Pressurized Closed column extraction

Crippykeeper said:

Thank you 50 grams of year old but vac sealed sour diesel pop corn nug 3 cans of whip it 7x ended up with 9. Something grams back.

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Hey man I'm a little curious about your numbers. Only 9 grams from almost 2 zips of popcorn nug? I open blasted just over 5 oz of untrimmed nugs and received roughly 30 grams(picture of batch). I recently purchased a closed collum in hope of increasing my yields, but is that not the case?

personal lux said:

Hey man I'm a little curious about your numbers. Only 9 grams from almost 2 zips of popcorn nug? I open blasted just over 5 oz of untrimmed nugs and received roughly 30 grams(picture of batch). I recently purchased a closed collum in hope of increasing my yields, but is that not the case?

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That looks killer bro. As for my numbers I'll be the first to say they are not impressive but I can't seem to get more than 4.5 grams for every 28/30 grams of that old sour diesel. That's using the closed column when I would do regular open blast with that same material I would only get 3.5 g back for my 28/30 grams in. So the pressurized column did increase yield.

I ran some slog bout 2 weeks ago and that yielded me 5.Something grams from an oz open blasted. But haven't had the chance to blast another zip of that to confirm first results. But if I was to guess the sour diesel I was blasting was lower in THC content thus the low % returns. But it was tasty smoke.

Here's some purple pooch I open blasted as well I don't remember weight but this was the funk shatter

Crippykeeper said:

That looks killer bro. As for my numbers I'll be the first to say they are not impressive but I can't seem to get more than 4.5 grams for every 28/30 grams of that old sour diesel. That's using the closed column when I would do regular open blast with that same material I would only get 3.5 g back for my 28/30 grams in. So the pressurized column did increase yield.

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Okay so you are getting a good 25% increase in yield then. I was hoping to go from 5-6 to 7-8 with the pressurized. What I posted is a live resin nug run of a clone variety called Tahoe Cure.

Yes increase in yield much darker product but still taste and smokes great. Do you have a picture of that tahoe by any chance ?

Crippykeeper said:

Yes increase in yield much darker product but still taste and smokes great. Do you have a picture of that tahoe by any chance ?

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okay crippy i just ordered a 180g unit and should get it by this wednesday i was wondering what time you soak your product for the video said they soak for an hour.. but in this post you said a few minutes just curious. dont wanna screw up a batch

Kodakle said:

okay crippy i just ordered a 180g unit and should get it by this wednesday i was wondering what time you soak your product for the video said they soak for an hour.. but in this post you said a few minutes just curious. don't wanna screw up a batch

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I tried soaking 10min once I pulled a lot of junk most I soak now is 3min even at 3mins I still end up with darker oil. still taste and smokes great just not as pretty as open blasting. good luck let me know how it goes

some florida og 6grams out of 30in open blasting no soaking

Crippykeeper said:

View attachment 3668506 some florida og 6grams out of 30in open blasting no soaking

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Do you freeze your butane and column in dry ice an hour before extraction? I plan on doing that to give me good color and keep Wax out, and Do you use the closed column open to open blast now or do you have another tube setup you use. And I will be sure to let you know and post pictures I have 6lbs of really good small nug/ sugar leaf to blast

I freeze material and butane. Ive tried regular ice in a tub with salt that was the 10min soak. haven't tried dry ice maybe that's why I'm pulling so much junk. did you get the pressure gauge ?

Crippykeeper said:

I freeze material and butane. Ive tried regular ice in a tub with salt that was the 10min soak. haven't tried dry ice maybe that's why I'm pulling so much junk. did you get the pressure gauge ?

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I didn't is that a big deal? I can just attatch one if it is

Crippykeeper said:

I freeze material and butane. Ive tried regular ice in a tub with salt that was the 10min soak. haven't tried dry ice maybe that's why I'm pulling so much junk. did you get the pressure gauge ?

