Honey oil with galvanized steel?

Its my understanding that all galvanized steel is just steel coated with zinc.

My question is can I replace glass with galvanized steel to make honey oil? I'll be useing butane.

RMM said:

Its my understanding that all galvanized steel is just steel coated with zinc.

My question is can I replace glass with galvanized steel to make honey oil? I'll be useing butane.

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yeah im sure you could but glass is best your going to have to scrape the finished product out of whatever you collect it in so i like glass as nothing is scraped up besides the extract and if you do chip or scrape up some glass it wont hurt you if smoked and it imparts no smell and cant corrode

DO NOT BY ANY MEANS CONSUME ANYTHING YOU COOK ON GALVANIZED!! It is coated in zinc and if you want to get the shakes as they call it and as sick as you ever been with the worst headache like someones got a spoon gouged in you cerebellum and keeps twisting it, then by all means go ahead. I used to be a welder and had to weld galvanized from time to time and that shit is deadly.

do you mean to use steel as the tube? cause you can use a plastic water bottle instead.

Galvanized is a no-no, the shit can hurt you bad.

i use pvc as the extractor tube which does not react with butane. and a pyrex glass cooking dish for collection this is a common method and works well. the other posts i think were clear in that the galvanized steel is a poor choice stainless steel would mostly give off some iron which is ok within reason but zinc is much easier to overdose on. seriously just use glass and or pvc if you can.

Cool thanks guys.

I was going to use a pipe and empty the butane down it and collect in a pyrex dish. I thought PVC was a bad choice? and Ther will be no heat what so ever on the steel just the Polar solvet butane, that why I thought it would be okay. lol I cant find a glass tube to suit my purpose tho thats why I thought the EMT/Riged pipe would be a good choice.. I can get my hand on it real easy. Also thinking copper but heard it gives off a bad taste.

pvc is safe and is not affected by butane. think about lighters as an example there plastic and contain butane glass is best but pvc is fine. i have made many ounces of bho with my extractor without issue or sings of any degradation.

Yeah, PVC is your best bet.

It's cheap to make the setup for honey oil using PVC.

Really? That make my life so much easier. That makes it down to maybe two things I need to buy, three if Im unlucky.

Is ther a special type of PVC? or just what home depot sales?

standard pvc is fine just clean with hot water just to remove any undesirables it may have contacted to be on the safe side.

no one ever used a plastic water bottle? it works great.

everyone knows a Honey Bee Extractor only costs like $25 bucks right?

and a plastic bottle is FREE!!

floridasucks said:

and a plastic bottle is FREE!!

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this i know. and i too have made perfectly good oil with homemade devices. but i think that for less than an hours wage the peace of mind a purpose built item brings it worthwhile. i mean we are playing with compressed, flammable gas here. anyone ever see the seal on a homemade extractor blow? i have....try cleaning BHO off everything in your garage.

SlikWiLL13 said:

anyone ever see the seal on a homemade extractor blow? i have....try cleaning BHO off everything in your garage.

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now that would suck.

floridasucks said:

now that would suck.

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the honey bee is the same thing as what i made myself but it was free. i have made many ounces of bho with mine without issue

It is not a good idea.. Galvanized material are zinc coated because the zinc reacts with atmosphere to zinc oxide and zinc carbonate.. Granted these are pretty harmless when not heated, but galvanization is not perfect.. The iron below eventually deteriorates, and therefore larger than expected concentrations of zinc may be easily removed and end up in the product, and when these are subjected to heat, their vapor can be very toxic..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever

Well I think I got my desgin down. A pvc cap on top with pipe in the middle and Im going to take a look at home depot to see what I can find for a filter, if nothing eles coffee filter or something simalar

You can get good filters at wine brewing places.. Yeast goes through a coffee filter like there is no tomorrow, so those filters will be much better..