Lately, I’ve been wanting to go BIG... need to extract at least 200lbs of material per run.
Was thinking about buying a large commercial washing machine, filling it with Trim, hooking the water line up to an ethanol tank, and set her to heavy wash.
Any flaws in my plan?
Lately, I’ve been wanting to go BIG... need to extract at least 200lbs of material per run.
Was thinking about buying a large commercial washing machine, filling it with Trim, hooking the water line up to an ethanol tank, and set her to heavy wash.
Any flaws in my plan?
Lately, I’ve been wanting to go BIG... need to extract at least 200lbs of material per run.
Was thinking about buying a large commercial washing machine, filling it with Trim, hooking the water line up to an ethanol tank, and set her to heavy wash.
Any flaws in my plan?
Doesn't Delta Separations build exactly this with the appropriate parts? Bit pricey.
They do, but I haven't seen them with anything near big enough to do 200lbs of trim.
Gtir,
You have some very experienced heads in here (I am not one of them), listen to their direction. Your approach and mindset is worlds apart from theirs, you would do best to figure out why.
1) Completely disassemble, examine, and reassemble with only the basic plumbing and wiring necessary. Upgrade the plumbing pieces that don't pass a leach test. Replace or seal up any control switches, solenoids, temperature limit devices, etc. that may be possible ignition sources.
2) Screen the tub, or place the material in filter socks. If you screen the tub, the material should end up as a dry cake lining the inner circumference of the tub that you can scrape out in chunks. A large sheet of stainless steel mesh could be long set epoxied in place to cover most of the tubs holes, another ring of SS mesh epoxied in place at the bottom of the tub to cover those holes.
Because you're able to centrifugally remove the solvent the process should be extremely efficient. You could even spray rinse while it's spinning after the primary wash.
Run chilled ethanol, or if you've got crazy ass balls run a non-polar solvent.
Here's some pictures and description of how I modded a water distiller for flammable solvent use. J-B Weld is your friend.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=8035125&postcount=232
Going over a centrifugal juicer for flammable solvent use,
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=7868992&postcount=186
Thanks for the inquiry, on track with my imagining a washing machine extractor combined with a commercial solvent recycler.
Solvent recyclers,
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=8080205&postcount=16