for god sakes how long will it bubble

Will Ferrell

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• Nov 16, 2014

• #1

I'm having a go at making bho, first time. Its been in the vacuum chamber for about 3 days now and the bubbling hasnt seemed to slow down. Its been under pressure without the vac on for the most part, about 105-120 degrees the whole time. I've taken it out and flipped it 3 or 4 times. I turn the vac on at least 10 times a day for about 10-20 minutes at a time. Every time i flip it or agitate it in any way, and put it back under pressure, it starts to bubble like crazy like its still day 1. Am i doing something wrong?

 

Will Ferrell

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• Nov 16, 2014

• #2

Here's what it looked like about two hours ago. Not much has changed

 

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Will Ferrell

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• Nov 16, 2014

• #3

Here's some other pics I took earlier on

 

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Fadedawg

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• Nov 16, 2014

• #4

The bubbles shown are solvent or water.

Try 115F at -29.5" Hg vacuum until the solvent/water bubbles cease.

I suggest that you leave the pump running and flip every time the initial flare of bubbles calms down.

 

SnapsProvolone

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• Nov 16, 2014

• #5

Looks like time over temperature has decarbed your oil making it darker.

Stop when big bubbles are gone, fizzy small bubbles are co2 from decarboxylation.

 

Steele_GreenMan

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• Nov 16, 2014

• #6

yeah because i didnt really know what i was doing, i burnt a shake batch before my last (first) nug run. turned out brown and wasnt really sticky at all, i was bummed lol.

i still need to invest in a digital heat source, my B&D griddle sucks balls

 

SnapsProvolone

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• Nov 16, 2014

• #7

Steele_GreenMan said:

yeah because i didnt really know what i was doing, i burnt a shake batch before my last (first) nug run. turned out brown and wasnt really sticky at all, i was bummed lol.

i still need to invest in a digital heat source, my B&D griddle sucks balls

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I've had great luck using heat mats intended for starting seeds / rooting clones. I set a vac chamber on it and temps peak around 107f film temp. Some newspaper between the chamber and pad will drop temps to desired point. An infrared thermometer is invaluable.