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I have a question that I’m sure has been answered, just can’t find a good post on the topic. The problem I’m having is my extractor won’t take very much butane. I pull a vacuum and allow to chill for several hours with dewaxing column filled with dry ice/acetone. When I introduce butane (420ml cans), I can only fit about 3 before the extractor won’t take anymore. Seeing how I fit roughly 10oz of flower in the extractor, I should require a lot more butane. I wasn’t even able to use the whole third can before the the pressure equalized and the pressure in the can wasn’t enough to overcome the pressure in extractor. What I ended up doing was basically run it as an open column extractor after the pressure equalized. Where am I going wrong? How could I get more in under pressure?
something I haven’t tried; on one “how to” the author advised to pull a vacuum on the extractor for at least 15 minutes. I reached -30 (my gauge only goes that low) very quickly and therefore didn’t pull vacuum for more than 2-3 minutes because I saw no point, the extractor was at full vacuum. Should I try pulling vacuum for an extended period?
I have a question that I’m sure has been answered, just can’t find a good post on the topic. The problem I’m having is my extractor won’t take very much butane. I pull a vacuum and allow to chill for several hours with dewaxing column filled with dry ice/acetone. When I introduce butane (420ml cans), I can only fit about 3 before the extractor won’t take anymore. Seeing how I fit roughly 10oz of flower in the extractor, I should require a lot more butane. I wasn’t even able to use the whole third can before the the pressure equalized and the pressure in the can wasn’t enough to overcome the pressure in extractor. What I ended up doing was basically run it as an open column extractor after the pressure equalized. Where am I going wrong? How could I get more in under pressure?
something I haven’t tried; on one “how to” the author advised to pull a vacuum on the extractor for at least 15 minutes. I reached -30 (my gauge only goes that low) very quickly and therefore didn’t pull vacuum for more than 2-3 minutes because I saw no point, the extractor was at full vacuum. Should I try pulling vacuum for an extended period?