First batch of honey oil for 2020

[Bigbruce]

So today I ran the second half of my left over trim from this years harvest. The first run I got around 17g of honey oil.

I’ve built my system up over the years, I have a diy rig to hold the butane cans and a 2oz glass tube.

I use two tin trays as a double boiler on a heat plate and pfte paper to hold the oil. I use a laser thermometer to monitor the heat

Then It all does into a 5gal vacuum chamber that I heat with the hot plate.

Attached is a photo of what I got this run and the second is my setup when I ran the first half...

 

[Bigbruce]

Not a bad run, ended up with a nice chunk, it was heated to much when transitioning to the vacuum so went a bit dark otherwise a good return... now to find a good gummy recipe

 

[Bobby Boucher]

I hate to be that guy, but you really shouldn’t be evaporating off your butane with a hot plate. You shouldn’t even be wearing any synthetic fabrics, let alone running any juice.

Some people use warm water, but butane is hydrophilic, and will soak up a ton of the moisture. Ideally, you wouldn’t even blast on humid days, let alone over a puddle of water.

I’ll use a cast iron pan or a pizza stone if I want to chase off any tane, but I would just be patient and let it do it’s thing without a heat source.

You do want a closed column extractor. You can get one on amazon for a hundred bucks, and buy all sorts of different sized spools for it to accommodate your workload. It’ll reduce the amount of butane you have to use and pay for itself in no time.

Also, matting your dab together like that causes oxidation. I would blast into a ptfe lined dish sized for the patty you intend to pull, that way you can blast into it, purge on it, and then fold it up and be done with it.

These .35 sheets are the shit. I use the .08 stuff for pulling shatter patties, but these .35 sheets are perfect for blasting into and pouring out of.

Again, hate to be that guy. I’m no pro but electricity and butane do go kaboom.

Happy New Year, and stay safe.

 

[flylowgethigh]

Where can sheets of PTFE be found? I like the idea of evaporating on the sheet.

 

[Bobby Boucher]

Amazon.

You just have to make sure that you blast enough material into your dish to create at least 1/16-3/32" of oil, that way it'll come away clean from the ptfe.

Oil slick brand rolls only come in .08. I blast into these when I'm making smoking dabs, because the .35 stuff is too rigid to pull clean. The .35 stuff I just found a no name on amazon. I use that to blast the oil for my edibles and topicals into.

I form it by getting it warm and stuffing it into my 4" vacuum chamber with a 4" holesaw and allowing it to cool, or now I've found a 4" cylindrical tea container that fits right in there.

I squeegee it clean on a hotplate after decarbing and stuff it back into to my vacuum chamber for reforming. It'll hold a quart of liquid no problem, and hold it's shape in a 300 degree oven, but squeegee'ing it clean on a hotplate like I do flattens it back out.

 

[flylowgethigh]

I couldn't picture what is going on in the last paragraph. I think it reads that you blast into the formed PTFE sheet held inside a stainless container, but after that me no understando. My BHO is very runny, and when I heat it and stir while it is the same stainless catch I blasted into , it gets darker and stickier with the bubbles and stirring . I think I am just cooking off lower boiling point compounds and leaving the thick gooey tar, which my low temp pen can't evaporate into tar vapor.

I may change to do an oven decarb on buds like GW at 250, then blast and use that oil as is.

I am amazed at how good buds that have been soaked in butane smell. Seems like the terps remain.

 

[Bobby Boucher]

I don't decarb my dab unless I am eating it!

And I don't stir it! Stirring causes oxidation.

I blast my smoking dabs in a column surrounded by dry ice once my material reaches -30f. I keep it under 110f when I purge it, and I store it vacuum sealed in the freezer.

The whole idea of blasting into a .08 ptfe sheet (not pictured) within a particularly sized dish is so that you don't have to collect the dab at all. Once it evaporates, it should be in a dish shaped patty about 3/16" inch thick.

This is just a shitty image I sent over to a weedless buddy to invite him to smoke, and you can tell I've already cracked into the 4" circle a bit.

Purge it, cool it, and flip it over onto some parchment. The ptfe should easily peel off. No scraping, no buttering, no matting, no undue agitation.. just shiny glass.

More clarity, hardness (terpene retention), and shelf-life.

Smoking dabs and buds don't see high temps until they are consumed.

Also.. if your blasted material still smells really good, I would try rinsing it again.