If I vac purge a solution of Butane50%thc50% in ethanol, will the butane evaporate first?

Thanks for the reply. Looking to skip the complications of vac purge all together and just dissolve the gooey butaney wax in everclear and dry that out.

Will the butane be gone before the alcohol?

It should help...I add a little everclear to my Pyrex before I scrape n vac now, dosent hurt the taste/smell much and I feel better knowing there is less of a chance of butane residues

Sounds like you are attempting to winterize

Dissolve wax in ever clear
Freeze the solution for 24-48hrs
Filter the solution through 2 coffee filters and than let it evaporate in a large Pyrex

This will remove the butane, along with waxes and lipids

ImGrowingWeed said:

Thanks for the reply. Looking to skip the complications of vac purge all together and just dissolve the gooey butaney wax in everclear and dry that out.

Will the butane be gone before the alcohol?

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Yes it works great, as bublonic said you can just add some ethanol to your dish and purge as you normally would.
The butane will be gone long before the alcohol is gone, and this is an effective way to purge all remaining butane but your still left with the waxes that the butane picks up which means your going to get a thin film of wax coating the top of your extract and making it harder to purge.
That's the reason most people winterize.

Sounds like purging a "winterized" shatter is easier than purging a putty of just bho

ImGrowingWeed said:

Sounds like purging a "winterized" shatter is easier than purging a putty of just bho

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For the most part I think that's true, because the waxes are what would potentially trap the butane and a lot of the purging process has to do with removing that small amount of butane that is trapped inside your wax.

Alcohol can be make quite hot. It won't boil before 173F at sea level.

So, you can heat the alcohol in the microwave, in a pyrex measuring cup. Then you can eject from your open extractor tube, directly into the alcohol.

Being warm it purges the butane. When it stops fizzing, it can go into to the freezer in one, no scrape, step.

Thanks guys this is dank advice!!! Definitely shooting into everclear next time. But I will shoot into everclear in DRY ICE so I winterize straight away.

ImGrowingWeed said:

Thanks guys this is dank advice!!! Definitely shooting into everclear next time. But I will shoot into everclear in DRY ICE so I winterize straight away.

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You can't really winterize with both non-polar and polar solvents mixed. Purge the butane before cooling.

ImGrowingWeed said:

Thanks guys this is dank advice!!! Definitely shooting into everclear next time. But I will shoot into everclear in DRY ICE so I winterize straight away.

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The best way to utilize dry ice when your trying to winterize is by cooling the alcohol without making direct contact with the alcohol, all the boiling caused by the dry ice will not allow the waxes to drop to the bottom.
If your having trouble getting waxes to drop out, maybe try adding some water to the alcohol to make it more polar

ImGrowingWeed said:

Thanks guys this is dank advice!!! Definitely shooting into everclear next time. But I will shoot into everclear in DRY ICE so I winterize straight away.

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Interesting.

That reminds me of another jewel I found.

The bath tables. You get a stable temp as long as the Ice lasts. I will use the first one I BOLDED, to make sure the Butane is liquid in the recovery phase. Ice water is stlll a couple of degrees too warm.

And the second one I will use in the cold trap or cold finger, it's sometimes called, to protect the pump from alcohol vapor. A final temp crash to -78C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_bath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cooling_baths

Ice Water 0
Ice Ammonium chloride -5 0.3 to 1 ratio of salt to ice.
Liquid N2 Aniline -6
Ice Sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate -8 1.1 to 1 ratio of salt to ice.
Ice Calcium chloride hexahydrate -10 1 to 2.5 ratio of salt to ice.
Liquid N2 Ethylene glycol -10
Liquid N2 Cycloheptane -12
Dry ice Benzyl alcohol -15
Dry ice Ethylene glycol -15
Ice Sodium chloride -20 1 to 3 ratio of salt to ice.
Dry ice Tetrachloroethylene -22
Dry ice Carbon Tetrachloride -23
Dry ice 1,3-Dichlorobenzene -25
Dry ice o-Xylene -29
Liquid N2 Bromobenzene -30
Dry ice m-Toluidine -32
Dry ice 3-Heptanone -38
Ice Calcium chloride hexahydrate -40 1 to 0.8 ratio of salt to ice.
Dry ice Acetonitrile -41
Dry ice Pyridine -42
Dry ice Cyclohexanone -46
Dry ice m-Xylene -47
Dry ice Diethyl carbitol -52
Dry ice n-Octane -56
Dry ice Isopropyl Ether -60
Dry ice Chloroform -61
Liquid N2 Chloroform -63 [2]
Dry ice Ethanol -72
Dry ice Trichloroethylene -73
Dry ice Isopropyl alcohol -77
Liquid N2 Butyl acetate -77
Dry ice Acetone -78