I'm thinking of makin oil from my trimings after harvest need advice :)

MellowHaze

Active Member
alright fellow RIU member i've been researchin about makin oil and have a few questions

wants the smallest weight of trimings you can use?

were can i purcase a tube ie glass, plastic or somethin else to make it in?

is it 3x 500ml butane per 1kg of trimings?

thanks for the help?
 

8erich2

Member
my friend made oil and he burned it with some kind of butane in a pvc pipe he drilled a small hole at the bottom and covered the top and bottom with the plastic top.
 

researchkitty

Well-Known Member
Think of the yield of honey oil as this..... If its "Pure THC", and the plant has about a 15% THC rate, then for every 10 ounces you'd get 1.5 ounces of oil. However, trimmings have less than a 15% THC ratio, so that 10 ounces may only yield you about 0.5 ounces instead. Ignore usage rules for butane, just look at the liquid coming out of the bottom of the extractor - if its white/clear then it's done, if its yellow/brown its still got THC in the tube and its all coming out nicely.
 

harinama

Member
you could also just grind it fine, and wash it for 1-2min with 99% iso, filter & evapping afterward. Works great for me for trimmings and vape leftovers. Yum!
 

GoldenGanja13

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I took 1.5 oz of prime bud, grinded it all uo and placed it in a quart mason jar. Then added 95%/180 proof alcohol (Clear Spring). Shook once in the morning and once at night for 30 days (could be done in shorter time).
After 30 days I strained out the material and placed the "highly Flammable" green liquid in a glass pan and sat in front of a fan in the garage for plenty air. After a few hours I was left with a tar. I mixed the tar with Hemp oil and placed in amber bottles (not much). A dose under the tongue or placed in a capsule and swallowed made me feel like I was on Heroin. A very odd feeling for hours and hours. Next time I will use a Sativa.
 

kylecole420

Member
the pvc pipe method 8 erichw said is all i have ever seen. You take a peice of 1 inch pipe and cut it at 5 inches in length. Cap both ends and drill a hole in the top one just big enough for the butane tip to fit into. The bottom end needs to have several holes drilled in it and take some very fine screen and put it over the holes. You want the caps to be square not round so that you can sit the bottom end down in the dish that it will drip into. Fill the pipe with trimmings and put the cap on the top. Fill it will butane while the bottom is pressed down in the dish and when full just lift up and let it drip into the bowl and when you are sure the butane has evaporated scrape it up and enjoy. Oh yeah for the tiny top hole get a rag or something to cover it while the oil is dripping out don't use your finger. Might get frost bite.
 

OZUT

Active Member
Here's a good tutorial from another site....


Pouring ground bud into...The solvent situation
The process of making oil always involves using a solvent of some sort to dissolve the cannabis resins off the plant material, then somehow separating the solvent from the resin. The quality of the oil depends on the quality of your plant material, the amount of solvent you remove from the finished product, and the amount of time your solvent is exposed to the plant material.

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The amount of solvent removed from the oil is dependent upon what type of solvent you use and how you go about removing it.
Traditionally, isopropyl alcohol is used as a solvent as it's cheap, easy to come by and doesn't generally arouse suspicion from your local drugstore clerk. However, the problem with isopropyl is that it boils away at a relatively high temperature, making it fairly difficult to remove all of it from the finished product. Have you ever smoked thin, watery oil that tasted acrid? That's because not all of the isopropyl was removed. It's very unhealthy to be burning and inhaling alcohol. It's also a fire-hazard.


Fitting the butane...
Making oil with alcohol poses the same threat of fire, as you need to slowly boil off the isopropyl in a water bath, something that requires an open heat source such as an electric element or gas burner.
Alternatives to alcohol are ether and chloroform, both of which boil away at almost room temperature and therefore have a better chance of being completely removed from the oil. However, they are very hard to come by and there is the risk of not just fire, but succumbing to the anaesthetic fumes of either.
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onto the extractor.
The butane solution
In recent years, those in the know in Amsterdam have been using butane. The beauty of butane is that it's widely available, not outrageously expensive, and can reasonably be bought from your local hardware store as lighter refills.
Dutch seed guru Soma uses butane-derived oil in a 1:3 oil/bubble hash concoction called Jelly Hash, which can be stretched and played with like Silly Putty.


Butane flowing out the bottom of the Extractor
Another strength of butane as a solvent is that, because it's under pressure, it shoots out of the can quickly enough not to be dallying around the plant material. In order to get the resin into the solvent, the solvent is usually poured over the plant material or the plant material is soaked in the solvent for a short period of time and then removed. One concern is that if you expose the solvent to the cannabis for too long, you'll start to dissolve off not just the THC-laden resins, but also chlorophyll, waxes and other naturally occurring substances that will degrade the oil's potency, color and taste. So you want to get in and out of there as quickly as possible.
The basic concept is a thick plastic tube with a tiny hole at one end and a perforated cap with a filter at the other. safety precautions you should take while making oil ( wear goggles, no baggy clothes, don't smoke, use ventilation) and trippy techno beats.



