Get ready for a wall of text with lots of pictures. This is was my process for turning some shatter into some winterized e-juice for use in e-cigs. I took lots of photos for a step by step process so anyone else can follow along and achieve the same great results as I did. Another note, I have never made BHO before, I am using concentrates I purchased. I have never attempted anything like this before, but with the instructions on Liquidizer's site, I found it a fairly straight forward and painless process.
Yesterday I received my EJMix in the mail. They folks at Liquidizer also sent me 2 syringes. I was just thinking about where I can go buy syringes and not look like a junkie! It's just a little thing, but having those syringes in the package meant I was ready to go, no need to wait. So thanks again!
I decided to use some Blue Diesel amber shatter. The whole block is about 2g, for this liquidization, I'll be using 1.15g.
I'm using some squat, wide mouth mason (canning) jars. I believe they're a pint, but not 100%. You can see I've made a sort of double boiler in the pot using the screw on lid rim (props to the idea from the Liquidizer instruction manual). Just adjust the water level so your jar sits at the correct angle.
I put the shatter into the mason jar, and add some 190 proof Everclear (~4-5 mL). I then place the mason jar into my double boiler setup.
After a few minutes of heat, you can see the shatter start to dissolve.
Fully dissolved. I did stir for a little bit using a dab tool. Total time was maybe 15 minutes? I kept a low heat the entire time.
I then suck the Everclear solution up into syringes. I fill up the first syringe. After that, I add a little more Everclear to the jar to thin the rest of the solution out. I then suck the rest up into the second syringe. Basically using Liquidizer's Zero Waste Method, thinning out the last bit so any left behind is negligible. As a result, you can see the second syringe is much lighter in color.
I then place the two syringes upside down in a glass, and place the glass in the freezer. I leave the syringes in the freezer overnight.
I make myself a filter to use in the freezer for the cold Everclear wash. I simply use a coffee filter secured to the same mason jar I used before with the rim. I leave this, along with the bottle of Everclear, in the freezer overnight.
The next morning, I check on the syringes. You can see they're a little cloudy.
I eject the syringes into my coffee filter. I place the syringes back in the glass and keep them in the freezer until the next step.
I close the freezer and let it sit for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes I check on it. I then take the syringes and suck up some chilled Everclear. Using both syringes I squirt approximately 3 mL of chilled Everclear over the remaining wax. After checking back 15 minutes later, I see there's still a decent amount of what looks like good solution above the filter. I add another 3 mL of Everclear and gently slosh it around the filter, and gently knocking the bottom against the freezer in an attempt for more of the Everclear to get through the filter. After doing this, and waiting another ~15 minutes, I end up with the left over wax in the filter.
I ended up adding a decent amount of Everclear back into the mixture, but it didn't bother me much. My thought process was I can always evaporate it out, I just wanted to make sure I got the most out of my concentrates. After removing the filter with the waxes, this is what I was left with inside the jar.
I place this jar back into my double boiler setup. Using a low simmer, I let the Everclear evaporate off. I let it simmer for ~30 minutes. It was probably ready sooner, but I'm new to this and wanted to make sure I got it all out.
Now is when I added the EJMix. I sucked my uncut liquid up into my syringe to get an estimate of the volume. I have just under 0.9 mL. I decide to add ~.55 mL of EJMix. I stir the mixture over heat, and give it ~10 minutes to make sure everything is good and mixed. After I'm done, I'm left with this.
I suck this e-juice up into the syringe. I have 1.4 mL. This means my solution is ~39% EJmix (.55mL/1.4mL). At this concentration, there seems to be a low enough viscosity that flow in e-cig tanks is a non-issue.
The previous solution was my second attempt. My first attempt was using some Chocolope blonde crumble that came out with a 25% EJMix concentration. I found it to be a little too thick. I tried some in my e-cig, and it worked, but I fear it might lead to a premature death of the atomizer and/or wick. But I'm completely new to this, so those fears could be completely unfounded. Only experimentation will tell. I ultimately thinned the Chocolope down to ~35% EJMix and it seems to be much better. This is my Chocolope solution.
And now the the end result, some of my Chocolope in my e-cig!
One other note, whenever I had some goodies left over in a jar/syringe/anything, I'd simply soak it in some Everclear. At the end of this liquidization process, I evaporated off the majority of the Everclear and poured the remainder into a NoGoo container. I plan on letting that sit for a day or two to evaporate off the rest, and then using it in my Cera. That way there really is nearly zero waste!
The e-cig I'm using is a Sapphire cartomizer from GotVapes.com, attached to a Vision Spinner Variable Voltage battery. I've only been using the device for a couple hours, but it has me completely baked right now. So thumbs up so far, we'll just have to see about the longevity of it.
So once again, I apologize if I rambled on this post, just wanted people to see how easy it really was.
Massive shout out to the Liquidizer team, this really is a game changer. Being able to use this device for travel or concerts is going to be invaluable to me. My highest recommendations.