LittleDabbie
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Should i go for a stainless steel or pyrex? Best value vacs is within driving distance so im going there this next week sometime. My friend said he would split the cost of the unit since im making him oil all the time. Ive tried to do more research on making oil but this shit is so hard to understand with all the scientific data and jargin..
Thats a 2 part answer to 2 part question :p
The pyrex glass is for spraying your material INTO.. The stainless steel is so u can heat and vac at the same time.. You can NOT achieve this with just heating up a pyrex dish and running over to a plastic/hdpe and putting your dish in and trying to vac that way..
Its a simple process...
Step 1 get the pyrex
step 2. Blast all yer shit into pyrex
Step 3. Set pyrex on griddle on a LOW temp the griddle its self shouldn't reach past 120 the butane its self if read with a gun will read something like -30
Step 4. once most of the butanes gone put glass inside stainlesss steel vac chamber and put that chamber on the griddle and start the vac KEEP AN EYE on your product it will bubble up and over and out of that glass its still full of butane.. Pull a slight vac let the air out and repeat a cpl times till u can pull a full vac without your oil going over the sides.
Step 5. Scrape your oil from the pyrex and transfer to PARCHMENT paper... Once on parchment paper put THAT into your chamber making sure the bottom of the pot don''t read much higher then 80-90..
Step 6. Vac more! I personally leave my vac running for 20-30 mins at a time when doing runs i dont pull to a vac and stop i keep going. Once the main BIG bubbles are gone and all your seeing are tiny little decarboxy / terps boiling away you stop the vac at this point 90% of the moister and almost all of the butane should be remove giving you a nice clean clear product.
This will of course depend on varying factors.. indoor outdoor.. Age of the weed.. how old it was when it was pulled.. how it was cured... ect ect ect...
and properly made shatter is anything thats clean .. shatter can vary on its degree of how brittle it is from the most brittle being really void on flavor ( terps are oily ) Or you can have taffy which is still a shatter a pull and snap shatter..
There just names made up tho.. it don't matter in the end what you get as long as its clean and healthy to smoke. :D
One thing to remember tho the higher you heat and the longer you vac the more WANTED items your pulling out... terps boil and vape off at a very very low temp. Add a vac to that and the temps and time decrease..
I hate to say you just know when your oils done but after doing it for so long working with the same strains over and over ya kinda do get a sense of when the oils done how it behaves ect ect.. This really is not a pick it up and run with it over night kinda thing..
Looking back at some of my first oil runs i shudder to think of the shit i was smoking back then lol