Extraction tube

KLITE

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Hi all

Can you complete a successful extraction if not feeling up tube all the way with plant material, lets say half for instance?

Thanks
 

Carolina Dream'n

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I'm not a huge fan of it. You can so what snaps said. Id imagine if u put the filters before the product you will loose less yield.
 

oilmkr420

Active Member
I did a quick tube extraction, only partially filled, and forgot the prep needed in securing caps, and had a slight blow off as I covered most and lost only a small amount of weed. The things like threads I take for granted. The thing that's disappointing is how little a rinse does. I way dig the resident time weed spends under pressure instead.
 

oilmkr420

Active Member
Acetone. When people throw away saturated bho filters I recover the goods w acetone as it leaves no trace or taste of ever being used. It leaves the coffee filters white after.
 

Carolina Dream'n

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I can never get the last butane outta the weed either, key is previous butane already ran out with the goods. If discharge is running clear of oil, who cares about the leftover butane, it did its job pushing out the good stuff.
Valid point. In a closed loop now, so don't have to worry about, well anything really :)
 

Twitch

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I am not a fan of the term de waxing sleeve, it is a dry ice sleeve for your column. This is a technique that can be utilized by freezing the tube to cut down on the fats waxes and lipids taken up by the solvent, and you can do side by side take some oil ran after packing then take some oil that was blasted after it sat in dry ice for 24 hours, then drop some in everclear
 

disposition84

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I've seen two ways now where people are completely dwaxing using a CLS and sleeved tubes, in conjunction with better filtering than standard viton screens.

1. Swagelocks on your material column sleeve, remove the spool and let sit in freezer with dry ice to freeze overnight and finish through your whatman filters next day.

2. Secondary spool in which is used solely for dewaxing spool, after mixture is in material sleeve, push/pull to next tube where it sits to chill and then run over your whatman filters.

I've tried the old school winterization methods a bunch of times and always leaves me lacking in flavor, not sure if I'm just not doing something right, but figured it was the alch
in the mixture that was causing this to happen. I could be wrong, terps could freeze out either way, but with them being oil based I figured they'd be able to stay with the single solvent.
The CLS game is exploding right now with all kinds of people trying new things and building impressive feats of machinery.
 

KLITE

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Hm wouldnt the butane keep presure in the tube? And just pushing down whatever plant material towards end of tube?
I say this cause once on a pretty small tube i only filled it 3/4 or so and it seemed to have done that...
Im having some confusion as to wadded means in this case, so id just get a sick amount of cofee filters and roll em like i store the cash? Like for pringles boxes you mean?
 

oilmkr420

Active Member
Haha. This is true! Now if I may ask, why are you guys so obsessed w dewaxing? It takes any bulk which is a part of heavy yields, in efforts to increase potency, but once it's introduced to the extract, its removal is almost impossible. It's solely an attempt to raise the product purity, but wastes time, effort, and costly solvent. The rewards aren't worth putting wax in their in the first place vs higher pressures and temperatures which is the source of bulky waxy yields.
 

oilmkr420

Active Member
Hm wouldnt the butane keep presure in the tube? And just pushing down whatever plant material towards end of tube?
I say this cause once on a pretty small tube i only filled it 3/4 or so and it seemed to have done that...
Im having some confusion as to wadded means in this case, so id just get a sick amount of cofee filters and roll em like i store the cash? Like for pringles boxes you mean?
Storing anything saturated in butane poses serious fire risks. Coffee filters, plant matter, spills that get wiped up w paper towels, can suddenly spontaneously combust if not stored in an air tight container. They are more likely to catch fire on a hot day, but an abundance of them can self ignite esp in O2 rich environments. So careful storing these things of such temperamental nature.
 
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