MinnBobber
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the last time I cleaned my glass, I looked thru a magnifying glass and it seemed like quite a few tiny particles were embedded in the golden goodies.
It seemed they were likely cannabis particles/dust. I'd rather get purer reclaim AND have my glass stay as clean as possible, as long as possible, so decided to try an experiment.
I included an "inline degummed hemp filter" to filter out said particles.
Crafted a very thin hemp fiber "mini pancake" to put in my miniVAP.
V1 was right in the wire basket with the herb. Easy to fit BUT hemp fiber is kinda unruly and when I went to empty/save the ABV, some was entangled in the hemp web.
V2 hemp filter was placing the hemp above the top screen so ABV didn't get entangled. That is much trickier to place the filter but it works much better.
After a couple weeks I see:
- glass is MUCH CLEANER, as in maybe 1/4 as dirty and the condensate appears much more golden, and much more pure oil without the tiny solids like before.
- examining the hemp filter and it catches many particles, keeping them from making it to your glass (or to your mouth with a whip ???)
Picture below of an assembled miniVAP flexicone in my Herbie and one in pieces to show how it's assembled. In the final version, the hemp was a little thinner layer than pictured here, next to the white silicone flexicone. It's a delicate balance as I don't want to make a heavy draw restriction but do want some minimal filtering
Note that those who stir their partially spent loads really get a LOT of cannabis dust as herb is so dry before stirring---it crumbles. I've been stirring the basket over a paper and it creates a lot of dust which can fall downward OR easily get sucked upward into water piece or whip.
I never stirred before as miniVAP and Herbie require no stirring IF you grind your herb. Just started cutting very small chunks to load and they benefit from stirring later--but that creates cannabis dust.
Just an fyi from my experimenting
anyone else use any kind of hemp filter in their vapes??
It seemed they were likely cannabis particles/dust. I'd rather get purer reclaim AND have my glass stay as clean as possible, as long as possible, so decided to try an experiment.
I included an "inline degummed hemp filter" to filter out said particles.
Crafted a very thin hemp fiber "mini pancake" to put in my miniVAP.
V1 was right in the wire basket with the herb. Easy to fit BUT hemp fiber is kinda unruly and when I went to empty/save the ABV, some was entangled in the hemp web.
V2 hemp filter was placing the hemp above the top screen so ABV didn't get entangled. That is much trickier to place the filter but it works much better.
After a couple weeks I see:
- glass is MUCH CLEANER, as in maybe 1/4 as dirty and the condensate appears much more golden, and much more pure oil without the tiny solids like before.
- examining the hemp filter and it catches many particles, keeping them from making it to your glass (or to your mouth with a whip ???)
Picture below of an assembled miniVAP flexicone in my Herbie and one in pieces to show how it's assembled. In the final version, the hemp was a little thinner layer than pictured here, next to the white silicone flexicone. It's a delicate balance as I don't want to make a heavy draw restriction but do want some minimal filtering
Note that those who stir their partially spent loads really get a LOT of cannabis dust as herb is so dry before stirring---it crumbles. I've been stirring the basket over a paper and it creates a lot of dust which can fall downward OR easily get sucked upward into water piece or whip.
I never stirred before as miniVAP and Herbie require no stirring IF you grind your herb. Just started cutting very small chunks to load and they benefit from stirring later--but that creates cannabis dust.
Just an fyi from my experimenting
anyone else use any kind of hemp filter in their vapes??
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