[miltiano32]

I've seen lots of people claiming to be consultants of this process to make The Clear or more specifically Thc distillate and let me tell you that it's a pretty penny to have a person walking you through. I heard of one business place charging $4000 for a 1 day class!

[corky1968]

Originally Posted by miltiano32

I've seen lots of people claiming to be consultants of this process to make The Clear or more specifically Thc distillate and let me tell you that it's a pretty penny to have a person walking you through. I heard of one business place charging $4000 for a 1 day class!

Real science was never a low budget thing and never will be. You need to learn the chemical and physical properties
of everything involved if you plan on doing it right. There's some serious Chemistry and Laboratory work involved if
anyone plans on getting pharmaceutical grade products from naturals source materials.

Good Luck.

[Digital Man]

Originally Posted by corky1968

Real science was never a low budget thing and never will be. You need to learn the chemical and physical properties
of everything involved if you plan on doing it right. There's some serious Chemistry and Laboratory work involved if
anyone plans on getting pharmaceutical grade products from naturals source materials.

Good Luck.

Real science? Bro science more like it.

[Gtir]

Can you make clear w pho made from bbq propane or will the smell not be removed?

[mobin]

Originally Posted by Gtir

Can you make clear w pho made from bbq propane or will the smell not be removed?

run the propane through a alu-silica gel molecular sieve and you can remove the ethyl mercaptan.

[Gray Wolf]

Originally Posted by Gtir

Can you make clear w pho made from bbq propane or will the smell not be removed?

We were able to reduce it significantly in the propane using VICI Metronics molecular sieve gas filters, but not reliably enough to base a process on. Human sensory threshold is in the low parts per billionth.

I haven't tried to remove it with short path distillation, but it looks like it boils at 35C, which is low enough that I sent an email to Pharmer Joe for his thoughts.

[Gtir]

Originally Posted by mobin

run the propane through a alu-silica gel molecular sieve and you can remove the ethyl mercaptan.

I'll try that... It will really get ALL the smell out?

[SkyHighLer]

I've tried it with just powdered activated carbon packed in an extractor tube (a turkey baster) as a test, it worked, but I don't know how little filter medium you can get away with or how long a filter will last. If you'd like to try it, the turkey bastor sucked, I had back up pressure problems resulting in a huge, messy (but beautiful,) black carbon dust plume! You need valves and filters on either end of the stack, and some packing - waded up coffee filters, etc. Grab some copper pipe and ball valves from the hardware store along with a propane tank, and some powdered activated carbon/charcoal from eBay/Amazon etc., and you tell us!?!!

You don't need this quality of course if it works...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Pure-Foo...UAAOSwxp9W37j2

And if you squirt to something like a Mason jar, the liquid butane will collect and just sit there once the jar temp drops, so you have plenty of time to compare a jar with some directly out of the tank compared to some you've filtered. Of course, take it outside, don't seal propane up in glass jars, and don't even entertain the idea of putting the jars of propane in the fridge or freezer to keep them from boiling off!

Btw, for my test I used a butane fuel cartridge, slightly different nozzle from the lighter refill cans, and all the brands contain mercaptan, like this,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/BUTANE-FUEL-...sZmt-ExvIEeA9Q

Furthermore, if you use powdered activated carbon/charcoal it also removes the mystery oil...

[Brot]

Originally Posted by A6 Grower

https://analytical360.com/m/concentrates/527820

Ive been making awesome distillates, i only put grease on my cow and receiving flasks. No grease or anything on the boiling flask and spd head. Ive been using a robinair 3cfm vac pump and usually pull down to ~1000 microns once reaction starts happening. The pump will pull down to 500 before reaction starts taking place. No vac regulator, just a digital cps vac gauge. Just let the pump pull full speed the whole time. Ihave an RV8 about to be rebuilt. We'll see how much better that will be. Personally i dont thin the edwards 30 is nessecary. Also this is all done using the hot and fast method. My main fraction is usually in the 225 range, and usually takes me about 45 minutes to yield 400ml of distillate.

Hey A6 Grower, this is "Brotha" from the Zon. Have a question or two. Going to PM you.

[mobin]

About starting material.

Is it recommended to begin with a dewaxed/winterized crude when running a short path setup?

i assume waxes become vapor, where do candles go? From what i've read the vp is pretty high, x>370*c

so am i correct in believing that the waxes will remain in the boiling flask or will they clog my condenser...or will i see it in the rx flasks?

got a pid controller/relay setup with a k themo probe i gotta get setup in the boiling flask to keep an eye on crude temps, std merc therm in the head to monitor vapor temps



croc pot has a nice 50*c bath to keep the condenser flowin
dry ice for the receiver/cold trap is just around the corner
vac pump has been close to breakin 100mtorr on the fractdist glass in recent tests


my boiling flask is a 500ml, i was going to try 3-5g of crude with some broken glass chips to see if i can at least get a little taste out of the receiving end, should i see if i can get my ptfe pill to spin it for me? I've read of how much fun stirr bars can be in thc dist.
im gonna dismantle my pierce reactotherm heater/stirrer to see if the stirring setup is better than a pc fan with magnets. Should i save my efforts and just run with a few chips or stirrer?

hopefully i can someday acquire/fab a decent rotary union and make something that works a bit better.

got some bho sitting in the freezer ready for dewax and about 10g of "left overs" from previous runs that i wanna improve upon today...gotta get some samples to skyhighler

thanks in advance gents.