For the newbies, what do we google for to find those parts on your custom intake pipeline? What's the part that has 3 connects called so I can add the compound pressure gauge? I'm stuck just trying to figure that out. I googled "site glass" but got a lot of things, some which look like what you have, but it's not clear which one has the connectors that will fit, and I don't know what those connectors are called anyways so don't know what to look for in the descriptions of the various site glasses. Please help a fellow newbie blast tuber out. Might be cool to add this details or even sample amazon or website links into the description to help us. Would love to duplicate your custom one.
Do I have to cut the top of the little nipple off that's on the pressure gauge. I kinda wanna leave it on? What's the reason for this? Also what's the least expensive vacuum/chamber combo thats powerful enough for a 180g column? Thanks!
The longest pressure test we performed in a system closed is just under a year. So it will hold the pressure for as long as you like. To perform a soak and pull more yield
Recently purchased a closed column best value extractor, with the 20lb N butane tank, adapter, and hose.. we pull a vac on the column and hoses. Warm butane tank to 85-90 f, and open the valve on tank as-well as valve on top of extractor. For some reason we cannot get any liquid butane to enter the system. As for pressure the gauge goes from -30 to +5 lbs and tops out there.. when we shut valves and attempt to dump contents nothing but a little bit of air pressure comes out of the column. If we disconnect the 1/4” hose from top of extractor and open tank valve, almost nothing comes out of the tank, what does come out can be held back with a finger.. Any ideas what is going wrong? P.s. this is the second butane tank and is still doing the same thing.. We have eliminated the extractor from fault because small butane cans work with no issue and we can get 60lbs of pressure with those cans..
Add dry ice to column using a sweat pants leg or item to hold ice against metal Then run butane into material let sit for hour and remove ice from metal. I let ice fall to floor and place bowl in middle of ice not ice in bowl but bowl sitting on top/ around ice and release butane
muddymike207 cannabis read the gauge on the coloum? -30 hg on the vacuum on the coloum. Steap 45 mins and release oil slowly: purge 12-24 hours at various heat for various grades of oil.
This question has to do with how much solvent you put in. Are you trying to go to a certain point on that gauge and not go past a certain point. I know on your website it recommends one or two cans depending on the size of the tube. But I would assume that would also depend on how much material is in there as well.
What’s the reason for pulling a vac? And if I pulled a vac and blasted one time should I pull a vac again before blasting again cause when you open the bottom valve you loose vac?
Joseph Gonzalez every time you use the tube and blast you will need to pull a vacuum. Otherwise it will not fill will solvent. Skipping the vacuum will result in a partial fill and you won’t get a complete soak on the material.
Check our the AFS filter kit. It’s like a coffee pod for color remediation. You will need a pressure assist to speed things up. We suggest nitrogen at about 30psi. Alternatively we have sintered filter plates and Dutch weave filters for filtering down to 1 micron.
@Joseph Adams the +/- pressure is held in the spool using valves on either end. You typically won't keep the spool under pressure, the valves are to assist full saturation on the material. Also, used to hold solvent in contact with the material longer, for your desired soak time.
Trying to be nice here. There is no sort of home brew co2 extractor. And further. They don’t tell you this. The stuff extracted by co2 needs refining. 10s of thousands of dollars of equipment and labor to come up with what they make. You can use co2 to super cool the column but they have stuff setup for that. Good luck and be safe, and if your not sure just don’t do it lol.
Liquid co2 wouldn’t go into it if you tried. The steel is far too warm it would instantly turn to gas. You wouldn’t be able to stop the phase change fast enough in such a small space. You can’t achieve supercritical phase in the column with these valves either. So it would be a bust.
Not necessary. It’s typically dry material going in. If you vacuum from the bottom you will pass vacuum through the filter. So any debris won’t go to the pump. You shouldn’t be using the vacuum on any waxes or lipids for this process. The vacuum is used before the solvent. So you won’t have any free lipids or waxes.
