thedoctorzoidberg
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good point.... points
Mexi's D.I.Y butane extractor
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porchmonkey4life
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o.k. apparently I'm the only this entire post makes absolutely no sense to. what exactly am I supposted to do after I poke holes into the cap, line it with screens and tape a coffee filter around it? where does the butane come into play?
thedoctorzoidberg
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you hold the bottle upside down and spray the butane into the hole on the bottom of the bottle..... hold over a bowl and the liquid butane will come out the screen/filter.
porchmonkey4life
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Sounds dangerous...how do I 'spray' the butane? I'm guessing you get it out of your cigarette lighter? and won't your hash smell like butane?
xbravoz
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LMAO.....GAS CAN
thedoctorzoidberg
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https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/12851-honey-oil-made-using-butane.html
thats how you use it. this was linked in the first part of this forum.
Psychopump
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A MASSIVE thankyou to the original poster!
I just tried this using a 1.5 liter coke bottle.
I used NO coffee filter.
I used NO reusable coffee filter, but cut 3 discs from a steel sieve to put in the cap.
I used 3 cans of SWAN lighter fluid (99.9% pure butane).
I used approximately 50 to 75 grams of .... wait for it.....
...TWIGS, BRANCHES and SUN LEAVES.
NO BUD at all!!!!!
The amount of product I made was reasonably little, about 1.5 to 2 grams.
But...WOW!
I am high as a kite. I smoked 1 joint with only 1 pinpoint of oil spread over the paper, and some dry tobacco. It took until 5 minutes after smoking the joint for me to notice anything, but the effect is wonderful!
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
I just tried this using a 1.5 liter coke bottle.
I used NO coffee filter.
I used NO reusable coffee filter, but cut 3 discs from a steel sieve to put in the cap.
I used 3 cans of SWAN lighter fluid (99.9% pure butane).
I used approximately 50 to 75 grams of .... wait for it.....
...TWIGS, BRANCHES and SUN LEAVES.
NO BUD at all!!!!!
The amount of product I made was reasonably little, about 1.5 to 2 grams.
But...WOW!
I am high as a kite. I smoked 1 joint with only 1 pinpoint of oil spread over the paper, and some dry tobacco. It took until 5 minutes after smoking the joint for me to notice anything, but the effect is wonderful!
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
Kludge
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You fucking rock man! I'm sitting here stoned off my ass from a plant I was going to throw away. My plant was very wet too, only a day dead, left to hang in the closet. I microwaved it for about 2 mins in 30 second shots to dry it up then used a heavy duty food processor to chop it up in to a fine mixture. Also I just used a coffee filter folded in half twice in the lid, no metal filter since it seemed redundant.
It's a real sneaky buzz too. Creapt right the fuck up on me but I am STONED, holy shit.
I used a 5 week old plant too. 3 weeks veg, 2 weeks flower. Yeah, I know that's too short a time for veg but it was as big as I wanted it. I'm using a CFL setup I put together myself and it does a fantastic job of making the plants super bushy 'cause I can drop the lights just below the tops of the plants. Or at least as bushy as I want them in my limited space. I'm using a 400 watt HPS for flower.
Damn I'm stoned. Didn't think it would work this well... really trippy kinda stoned.
It's a real sneaky buzz too. Creapt right the fuck up on me but I am STONED, holy shit.
I used a 5 week old plant too. 3 weeks veg, 2 weeks flower. Yeah, I know that's too short a time for veg but it was as big as I wanted it. I'm using a CFL setup I put together myself and it does a fantastic job of making the plants super bushy 'cause I can drop the lights just below the tops of the plants. Or at least as bushy as I want them in my limited space. I'm using a 400 watt HPS for flower.
Damn I'm stoned. Didn't think it would work this well... really trippy kinda stoned.
mexiblunt
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Why only two weeks flower? I just chopped one at 5 weeks flower cause it was starting to show bananas ans it's in a perpetual harvest cabinet so I didn't want it pollinating my other girls. Made oil with that as well.
Now can you imagine what a run with grade=A buds finnished to the end would be like?
Now can you imagine what a run with grade=A buds finnished to the end would be like?
Psychopump
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Actually, using skim and plant waste, you covert some other compounds into THC.
If on the other hand you use proper buds brimming with THC already, the process will turn a lot of the THC into Delta-5-THC which is much more hallucinogenic.
If on the other hand you use proper buds brimming with THC already, the process will turn a lot of the THC into Delta-5-THC which is much more hallucinogenic.
KillerWeed420
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I'm a big fan of BHO. Its so easy and cheap to do. Here's my home made extractor. Holds 5 ounces of dried, ground shake. End up with 5 grams of honey oil.
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Jesushasdreads
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im just waiting for my butane to come, it's suposed to be here one day this week.
darknezz
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Been doing this for awhile now, I've always just used pvc but stainless steel or glass would be best. Copper is supposed to be worse than pvc, at least that what some people say, so who knows. My tube holds around 3 oz ground packed and i have a metal sceen in the bottom of the end cap then just 1 coffee filter.
