BHO with Vacuum oil/wax tutorial

... more % return is better... i would be happy with a 10% return tonight ...

$9.37 a gram.. if i didnt smoke so much, maybe this would seem appealing, or if i just started.. I have not paid for any material in over half a year now, that includes nugs, but prior to that, i invested quite a bit .. ... on top of the $ input, this shit aint easy.. especially if your blasting a lb with a 10 in tube.. 40 packs to blow a lb, hehehehee, sounds funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

i started off turkey baster, then pvc, then glass, then bigger glass. My ideal situation would be X amount of 6 ft tubes lined up around a picknick table, blasting lbs at once! Anyone wanna hire me? All i need is the weed!

Guzias1 said:

loll, well,, today i reached the muffin in three tries, im pretty sure its because i boiled off the tane super quick..

before, i only vac and de vacced many times to get muffin..

now, after the muffin.. the time of this process varies..

are you working with your own, or consistent material?

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Will be my own but due to the nature of my work I am sure the material will be consistent.

Want to try with butane as well as with Ethanol Alcohol but personally think ethanol with reflux + soxhlet then filter using a very fine micron filter paper (instead of coffee filters, I have a range of papers here, 609WS creped cellulose would work best I think) then cook off alcohol at 42'c and finally vacuum for an hour) would work best.
That or freeze, filter, freeze, filter then cook off alcohol and vacuum.

Guzias1 said:

... more % return is better... i would be happy with a 10% return tonight ...

$9.37 a gram.. if i didnt smoke so much, maybe this would seem appealing, or if i just started.. I have not paid for any material in over half a year now, that includes nugs, but prior to that, i invested quite a bit .. ... on top of the $ input, this shit aint easy.. especially if your blasting a lb with a 10 in tube.. 40 packs to blow a lb, hehehehee, sounds funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

i started off turkey baster, then pvc, then glass, then bigger glass. My ideal situation would be X amount of 6 ft tubes lined up around a picknick table, blasting lbs at once! Anyone wanna hire me? All i need is the weed!

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Haha yeah seriously I'm getting real tired of this fuckin 10 gram tube ha what are you running right now the qp of stuff from your harvest?
and damn not paying for any material would be nice that's what I'm starting to think would be good just either use cheap trim or the extra stuff from my harvest because it just doesn't seem economical to run bud ha. Unless your getting some like 22-24 percent returns ha.
And damn sounds like a plan with that set up ha you need to go find a farmer up north who has tarps and tarps of trim to run haha.

Our average trim produces 10/12% Absolute and our flowers 20% +, extracting with a Terpenator. We typically run three wash cycles, by filling the packed column with butane and soaking it aproximately 1.5 minutes, before reflooding. Some additional oil can be extracted with additional flood cycles, but at about 4 cycles it starts to pick up an electric green hue.

As some of ya'll know, a Terpenator is a closed circuit BHO extractor, which circulates butane through the material in the column, and then reclaims and recycles the butane. Cost of electricity, ice, and butane per gram for flowers is about four cents {three point eight cents $0.038} per gram and for trim, about twice that, because it takes just as long to extract and produces only about half as much oil.

I mention Absolute above, because we remove the waxes by winterization before weighing the return, which typically removes about 8% by weight. Raw oleoresin yield is therefore aproximately 8% higher. Our personal unbroken record is 28.1% from outdoor plants, though I have read of yields exceeding that, and we haven't tried to optimumize strains for oil yield.

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i always though winterizing was this intense process.. sooo, i was gonna ask you all about it, but decided to use my awesome web searching skills, (on your site ) and i found this goody..

now, my question.. is "absolute" material all sticky ? or can i break it apart with my hands at room temperature?

does "absolute" material taste even better than this wax stuff?

View attachment 2557723heres how that one stuff came out that 8th stable at room temp could touch but that isnt wax huh thats oil?

Nopeeee, that looks like some glass,, shatter.. Or taffy goo.. Looks like more purging could be done.. What was the final temp on the oil?

Guzias1 said:

... more % return is better... i would be happy with a 10% return tonight ...

