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Anyone using a Source Turbo for extractions?

First run, shake and make with a QT of GG4, decarbed and frozen, 190 also frozen (ok cold), pour half (filtered) into the unit, very little from it. I kinda expected that being only a 5 minute wash. The GG4 was put back in the freezer, and when I went to run it, well, I did not expect this, the bud melted when I shook it. The GG4 was covered with the reclaimed 190, and returned to the freezer, I consider the first runs as the first run on the bud, and whats still in the jar to be the second run (I'll get to it in a bit). It also is darker than I expected, first batch was thicker than the second, I licked the spatula and got high so hoping to get more of it from these buds.
The still moved to the 14th for delivery

gbauto Tell me more of the vacuum purging as this is a vacuum system. Does your system use heat or just vacuum?
 
After using this for 1 day, I can give them a number of improvements to it. First I would add LEDs for each mode so one can tell at a glance what it is doing. Second an adjustable time out for the end of cycle. Third a way to control the heat in the end game as it gets to hot!
I think I will wash this again and see if I get more from it, the second wash made as much as the first, how much more can I get? I stopped this batch sooner with it still more like honey, it was amber in the pot but looks black in the container.
 
Another update, I contacted the epay seller and they say they are a dealer and offer 30 days themselves.
You do loose a bit of solvent each batch, that was expected.
Still cant get honey coloured even if I stop it a bit early when it is still clear/yellow by the time hit hits the container its near black.
Would excess water in the batch cause it to boil over in the last 20-30 minutes? I have 1 batch that does this, I left it out for a while and it has no alcohol smell to it yet it is still thin.
I dont notice the smell of alcohol in the air until I go outside and come back in, then its strong!
 
I do three washes. After the 2nd you get a lot less oil. I use the third wash for edibles. As far as yield wise you get out what you put in. Check out extractcraft Facebook tons of info and people willing to teach.
 
Color is based off trichomes and contamination. Amber trichomes produce way darker oil. Also chlorophyll and fats and waxes make it darker but mostly chlorophyll. Need at least -15 alcohol and material and short soaks to minimize it. Oil is always gonna darken once concentrated. Almost every strain I do comes out different colors and dries differently. Sometimes it shatters up nice other times always stays a little waxy. Seedling heat mat works perfect for the drying process and I cover with cheese cloth and blow a fan on it lightly. Takes awhile for alcohol to purge but always gonna be a miniscule amount you can't get out.
 
Yes, a Buchner funnel along with the vacuum pump on your Source will work.
I use a 90mm glass pore plate funnel with -4 and -6 Whatman qualitative filter paper.
I also do two washes.
My chest freezer will get everything down to -30degF, so I do an hour wash on the first pass, do a rough filter with a strainer cap on the 1/2 gallon Ball jar, and a 40-micron stainless coffee filter. Back in the freezer for a day to winterize the fats and waxes, and then a 20-micron filter pass followed by a 2-micron filter pass through the Buchner. Then it's into the EtOH to recover the alcohol.
After it has recovered almost all of the alcohol in the tincture, I pour that into a silicone cake pan and put that on a heating mat(100degF)-my etoh allows me to do this in the recovery kettle. I cover that with some cheesecloth. Usually takes overnight to evaporate the rest of the alcohol and results in a layer of oil in the pan. I then use a vacuum lid on the kettle and pull a partial vacuum to get the oil to 'muffin'-that's the residual solvent boiling out of the oil. I normally purge for a day.
The first run is what I use for dabs-very clean and tasty.
I do a 3-hour second run for my edibles.
I'm not as concerned about stripping chlorophyll with edibles, so I find that longer washes improve yield as long as you can keep it frozen.
 
Start with ground glass distillation kit. Then chemistry support stands & clamps, heating mantle, glass additions- buchner funnel. flasks, kitchen strainers, filter paper, vinyl tubing, mighty vac pump for vacuum. on fleabay search "Deschem".
 
Poppa Its a tray of ice which helps with the condensation needed to recapture the alcohol. The chamber is under vacuum so no weight required for that.
 
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