well. I royally fucked up 4 times yesterday and its really making me not like the vac chamber thing... or maybe its just my fuckin desiccator.
first of all, I think its way too big for my pump. if I plug the hole in the lid (where it sucks the air from) my gauge reads 26" instantly.. making me wonder if thats MY max vacuum. with the desiccator, it takes about 30 seconds to get to 26" and it doesnt muffin much, it doesnt expand much. just bubbles and I think thats from the heat mostly.
and secondly, I dont like the shape of the bottom and this fucking parchment paper is driving me absolutely crazy. I almost punched the wall yesterday.
firstly, I had this.. the oil got too warm and runny, my parchment paper wasnt pefectly flat (I think the bottom of the dish is convex)
got that fixed, couldnt recover all the oil off the parchment paper, made 1 big sticky mess. only recovered 95% back.
then I had this happen an hour or 2 later:
at this point, I was so fucking mad and disappointed with my stupidity that I wanted to die.
I made a fresh batch of oil to start fresh, and was bored, being an idiot. and I noticed that the lid for the vac it pro fit nicely on my SS dish... so I slapped it on, turned on the vacuum, and it got to 20~ " very quickly... then my dish started to imblode!!! I forgot that it needs to be a tough ass dish to hold a vacuum like that. another idiot beginner mistake to make my day even more of a fail. I popped the dents out, was able to scrape out 100% of the oil still. but boy did I feel fucking stupid. havnt been this sticky and had this big of a mess with BHO since I first started 3+ years ago. it was embarrassing and I was mad at myself.
so when all that was said and done with, I put the new batch in the desiccator and came back in a few hours and got this. it was fine when I left, not sure what pulls it to the edges like that.
I tried once more, but this time instead of putting all 8g of oil. I put in 1g or less. on a big piece of paper, right in the center...it was great. left for an hour or so, came back, and it was all over the edge of the paper again, even though I folded all the edges upwards.
ive now lost probably .5g of oil into parchment paper that I cant get off. i scrapped as much as I could off, buy boy is this thing making a fuckin mess. I think my major problem is my heat is way way way too hot. I am buying a proper grille/griddle today!!!!!
I figured, enough with the paper. I just left the oil right in the desiccator (which I think might be aluminum.. if you scrape it very very slowly and perfect, I can get 99.5% of the oil back and no shavings. its not something I want to be doing all the time though. if I can get the wax part perfected, It should just lift off the bottom with no scraping required.
also. im losing major vacuum overnight.. I think it might be in the fittings, just not too sure where. I think it might be right where the hole is in the lid where they got the stuff connected. the bottom is only a washer and nut.. dont think thats air tight. needs a rubber washer too. I could be wrong.
when you get yours in guzias.. we should do a 12 hour test. bring it to full vac, close the ball valve, let it sit for 12 hours, and see how much its lost... see if ours are different?
hahaaarrrr, you guys rea;;yyy just need to relax.. stop .. nooo, nooo noo.. ok, ya, anddd gooo... my turn..
