stemznseedz
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I did a lot of research and was really confident walking into this but boy was I wrong!
equipment list
BVV 1lb apollo with dewaxing column and ball valve
50# butane
6cfm single stage pump.
refrigerant scale
* I pulled a full vac on the system after the material column was loaded.
*i pulled a full vac on the recovery tank before attempting to move over 6lbs of butane.
So my first hurdle was moving over 6lbs of butane to my recovery tank. I put the recovery tank in dry ice and the butane in a 90-degree bath and it was a struggle to get 5lbs over. tons of shaking and a few hours and I got 5lbs (was shooting for 6 but it took so long i gave up).
next, I connected the recovery tank now with 5lbs of gas in it) using it's liquid valve to the top of the extractor. I was low on dry ice so the dewaxing column was like 1/3 the way full of dry ice and I poured in a quart of alcohol.
After an hour I gave up on trying to get all the butane to transfer so I opened the valve to the collection tank from the dewaxing column. 30 min later all the butane still wasn't out the recovery tank.
at this point I gave up and figured fuck it lets recover the butane call this run a lesson and figure it out. 2 hours later I still couldn't get all the butane over to the recovery tank from the 'collection' tank. By 2 hours in I bought 14lbs more dry ice and buried the recovery tank figuring it would help and added 1/2 gal of denatured alcohol. the extractor base was in the 90-degree water. psi was like 40 and stayed their rock solid for hours while the butane stayed actively bubbling but the level didn't seem to go down in the collection tank. another 2 hours and still the same thing so I closed all valves, removed the extractor from the hot water bath and went to bed. When I woke up like 4 hours later the extractor psi was near 0. I tried one more hot water bath on the extractor base and the recovery tank was still ice cold but I was still getting the same type of results. At this point, I gave up took off the hoses opened the valves and let the expensive ass butane go in the air just wanting this run over.
Why am I having such issues moving the butane? Did I cause a vapor lock and if so how do you resolve that? What about a nitrogen assist that's what I was recommended but I don't see people running those on tutorials and they do just fine, in fact, one guy recovered in real time in 7 min doing it how I did it.
I've got a 3 grand open blast tube until you guys point me into the right direction lol.
equipment list
BVV 1lb apollo with dewaxing column and ball valve
50# butane
6cfm single stage pump.
refrigerant scale
* I pulled a full vac on the system after the material column was loaded.
*i pulled a full vac on the recovery tank before attempting to move over 6lbs of butane.
So my first hurdle was moving over 6lbs of butane to my recovery tank. I put the recovery tank in dry ice and the butane in a 90-degree bath and it was a struggle to get 5lbs over. tons of shaking and a few hours and I got 5lbs (was shooting for 6 but it took so long i gave up).
next, I connected the recovery tank now with 5lbs of gas in it) using it's liquid valve to the top of the extractor. I was low on dry ice so the dewaxing column was like 1/3 the way full of dry ice and I poured in a quart of alcohol.
After an hour I gave up on trying to get all the butane to transfer so I opened the valve to the collection tank from the dewaxing column. 30 min later all the butane still wasn't out the recovery tank.
at this point I gave up and figured fuck it lets recover the butane call this run a lesson and figure it out. 2 hours later I still couldn't get all the butane over to the recovery tank from the 'collection' tank. By 2 hours in I bought 14lbs more dry ice and buried the recovery tank figuring it would help and added 1/2 gal of denatured alcohol. the extractor base was in the 90-degree water. psi was like 40 and stayed their rock solid for hours while the butane stayed actively bubbling but the level didn't seem to go down in the collection tank. another 2 hours and still the same thing so I closed all valves, removed the extractor from the hot water bath and went to bed. When I woke up like 4 hours later the extractor psi was near 0. I tried one more hot water bath on the extractor base and the recovery tank was still ice cold but I was still getting the same type of results. At this point, I gave up took off the hoses opened the valves and let the expensive ass butane go in the air just wanting this run over.
Why am I having such issues moving the butane? Did I cause a vapor lock and if so how do you resolve that? What about a nitrogen assist that's what I was recommended but I don't see people running those on tutorials and they do just fine, in fact, one guy recovered in real time in 7 min doing it how I did it.
I've got a 3 grand open blast tube until you guys point me into the right direction lol.
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