water distiller to recover everclear and make hi grade oil

Funkraum

Funkraum

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i was just looking around and notice this, i used a rice cooker in the past, but it smells a lot and this looks much better

i got about 30 ltrs or more to go through so would be good to recover the everclear for another run

LuiFure Water Distiller Pure Water Distiller Water Distillation 4L Internal Stainless Steel with Collection Bottle Household

https://www.amazon.com/CNCShop-Distiller-Distillation-Stainless-Effective/dp/B011N1JOYM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1469633357&sr=8-2&keywords=water+distiller

$70.00
 
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george xxx

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i got about 30 ltrs or more to go through so would be good to recover the everclear for another run

LuiFure Water Distiller Pure Water Distiller Water [/QUOTE]


They do work. Here's an old youtube vid you can check out for what ever it's worth.

 
R&RHashman

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just get a rotovap like a buchi r220 or something if you have that much on deck all the time. costly but that's for large production. they have smaller units and cheaper options from other companies but you get what you pay for
 
BobCajun

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Funkraum said:
i was just looking around and notice this, i used a rice cooker in the past, but it smells a lot and this looks much better

i got about 30 ltrs or more to go through so would be good to recover the everclear for another run

LuiFure Water Distiller Pure Water Distiller Water Distillation 4L Internal Stainless Steel with Collection Bottle Household

https://www.amazon.com/CNCShop-Distiller-Distillation-Stainless-Effective/dp/B011N1JOYM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1469633357&sr=8-2&keywords=water+distiller

$70.00
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That does seem like a good way to do it, and save on buying solvent. I would put the glass bowl right inside the thing though and let it dry completely. I wouldn't use ethanol though, 99% isopropyl is available. I think butane is overrated.
 
Funkraum

Funkraum

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i will be honest? question why do you think you have to dry the product?
you can make bubble hash from fresh wet trim, so, why to make a iso oil does the trim have to be dry, i feel this is incorrect?
my thinking is, you dont have to dry your trim, in fact, i checked how much liquid i hold and it over 45 ltrs and growing

the process should be simple?
do you think gw pharma dry there green before they process it to make there own spray?

buchi r220 looks nice
 
BobCajun

BobCajun

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Funkraum said:
i will be honest? question why do you think you have to dry the product?
you can make bubble hash from fresh wet trim, so, why to make a iso oil does the trim have to be dry, i feel this is incorrect?
my thinking is, you dont have to dry your trim, in fact, i checked how much liquid i hold and it over 45 ltrs and growing

the process should be simple?
do you think gw pharma dry there green before they process it to make there own spray?

buchi r220 looks nice
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You don't have to dry the weed if you're using a solvent that won't mix with water. You just can't use alcohol or acetone or it will get a lot of plant juice mixed with it.
 
Funkraum

Funkraum

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BobCajun said:
You don't have to dry the weed if you're using a solvent that won't mix with water. You just can't use alcohol or acetone or it will get a lot of plant juice mixed with it.
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Solvent
Isopropyl alcohol dissolves a wide range of non-polar compounds. It also evaporates quickly, leaves nearly zero oil traces, compared to ethanol, and is relatively non-toxic, compared to alternative solvents. Thus, it is used widely as a solvent and as a cleaning fluid, especially for dissolving oils. Together with ethanol, n-butanol, and methanol, it belongs to the group of alcohol solvents, about 6.4 million tonnes of which were utilized worldwide in 2011.[14]

Examples of this application include cleaning electronic devices such as contact pins (like those on ROM cartridges), magnetic tape and disk heads (such as those in audio and video tape recorders and floppy disk drives), the lenses of lasers in optical disc drives (e.g., CD, DVD) and removing thermal paste from heatsinks and IC packages (such as CPUs[15]).
 
BobCajun

BobCajun

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Funkraum said:
Solvent
Isopropyl alcohol dissolves a wide range of non-polar compounds. It also evaporates quickly, leaves nearly zero oil traces, compared to ethanol, and is relatively non-toxic, compared to alternative solvents. Thus, it is used widely as a solvent and as a cleaning fluid, especially for dissolving oils. Together with ethanol, n-butanol, and methanol, it belongs to the group of alcohol solvents, about 6.4 million tonnes of which were utilized worldwide in 2011.[14]

Examples of this application include cleaning electronic devices such as contact pins (like those on ROM cartridges), magnetic tape and disk heads (such as those in audio and video tape recorders and floppy disk drives), the lenses of lasers in optical disc drives (e.g., CD, DVD) and removing thermal paste from heatsinks and IC packages (such as CPUs[15]).
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It's a good oil solvent. I prefer acetone but I've used isopropanol too. It's a lot stinkier than acetone and dries a lot slower but it's purer than acetone if you buy it at a drug store in the rubbing alcohol section. Pharmaceutical grade or whatever. But with a water distiller you could purify your solvents before use anyway. I think they're overpriced though, $200-300 in my area.
 
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Fadedawg

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It would not be safe to run naphtha in a water distiller. Megahome actually makes an alcohol still that would be more suitable for recovering ethanol than a water distiller, which runs hotter.
 
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Alex710

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Fadedawg said:
It would not be safe to run naphtha in a water distiller. Megahome actually makes an alcohol still that would be more suitable for recovering ethanol than a water distiller, which runs hotter.
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And what about Naphtha in an alcohol distiller instead of a water distiller? is that safe?
 
MY OWN DANK

MY OWN DANK

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Alex710 said:
And What if it was ? To be honest , I like to recover naphtha from a mimosa hostilis pull using a distiller but im Not sure if it is a good and Safe idea. Naptha is very expensive in my country.
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Naptha goes in freezer...whatever deemers in there will xtalize...pour off Naptha keep it n collect xtals...depends on what tek you use i guess but the one I use you can certainly collect n reuse the naptha...
Can you order from Amazon?
 
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MY OWN DANK said:
Naptha goes in freezer...whatever deemers in there will xtalize...pour off Naptha keep it n collect xtals...depends on what tek you use i guess but the one I use you can certainly collect n reuse the naptha...
Can you order from Amazon?
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Ok thanks. No , Amazon does not ship naptha across the border.
 
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BobCajun

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I noticed some old posts I made in this thread where I said I preferred acetone over isopropanol. I changed my preference since then. When done frozen, iso extraction is a lot better. Acetone is also hard to get in high purity form while iso is readily available at pharmaceutical grade. Iso is the only solvent I recommend now.
 
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