5 lbs of NUGS/CO2 EXTRACTION
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oakley1984
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you like to claim such high quality from your extracts yet... you cant even keep your work area clean?
oilmkr420
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They were done in small batches, because of welds needing to be done. Dude who brought the weed was happy at the progression, appearance, and the taste was also noted. I still have virgin weed I have to extract from. I had stepped on the bag as an effort to prevent smokers from wanting to blaze this shit. It smelled and looked good, but dry and unpleasurable to smoke, but fieners not give a shit about dry vs having none. I felt targeted and sleep w this bag w 1 eye open and been lucky so far.
oilmkr420
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Nah dog, taking it to 10,000 psi is stepping on it. An acceptable way though as its adding waxy bulk to the yields. I stepped on it to increase the surface area too. It gets ground or chopped up a bit prior to extracting and before decarboxylating the plant matter. Man I tell you while doing this process w co2 smells so floral for distance. On a 3/4 acre of property and I could hear neighbors talking what is that smell…so I took it to a condo and the neighbors were really talking and looking puzzled. When I would open up the garage door to blast co2. It was rather blatently pushing the lines of legallities openly, a la brava. They didn't know wtf I was doing, but they knew that smell somewhere!
oakley1984
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surface area has nothing to do with anything at 10,000 psi and the fact you say that it does is.... well lets face it isnt that astonishing.
highfirejones
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I notice much hate flyin your way but you are doing it and I am entertained and laughing at the blatent alabrava, cool man! and shit I'd love some of that oil I don't know why these pictureless haters can't step back and look at the obvious jelousy they spew and shut up, " eeeww you cant keep it clean, eeewww ur gonna blow yourself up(cig not even lit), just keep em commin, I for one am enjoying, I never heard of this co2 extraction
or he doesnt have the 7.99 to buy a nice stiff paint scraper
Figong
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Wasn't hate, as much as it's not something remotely close to being acceptable anywhere near a cleanroom environment for the highest quality possible (assuming there are standards being enforced, to be fair) Since you said you've never heard of co2 extraction, I do highly recommend you read quite a bit on it.
bowlfullofbliss
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I can't decide if this guy is the biggest troll ever to step foot in this site or a mad scientist.
Either way, dude has zero people skillz..........
honestly oilmkr, i've yet to see a picture of something that I would smoke. It all looks like weird runny goo. I just don't understand what you're doing with all of this.
And, how could you possible use $400 worth of co2? I get 50lb tanks for $22.50 at the local gas supply warehouse. That is what you are calling solvent, no?
Either way, dude has zero people skillz..........
honestly oilmkr, i've yet to see a picture of something that I would smoke. It all looks like weird runny goo. I just don't understand what you're doing with all of this.
And, how could you possible use $400 worth of co2? I get 50lb tanks for $22.50 at the local gas supply warehouse. That is what you are calling solvent, no?
oilmkr420
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Digging that deep comes at the price of potency. All the money is at a subcritical liquid around 50-80 bar and below 20C. So 10,000 psi is a rather harsh condition for these delicate and fragile molecules. My extract was a crystalline and blasted out my vessel a crystalline. That was low pressure less than 20 bar. The other is a sample from Eden Labs at near 10,000psi. The product is bitter kola, and I did what Eden said couldn't be done. So I pulled all crystalline batches using only co2 and tap water! I then switched to distilled water and deionized water is the best choice.[Q
UOTE=oakley1984;8832364]surface area has nothing to do with anything at 10,000 psi and the fact you say that it does is.... well lets face it isnt that astonishing.[/
UOTE=oakley1984;8832364]surface area has nothing to do with anything at 10,000 psi and the fact you say that it does is.... well lets face it isnt that astonishing.[/
heckler73
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I think I see the confusion... People are presuming you are mucking about with butane...
But I believe I understand what you are doing here:
http://www.supercritical-solutions.com/en/supercritical-co2
HOWEVER, I suspect you are not telling us about ALL of the other equipment you need for this operation.
You're playing with the powers of thermodynamics... Is there not some cooling apparatus required to pump the liquid CO2 into the matrix?
At least that weird nozzle with what appeared to be THC concentrates oozing out of it makes more sense now!
EDIT: Just found this site describing how it works in more detail (and they sell small extractors, too)
http://edenlabs.org/supercritical_extraction.html
This is what you are doing, oilmkr, correct?
But I believe I understand what you are doing here:
http://www.supercritical-solutions.com/en/supercritical-co2
HOWEVER, I suspect you are not telling us about ALL of the other equipment you need for this operation.
You're playing with the powers of thermodynamics... Is there not some cooling apparatus required to pump the liquid CO2 into the matrix?
At least that weird nozzle with what appeared to be THC concentrates oozing out of it makes more sense now!
EDIT: Just found this site describing how it works in more detail (and they sell small extractors, too)
http://edenlabs.org/supercritical_extraction.html
This is what you are doing, oilmkr, correct?
tehgenoc1de
Active Member
Oh yeah lemme get some of that super high quality extract you just scraped off your thumb.
oilmkr420
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idk edens methodology, but they use pumps and I do not. They are two different ways to extract. I don't use pumps and they do.
oilmkr420
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Its quite easy spending $400 on solven
vacpurge
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this guy posts the same bullshit picture of the empty eden labs jar that he probably stole, or dug out of the trash, in almost every thread hes ever made when someone asks him about his process. its one of the ONLY things he has to show, I would be surprised if it was just some picture he found online.
there is a reason hes been banned from every other weed forum on the internet. hes a troll, he cant offer any decent pictures, or an explanation to save his life.
there is a reason hes been banned from every other weed forum on the internet. hes a troll, he cant offer any decent pictures, or an explanation to save his life.
heckler73
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Excuse me... the ONLY way to do SUPERCRITICAL extraction is with some elaborate apparatus (including PUMPS). You appear to be just stuffing dry matter into a pipe and hooking it up to a CO2 bottle... How are you re-pressurizing/heating the CO2 back to its supercritical state in the matrix?
Can you watch this vid and explain how you are accomplishing all of the steps in a normal SFE?
[video=youtube;LQfVJ0MvqEo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQfVJ0MvqEo[/video]
I'm not saying your impoverished method won't work, but it appears inefficient... What are your extraction rates anyway? 25%? 40%?
Figong
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Very good questions, and I'm also wondering if there's any addition of absolute ethanol as any form of a modifier to the supercritical CO2 in terms of recovery % with no penalty re: dilution of the active content.. if so, what % vs what weight, and when is it used? (This should be a good one...)
