packing tubes?

Hey everyone, I usually do the long soak method when doing a BHO extraction. Imma try doing a tube extraction and was wondering how packed are your tubes? Are they loosely packed or packed very hard? Thanks everyone!

Somewhere in the middle!

Like baby bear, just right, err towards loose imo.

I lean on the ram, but don't pound.

I average about 4.1 gms/cubic inch using material with about a 10% water content, that has been run through a 10 mesh strainer.

Less for packed buds, but I use 4.1 as an anchor point to have a general idea of how much a column of a given size will hold.

If you calculate volume of a sanitary column, consider that the size given is OD, so you have to subtract the wall thickness first.

For instance, a 4" column with an .083 wall would have a internal capacity of 416 cubic inches, not the 452 cubic inches a 4" ID tube would have.

Curious about your tube, if you're using a CLS there's always a flood method which I find to be a good compromise. Good even coverage of the buds for the most part but still a moving process not a soak.

I typically use a dowel rod just slightly smaller than the tube itself and try to evenly pack with a gentle drop of the rod.

disposition84 said:

Curious about your tube, if you're using a CLS there's always a flood method which I find to be a good compromise. Good even coverage of the buds for the most part but still a moving process not a soak.

I typically use a dowel rod just slightly smaller than the tube itself and try to evenly pack with a gentle drop of the rod.

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Hard to beat the even wetting flooding from the bottom.

I like to flood from the bottom and once the column over flows, dump it and rinse from the top.

If you leave your dump valve open until you recover to -10" between floods, it will keep the material at freezing without soaking.