HG23
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Great post, thanks for that info GW. I will have to see what adapters I need in order to setup a nitrogen bleed system on my AI, I don't see a kit or anything on their website. Do you have any suggestions?
Was there ever any update on that boiling point chart for cannabinoids? I remember it was under dispute.
I am also interested in Skunk Pharm's cotton candy technique as it relates to purging. I have see Xtracted Labs in WA post pictures of their prepurge (cotton candy) and say it tests in the area of 40PPM before entering the vacuum oven. That, in combination with your above techniques should significantly shorten necessary time in the vac oven compared to what I'm doing now which is 2-3 flips a day and pulling as much of a vacuum as I can right from the get go. Has Skunk Pharm done any testing in this area?
It has never really made much sense to me to let the oil sit very long on the heat once it's quinescent under vacuum. I always see people extoling the length of their purge time and have started to wonder how much time we are wasting with 48-100 hour purges.
Another thing that has been on my mind is solvent distribution throughout a slab. Watching the bubbling in my oven, the distribution is clearly uneven and probably relates to thickness as well as other factors. Since only a gram or so of oil is tested for residual solvent, it's still kind of ambiguous because the batch or slab could have been huge. Unscrupulous individuals might simply break off a gram from a thin edge of a thick slab or simply spread a small portion out extra thin to send for testing.
Was there ever any update on that boiling point chart for cannabinoids? I remember it was under dispute.
I am also interested in Skunk Pharm's cotton candy technique as it relates to purging. I have see Xtracted Labs in WA post pictures of their prepurge (cotton candy) and say it tests in the area of 40PPM before entering the vacuum oven. That, in combination with your above techniques should significantly shorten necessary time in the vac oven compared to what I'm doing now which is 2-3 flips a day and pulling as much of a vacuum as I can right from the get go. Has Skunk Pharm done any testing in this area?
It has never really made much sense to me to let the oil sit very long on the heat once it's quinescent under vacuum. I always see people extoling the length of their purge time and have started to wonder how much time we are wasting with 48-100 hour purges.
Another thing that has been on my mind is solvent distribution throughout a slab. Watching the bubbling in my oven, the distribution is clearly uneven and probably relates to thickness as well as other factors. Since only a gram or so of oil is tested for residual solvent, it's still kind of ambiguous because the batch or slab could have been huge. Unscrupulous individuals might simply break off a gram from a thin edge of a thick slab or simply spread a small portion out extra thin to send for testing.