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Forgive me, this isn't where I should be. I wish you all the best in getting all you can.

You know, I realize after writing that that I cannot actually attest to it going to 158F. The temp between my BBQ probe under the silpat and my $40 IR thermo have varied as much as 10F, or as little as 2F. What I did do was very slowly increment the temp, trying for 2-5F increment every 30...

Well, despite your beliefs about my stuff, I returned it to shatter several times, including after being at 158F. To me, if it breaks (not bend, not crack, not snap, but breaks off) at room temp, and isn't sticky, then its shatter. I know of no other definition for it from what I've read. TBH, I...

As part of my farm, I make maple syrup. So I understand the concept of turning a liquid into crystals (at least turning sugar from a liquid to crystals). Is the process of waxing similar? Can anyone point to some chemical/scientific explanation of that process? Sorry if I have missed a link...

Yeah, I thought when I read the sand idea that Fade had a gr8 idea, but as you say, any mistake and you got a mess. I’d much rather use water than sand, as anything dropped into it has a better chance of being salvaged. I have to believe the fact my source mat is 3 yrs old is having an...

I just took it out of the vaq, let it cool to ~70F, and its still good shatter. So I put it back in, turned the temp down a little (now 131F).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27208216%40N06/11972426725 So the link above will take you to a video of my tiny bubble action.

Haven’t figured out how to take a picture of my bubbling action as its only happening when the oil is under pressure, the minute I start to drop pressure the bubbling stops. If a take a pic though the vaq lid, all I get is a picture of the flash. Anyway, 30 min intervals again, 126, 130...

So, an update. Starting at ~10:30am, temps at 30 min intervals: 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 116, 119, 121, 125…so at 3:30pm I devaq’d and reshaped, took ½ hour to reheat the silpat, so at 4:00pm I was at 126F again. Throughout this the patty has looked very shiny, like clear...

I took someone's earlier advice and took a break last night. I left my patty at room temp/pressure. This morning, rock hard unsticky shatter...good! So, its back into the chamber under full vaq, and I'll be raising the temp a few degrees (between 3-5F) every 30 mins. Sound like a plan?

FYI, I thought it was stable at 115F, but it went up as high as 118F. At 118F the shatter stopped bubbling and went perfectly clear. So at this point, I have either heated it up to much (but only raising it 3F) and turned it into goo, or, my attempt now to lower the temp, devaq, and reform will...

I honestly thought I got that name right…sorry Guzias. Ok, so back in April you said you opened your vaq and reshaped on average 15 times to achieve muffin. My question is, after you got shatter and are going for wax, do you continue to devaq and reshape? If so, at what increments (every 15...

So, after another hour, shatter. I had taken the silpat out to adjust the temp in the vac and while it sat on the room temp table, it got so hard that when I went to fold it back to the center it cracked in lots of places. So, back into the vaq with the temp turned up to 115F now. If I...

Ok, so this is the initial muffin. This is after 1 hour. And this after 2 hours. Bubbles still shrink after turning off pressure. I'm taking that as a sign that it still isn't shatter, right? Temp has stayed at 105F throughout.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27208216@N06/11950085705/player/8d85739d98 Ok, can't figure out how to post the pictures from my flickr account, and the uploader (even the basic uploader) isn't working for me. The link above is the initial muffin. 90g of the same 3-yr-old material blasted...

omg I'm a troll

Finally, if my questions/statements should be better in another thread, pls tell me

If it matters Guzias1, you were prominent in the first 26 pages, so someone I was looking to tell me good stuff...

Lols Guzias1, you gave no info, but asked for a pic of goo. I admitted it was goo, how would giving you a pic serve anyone? No, I don't recognize you, you showed pictures of finger hash in an BHO thread, is finger hash something that can be made? I’m a nutbag? That’s a harsh welcome, but I’m...

one last question before blast, what do you think of blasting on silpat? Definitely makes scraping a non-issue?