All I get is crumble, I hate it. Can't get it to stick to my dabber lol. It's nice for putting into a dual coil little 510 threaded pen with a globe though for on the go. Keep the temps real low, scrape after the initial purge before any vac. Then throw that into the vac as a little paddy and it'll bubble up like that spray foam they use at construction sites.
Why exactly do you want crumble? I never understood why people request crumble, butter, or honeycomb. Enlighten me please.
I'd take shatter over any of that any day. Never been able to make shatter myself, always figured you needed a vac oven to avoid any kind of agitation from scraping.
Hey my man!
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Also while vac purging, check on the material constantly.
If it isn't reacting (just kind of stuck in a muffin, or no more bubbles are popping) do something else. For example flatten the patty out more, flip the patty, devac slightly so the material can warm up
(w/o an oven the heat comes from the bottom so the bottom gets warmer than the top which can lead to buddering.) ...
yup this. i'd look into a silicon heating pad for the vac chamber. what i use to do is use one of these (http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3183478&KPID=4977844&pla=pla_4977844) and periodically warm the surface of the "patty" while in the vac chamber so that it stayed viscous and allowed for bubbles to purge out. flattening it out and flipping it around helps as well.
LOL a couple friends are making a mess with this shit. Shit stuck all over how the hell do you get it from the pyrex to the silicone mat? They need some tools I guess. He bought a bad ass 90gram tube which the on says its a real good one that is dual stage or some crap and dewaxes it. Need some basics been sifting through the thread. He also has the vacuum two stage pump and the chamber. The one is wanting to do shatter. I told them until you figure how to get it all to harden and stay a shatter and not melt your wasting the crap. I think they need to start with a small batch 1/2 oz or so. They one guy I seen blast a tube hit it quick and it come out looking kind of bubbly and gooy like shatter they did it so slow they had a ton of butane to purge off. Any help I can relay to them. I already read a ton of things to tell them. Mty first tab was a terible experience and I should have known better . The one guy talks big shit like he knew how to do it but after hacking my brains out and not getting not taste and a horrible flavor. We tryed a new batch of some Tahoe OG shake and I think he took it right to the vacuum and it dip start to pancake but them he didnt know what to do. so opened it and it turned funky gooey . So we re vacuumed and watched it bubble til it stopped was dark so he took it in and froze it. it got hard but today it is stuck to parchment paper. He took a hit and I could smell it was a zillion times better than the crap he killed me with. So I took a pull and it was super tasty but dark and stuck to everything what a mess.
At this point I quickly move the pyrex near my silicone mat and use a 6in paint scraper to scoop most of it up and spread it out thin on the silicone mat.
In the 6 years that I have been making BHO, I never thought to use a paint scraper!!!. Thanks man!! now my thumbnail will stay a lot cleaner, compared to using a single edge razor to do the whole thing.
How did you collect it ,if you didn't blast it?Here is a mix I purged. I didn't blast this as you can tell it's a lot darker than what I deem acceptable. It is hard as a rock and tastes great though!
Thank's for the advise I will pass it on. I hear when you get it correct it will be hard and brittle if dropped will shatter LOL. But they say when heated you can mold it or bend it then it should go back to being brittle.
No, once you heat it enough it will not go back to being brittle. Decarboxylation is not reversible in this case.