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Also do you use you closed column instead of soaking to open blast or another unit?

hi

i just got a passive closed loop system .....for the last 3 weeks this is all i have worked on
the freezing is very important .......the colder the better (just know dry ice and denatured alc is the best -109f)

freezing the plant materal while holding the butane on it ....is the most effective way to strip off the oil but lock up the chlorophyll in the icecrystals (the buds and trim still have some moisture in the cells when this freeze it keeps the pigments from getting stiped off)

doing this while the system starts under vacuum is even better as the butane comes over as liguid not gas needing to reform .......the cold helps this too

now soaking the plant materal is all well and goof but to long those crystals will get bigger and water will come out with your oil (this is what i learned) 10 20 mins about the maximum u want to let it set( 5 10 mins once the tank is emptied in) gives u time to weight the tank see what was taken out make sure all of it was then open it up zero it out and then revac the tank for recovery

u should get some light amber to nearly clear oil done right

please correct me if i am wrong

justugh said:

hi

i just got a passive closed loop system .....for the last 3 weeks this is all i have worked on
the freezing is very important .......the colder the better (just know dry ice and denatured alc is the best -109f)

freezing the plant materal while holding the butane on it ....is the most effective way to strip off the oil but lock up the chlorophyll in the icecrystals (the buds and trim still have some moisture in the cells when this freeze it keeps the pigments from getting stiped off)

doing this while the system starts under vacuum is even better as the butane comes over as liguid not gas needing to reform .......the cold helps this too

now soaking the plant materal is all well and goof but to long those crystals will get bigger and water will come out with your oil (this is what i learned) 10 20 mins about the maximum u want to let it set( 5 10 mins once the tank is emptied in) gives u time to weight the tank see what was taken out make sure all of it was then open it up zero it out and then revac the tank for recovery

u should get some light amber to nearly clear oil done right

please correct me if i am wrong

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That sounds fairly accurate to me. I'm going to store the material packed in the column, and butane in dry ice an hour before the blast and during the soak, I was going to try a 5 minute run the first run I do and will go from there.

Kodakle said:

I didn't is that a big deal? I can just attatch one if it is

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I didn't opt for one either wish I would have. I find it difficult to properly gauge when my tube is a max vac. so i just leave it vacing longer. put a filter on both ends of tube tends to blow back due to pressure. and yes ive been using the closed column to open blast

Crippykeeper said:

I didn't opt for one either wish I would have. I find it difficult to properly gauge when my tube is a max vac. so i just leave it vacing longer. put a filter on both ends of tube tends to blow back due to pressure. and yes ive been using the closed column to open blast

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Thought so good to know I can do that, and you mean a coffee filter or what it comes with 2 filters to use already right?

Kodakle said:

That sounds fairly accurate to me. I'm going to store the material packed in the column, and butane in dry ice an hour before the blast and during the soak, I was going to try a 5 minute run the first run I do and will go from there.

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want to warn u that is going to be to long ........the freezing of the materal u are going to form ice crystals on the inside it will come in the oil

dry ice and alc 10/15 mins is all u need any longer u are chancing water in the oil ...5 10 min soak then u let it go
aslong as u get 100% denatured alc the dry ice is going to cool that tube to -109 in less then 2 mins .....seeing that ice layer on the outside means the inside does the same thing with in a few mins (figure 25/35% moisture in the materal) that is like 35% rh

1 hour is way to long

rem a freezor in the house only gets to 30f 28f maybe 25f ........we are dropping that 139 degrees to -109f under negivite pressure

justugh said:

want to warn u that is going to be to long ........the freezing of the materal u are going to form ice crystals on the inside it will come in the oil

dry ice and alc 10/15 mins is all u need any longer u are chancing water in the oil ...5 10 min soak then u let it go
aslong as u get 100% denatured alc the dry ice is going to cool that tube to -109 in less then 2 mins .....seeing that ice layer on the outside means the inside does the same thing with in a few mins (figure 25/35% moisture in the materal) that is like 35% rh

1 hour is way to long

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I just plan to use dry ice in an ice chest no alcohol what % alcohol would I need to make that solution?