Just to make sure. You suggest clean butane with winterizing? "It's all about the quality not quanity man" anyone?Texas, it is better to use pure butane. But having the ability to clean impure could be very useful. In any event always test your butane! Its fast, easy, and you'll be shocked how every single manufacturer who labels theirs as X times refined is dirtier than those who dont.
Bez, I use colibri. Lucienne and Newport have also tested clean, but have many unclean counterfeits being sold in my area so I avoid them unless I'm ordering online.
Texas, you're a bit confused as to the nature of THC etc, I think. Think about it - thc is a white to off yellow waxy lipid, the other cannabinoids vary from thick waxes to thin oils. The remaining plant waxes, which total less than 1/10th the total mass of a flower extract, have the exact same physical properties, including solubility. Check out the solubility of thc and various plant fats on chemspider or test it yourself by winterizing hempseed oil (or any other plant fat), they'll stay dissolved in cold eto just as well. True, traces of oleic and stearic acid in the bhO would be removed, but they only amount to a few mg, not the huge amount most report getting filtered out.
Again, its impossible to filter out hemp waxes (THC) from other hemp waxes by using a solvent which holds both equally well. You know what cold ethanol doesn't hold on to? The semisynthetic lubricant oils in contaminated butane.
I know that this goes against hundreds of online "oil experts", but the tests don't lie: clean butane used and winterizing yields nothing, dirty butane used and winterizing yields lots.
As if all this evidence isn't enough, I'm sending a buddies winterizing cake to the lab, to prove that it is just the contaminant.
Care to cite your sources?Texas, it is better to use pure butane. But having the ability to clean impure could be very useful. In any event always test your butane! Its fast, easy, and you'll be shocked how every single manufacturer who labels theirs as X times refined is dirtier than those who dont.
Bez, I use colibri. Lucienne and Newport have also tested clean, but have many unclean counterfeits being sold in my area so I avoid them unless I'm ordering online.
Texas, you're a bit confused as to the nature of THC etc, I think. Think about it - thc is a white to off yellow waxy lipid, the other cannabinoids vary from thick waxes to thin oils. The remaining plant waxes, which total less than 1/10th the total mass of a flower extract, have the exact same physical properties, including solubility. Check out the solubility of thc and various plant fats on chemspider or test it yourself by winterizing hempseed oil (or any other plant fat), they'll stay dissolved in cold eto just as well. True, traces of oleic and stearic acid in the bhO would be removed, but they only amount to a few mg, not the huge amount most report getting filtered out.
Again, its impossible to filter out hemp waxes (THC) from other hemp waxes by using a solvent which holds both equally well. You know what cold ethanol doesn't hold on to? The semisynthetic lubricant oils in contaminated butane.
I know that this goes against hundreds of online "oil experts", but the tests don't lie: clean butane used and winterizing yields nothing, dirty butane used and winterizing yields lots.
As if all this evidence isn't enough, I'm sending a buddies winterizing cake to the lab, to prove that it is just the contaminant.
Yo Snaps. Have you tried Colibri?Care to cite your sources?