DankTankUSA
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Before anything else I want to say that this idea is based largely on what I have learned from Gray Wolf and Jump in their posts on this and other forums as well as Gray Wolf's Skunk Pharm Research website (which is pretty much THE place for extraction info...)
I didn't see anyone else mention this but if someone else already has a thread on this then just delete this... otherwise....
OK I AM HIGH SO SKIP TILL IT SAYS "TEK" IF U WANT LOL
I have personally had difficulty maintaining consistency in my BHO extractions due in large part to purging techniques. I never end up with under-purged oils but I sometimes end up over-purging and losing terps and ending up with an oil that is darker than I prefer (though not black, just dark amber). I have noticed other people having this problem too on this forum as well as in the med community around me so I read basically everything I could find by Gray Wolf and Jump and this is what I came up with as an idea to simply everything and always end up with beautiful, purged oil...
TEK
Step 1: Blast your butane through your weed filled column/baster into pyrex dish sitting in 160-170 degree F water.
Step 2: After the butane evaporates take the pyrex dish out of the water and dissolve the unpurged BHO in 99% isopropyl alcohol.
Step 3: Decant IPA/BHO mixture into a container and put it in the freezer for 24-48 hours. The waxes that are extracted by butane will precipitate to the bottom of the container in the cold IPA. Usually BHO is winterized after being fully purged but I don't see why it can't be done this way instead.
Step 4: Decant cold IPA/BHO mixture through a funnel with a coffee filter into a pyrex dish sitting in hot (but not boiling) water or above a boiling pot (steam bath).
Step 5: Boil off the IPA. It boils lower than water so a hot water or steam bath will cause the IPA to boil and it will take with it all of the remaining butane because butane's boiling point is so much lower. All butane will be purged before the IPA is finished boiling off.
Step 6. Remove pyrex dish from hot water / steam bath and allow it to cool to the point where you like to collect your oil. I like to let mine get pretty hard and I scrape with a blade but I know other prefer more liquid oils.
I am gonna try this today (lol it is almost 5AM and I am just waiting to go get some tane) and take pics. The material I am using is NOT prime. It is trim and popcorn nugs that I already blasted once and got some beautiful amber oil using a standard purging method and then winterizing. So I will not be surprised if the resulting oil today is darker than today's oil (I will upload a pic of that later too). This is an experiment to see whether purging and winterizing BHO can be combined into a single step. I will judge whether it is successful if the resulting oil has no butane odor/taste/bubbles and by the look of the coffee filter after the winterizing step. If the oil appears and tastes devoid of tane and the coffee filter is caked with waxes like usual after winterizing I will consider it a success and repeat the experiment with prime starting material.
Anyone see any reason why this won't work out?
Pics to come...
I didn't see anyone else mention this but if someone else already has a thread on this then just delete this... otherwise....
OK I AM HIGH SO SKIP TILL IT SAYS "TEK" IF U WANT LOL
I have personally had difficulty maintaining consistency in my BHO extractions due in large part to purging techniques. I never end up with under-purged oils but I sometimes end up over-purging and losing terps and ending up with an oil that is darker than I prefer (though not black, just dark amber). I have noticed other people having this problem too on this forum as well as in the med community around me so I read basically everything I could find by Gray Wolf and Jump and this is what I came up with as an idea to simply everything and always end up with beautiful, purged oil...
TEK
Step 1: Blast your butane through your weed filled column/baster into pyrex dish sitting in 160-170 degree F water.
Step 2: After the butane evaporates take the pyrex dish out of the water and dissolve the unpurged BHO in 99% isopropyl alcohol.
Step 3: Decant IPA/BHO mixture into a container and put it in the freezer for 24-48 hours. The waxes that are extracted by butane will precipitate to the bottom of the container in the cold IPA. Usually BHO is winterized after being fully purged but I don't see why it can't be done this way instead.
Step 4: Decant cold IPA/BHO mixture through a funnel with a coffee filter into a pyrex dish sitting in hot (but not boiling) water or above a boiling pot (steam bath).
Step 5: Boil off the IPA. It boils lower than water so a hot water or steam bath will cause the IPA to boil and it will take with it all of the remaining butane because butane's boiling point is so much lower. All butane will be purged before the IPA is finished boiling off.
Step 6. Remove pyrex dish from hot water / steam bath and allow it to cool to the point where you like to collect your oil. I like to let mine get pretty hard and I scrape with a blade but I know other prefer more liquid oils.
I am gonna try this today (lol it is almost 5AM and I am just waiting to go get some tane) and take pics. The material I am using is NOT prime. It is trim and popcorn nugs that I already blasted once and got some beautiful amber oil using a standard purging method and then winterizing. So I will not be surprised if the resulting oil today is darker than today's oil (I will upload a pic of that later too). This is an experiment to see whether purging and winterizing BHO can be combined into a single step. I will judge whether it is successful if the resulting oil has no butane odor/taste/bubbles and by the look of the coffee filter after the winterizing step. If the oil appears and tastes devoid of tane and the coffee filter is caked with waxes like usual after winterizing I will consider it a success and repeat the experiment with prime starting material.
Anyone see any reason why this won't work out?
Pics to come...