it from bottom alone, both both is quicker. Do it right, you'll remove enough to get rid of the nasty taste. Too hot though and you'll cook out the taste.

 

[-Boris]

Try blasting into a large pyrex dish and evaporate the liquid butane. Bring it inside and leave it on a griddle at a temp below 150f and partially covered with aluminum foil. Leave the foil open enough to let it breathe but not to let much dust in. Leave it on heat without disturbing it until all bubbles are gone and it has a tacky but not sticky consistency that you can touch while still on heat. Scrape or chip it off the pan and its done. You'll should be left with an alright product free of butane, but it won't be a contender to the flavor of properly purged bho.

 

[Gray Wolf]

No vacuum, raze it with heat from above. You can do it from bottom alone, both both is quicker. Do it right, you'll remove enough to get rid of the nasty taste. Too hot though and you'll cook out the taste.

What CG said. In a thin film from both directions.

Harder to hold on to the montoterpenes with more heat or more time. They are below their boiling points, but have high vapor pressure.

 

[adablldoya]

Wow thanks guys, you've given me a few pieces of priceless knowledge here. The foil is the solution to my dusty bho, and now i have heat and time parameters to toy around with.