As far as yeild I see about a gram to an ounce of GROUND trim leaves, some fan leaves (ones that have any noticipal crystals on the stems) and you need a large can of butane for each gram to. So for a 3 oz tube it takes at least 2 cans. A BIG THING FOR QUALITY! When you use leaf and popcorn buds and GRIND it you get more black oil, like in my pic. If you just CRUSH up the leaf and lightly herb grind the bud and do the extraction you will get see though beutifull amber honey oil even off shit, just not much of it. If you just use bud you will also get this beutifull amber oil. I usually run though once with just crushed leaves then take it out grind it and go again. stems seem to be fine to, good ones.
For butane Ive use cheap and expensive and can't really tell a quality difference but it seems the more expensive stuff gets a little more, probly just filled fuller than the cheap stuff. The mirror test is nice, spray some butane on a mittor and wait a few secs, their should be allmost no residue and NO smell. But as for health effects of cheap and expensive butane who knows. Also the hotter the water bath the better during extraction and I like to stick mine in the frezer for awhile afterwards.
Oh and here in the northwest usa its $25 a gram for the darker stuff and $35+ for the golden
sounds cheap compared to elsewhere. 
yay for living in a smallish hippie town 
I'm new to this community and hope I've shared somthing of somewhat use to people that don't know much about BHO and read this and don't first read though other excellent tutorials where I have learned
Oh and using a soda bottle is definitally creative and super cheap and I NEVER would of thought of that... but cmon 2 bucks for some pvc, its gotta be better.
watch out for my future posts in growing
As far as yeild I see about a gram to an ounce of GROUND trim leaves, some fan leaves (ones that have any noticipal crystals on the stems) and you need a large can of butane for each gram to. So for a 3 oz tube it takes at least 2 cans. A BIG THING FOR QUALITY! When you use leaf and popcorn buds and GRIND it you get more black oil, like in my pic. If you just CRUSH up the leaf and lightly herb grind the bud and do the extraction you will get see though beutifull amber honey oil even off shit, just not much of it. If you just use bud you will also get this beutifull amber oil. I usually run though once with just crushed leaves then take it out grind it and go again. stems seem to be fine to, good ones.
For butane Ive use cheap and expensive and can't really tell a quality difference but it seems the more expensive stuff gets a little more, probly just filled fuller than the cheap stuff. The mirror test is nice, spray some butane on a mittor and wait a few secs, their should be allmost no residue and NO smell. But as for health effects of cheap and expensive butane who knows. Also the hotter the water bath the better during extraction and I like to stick mine in the frezer for awhile afterwards.
Oh and here in the northwest usa its $25 a gram for the darker stuff and $35+ for the golden
sounds cheap compared to elsewhere. yay for living in a smallish hippie town I'm new to this community and hope I've shared somthing of somewhat use to people that don't know much about BHO and read this and don't first read though other excellent tutorials where I have learned
Oh and using a soda bottle is definitally creative and super cheap and I NEVER would of thought of that... but cmon 2 bucks for some pvc, its gotta be better.
watch out for my future posts in growing
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Jesushasdreads
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that's how mine is except instead of plastic caps on the ends i use a rubber stopper in one end, then 2 fine mesh coffe filters wraped around the other end, and a paper coffee filter over that and clamp it down w/ a stainless steel hose clamp....but imo it's best to spring for a honeybee extractor....it's what im going to do next go around w/ the bho
herbose
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A simple question folks. Is there an equation to calculate how much butane to use for a given amount of herb? I know there's lots of variables but there seems to be lots of different size cans of butane. Saw Ronson 2.75 oz cans, but that looks real small. Saw a 7.8 oz can in a post here. Saw a 300 ml can today. What size cans do you use?
darknezz
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the big cans that I am talking about are all around 300ml, which is 10.6 oz. like I said I use 2 of those to 3oz of grinded. 1 can to just crushed, cause it only fits around an oz, thats to get the golder shizit. Ive never used small cans... Around here the good butane at headshops is $5, the cheap shit at quickie-marts and cash king is $2.49. You can get cases of Colbri and other high quality online at good prices. BTW I did the mirror test in the last week with Good brands Vector and Colbri, and the cheap shit which is "Mega" around here. Definitally more residue and smell with the cheap shit.
I am also confirming that I am getting more yeild of oil from the better brands.
I am also confirming that I am getting more yeild of oil from the better brands.
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herbose
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Thanks, exactly what I needed to know. +rep
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anomaloustango
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It is not safe. In fact where have you ever seen any evidence that the plastics used to store food are safe? Latest research says they aren't safe and probably cause cancer and god knows what else. It is especially unsafe to cook anything in plastic-- like microwave dinners. Even the inside of cans used for canned foods have dangerous plastic inside. Don't believe me? Yahoo! News on Yahoo! Video
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BPA which is used in flimsy rigid plastic containers is not safe to even use to store pepsi in let alone rinse with a strong sovent like butane. Just keep listening to fools who actually know nothing. End up with brain cancer or something and wonder why. Researchers who just last year poo pooed the danger of BPA have now swithched to stainless steel for personal water containers.
http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000054