METHOD

• In one of the PVC end caps, drill a single small hole in the center. This hole should be correctly sized to snugly receive the little outlet nozzle of your butane can.
• In the other end cap, drill a group of 5 or 6 small holes clustered in the center (like a pepper shaker).
• After putting a piece of paper towel or coffee filter inside it for filtration, put the end cap with several holes on one end of the pipe. Push it on there real tight. This is the bottom.
• Fill the pipe up with plant matter that has been pulverized into a coarse powder. You want it filled, but not packed down. (Full pipe estimated at 1.5 oz capacity, but this is a guess. I did not weigh it.)
• Place the top end cap on the pipe. Again, push it on as securely as you can by hand.
• Find a location outdoors with a decent breeze. You want these butane fumes to be quickly carried away. Seriously.
• 6a) Mount the pipe (single hole-side up) over a vessel that can hold 300mL+. Beakers are perfect. A lab stand and clamp are ideal for the mounting, but a regular shop clamp or anything that can hold it sturdily is fine. (Avoid metal if you can, to reduce the chance of sparks.) Position the bottom end of the pipe immediately over (1-2") the receiving vessel to eliminate splatter loss.
• Turn the butane gas can upside down and dispense the gas into the pipe via the single top hole. A whole 8-oz can takes about 10-12 seconds to evacuate. Be brave, swift, and careful. A spark at this moment would spell disaster since you have basically created an incendiary explosive device that is leaking.
• When you've exhausted the can into the pipe, back off to a nice distance and let it do its thing. The butane moves down the pipe, extracting the cannabis as it goes. When it gets to the bottom (~30 seconds after dispensing), it begins to drain into the receiving vessel. Notice the pale, glowing yellow-green-gold hue of the extract. It is obvious no chlorophyll was pulled out of the herb.

Over approximately five to eight minutes, the butane extract willfinish draining from the pipe to thereceiving vessel. Maintaincaution with the pipe, however, since there is a lot of residualbutane stillevaporating from within the pipe (notice the stream of fumescoming from the top hole). When it slows down to a drop every fewseconds, you can tap on the top hole with your finger and it willhelp push the last of the liquid butane out (or one can gently blow intothe top hole to do the same thing). Remember, NO SMOKING, unless youwish to immolate yourself in grand fashion.
Being very low-boiling and volatile, the collected butane will likely begin boiling at ambient temperature.
The receiving vessel will gradually frost up as the butane cools it down, slowing down its rate of evaporation, but you can speed this up again simply by holding it in your hands. A better way is to set it in a saucepan containing a little bit of warm water. Watch the butane start bubbling madly with the increase in temperature and marvel at its low boiling point. Again, be doing this outdoors with a nice breeze! It takes about 20 minutes or so to allow the butane to evaporate, or quicker if you help it along. You are left with a deep amber, almost orange oil of amazing purity.
The best way to collect and store the oil is probably to let all of the butane evaporate off and then redissolve the oil in some anhydrous or high-% alcohol, and then pour this into a vial and let it sit out for a day or two to allow the alcohol to evaporate. Trying to transfer the oil into a small container while it is still solvated by the butane is too risky. I learned the hard way about this, thanks to the volatile temperament of butane. I had filled a vial almost all the way to the top and was preparing to drop those last couple drops in, so that cleverly, I could let the last of the butane evaporate from the vial and the oil would all be neatly contained. But when the last drop hit the mother lode in the vial, it changed the temperature of the solution in the vial upward by a hair and it all "superboiled" out of the vial and onto my fingers, which of course startled me and caused me to drop the vial. I suggest dissolving it in alcohol as I mentioned above. If you can get pure or 99% isopropanol (isopropyl), use it, because THC's photosensitivity reportedly does not occur in isopropanol.
The final product is a deep yellow-amber oil of the highest quality, incredibly pure and potent. I remember well some of the prime "honey oil" hash oils that hit the market in the late 1970s, and this stuff stands up to (if not exceeds) any of them. It's amazing how this method extracts only the good fraction and leaves the junk in the weed. But that's exactly what it does. Note also that this oil has a somewhat higher melt/vaporization point than traditional hash oils; the traditional dispensing method (dipping a needle or paper clip in, getting some goop on the end, and warming it with a flame to get it to drip off into your bowl) still works with this stuff, but it seems you have to be more careful with it because it doesn't heat to liquid state as quickly or in the same manner, and it can more easily be allowed to burn up on your needle. So be careful.
Those who prefer a tincture-like preparation can of course thin the product a little with a bit of warm high-percentage alcohol like Everclear or 90-whatever-% isopropyl, then drop it onto buds or let a joint absorb some, then let the alcohol evaporate. I also observed that unlike hash oil derived from traditional methods, this product is not immediately soluble in room-temp alcohol; it needed to be warmed before it dissolved fully.
So there it is. Spread the word far and wide: honey oil is BACK

shit i didnt get it all

SOUNDS GOOD!!

I will give this a try my next harvest with 1.5 OZ's of my popcorn buds.
Or do you just use the clippings?

u pretty much just use anything from ur plant u just gota bit it in like a coffie grinder and get it pretty much like a powder

I have an expresso/coffee grinder for this stuff....

yup thats what i use have u ever broke a blade on dence bud

Let me ask you.. which I know there is always factors.. But how much oil do you think I can get from a strain that has like 15% THC per each OZ I put in it.
And what is the Min you think I shoulkd start with? It seems like this sytem should not be over loaded. It is not like I can do a LB with it all at once. but one part at a time, yes.


Am I wrong? I am guessing. Do you know Min/Max on how much you can do at once?


Thanks Chab.

idk about thc percentage and all of that i made oil outa hemp the stuff that people say is shit and made the best oil eva i took a drop of it and put it on my tounge and was imeditaly gon e this was with the rubbing alchol methad of coust to be ahonsest havnt had a chance to use the butain methed i was on a site one day and the said that outa 16gs of trmings and such thay got 4gs of homey oil if u use bud uall get wicked awsome oil

I would advise against powdering up your bud to blast the butane through it.
In a pvc tube the butane gets icy cold and frost/ice forms on the outside of the tube....the finer ground the bud is...the harder it is for the butane liquid to flow down the tube. Chop it up..but don't make a fine powder out of it. Make it more like a coarse smoking mixture ...and gently pack it in the tube by tapping the tube on a hard surface. DON'T press it down or again it will become too compacted.

be careful with the liquid. NO flames..it will boil just from the heat of yer hand (but you will FREEZE..and I mean FREEZE your hand so don't try it). I use a metal mixing bowl to catch the liquid...then sit that on a warm washrag...re warming it as needed/as the boiling action slows down. That...or just lightly cover it to keep dirt/shit out and sit it in the sun all day.

When it SEEMS that all of the butane is gone...double boil it for 15-30 minutes... after it cools a bit you can sample it...but I personally like to let it sit for a few weeks before smoking it...

it's tough on the lungs but it'll give you a taste that is outta this world

and a high to match...

bt dt

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wait so u just let it sit wont it dry out ?? i heard that u had to ajitate it and then it will crystalize