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Washing icky terps

Gingerbeard

Gingerbeard

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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.
 
Yes please do. ISO Will dissolve THC crystals. Anytime you apply heat to anything, the molecules of the material will start moving faster. Heat also assists chemical bonding. as well as carbon group bonding and releasing. Here's something I read from a white paper from Israel. THC begins to flash at 309F. A far cry from most peoples hot water tap, but a consideration just the same.
 
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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?
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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.
 
Don't have to go too far to get 190 proof.
 

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That is what the luck I am talking about!!! I asked about something like that a while ago. Heating alcohol was not the problem I was facing. It was the cooling of the condensate. I see what's going on, sort of. Heated alcohol at the bottom, high proof at the end. Everything else is beyond me. Jerry/Jury/Jimmy rigged?
 
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.
 
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.
 
ChubbNugg If you mean is that a homemade 2" diameter packed-column fractional distillation still with a dephlegmator on the column then, yes, that's the real thing. But usually I tell people that its a cappuccino maker.

Gingerbeard You'd probably be interested in the 16' of 1/4" soft copper tubing coiled to fit into the very top of the copper pipe. Google "column still" and "pot still" for two different ideas on condensers. Add DIY to the search for instructions :-)
 
90Gizmo, when I make mine, the kids were little and hanging around wondering what I was building. Not wanting them to go yapping about what their dad was doing in the barn, I told them that it was a prototype for separating oil from water to help with crude spills. When asked how it worked, I said well that is the problem, I haven't figured out how to make it work. They bought it and kept quiet about it.
 
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