Didn't get around to soaking last night...got tired and i don't like pushing through the sleepy eyes cause i'm bound to do something dumb as my depth perception fades. So i'm ready this morning and it snowed last night, gonna be 40's today so no problem keeping m thermos cool. With the IRT it reads -1F taking a quick shot inside the thermos. I'm still wondering how accurate the guns are cause after sticking it in the thermos and taking the temp i shot the ceiling and it read 59.0F and slowly climbed to 70F as the gun itself warmed back up. Wish i would have spent more money on a gun that came with a probe attachment to get more accurate temps.
Just an experiment, since i couldn't find a ss baster i grabbed the largest downstem from the shop and not sure exactly how much it ended up holding but the whole pile of trim was around 11 grams and there's a decent amount left on the paper(forgot to weight the ds before and after). After blasting the material weighed 5gs and my product weighed .45gs, i used approx 3/4can of Vector and blasted til clear. So i didn't use the cap you see in the pic, i used a cap from a bottle of Seagrams 7 Dark Honey lol, it fit perfectly with an o-ring in it and i hose clamped it snug. I used my 28micron bubble bag screen that i cut out and clamped it over the diffuser end. I was worried about the diffuser breaking but it would be tied up in the screen so no mess. I packed it pretty tight, used a long skinny drill bit to un pack it after removing the cap. Kinda fun experiment since the downstem cost me 5 bucks...was sitting around for a yr at least. I have found a glass baster though that i will probably buy for other small runs, it's the FoxRun brand baster and ACE had it.
Thermos - $8 16oz
Just drilled a hole to blast into and going to open the "drinking" hole for exhaust. Totally going to make a ss cap to use with this. But i'm not sure if i reallt need to worry much about butane absorbing anything bad from the hard plastic cap anyways. Going to perform the soak here in a wee bit since the pups just passed out.
Result from the downstem is very light in color compared to my soak with the same strain same harvest time. way smoother at this point too, but i'm saving all the rest and going to combine a bunch of random wax i have when i winterize.