It feels good to finally be able to post after all of the hours of reading. I hope i can get some good feedback as the google searches and forum threads are often subjective to the conditions of the entire process.
I dont know where to start (wish i had taken more pictures throughout my extraction and purging ), but i chopped up some flowers that had been already dried and cured. I then dehydrated this material in the oven at 100 - 105 degrees for 4-5 hours long. Packed the tubes tight and extracted onto a hot water bath outside. Sprayed until the liquid was no-longer yellow and was clear. Once there was no more liquid butane, i brought inside and put in the oven where it purged at a temp of 115 degrees for 5-7 hours roughly. I let the heat do it's thing naturally and did not whip oil to pop butane bubbles nor did i use a heat gun.
After the ~7hr purge, i took it off heat and scraped onto parchment paper. It was not even at this point on the parchment paper so i put the parchment paper with the pools of oil onto a presto griddle and heated it to about 110 degrees and let the oil become more viscous so i could make an even spread of it by tilting the paper different ways until the oil was spread evenly throughout the paper.
I would have put it into my vac chamber at this point, but the oil for my pump had not arrived so i could not use the vacuum to purge it further.
Instead of vacuum purging at this point, i took it off the heat and set the paper into a clean pyrex dish and put a lid on it so that it was 4/5 covered (left a little opening so it could breathe).
It sat for 10 hours in a dark area in my garage. It was a stable and crisp shatter consistancy. not too sticky. I will try to get a couple pics that i do have up momentarily as this is my first post and need to look further into how to do it. I have a picture taken after the heat purge before it sat for 10 hours and then the final product after it sat for 10 hours.
There is no sizzle, its a beautiful crystal clear amber/dark yellowish color and tastes amazing.
I suppose here comes my question,
since i let it sit out for 10 hours like that (no heat, just at room/garage temp ), what is the best way to finalize this and vacuum it to purge the rest of the butane out. it is full of tiny little bubbles and i was hoping to get it to crystal clear although the taste and effect of it now are very pleasant.
Will i ruin anything by vac'ing it now? Should i heat it a little before i vac it? Should i do my first pull, as-is, with no heat, as a lot of these forum posts suggest to?
When i do my first pull, I should not pull it to full vacuum, correct?(To avoid implosion) Pull to -20 or so, release it (muffin should shrink), then heat to 110 and do another pull but at full vacuum?
The pump should be above the chamber to avoid the unwant Vb ed mixture of substances/oil/gasses , correct?
Sorry, I know this may start to be sounding like vac purging 101 but it is hard to find good accurate information on my particular situation as i do not want to ruin anything.
Any help and guidance will be very much appreciated and am so greatful for such an informative forum. I will upload the pics shortly, but because of you guys i was able to make this without any help, purely from reading. This is my first time reaching out, please help! Thank you!!!!!
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I dont know where to start (wish i had taken more pictures throughout my extraction and purging ), but i chopped up some flowers that had been already dried and cured. I then dehydrated this material in the oven at 100 - 105 degrees for 4-5 hours long. Packed the tubes tight and extracted onto a hot water bath outside. Sprayed until the liquid was no-longer yellow and was clear. Once there was no more liquid butane, i brought inside and put in the oven where it purged at a temp of 115 degrees for 5-7 hours roughly. I let the heat do it's thing naturally and did not whip oil to pop butane bubbles nor did i use a heat gun.
After the ~7hr purge, i took it off heat and scraped onto parchment paper. It was not even at this point on the parchment paper so i put the parchment paper with the pools of oil onto a presto griddle and heated it to about 110 degrees and let the oil become more viscous so i could make an even spread of it by tilting the paper different ways until the oil was spread evenly throughout the paper.
I would have put it into my vac chamber at this point, but the oil for my pump had not arrived so i could not use the vacuum to purge it further.
Instead of vacuum purging at this point, i took it off the heat and set the paper into a clean pyrex dish and put a lid on it so that it was 4/5 covered (left a little opening so it could breathe).
It sat for 10 hours in a dark area in my garage. It was a stable and crisp shatter consistancy. not too sticky. I will try to get a couple pics that i do have up momentarily as this is my first post and need to look further into how to do it. I have a picture taken after the heat purge before it sat for 10 hours and then the final product after it sat for 10 hours.
There is no sizzle, its a beautiful crystal clear amber/dark yellowish color and tastes amazing.
I suppose here comes my question,
since i let it sit out for 10 hours like that (no heat, just at room/garage temp ), what is the best way to finalize this and vacuum it to purge the rest of the butane out. it is full of tiny little bubbles and i was hoping to get it to crystal clear although the taste and effect of it now are very pleasant.
Will i ruin anything by vac'ing it now? Should i heat it a little before i vac it? Should i do my first pull, as-is, with no heat, as a lot of these forum posts suggest to?
When i do my first pull, I should not pull it to full vacuum, correct?(To avoid implosion) Pull to -20 or so, release it (muffin should shrink), then heat to 110 and do another pull but at full vacuum?
The pump should be above the chamber to avoid the unwant Vb ed mixture of substances/oil/gasses , correct?
Sorry, I know this may start to be sounding like vac purging 101 but it is hard to find good accurate information on my particular situation as i do not want to ruin anything.
Any help and guidance will be very much appreciated and am so greatful for such an informative forum. I will upload the pics shortly, but because of you guys i was able to make this without any help, purely from reading. This is my first time reaching out, please help! Thank you!!!!!
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