Hi Peeps

I got given some trim ,so I chucked it in a bucket, poured 4 litres of Iso over it, mixed it with a hand blender, strained it thru a bubblebag, then thru coffee filters, evaporated it in Pyrex dishes with a fan and filter, dehumidifier and a squirrel cage fan blowing directly over them and voila - an egg cup full of oil!

edit - in and outta the freezer for 30 mis a time too make sure all remaining traces of iso were gone - lick a flame over it and if no crackles or shit = no alcohol

cyclops, this smokes very smooth and potent - stick it on inside of skins so if it runs it dont go over ya fingers or gets lost anwhere

Take you a while to blaze your way through that mate!

Tried a similar method Only 2 litres of iso, blended. had no bubble bags so used a 2ft copper tube and gas thru coffee filter. All I got was a heavy tar like substance after evaporation. stained green and no good for anything smoked awful; and stained everything in sight Mrs C wouldnt use it for massage as it stained the skin and took a few days to wear off Mixed it with hemp oil and it wouldnt break down from the tar state just got stickier..
Wont try my way again.

When I can afford it will go for bubble bags

fecking hell m8 that looks toxic.

whats it smoke like?

I think it looks to hard and dangerous to make for my liking though.

ddog

Looking good FD man



still had to read it twice to take it in

Enjoy your egg cup of iso oil matey , a job well done

prolly nicest oil i have made so far, smokes very well, very smooth ,surprisingly so.

not dangerous to make, just time cnosuming, use no naked flames and have no peeps come over for a few days cos ya house smells like a refinery - loads of nicense, scented candles and air freshener needed- and a dust mask prolly a good idea for the fumes

cheers mate, that's the beauty of a pun eh?

Hi FD,

Making it clearer now will be very hard indeed. The only thing that I can think of now that you have made the oil would be to redissolve the lot back into IPA again pass through activated carbon, re-filter and re-evaporate. You will loose yield and will only really be affecting the colour.

However, you could have done things slightly different when making the oil that would have given you purer results:
1) The time the trim was in the IPA. You do not mention how long you washed the oil for in the bucket but this should have only been about 1-2 minutes. After straining you could have re-washed it to see what you missed but believe me - there won't be much worth smoking. A shorter wash produces cleaner oil as the cannabinoids are virtually all dissolved straight away.

2) I am a firm believer in water washing the weed before an IPA wash. This will get rid of many water soluble contaminates before the IPA wash, thus preventing them from being dissolved in the IPA wash. Done in the bubble bags, you will ensure that no trichs are lost. Dry it out and IPA wash it.

3) The hand blender. Not done this before but I would assume that it is too vigorous. If I was to be doing it in a bucket then I would hand stir. Plus, was it a plastic bucket? - the IPA may leach the plastic and contaminate the oil this way, maybe think of a different container. I use glass jars and shake rather than mix.

Good job though mate and a tidy amount of oil you have there.

Edit; to address other points whilst I was posting:

The evaporation - I do this outside, waiting for a nice day before making oil. If in mid winter, I do it in the shed with the windows open. As you say - strictly no flames or sparks due to the build up of fumes. If you had added a slight heat source below the pyrex dish then it would have quartered (for example) the evaporation time. An electric hot plate, or failing that, a bowl of hot water (change when cooled) does the job nicely.

You mention freezer purging - spot on mate.

Smoking it: I tack a bit on a butter spreading knife, mildly heat it from below to make it runny and spread it into the joint. Either spread on tobacco or weed. This then ensures the spliff burns evenly.

Hi Gro fella

cheers for the input dude, always appreciated as I knwo u know ya stuff when it comes to oil.
well first off mate - the clearer referenece was a joke -i dont wanna make it clearer - i meant the thread was about an eggcup full of oil hence the title was clear about contents plus the pun of oil not being clear - this oil anyway

yes i seen ur qwiso threads before and this time i neer washed it, but the handblender was deliberate cos there was also some thick bits of bud there that i wanted to break up- this was blitzed 3 times for like 20 seconds a pop before straining

best
fd

edit, yes mate, i usually use glass jars too, but there was a lot of trim and i a int the most patient person to do it all in little jars, will bear in mind the plastic bucket thing tho for in future cos that dont sound like fun



another edit - i forgot to mention that i did stick a bowl of boiling water under the pyrex dish a few times to help - but this time what i found best was the dehumidifier and squirrel cage fan - these really helped mate compared to other oil i have made without.

Someone's been busy over the weekend.

Nice work FD. Been thinking of trying the oil extraction method myself and seeing that lot just makes me want to get started asap.

Was the weed dry or wet before you used it?

dry mate

Hi again,

This post is both a lil tip for getting the most from your trim and an excuse to use the new camera I got the other day (trying the macro function).

You mention that you used bud aswell as trim for making this oil; that being the reason you used the hand blender. I found myself in the same sticky situation (sinse we are punning:rolleyes:) and decided to bubble the lot, then Butane extract from the remaining trim/bud. But with using IPA for making the oil, you would be water washing at the same time as bubbling, killing two birds as it were.

Here is a picture of the bud/trim that I have already bubbled and is drying out on the window-cill as I type. The is the second run of the same batch of trim/bud, so I know from the first that this still contains a nice bit of honey oil (Trichome Treacle ).

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As you can see there are no capitulate resin heads left yet there is still oil to be had from the rest. It makes a darker form of BHO but is still very respectable.

I am going to do a thread of making BHO with a very easy method later this week, with pics. For this I will use this bubbled trim and also another fresh batch. To show the difference and how easy it is.

Sorry for going off topic in your thread mate but I thought that you might be interested sinse you have all the bits.

Gro.

I think I'm looking at next months winner of cream of the crop, I'm so so jealous.

how do i go about getting 4 litres of ISO.

is it just plain alcohol. like 99.9%


can you use methylated spirits, but make sure that all the methanol is evaporated?

no worries dude, look forward to ya thread - nice pic too


Lord Saines- U buy 4 litres of iso oil from your hydro store or maybe Joolz could get u some

Its called Grandpa Enggy's Isopropyl Alcohol and it is by Advanced Nutrients and is 99%