Redissolving botched shatter in 99% Isopropyl?

Jozikins

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I was hoping someone has some experience with this, and if they would give me any tips that could save me some money by getting it right the first time. Any help on how to get all of this out of my dish and back into a measuring cup?


ALSO: I did at one time get this up to 145f when heat purging, after redissolving, is it possible to get it to set up into rock hard shatter if set to a proper temp closer to 115f?





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I was filtering my shatter solution after winterizing in my freezer, because I wasn't using any sort of gentle vacuum to aid in pulling through the filter, fats started to melt, and a tear in my filter that occurred didn't help either. So I have a product that is stuck between budder and absolute, and is fairly gooey above 81 degrees, and after many days of heat purging, I still don't have anything solid leaning one way or the other. I also think putting 3 oz of shatter in a medium sized pyrex dish was a little over zealous of me.

I have it at 110f on my hotplate right now, with the intention of warming it up so that my isopropyl will quickly and cleanly remove all the shatter in my Pyrex dish, so that I may re-winterize, and attempt dewaxing again.
 
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Jozikins

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Well I figured out how to do it. I was really cautious because I couldn't mess this up, I'm sure it could have been done faster and easier than what I pulled off.

Basically I heated my sappy shatter up to 115f, scrapped it up, it was crystalline from the fats still and pretty soft. I then dropped that in, bit by bit, 3 or 4 grams at a time, into a shallow warm pool of 99% iso, around 100f, in a large Pyrex measuring cup. I spread it thin with a titanium dabbing tool (wax carving tool) and stirred occasionally, until that few grams dissolved and then added more.

The technique I used reminded me a lot of mixing wasabi and soy sauce in a Japanese restaurant. Just a glob of wasabi, and just enough soy sauce to cover the bottom of the dish, mix into a paste, and then dilute from there. If anyone dines out a lot, they might get that analogy, lol.

Once I had it all dissolved in a runny syrup I then proceeded to further dilute it with the iso until the roughly 3 oz of original product had turned into a 500ml solution. It is now winterizing and if all goes well I will update with results. I'd love to accompany all this with pictures, but my phone took a dump recently and I'm still waiting for a replacement battery.
 

BWG707

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Good info. I've been thinking about trying something similar. I tried dissolving some wax I had made for me, from a friend of a friend, in iso just to see what the end result would be. Ended up with nice yellow/clear shatter. I just evaped naturally, no heat, and scraped and collected. I've also tried doing a low heat melt down with the wax in which some of one of the batches produced a large bubble reaction, telling me that it wasn't purged quite enough. I did notice a small change in the flavor profiles of each.
 
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