Hello towers.... well I had been promising to do a thread for a while... so here it is... but first of all a disclaimer of sorts... lol
This IS NOT a how to thread or a guide on how to make concentrates... it's not a guide you should follow by the letter abd think you will get the sane results as there are so many variables... a lot of miss information out there on this subject so I suggest you double and triple check everything you read and plan to do. The is MY METHOD and by that I don't mean I made it up... it's just the way I do it and how I get the end product I do... ALWAYS blast your solvents outside... ONLY blast onto Pyrex or lab grade glass.. or PTFE sheeting.... I will get more into which I say each of these things as we progress in the thread... but you make this at your own risk.... if you decide to do so.... it's not rocket science but a great deal of common sense is required to not blow yourself up in the process or end up with shitty extracts..
OK so at the moment I have got a 5l vacuum chamber with a -29hg vacuum pulled and inside sat on some oil slick PTFE sheeting I have a small slab of oil.... the temperate is controlled by a digital controller rigged up to a silicon heatpad abd the temp is set so it's keeping the bho slab at around 32c... this run was from pure bud ground up and packed tightly in a glass extractor tube... it took about 10g of trifle bud and about 6g of big Buddha cheese bud... and I put about a can of Newport gas through it which pushed it through a 50 micron filter and directly into the vac chamber... I had lined the inside of the chamber with PTFE sheet and preheated it all so as soon as I blasted it starts evaporating.... I then let this sit until it evaporates of and it starts to thicken up and form a thin layer across the bottom of the sheet.... once it had sat for about an hour or so and had stopped bubbling I did a gentle first pull slowly increasing the pressure from -25hg to -27hg and slowly bringing it down to -29.5hg and making sure the bubbles done get to high and then after half hour of this I let it fall down by releasing pressure I'm the chamber slowly... then once it's cooled and tacky I fold the sheeting abd collect it all up into one slab.... the PTFE sheet cuts down on any loss when scraping as I got 100% back and no messing about... I then squeeze this as flat as I can without over agitating it... and then put it back in the chamber and get it to 32c abd pull a full vacuum down to 29.5hg let it muffin right up and lock off the chamber abd leave it purge for 12-24 Hours...
This current batch I did on the spur of the moment and was just a mishmash of top quality bud I decided to throw into a run... I will add pictures when I release the pressure tomorrow abd stick the slab in the freezer before having a good look at it and seeing how stable it is... at the moment it looks like it's going to be a pretty stable strain.. I'm going for shatter this run rather than wax for a change as the new heat pad will be able to keep temperatures lower for longer....
Anyway pics of all my gear abd the actual slab I'm making to follow... I will go through everything In proper detail as I do a breakdown of what I do what I use and more importantly why I'm doing it at every stage of the process as I will be doing several more runs in the coming weeks and have some great new gadgets and tech like a closed column pressurised extractor that I'm looking forward to using for trim runs as she's a big old girl at 18" and would take some bud to full her up I reckon lol
Anyway the main point of this thread is a learning place where everyone can share information.... rude pricks and stupid comments will be reported and posts asked to be removed... if you have something to share then share it... just no flaming and we will all learn how to make some bad ass concentrate... I'm by no means an expert but if you have info to add then please either explain if it's from personal experience or if it's just what you have heard... or if it's what you read and have data to back up what your saying (I will try my best to do this... ) then fire away....
Peace.. IJ
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