[pusbag]

I generally make shatter but have a request for some crumble and im sitting in a little excess shatter. Curious what techniques people have used to turn shatter into nice dry crumble. Please no troll comments like on facebook forums thanking you all in advance. Russ

[Old Gold]

Heat, agitation, and sometimes deeper vacuum to finish the job. Works for me.

[blastfrompast]

heat and high vac will definately cause wax if thats what your looking for...

Buddy used to make his by just leaving a folded up piece of shatter in parchment on top of his ballast once the ALL the butane was purged....leave it for a day.....come back to crumbly wax...

some people are wierd lol

[Gtir]

Originally Posted by blastfrompast

heat and high vac will definately cause wax if thats what your looking for...

Buddy used to make his by just leaving a folded up piece of shatter in parchment on top of his ballast once the ALL the butane was purged....leave it for a day.....come back to crumbly wax...

some people are wierd lol

I'm my limited experience, heat has never worked for me, I just pull a muffin and drop the temp while holding a vaccum then release the vaccum once the temp has dropped to room temp then I end up w a honeycomb wax.

[Old Gold]

Originally Posted by Gtir

I'm my limited experience, heat has never worked for me, I just pull a muffin and drop the temp while holding a vaccum then release the vaccum once the temp has dropped to room temp then I end up w a honeycomb wax.

Sometimes "heat" is still only 35°C in my case.
Enough to keep it slightly molten.

^That works for me too, but in my experiences, if done too early, I am left with a super thin "Honeycomby" brittle shatter muffin that is very hard for anyone to handle. I can always melt it down into shatter and/or finish it as I stated to crumble. Material dependency probably..

[Gtir]

How would increasing heat do anything but melt it? And how can you end up with bubbles that create the honeycomb w out leaving butane? I don't get it.

[Old Gold]

I have finished two slabs of the same batch of live resin within 2-3hrs of each other (roughly 100 hour purge I believe), and the only difference was that when I determined they were butane-free, I did some magika alkemy where I folded the slab over itself and let it melt through back to uniformity at 5°F higher than I purged it as "shatter". I did this over and over for 30 min until waxes not only nucleated, but became cancerous. Then pulled a vacuum to my desired level (not even down to -29.5" Hg) and wam blam over a couple hours I had some nice bright golden Honeycomb. The shatter slab was left clear as quartz.

[gumby420]

I folded the slab over itself and let it melt through back to uniformity at 5°F higher than I purged it as "shatter". I did this over and over for 30 min until waxes not only nucleated, but became cancerous. Then pulled a vacuum to my desired level (not even down to -29.5" Hg) and wam blam over a couple hours I had some nice bright golden Honeycomb. The shatter slab was left clear as quartz.[/quote]

what did you do over and over? folded the slab?

[Gtir]

I will try this folding technique. Still makes no sense to me...

[Old Gold]

Originally Posted by gumby420

what did you do over and over? folded the slab?

Folded it over, and let it melt back to a thin slab. Folded itnover, then let it melt out large and flat again. It's like whipping, just how I do it in the latest stages..