MrAwder
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So I've been running BHO for about a year now. I still prefer smoking bud so I only run a little bit every few months. I was bored this weekend and had a few hours to try and run a little more than usual. I had 2 x 100g bags of sugar trim, one old mixed, one from a recent Deep Strawberry Diesel harvest. Process is as follows:
- 50g trim into glass tube (x2)
- 2 unbleached coffee filters
- run 1.5 cans of power 5x per tube
- blowing directly onto PFTE sheet which is secured to a pyrex dish
- pyrex dish with sheet still attached place in water bath for ~15 min
- PFTE sheet removed, wiped dry and placed into 1 gal vac chamber
- continuous vac @ 90F for 1 hour
So for one "run" I would blow 2 tubes, 100 grams material using 3 cans of tane. In both cases I got the usual consistency/end product which is somewhere between shatter and pull-n-snap depending on room temp. My preferred form for getting on the dabber.
The problem is, each bag (100 grams) of trim yielded roughly 5 grams of oil. 4 easily collected grams each and probably about a gram which I am still collecting from the sheet (small pieces and "dust" crumbles from folding the sheet). So the math is pretty easy... 5% yield. I know on nug runs people are hitting 15% yield, maybe more. The logical explanation is my starting material I suppose. The only problem with that is that there still appear to be some trichs on the material after this is all done. Should I be running more tane through 50 grams of material?
Another thing I noticed since I switched to a larger glass tube: it takes like half a can of tane just to work from one end of the tube to the other. Sometimes it seems like more. Is this normal? I am I maybe packing too tightly? The tube I am using is advertised for 40-60grams materials so I am right in that ballpark. Just feels like the tane is sitting in there and maybe I'm not getting it all out of the tube. One last concern is that it was about 20-30 degrees outside when I ran. Could that effect how the butane moves through the tube? In general I know colder is better (freeze material and freeze the butane for better extraction). It just seemed like the butane was running into the tube and just kind of sitting, slowly working its way to the bottom.
Just looking for some general input on my process and what I might do to bump my yield up a few %.
Some pics of my setup (old stainless steel tube pictured) and oil from an old run. It's darker since I used to run my temps around 115f and my hotplate controls sucked.
- 50g trim into glass tube (x2)
- 2 unbleached coffee filters
- run 1.5 cans of power 5x per tube
- blowing directly onto PFTE sheet which is secured to a pyrex dish
- pyrex dish with sheet still attached place in water bath for ~15 min
- PFTE sheet removed, wiped dry and placed into 1 gal vac chamber
- continuous vac @ 90F for 1 hour
So for one "run" I would blow 2 tubes, 100 grams material using 3 cans of tane. In both cases I got the usual consistency/end product which is somewhere between shatter and pull-n-snap depending on room temp. My preferred form for getting on the dabber.
The problem is, each bag (100 grams) of trim yielded roughly 5 grams of oil. 4 easily collected grams each and probably about a gram which I am still collecting from the sheet (small pieces and "dust" crumbles from folding the sheet). So the math is pretty easy... 5% yield. I know on nug runs people are hitting 15% yield, maybe more. The logical explanation is my starting material I suppose. The only problem with that is that there still appear to be some trichs on the material after this is all done. Should I be running more tane through 50 grams of material?
Another thing I noticed since I switched to a larger glass tube: it takes like half a can of tane just to work from one end of the tube to the other. Sometimes it seems like more. Is this normal? I am I maybe packing too tightly? The tube I am using is advertised for 40-60grams materials so I am right in that ballpark. Just feels like the tane is sitting in there and maybe I'm not getting it all out of the tube. One last concern is that it was about 20-30 degrees outside when I ran. Could that effect how the butane moves through the tube? In general I know colder is better (freeze material and freeze the butane for better extraction). It just seemed like the butane was running into the tube and just kind of sitting, slowly working its way to the bottom.
Just looking for some general input on my process and what I might do to bump my yield up a few %.
Some pics of my setup (old stainless steel tube pictured) and oil from an old run. It's darker since I used to run my temps around 115f and my hotplate controls sucked.