Hello Smoke1ForMe and FC brothers and sisters! As you can see, my first post. I will throw in some of my latest experiments with oil and ccell cartridges. I wanted to cut down on smoking flower and was interested in the vape cartridges. I tried some at the local dispensaries. I am aware of the nasty chemicals, pesticides, PG, PE, VG and who knows what else could be in them. I wanted to know if I could actually fill my own cartridges with my own oil. First I got some wax from a dispensary and used Wax Liquidizer. Mixed up well and vaped good but the taste not so good plus full of crap from the wax. Left a bunch of gunk in the bottom of cartridge. I wanted better! Now I'm reading about different methods of extraction. Could I possibly do this at home without a ton of money and be safe? I have only been into this for about three months now and I decided to try ethanol extraction. I won't go into all I went through now, but after doing my own extraction I ended up with close to pure oil. Nothing in it, alcohol evaporated out. If you try to load your cartridge with "pure oil" it will harden and clog almost faster than you can fill it. Again I didn't want to add anything especially PG or VG, etc. But it was just too thick. Ended up trying several brands of terpenes. Some good some not. Found a good one. So after over twenty small batches and losing quite a few I ended up with this: 2-3 drops terpenes per gram of oil. That's it. Now the oil stays liquid enough to mix and stay mixed and flow good thru the cartridge. Ccells work great. Super good draw, cartridge all glass, ceramic mouthpiece and coil. The taste is amazing and vapes the last drop. The taste is so great it doesn't need terpenes (retained a lot of terpenes from low heat extraction) but need something to keep it flowing. I get a great buzz from each hit! After 4-6 hits I'm done! I use them 3-4 times, cleaning with ISO. Only once did I have a leak and that was after three refills. I'm using ccell battery too. Perfect!
By the way, started with my home grown flower. Organic, no pesticides. Girl Scout Cookies 24% THC. Yield eight grams oil per ounce. After doing my own I can see how sad the quality is from dispensaries, not to mention the crazy cost. More info and pics if anyone interested (did not know how to post pics yet!) Thanks for all the info I got from FC and wanted to share. Looking forward to more on cartridges.
