Evaping?

I evaporate my winterized ethanol in a Pyrex casserole dish. I've been using a lizard tank heater underneath it while under a ceiling fan on high. Seems to me that the slight heat is making my shit run away up on the sides & corners that are a BIATCH to scrape! Evaps pretty quick, like overnight, but not sure it's the best way to go.

Please lemme know how you guys do it!

bez420 said:

I evaporate my winterized ethanol in a Pyrex casserole dish. I've been using a lizard tank heater underneath it while under a ceiling fan on high. Seems to me that the slight heat is making my shit run away up on the sides & corners that are a BIATCH to scrape! Evaps pretty quick, like overnight, but not sure it's the best way to go.

Please lemme know how you guys do it!

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It sounds like your dish is slightly higher in the middle and causes your extract to run to the outsides kinda like a gutter, all my dishes are like this...The answer is simple, get a square Pyrex dish instead because it's much easier to scrape the 4 edges of the square dish than all sides of a round dish.
Other than that your process sounds pretty good

6 inch petri dishes for the vacuum dome and flat glass serving platter for the open loop stuff.

To be honest, I never fully scrape my thin film pan, 9x13 baking dish, i get the 14 - 15 grams that is easy. I just wash the remainder with 190 and save in my winterization jar for next run.

My pan pools in the middle thus I get a puddle in the center. It doesn't get fully purged due to thickness but that lets me scrap it easily onto a silicon pad for vacuum purge.

Pretty much all I winterize is the 190 used for cleaning leftovers from the equipment. It's the bakers dozen extra bit.

I do the winter step, and if you want completely flat, you need plate glass, But, like you the wintering has left overs, filter paper, and other clean up. I just save that for the next run.

What I would really like to do is recover the solvent with vacuum, through a Graham Condenser. Then I will go with pure ethanol. $20 buck a 5th for everclear is just a killer in an open system, on top of $4 a can for butane.

And 5% water is another waste.

i scraped for a long time man, and i got sick of it.

I got a no goo dish now and i pour my winterized everclear into there, set it out at about 7 before i leave for work and when i come home its dry. (im running an oz at a time usually) and getting 4-5 gs

then i take it and put it on a 110F waterbath and remove it, let it cool a tiny bit, and begin gathering together be pressing / pulling the dish.

4.8g headband


2g of no idea


same as above but i heated it too much back before i knew what i was doing