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I would use iso or ethanol and pipe in a condenser/flask or cold container or run some of the tubing under ice at the very least and try to collect some of the iso or ethanol you can use it and save your pump from pumping it. Its hard to say without knowing what type of vacuum pump you have and...

Thank you so much. I had done some reading yesterday and before that I just assumed that the reason you didn't heat the thc/cbd was because it would vaporize and you would lose it and then I researched SPD and realized that I would have been able to distill off the thc/cbd if I had a different...

I notice that the boiling point of aluminum oxide is almost 3000 deg Celsius, I wonder if I distill the solution at say 400 or 450 deg celsius if I will be able to separate it that way? So I would run it in the distillation aparatus @ 450 deg C until it distills off (hopefully leaving just the...

So I had everything frozen and did my first wash on some trim to test things out. I setup my buchner filter with 2 of the 15 micron papers and a couple of 25 micron papers and a layer of aluminum oxide 50 micron. I rinsed it with clean ethanol which appeared to run through clear (under vac)...

I decarbed an edibles run (pre-soak) in a toaster oven yesterday and I gotta say I will be damn glad to do it in my heating mantle once that arrives, the toaster oven sucks at consistent temperatures. I ended up lowballing a little to make sure it didnt go over 275 and it probably stayed closer...

I think what project is saying is that there are so many ways and budgets. I found g420's tek on this site and that's what I'm following although you have to invest about 600$ in equipment easily to get started. Before this I just used frozen media, canning jars, triple coffee filters, frozen...

I have a mix of fans I plan on running through to make edibles. I figure I'm reclaiming the alcohol anyhow, why not run the material and see what I get? I'll decarb and then freeze and do a slightly longer wash. I want to see what I get and I bet it will be worth it to run. I figure the fans...

If I had 300 I would be all over that, a bunch of you guys are from Maine, yeah? So I hooked it all up and put some alcohol in to distill. I had kept my alcohol frozen and then trying to get the temp to come up under vacuum was very hard. I had setup and tested a double heat mat which seemed...

I plan on using a tube to vent the exhaust. The pump is a 6 cfm and it supposedly has some sort of filter on the cap to help cut down on oil exhaust. I could easily run it in the next room if need be. The stands and clamps came but I'm still waiting on the cold trap (to protect the vacuum...

So the pump came and I got it all oiled up and hooked up to the manifold I built. It hit full vac in about a second. I turned the pump off and it kept steady 30 on the gauge, and I could slowly control it with the ball valve. This thing seems like quite a beast. I'm glad I have a fresh air...

That was a really good deal on the welch but I probably only have budget for one vacuum pump for a while and I think the CPS will hit all of the points with a little work. I'm a little nervous about getting it all hooked up but I figure I'll take my time and learn the setup by doing a few runs...

So I was perusing ebay when one of these: Pro-Set CPS 6CFM Two Stage Ignition Proof Vacuum Pump 1/2 HP 10 Microns came up for like 150$ shipped new (packaging was damaged but pump looks brand new). It's a fancier version of the CPS VP6S and that was like 1/3 of what it goes for on best value...

So 100 tor should be good enough for distillation? That seems like a killer deal on that vacuum pump with gauges and everything. [edit] I need the vacuum to be good enough to run the distillation setup I mentioned in the OP, basically 1 liter chamber through a vigreux column into a 1 liter...

I have a well and can't just run it continuously although it probably has plenty of pressure. When I need to filter and distill off it will probably need to run for many hours and it would be too much water to just run to waste. I don't want to buy a bilge pump to find that the aspirator...

So my buchner arrived broken and while I wait for the replacement I got my water aspirator hooked up with the hydro pumps I had. It doesn't seem like the pumps are strong enough and I can't feel any pull out of the vacuum hose hooked up to the aspirator. I think I'm going to invest in a vacuum...

I want to get a strain or two to try outdoors in a wet northern climate (prep for next year)... Any good suggestions?

To add to the iso vs ethanol discussion I noticed this pertinent post: It would be interesting to do comparison runs with iso -> ethanol (first run iso then vac and clean with ethanol) vs a straight ethanol run. How much percent mass could dissolved DNA be? @DemonTrich Can you re-use the...

Thanks for all of the info, that helps explain the difference. @budchemist I was planning on using ethanol for the same reason but wondered why so many people used the iso, I figure with ethanol you can also make edibles (if you decarb it, of course) and why have a poison if you don't need to...

I'm looking at different buchner filters for a Vigreux distillation setup via g$420's iso extract method and noticed two styles: Now the size of the plates are different, I'm leaning towards the 90mm because it takes standard filters, but the fact that you can't see the holes on the 2nd...

If you don't have a pump but can hook up a hose you might be able to affix the aspirator above the small sink. I would test it before building your setup. Alternatively I hear a bilge pump is a cheap way to do this (I'm getting ready to try this tech and plan on using an aspirator, but I'm...