Washing icky terps

[Gingerbeard]

We got a bad half of super terp'd crystals from our guy. Super nasty. I had to wash all my dabbing paraphernalia after one dab. Feeding Dabber broccoli so she'll fart to get rid of the smell.
I mentioned to Jr. there has to be a way to wash the nasty from the crystals. He doesn't know much about the chemistry of extraction. His idea was to use hot water. I'm still wondering what that will do. The terps will wash off. What it does to the crystals is my consideration.
My thought was to wash the terps with ISO. It's what I use to clean dab-offs and some equipment and QWISO. Turns out ISO will get rid of the terps but not dissolve the THC! I dabbed one crystal and it was at it should always be: tasteless.
So far, anyway. I have a few pieces out to see if anything happens in the next few hours.

[90Gizmo]

"Turns out ISO will get rid of the terps but not dissolve the THC!"
fact check?

[ChubbNugg]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. I work on a municipal water system. HaHaHaa. If people knew or had one clue what was dissolved in their tap water, some would be disgusted with it. I've seen tap water smoke right out the faucet. Go figger that one Huh?

[Mr.furley]

Fur-real, Look at the Brain on ol' Chubb! Haha. All you whippersnappers talking about extracting a extraction and schwa. Wouldn't ISO be the same thing as butane or cold water? a carrier, how you recover your wash would depend on what you retain? For the record personally don't have the balls to smoke anything washed with ISO.

[ChubbNugg]

ISO, huh. You are right, don't smoke it. However, ISO will totally dissolve and suspend the THC molecule until it has evaporated. The reaction is quite quick too. But when you go to the evap process, it's best to go super slow and wait until all the micro bubbles have stopped. Now you got something clean, hopefully, if nothing else went wrong.
Smoking ISO might be the next big thing, who knows? doh

[Rwise]

Me Myself and I have talked this out, IF we were to do something like this, the alcohol of choice would be 190 EC. Wood alcohol will make you crazy, and could do worse though it does evaporate.

[Gingerbeard]

EC 190 proof is not available (legal for sale) within my state nor any bordering. That includes Tijuana where, shit, what CAN'T you get?

[Gingerbeard]

ISO haters, huh? I'm not dabbing ISO wet crystals. Another buddy is going to try lab grade ethanol.
So far as fact checking goes, I have a couple little pieces that look like slightly tan-ish rock candies. These were washed. Nothing broke apart. Another was dabbed and got me ready for nap time. I do not have an incessant urge to smoke more or shoot-up so I know it's not fentanyl. And I was able to nap so I know it's not Satan's table salt: meth.
Further internet checking says I, personally, am a moron. My hands-on fact checking is giving me anti-internet results.
If the internet calls you, personally, a moron, God might as well say it, huh?

[ChubbNugg]

Oh Hell No. We are made to correct our mistakes. This is the highest form of learning. Like, I could see how simply rinsing your lil nuggs would work. It's not like you were actually trying to dissolve them, and that aint what you said. I hear it all the time about ISO. But those are usually people with less experience or simply post traumatic. ISO is beautiful, except that I only see 91% on the store shelves and lately its been more of the 70 and 50 percenters. I never tried to get lab grade stuff.

[Rwise]

The lab grade is 200 proof (100% alcohol) BUT it takes on water very fast, so you will soon have 190 or less, yes I am saying its not worth the expense.

[Gingerbeard]

I'm going to throw out the idea that crystallized THC behaves differently than non.

Hot water breaks up the crystals.

[ChubbNugg]

arent the crystalls more like sap?

[Gingerbeard]

THC-A is a crystal. When diamond miners do their thing, they get all the little bits together to make larger ones. The general process, anyway. It's the other stuff that's sappy.

[ChubbNugg]

There's something to this whole "Crystal" thing. When I'm looking at trichs on a live plant, they are not crystals. I'm not sure how these terms get transposed and interchanged. Clear trichs do look sparkly and crystaly, but the material has to be processed first, don't it? if you bite into a raw bud, it aint like salt or sugar crystals with a gritty texture, it's a sappy glue. I think the crystals form after processing.

[90Gizmo]

Don't have to go too far to get 190 proof.

[Blowdout2269]

That's one hell of a homemade stil

[Rwise]

Luv the still!

[ChubbNugg]

OH Shoot!!! I forgot to tell ya. I think it's time to turn the violets.

[Ckbrew]

Is this something that you made? If you paid $ for it, take it back to the source. Etoh would be the preferred solvent. 151 rum may work in a pinch. Also you can make 190 Etoh with a tabletop water distiller. As for washing the terps out of the crystal, idk, I would think it would all dissolve.

[90Gizmo]

AFAIK an up to a one gallon still is perfectly legal in the US for making distilled water and distilling oils and essences from plants. I haven't tried one but I'd be surprised to see one of those little double pot stills get over 160 proof. Fine for making good whiskey though.

[90Gizmo]

Though this looks like an incredible deal. https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Alcohol...DKIKX0DER&th=1

[Gingerbeard]

Soooo... we're done talking about me? I've been thoroughly hi-jacked. Worthy takeover.

[Blowdout2269]

Anything that might be contaminated with isopropyl alcohol can always be made into a topical, right?

[90Gizmo]

My bad!

[Ckbrew]

I was still talking about you. Are you going to try and wash your yucky stuff? And what you gonna wash it with? Are you still interested in a still, or are you still insisting on still being the center of the still discussion about stills for making stuff to wash that still yucky stuff because you still didn't wash it?

[Mr.furley]

Best point in the thread. 👍

[ChubbNugg]

Dagg Gum. You alls is tough ain'tchya?

[Gingerbeard]

Washed it successfully. Ckbrew.
Buddy Ryan will dab anything and say he likes the change in taste of the unwashed. That boy'll dab Satan's own butt nuggets if they had a milligram of THC. He's like the Mikey of weed extracts.
I am partially interested in a still. I would be using it to make a weed product I have not made. Which is cool. But then I would have one more thing around I might only use every 4 months. Once I did a high proof wash, I would want to winterize and run it through a vacuumed beaker. Then put that solution in a short path distillation setup.
Get me? Like that super cool Christmas toy you got as a kid you played with for a day and a half. When I win the lottery and setup my drug lab, I'll probably get into it.

[Rwise]

Well IDK, those socks and undies I got for Christmas, I didn't play with them.

[Ckbrew]

Not a short path but I still have fun with the cannabis still that still works for what I need it to still do stilling.

[Ckbrew]

No,short path requires much more complicated hardware to accomplish the short path of stilling.

A primer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqbFLwHa-9c

[ChubbNugg]

As long as you are still stilling, that's the main thing. Looks kinda like a fancy gerbil rig.

[90Gizmo]

You've got the best labware!