Put bowl in another...
The procedure is simple:
1. Grind anywhere from 3g to 28g of shake/trim/bud (or some combination thereof) in a coffee grinder.
2. Put it in the Honey Extractor and close the cap.
3. Hold the Extractor filter-side down over a Pyrex bowl.
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bowl of hot water.
4. Fit the tip of the butane can into the little hole.
5. Press down hard, waiting about 30 seconds or so for the Butane to flow out the bottom of the Extractor.
6. Feel like Bill Nye the Science Guy with your safety goggles on and the superkewl clouds of vapor rising about you!
7. Put the bowl in another bowl of hot water, or on a hot water bottle.


Remaining oil after the butane has evaporated.

8. Wait about 15 to 20 minutes for the Butane to evaporate completely.
9. Scrape the oil off the bowl.
10. Put it into one of those wee elfin bottles people put oil into.
11. Get very stoned.


Honey oil on blade.

Altogether used 21g of ganja to make approximately 1.5 g of oil of two grades ? the first "wash" which is the purest and the second and third which are still pretty damn good. Both were deep amber in color and before I heated them, looked exactly like creamy taffy. Or perhaps, honey.


oil on tin foil.Most importantly, is Honey Bee oil any good?
 

OZUT

Active Member
whats the best thing to make the tube out of? i've heard pvc and others can explode wen filling with butane

:bigjoint:

You'll be fine with PVC, it won't explode on you....a metal pipe is more durable....Cost of either shouldn't be more than $10
 

jack the beanstalk

Active Member
The butane makes this not very cost effective. My solvent of choice is Acetone. It evaporates 100% and has no poison additives like butane can. Acetone is the organic industry standard for extracting essential oils from plants for tinctures and supplements. All you do is get a poly paint filter, fill it with your well broken up material, lightly ground. Dip it completely in the acetone for 20 seconds, pull it out and let drip. Then you can filter it more through a coffee filter ot get the sediment out. I evaporate that outside on an electric skillet in a 9X11 pan with a respirator on. The result is the most amazing honey oil ever. Sometimes I mix keif back in to it for an earwax product that will fuck you up with a pin head size piece on a screen. It turns to the smallest bit of white ash.
 

GoldenGanja13

Well-Known Member
This is by far the best method I have heard of yet. I never liked the idea of using butane.
The butane makes this not very cost effective. My solvent of choice is Acetone. It evaporates 100% and has no poison additives like butane can. Acetone is the organic industry standard for extracting essential oils from plants for tinctures and supplements. All you do is get a poly paint filter, fill it with your well broken up material, lightly ground. Dip it completely in the acetone for 20 seconds, pull it out and let drip. Then you can filter it more through a coffee filter ot get the sediment out. I evaporate that outside on an electric skillet in a 9X11 pan with a respirator on. The result is the most amazing honey oil ever. Sometimes I mix keif back in to it for an earwax product that will fuck you up with a pin head size piece on a screen. It turns to the smallest bit of white ash.
 

OZUT

Active Member
The butane makes this not very cost effective. My solvent of choice is Acetone. It evaporates 100% and has no poison additives like butane can. Acetone is the organic industry standard for extracting essential oils from plants for tinctures and supplements. All you do is get a poly paint filter, fill it with your well broken up material, lightly ground. Dip it completely in the acetone for 20 seconds, pull it out and let drip. Then you can filter it more through a coffee filter ot get the sediment out. I evaporate that outside on an electric skillet in a 9X11 pan with a respirator on. The result is the most amazing honey oil ever. Sometimes I mix keif back in to it for an earwax product that will fuck you up with a pin head size piece on a screen. It turns to the smallest bit of white ash.
He's right about it not being cost effective...It's faster and better producing but definately not cost effective...Although I haven't tried it with acetone, I doubt it'll extract more than the butane. But still, if you're looking for a cheaper but just as good method, go with the acetone
 

GoldenGanja13

Well-Known Member
I just don't dig Butane. If acetone gives a clean burn, well thats what I would want. I have not tried either method.
 

OZUT

Active Member
Either one will work bro...Don't worry about explosions, just do it outside and don't have flames or sparks nearby, including cigs...
 

jack the beanstalk

Active Member
He's right about it not being cost effective...It's faster and better producing but definately not cost effective...Although I haven't tried it with acetone, I doubt it'll extract more than the butane. But still, if you're looking for a cheaper but just as good method, go with the acetone
It will indeed be the biggest producing solvent to use for honey oil. I learned this from a thread where a guy tests three solvents, iso, ace, and but and he got 15% more than either way with the acetone. My numbers might not be exact but it was the largest yielder.
 
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