NEVER FORGET SAFETY WHILE MAKING BHO

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So I have a story for everyone from tonight that I thought I should share so that people don't take after me and stop caring about safety working with butane. This stuff is incredibly flammable and if you do bring it inside you should never EVER have it in the same room as an open flame. Here's my story from just tonight about my BHO making experience gone wrong:

Be careful... seriously. I just made a batch tonight, using the exact same method I've used like every couple weeks with trim for years. But this time I blasted two tubes so I had a bit of excess butane.
When I waited for what seemed like long enough with the pan outside and I noticed that just that thin little pesky layer of very green butane is left, I brought it inside and put it over some preboiled water with the stove fan on and the Burner OFF. When I STILL had butane left after the water was no longer warm, which is rarely the case, I set the pan to the side on the counter while I went and heated it up again with the burner.

BAD IDEA. I've made bho so many times at this point that I started to think there's just no way the butane ignition point can be met with such small portions of butane so far away from the flame (stove burner). Man was I wrong. While boiling the water again I VISUALLY SAW THE FLAME FROM THE BURNER IGNITE A PATH OF GASEOUS BUTANE ALL THE WAY TO THE SHALLOW LAYER OF BUTANE LEFT IN THE PAN LIKE 6 OR 7 FEET FROM THE BURNER.
BUT the fire ball was nothing, now I had a 3 foot high flame coming out of my tiny little layer of butane that was sitting across the kitchen on the counter........... HOLY FUCK CAN A TINY LAYER OF LIQUID BUTANE MAKE A FLAME. Had I not been in the room my cabinets would have been on fire within the next minute.
LUCKILY I have been trained on how to handle a sort of disaster like this bc I work in a lab and I had it smothered as quick as I could grab the nearest blanket.

That's my story from literally like 2 hours ago. ALWAYS BE CAREFUL MAKING BHO. Do not skimp on being as safe as possible. Crazy shit happens.

The flame did however burn like all my butane and I smothered it quick enough to not ruin my oil and out came some yellow potent goodness anyways lolololol. I lost a bit of yield to the blanket... but that's one way to cure your bho REALLY FAST and exciting like. Wheeew I still have an adrenaline rush. Be safe. Lol.

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This info doesnt show up till page 2 but I see how some people speed reading this might not catch it. NEVER DID I PUT MY PAN CONTAINING THE BIT OF BUTANE LEFT OVER DIRECTLY ONTO THE BURNER. I originally had the burner off when I brought the (bit left of) butane indoors and just had hot, almostboiling water. Then when it got too cold but I still had butane I placed the pan containing the butane far to the side on the kitchen counter. THEN I turned the burner on and began boiling more water. (Which was still a mistake, but no I didn't place it right over the flame, yes that's common sense.
The butane gas still evaporating while not being under the stove vent was the problem. So it traveled across the counter to where the burner was (you can't see the gas obviously). Then the flame traveled the gas evap line (butane sinks) all the way to the butane pan. I saw this happen. It was crazy.
 
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Just read this in the other thread.

Not bright, bro.

Follow procedure EVERY time.

And tell us again how you have a degree in chemistry but were blasting and BURNING in the SAME ROOM INSIDE?!

WITHOUT A VENT HOOD?!

Dood. You even still have eyebrows?
 
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Alienwidow said:
Either way the hotplate is way fuckin safer than a propane range top....dicks. :p and who comes inside with a bunch of butane sloshing around in the pyrex anyway?
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I posted this in the other thread so here it is again lol. Seeing as this has blown up now...
Ok, maybe that wasn't as easy to pick up in the story as I intended.

Butane and all organic solvents that one would use for extractions (besides CO2) are very flammable. Butane being one of the most flammable. "So okay cool, don't light it on fire". But more importantly though, is that each solvent in gaseous form will have a certain point of ignition based off of a certain concentration of the gaseous solvent in the air. As you evaporate your butane, obviously it's going into the air. Some people (myself included) like to use hot water to speed up the evaporation up a bit. Otherwise it takes hours. I'd done this many times before but this time the hot water didn't evaporate the butane enough before getting cold again so my high ass just set the pan with butane on the counter in the same room (the kitchen) but away from the burner. Two yrs ago I'd have NEVER been so stupid but it got to the point where I began to think the "flash point" which is the point the concentration gaseous solvent in the air couldn't be reached that easily and when I turned my burner on stove on, a few minutes later, wtf my pan is on fire and it's like 6 feet away from the burner. I was careless bc I began to think there was less danger than I thought. I'm just telling the story so people who are in my same boat and could be becoming less cautious overtime as they make bho, don't light their bho on fire....
 
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Alienwidow said:
Either way the hotplate is way fuckin safer than a propane range top....dicks. :p and who comes inside with a bunch of butane sloshing around in the pyrex anyway?
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And NO absolutely NOT a hotplate is not safer than water from the exact reason I just posted prior. Hot plates still get hot enough to ignite if butane concentrations in the air are high enough. I normally NEVER turn the gas burner on while doing this... in fact when I first started I use to just bring boiling water outside and over time I became lazier and lazier with this and now I'm just like fuck it it's cold outside and bring it in when there's just that tiny bit left that's a pain to evaporate. (Which I could also tell you the science on as to WHY the last bit doesn't evaporate as much if you want...;))
Not gonna be like that anymore lol.

Ask any research scientist with PHD whether something has blown up in they're lab. 99% of the time the answer is YES.
 
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Alienwidow said:
You know the funny thing is that its always the guy who calls himself a scientist, or is a real scientist that blows himself up with butane. Idiots like me are way to scared of it to ever do that shit inside.
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Lolol THANK YOU THIS IS SO TRUE.

I found in undergrad that at least half the people intending to major in Chemistry are pyros. (Including me)

I'm sitting here laughing at this incident, as serious as it really should be taken
 
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