$9.37 a gram.. if i didnt smoke so much, maybe this would seem appealing, or if i just started.. I have not paid for any material in over half a year now, that includes nugs, but prior to that, i invested quite a bit .. ... on top of the $ input, this shit aint easy.. especially if your blasting a lb with a 10 in tube.. 40 packs to blow a lb, hehehehee, sounds funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

i started off turkey baster, then pvc, then glass, then bigger glass. My ideal situation would be X amount of 6 ft tubes lined up around a picknick table, blasting lbs at once! Anyone wanna hire me? All i need is the weed!

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what size diameter are your tubes? over 1 inch?

these be my babies..

i cracked the top of my big tube :[ so its in teh shop, losing about 5 inches off the top, not bad..

its been funnn getting used to the temps on the new chamber.. im happy i got rid of the hot water baths, andddd im happy i get a nice even heat!

my heat pad is super sensitive..

heat was at about 100F, i raised it a notch, i come back 30 min later and my oil is 133F, super bubbling action!! ahh, i stopped immediately

dropped temps back down to 100F for about one hour.. got a flat puck of oil..

raised temps to 105F went to work, came back and i got this pretty nice looking taffy.. almost snaps apart!

sooo. i raised my temps to 115F now under full vac, gonna see if that gets things moving..

always going for the wax :]

it really looked like it was capable material before i raised the heat too high. soo. im hooping i didnt screw it up right there.. hopefully have some updates tonight..

taffyyyy



here is a quick vid of the bubbling action!

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vacpurge.. did your bubbles ever come out this slow? or even slower? at full vac? this is like 2+ hours into the heated purge..

Guzias1 said:

Nopeeee, that looks like some glass,, shatter.. Or taffy goo.. Looks like more purging could be done.. What was the final temp on the oil?

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I don't have. A temp gun so I couldn't check but I just did water at 120 so it was probley like 110 in the jar pumped up to 25.5 four times for about 20 minutes each.

Pumped up to 25.5 .... You using one of those handheld mity vacs? Ditch it.. Get a better vacuum, or go with a whipping/oven method..


I ended my current run.. I got basically shatter now.. Im tired of waiting. Its at a good enough consistency for me..my harvest is almost dry!

i woke up to 60F temps in my room this morning.. my taffy was basically shatter :]


i declared this finished after about 24 hours of work.. ended @ 121F ... 29.5 HG..

I got this from a buddy. paid 300$ for 10 grams.

he said he made this out of leave that were cut off some bud. got 60 grams back from 1 lb. ive made oil out of pure bud and pure crystal before and it doesnt come out like his. wtf?

he said he sprayed it into a warm dish and it evaporated instantly. whereas I let my butane build up in the dish, then do it all at once. he makes the best stuff ive ever seen and is a complete beginner. he made this oil in 10 seperate batches, took him 2 days. it is very potent!!!!

That is an excellent return.. And a very nice color.. You know what strain this is?

Cool stuff. I've never gone that far into it but have done straight bho a few times (with a small coke bottle). Blinding stuff but very hard to handle. Mine comes out like a blob of the worlds stickiest substance.
My best tip?
I blast into a pyrex dish with about a cm of water in it. It sounds mad but it makes picking it up (I use 2 stanley knife blades) much easier than trying to scrape it out. It floats on the water and any remaining drops are easily blown off.

Guzias1 said:

Pumped up to 25.5 .... You using one of those handheld mity vacs? Ditch it.. Get a better vacuum, or go with a whipping/oven method..


I ended my current run.. I got basically shatter now.. Im tired of waiting. Its at a good enough consistency for me..my harvest is almost dry!

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Yah I think after this next run or two ill buy the actuall pump from harbor freight because even after the whipping I can get it to muffin up twice so I still can get a little more butane out with the mity vac? Hand thing right?
that shatter taffy looks take I made some last night got a gram off of 12 grams of that outdoor bud shake
i got like a gram so not too bad almost 10 percent but it came out taffy/shattery. I kind of don't like it harder like that
because it can chip and I loose some but it is pretty cool to be ale to crack a piece off and drop it on the nail ha.
I'm about to get a qp of shake then go get four cans of vector I'll let you know how it comes out I better get at least 10 grams ha I'm hoping for more but whatever, also I feel like the more filter helped on that last run thanks.

decided to put the shatter back under vac, heat is at about 141F :]

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