Monsoon
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I don't think that's going to work well. You need to apply some heat to make it less viscous so that the solvent can escape.Then I just let it sit at room temperature for 1 week to purge.
I don't think that's going to work well. You need to apply some heat to make it less viscous so that the solvent can escape.Then I just let it sit at room temperature for 1 week to purge.
I'd say skip the Ti, there are better materials available. Quartz bangers are very popular. Nice dense hit, great taste and low price. This seller has a good reputation, here's a basic 3mm thick banger - excellent.
The Chinese "OFZ" style carb caps don't work very well IMHO. These are much better, if a little heavy.
If I was going to get another one, I would try one of these. No special carb cap needed.
I haven't bought any nails via Amazon, but it does look like vendors are selling are selling China quartz.Appreciate those links, I've used DHGate just fine before, but I'm looking to get one ASAP that will last a long time. Got any amazon links?
I am hoping that @pigfoot, or anyone else, could help me here-
what sort of water filtration is going to give me the coolest/smoothest dabbing experience?
I am willing to sacrifice flavor.
I was looking at stevenlmz79's stereo matrix or toro 7/13 clones.
My throat/ lungs get irritated with my d020.
Yes, 1 week is not enough. Now after 10 days I still had a tiny sparkling when heating it up. Looks like the shatter needs at least 2 weeks to dry completely out.I don't think that's going to work well. You need to apply some heat to make it less viscous so that the solvent can escape.
Leaving it out at room temperature for 6 months likely won't remove all the solvent because it's trapped in there. Anything on the surface will evaporate but the solvent inside has no way to get out. Applying heat makes the shatter less hard allows the trapped solvent to expand into bubbles and eventually escape. Double boiler is going to be either too hot (explains the the smeariness) or not long enough. Ideally you want to use a griddle with the pan propped up to get more even convection heating or something like a reptile heater pad.Yes, 1 week is not enough. Now after 10 days I still had a tiny sparkling when heating it up. Looks like the shatter needs at least 2 weeks to dry completely out.
Did you try that?Leaving it out at room temperature for 6 months likely won't remove all the solvent because it's trapped in there. Anything on the surface will evaporate but the solvent inside has no way to get out.
To BHO or not To BHO, maybe that isn't the question.
Maybe it's not the nail maybe it's your dabs.
You say you've used the nail constantly, my question: are you using the same oil or did you try something new. If you're dabbing a BHO there is a very good chance it's the BHO making you sick, especially if someone else made it.
Unless your manufacturer is using pure butane there is a lot in there that you don't want and we can start with the known carcinogen, benzene.
Incidents of people getting sick off BHO are not unheard of so before you doubt your nail, check your oil.
This from a year old "BuzzFeed" article: "“We see stuff that is dripping with residual solvent. It’s running with it, literally dripping — more contaminants almost than product,” said University of California, Davis, analytical chemistry professor Don Land, who works with a major Northern California–based marijuana-testing lab called Steep Hill Laboratories."
My advice is Caveat emptor when it comes to concentrates.
What do you mean by winterize bho and what are good purge times?I see this posted all the time. In my experience I do not find it to be true. The difference between shatter & wax for me is nothing but time in the vac chamber. You can accelerate these consistency changes by adding heat. But thats how you start to degrade flavor.
My last batch of oil went through every stage, shatter, pull snap\wax, butter, crumble. In about that order and the temps were in the high 90s the entire time. I stopped the process multiple times to harvest some of every stage, they all rock with flavor and potency and are totally touchable with your bare hands. The shatter and pull snap wax stages are really knock the bejesus out of you strong, the butter & crumble consistencies are right up there too but the pull snap and shatter have so much terpy flavor! I love being able to roll up a ball of pull snap with my fingers and just drop that into my wide mouth quartz castle by hand, same with the crumble but sometimes crumble is too crumbly. Dropping a BB sized ball of my errl onto a nail will put you down hard in a hurry! LoL
Shattery Pull-snap on the left, crumble on the right. Blasted on 4/18 using an experimental butane\dry ice extraction than I'm still refining. Dewaxed right out of the extractor with incredible flavor! I usually winterize BHO runs and have no issues getting the same consistencies from winterized absolutes as well without upping the temps just need to adjust purge times.
Woo hoo that's all 74 pages done... Man I feel enlightened now. I have to admit it's cost me a few quid reading all this but I feel much safer as a result (vac chamber)
Put what I thought was fully purged BHO in my new vac last night and maaaan that's shit bubbled, so perhaps just a bain marie isn't enough for BHO.
Just wanted to say thanks to all that have contributed to this tread, like I said I feel much safer about my concentrates now. FC is the place to be man!
Man I need to look into vac purging, can I do it with a basic pump and bag that I'd use for making curved panels, I'm a carpenter...
Or is it much more complex than that???
Yeah I get the importance of life since quitting tobacco. I'm very particular about what I consume now....
I will make that my next puchace now...
Nice trees by the way, saw on othet thread,
wish I could grow outdoors in safety, one day maybe....
How much do y'all go through a week? I have been stocking up on crumble and shatter. I bought 4g at new year and have about .5-.7 left. but Ive been increasing my consumption alot, probably went through .5-1 in the pst week or two. Just wondering how much other people are vaping each week