Sailor bugg
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Hello all! I'm new here and this is my first post!
Now a little about myself and my knowledge of stuff. I have 3 years of organic and 2 years of non-organic chemistry as well as 2 years of engineering post secondary so all the chemical processes are easy for me to understand (polar solvents/non-polar solvents etc.) and building contraptions is fairly easy for me. I used to smoke my fair share a long while ago but quit and after finding an oz of stuff in a drawer a month ago in my room and decided to make bho out of it as kind of a fun experiment. So I ended up with shatter as what the extract was. This was decarboxylated and then isomerizered to yield about 3 grams of very pure THC ( aside from plant waxes/lipids/chlorophyll etc ). This was then turned into THC-O-Acetate with another chemical process which yielded a very, very potent substance that was quite psychedelic. I didn't like that stuff at all and gave it to one of my ex gf's friends to see if he could do something with it.
So anyways after a long long time of searching, reading techs, learning about THC and all the chemicals and apparatus' I'd be needing to use I think I have a good tech down for making shatter.
This is what I have:
1) I'll be starting with a 1/4 lb of starting material as this is the most economical for me. This will be put in a standard oven, heated to 135F on a cookie sheet in the middle of the oven. It will be left in there for at least 2.5 hours and no more than 3 hours, flipping every half hour. So the idea of this is to dehydrate the product and decarboxylate it as that starts at 122F (THC-A > THC) higher temps will cause the CBx's to vap and THC to degrade so 135F seems like the sweet spot. Also this will help keep the shatter more lightly coloured.
2) Cut the product up loosely with scissors and tightly pack a stainless steel or glass tube that a butane can nozzle can be injected into. The other side is covered with cheese cloth clamped on tight.
3) Use Colibri brand butane and before using it chill it in the freezer for at least an hour and a half to lower the butane below its liquidation point ( -0.5 C ). For every OZ of material run 12oz (2 cans) of butane through the tube. Now this is where things can get changed up I designed a butane reclaim system so that no butane goes out into the environment and you can keep your butane and reuse it! But that's not here or there. For all intents and purposes, let the tube drain into a pyrex beaker that has a layer of 200 proof lab grade ethyl ethanol in it, about an inch and a half deep. This will help evap. the butane (sorta).
4) Once all the plant material has been run with butane (make sure it comes out clear! ) and collected in the pyrex beaker, add about 150ml of 200 proof ethyl ethanol to it.
5) Put the beaker in a freezer and leave for 48 hours, this process is called winterization. It will get the lipids, terpenes, waxes to coagulate out of the solution.
6) After 48 hours decant the pyrex beaker into another pyrex beaker with 4x unbleached coffee filters strapped to it. This will filter out the gunk you do not want.
7) Take the pyrex beaker and cover it and take it out on a sunny day that is around 20C out and leave it out in the sun for about 3 hours. This will help break down the chlorophyll in it by use of UV radiation. Thus resulting in a lighter material in the end. Don't leave it out over 4 hours as this is when THC will start breaking down!
8) Now set up a water bath in a metal dish/pan. Take an electric hot plate that can be temp dialled and heat the water bath up to 120F and float a pyrex baking dish in it with a layer of about a centimetre to a centimetre and a half of ethanol/butane/cannibinoid mixture in it. Let it evaporate, don't whip it or muck with it or anything or you might end up with butter or something (ew!). And then scrape it up with a razor.
9) Repeat set 8 until no ethanol/butane/cannibinoid mixture is left.
10) A 1/4 lb of good starting material should yield between 20 - 28 g's of shatter, but it can vary to certain degrees.
So that's my tek I thought up of, any input would be appreciated. I know I should vacuum purge but I can't afford one right now because I just bought a puppy ( Which I'd way rather have lol ) but I think the winterization will circumvent that step. So what do you think guys and gals?
Now a little about myself and my knowledge of stuff. I have 3 years of organic and 2 years of non-organic chemistry as well as 2 years of engineering post secondary so all the chemical processes are easy for me to understand (polar solvents/non-polar solvents etc.) and building contraptions is fairly easy for me. I used to smoke my fair share a long while ago but quit and after finding an oz of stuff in a drawer a month ago in my room and decided to make bho out of it as kind of a fun experiment. So I ended up with shatter as what the extract was. This was decarboxylated and then isomerizered to yield about 3 grams of very pure THC ( aside from plant waxes/lipids/chlorophyll etc ). This was then turned into THC-O-Acetate with another chemical process which yielded a very, very potent substance that was quite psychedelic. I didn't like that stuff at all and gave it to one of my ex gf's friends to see if he could do something with it.
So anyways after a long long time of searching, reading techs, learning about THC and all the chemicals and apparatus' I'd be needing to use I think I have a good tech down for making shatter.
This is what I have:
1) I'll be starting with a 1/4 lb of starting material as this is the most economical for me. This will be put in a standard oven, heated to 135F on a cookie sheet in the middle of the oven. It will be left in there for at least 2.5 hours and no more than 3 hours, flipping every half hour. So the idea of this is to dehydrate the product and decarboxylate it as that starts at 122F (THC-A > THC) higher temps will cause the CBx's to vap and THC to degrade so 135F seems like the sweet spot. Also this will help keep the shatter more lightly coloured.
2) Cut the product up loosely with scissors and tightly pack a stainless steel or glass tube that a butane can nozzle can be injected into. The other side is covered with cheese cloth clamped on tight.
3) Use Colibri brand butane and before using it chill it in the freezer for at least an hour and a half to lower the butane below its liquidation point ( -0.5 C ). For every OZ of material run 12oz (2 cans) of butane through the tube. Now this is where things can get changed up I designed a butane reclaim system so that no butane goes out into the environment and you can keep your butane and reuse it! But that's not here or there. For all intents and purposes, let the tube drain into a pyrex beaker that has a layer of 200 proof lab grade ethyl ethanol in it, about an inch and a half deep. This will help evap. the butane (sorta).
4) Once all the plant material has been run with butane (make sure it comes out clear! ) and collected in the pyrex beaker, add about 150ml of 200 proof ethyl ethanol to it.
5) Put the beaker in a freezer and leave for 48 hours, this process is called winterization. It will get the lipids, terpenes, waxes to coagulate out of the solution.
6) After 48 hours decant the pyrex beaker into another pyrex beaker with 4x unbleached coffee filters strapped to it. This will filter out the gunk you do not want.
7) Take the pyrex beaker and cover it and take it out on a sunny day that is around 20C out and leave it out in the sun for about 3 hours. This will help break down the chlorophyll in it by use of UV radiation. Thus resulting in a lighter material in the end. Don't leave it out over 4 hours as this is when THC will start breaking down!
8) Now set up a water bath in a metal dish/pan. Take an electric hot plate that can be temp dialled and heat the water bath up to 120F and float a pyrex baking dish in it with a layer of about a centimetre to a centimetre and a half of ethanol/butane/cannibinoid mixture in it. Let it evaporate, don't whip it or muck with it or anything or you might end up with butter or something (ew!). And then scrape it up with a razor.
9) Repeat set 8 until no ethanol/butane/cannibinoid mixture is left.
10) A 1/4 lb of good starting material should yield between 20 - 28 g's of shatter, but it can vary to certain degrees.
So that's my tek I thought up of, any input would be appreciated. I know I should vacuum purge but I can't afford one right now because I just bought a puppy ( Which I'd way rather have lol ) but I think the winterization will circumvent that step. So what do you think guys and gals?
