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Over the months i collected trash from my leftover of smoking in a jar: the leaves i trim from the buds before smoking, small piece of hash that jumped out of joints... All from dutch coffee shops, so the quality was high.
I cannot tell how much it was but i bought 1 liter of 99 ISO and i poured it in the jar, and it was one finger above the weed.
I did some changes anyhow: The local Albert Heijn was out of coffee filters, so i gently shook the jar for 1.30 minutes and then i poured the solution trough a fine metal mesh.
Unfortunatly some weed fall in the solution, so i have to take it out with my bare hands.
Now i'm warried: Maybe something on my hands tainted the solution, or the metal mesh tainted the solution... And the metal mesh wasn't fine enough to block also the resin...
Do you think is smokeable anyhow?
Actually is on the balcony, in a windy day, so i hope it will drain soon enough...
the ones i use come from my box cutter from when i used to work at a grocery store. you could ask a grocery store employee for a few or probably find a pack of them down the gm isle, or at a hardware store. if you can find the 1 sided ones use pliers to hold one end while you scrape. some tasty lookin iho guys
One question tho, On a hit I got a bit of alcohol aftertaste when i exhaled. This only happened on one bowl that ipacked and my friend said it too. Did I mabey not reduce it enough?? ( there was NOTHING left) or is 99% mabey a bit too strong??
N_G
p.s. K+ to Shmike for posting this and to nycdfan420 ( i found the link to this in your sig)
alcool take a bit to 100% evaporate... And it's quite toxic to smoke.
Stop smoking the oil and let it dry a bit more, or make budder, or light the oil with a fire before smoking it.
Edit: Not to sound rude to you, but just to inform you, i'll tell you that inhaled ISO is hepatoxic, may lead to cornea clouding, may lead to kidney, liver and nerve damage, it's a CNS depressant and cause a big Osmolal gap, leading to cytolysis.
yea, it was just this one bowl tho...i dunno coulda even been the weed underneath, me being over paranoid, god knows what. But i didnt know that it was "hepatoxic" or that it could lead to those, i just knew that smoking it was bad for you not why. I also let it cook for about 20 min, then scraped as much as i could then heated it up again to go for a second and third pass.
yeah but do you think that the byproducts of iso combustion would be of significant concern, considering the quantity of iso that would be in a few hits of oil? i mean acetomenaphin (Tylenol) is hepatoxic, so is ethanol (booze), any number of products that are commonly used. the solvent is so volatile that the amount left in the QUISO must be minute. in liquid oil i dont know, i'm bettin' that most of that is H2O left over.
the potentially damaging effects of inhaling burnt iso (which would i think for the main part convert to H2O) might be insignificant to the hazard of say inhaling the smoke off a joint or a cig, or drinking a bottle of vodka, or the smog during rush hour commute.
tho i seemed to have skipped a step, which i guess would make my stuff alot runnier,
i have been going straight from wash to a fine silk coffee filter, where it takes some time to drain from the Weed..
then popping it all onto a plate and sitting it on top of my bbq lid on low heat for some time untill its rather golden and next to no signs of iso left.
i think i will follow it better next time to make sure, taken me to find 100% iso in larger quantities too..
can't get 100% that i know of, unless mabey a scientist with a job that would order that stuff for you. I used 99% but it was POWERFULL i suggest going with even a 90%
how long can we store the resin in the alchahol before we evaporate it can we keep it for some weeks till we have washed all our weed with the same lot of iso alcahol hence getting a real thick and strong oil ???????
O B G
thanks don dump was hoping to store it for a while was thinking no cop will pay that much attention to it coz it's to flamable ..
and a good way to hide your resin ..
OBG the stuff below is 99.5% amd it's pharmacutical grade so it's real clean ! !
ok so i did it good and proper today did a few washed and collected them all in one container.
after evaporating the iso, which its been sitting on the bbq lid for a while, on low which gives the lid a nice warm touch. i am left with a glazed ring around the plate.. and powdery in the middle..
should i let it sit for some more? untill the glazed looking ring is gone? or is it good to go?
Schmike - you are a ganja god and a gentleman! Thank you for the walk through - just ran my first attempt (used a heat pad - slight variation to your method) and am way impressed with the outcome
Thanks to you and EVERYONE who has put up info in this thread - such a great way to get some meds from a source you might not expect!
alright, for some reason i couldnt read the original post with all the directions. I read some brief explanation on the net and my weed bible that roughly explained it but i still have a few questions. First, i used trim/stems/popcorn nugs, i had them in ziplocks in the freezer for a few days. I only filled one mason jar today with a test run cause i wasnt sure if i was doing it right. I put the stems/trim into a mason jar and added 99% ISO alcohol to it. Shook it up for about 10 minutes and let it sit for about an hour and a half. After that i strained it through a coffee filter onto a plate and let it sit to evaporate. Now i know i missed a step because the liquied that filtered was green, so how do iget it to the Blonde color like you'r guys? Im hoping when i get home in a bit it will be all evaporated and i will have some hash to smoke lol.
Alright found the tutorial and the problem. no strainer to coffee filter, and i let the alcohol sit with the trim too long. Will it still be okay if it was in the alcohol for that long? some damn site i read said it could sit in there for an hour to days wtf lol
You should be fine. From what I've read on here the reason to only wash for 15-20 seconds is for a blonder, more pure oil. After that the plant matter begins to break down and your oil will turn darker, or black.