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Where's the THC and junk?
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DeadlyFruit
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LOL you two are a riot.
Yes, water will do it for the most part. Put your ABV in a mason jar and fill it up with cool water. Shake it up a bit am then drape some cheesecloth or similar over it and drain. Nothing fancy, just basically rinsing it. I use the side of a fine bubble bag and then screw the mason jar ring on over top to make it idiot proof. Repeat as necessary. It won’t be perfect but it certainly helps a lot. The official how to I read involved letting it sit in the fridge, replacing the water periodically over 3 days. I just do it over about 3 hours, changing the water maybe a half dozen times. If you need it dry just spread it out in a pan and put it in a warm oven for a while, stirring it occasionally. I sometimes use it for butter but not if you need it to look nice - it will give your butter an unappealing beige colour. I’ve been wondering what would happen if I tried a qwet with ABV. Maybe next time.
Agreed about not being able to step back from edibles. A bit too much and it is impossible to function. I weigh out my edible portions to be sure. When I have a new batch I try to sample it for the first time when I don’t have anything going on. Lately I have been getting better at judging.
Yes, water will do it for the most part. Put your ABV in a mason jar and fill it up with cool water. Shake it up a bit am then drape some cheesecloth or similar over it and drain. Nothing fancy, just basically rinsing it. I use the side of a fine bubble bag and then screw the mason jar ring on over top to make it idiot proof. Repeat as necessary. It won’t be perfect but it certainly helps a lot. The official how to I read involved letting it sit in the fridge, replacing the water periodically over 3 days. I just do it over about 3 hours, changing the water maybe a half dozen times. If you need it dry just spread it out in a pan and put it in a warm oven for a while, stirring it occasionally. I sometimes use it for butter but not if you need it to look nice - it will give your butter an unappealing beige colour. I’ve been wondering what would happen if I tried a qwet with ABV. Maybe next time.
Agreed about not being able to step back from edibles. A bit too much and it is impossible to function. I weigh out my edible portions to be sure. When I have a new batch I try to sample it for the first time when I don’t have anything going on. Lately I have been getting better at judging.
OldManGrower
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What happened to the good old pipe? I use a repurposed briar tobacco pipe. Has a great draw, smooth smoke and looks classy unlike it's owner.
TOKABIGONE
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I'm with you OMG, I use a little glass pipe as I don't like bongs. Only problem is they're tough and messy to clean with ISO but does a good job. I'd totally forgotten about briar pipes. I used one for a couple years a long, long time ago and it smoked very well. Now I'm thinking I'll get a new one with a fat bowl and a curved stem. Where'd I leave my Sherlock Holmes cap?
Side note, just thought what if I use everclear to clean the glass? Could I reduce it to oil? The iso looks like a dark golden dragon tincture. The pipe actually fills with burned resin to full in about a week of daily use. I can scrape big chunks from the bowl. Did I hear anyone say YUK! I did try rolling a ball of this and smoking like O a few times and did get pretty high.. Desperate measures when the stash is empty, lol!
Side note, just thought what if I use everclear to clean the glass? Could I reduce it to oil? The iso looks like a dark golden dragon tincture. The pipe actually fills with burned resin to full in about a week of daily use. I can scrape big chunks from the bowl. Did I hear anyone say YUK! I did try rolling a ball of this and smoking like O a few times and did get pretty high.. Desperate measures when the stash is empty, lol!
Gingerbeard
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Nothing at all wrong with a pipe or bong. I have one of each in my pantheon of drug paraphernalia. And a weed vaporizer. Nectar collector. Male ended dab rig. Batteries to old pens. Old bangers. Lighters that I'm sure have butane for just one more bowl, if I can shake them hard enough. But they are all more or less dust display pieces.
In college I made 'Frankenpipes.' Pieces of oak firewood from my grandmothers house were cut down into pipe size pieces. I cut irregular bowl shapes and added screws, nails, and staples. Inset bolts for bowls. Unfinished edges. Inlaid redwood and Italian stone pine. I might have been able to offset some of my supplies cost by selling them. One was pretty much a U-shape that had you trying to light the bowl next to your ear.
Maybe that's it. A pipe is a pipe unless it is not a pipe and is something creative. My grandpa smoked pipes so I can dig your repurposing the old school. Off the shelf is generic. Nameless.
You've gotten me thinking about an old wood one. My glass is so yesterday.
In college I made 'Frankenpipes.' Pieces of oak firewood from my grandmothers house were cut down into pipe size pieces. I cut irregular bowl shapes and added screws, nails, and staples. Inset bolts for bowls. Unfinished edges. Inlaid redwood and Italian stone pine. I might have been able to offset some of my supplies cost by selling them. One was pretty much a U-shape that had you trying to light the bowl next to your ear.
Maybe that's it. A pipe is a pipe unless it is not a pipe and is something creative. My grandpa smoked pipes so I can dig your repurposing the old school. Off the shelf is generic. Nameless.
You've gotten me thinking about an old wood one. My glass is so yesterday.
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TOKABIGONE
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LMAO, yeah I have smoked from a fair number of homemade rigs and they all worked about as good. How about a deformed beer can with pin holes in the bowl part and a side hole carb. Damn, now I have to talk to Farmbuck to get the translation on the pic!
Gingerbeard
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There is a reference to the picture in what I wrote and will mean nothing to almost everyone who doesn't immediately know the 'joke' that is the picture.
Gingerbeard
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TOKABIGONE
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All right I give; I've read you're text forward and back and can't pick out a reference to the pipe pic. Unless you are saying it's a grandpa pipe?
Gingerbeard
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A pipe is a pipe unless it is not a pipe and is something creative.
Poppa
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I also use a small glass pipe. TOKABIGONE I clean mine by first using heat gun to heat build up in bowl and use the tip of a finger nail file to easily scrap it out. Once that's cleaned I once again take heat gun to warm end of pipe where the oils build up is till its runny and pour it out of the popper. At this point the pipe is fairly clean but the last 2 steps make it like new. My pipe is 4 3/4" long and I found it drops into a tall scrip bottle of alcohol and can be capped. So I have 2 of them 1st is the dirty one I drop pipe in bowl first cap it and walk away. When I check back check back later in day I take pipe out turn it over and place stem first into the bottle and shake it, caps do leak but oh well open and see if its clean. If residue that settled into bowl didn't fully rise out I tip bottle so air will leave bowl through the popper and will have no air in it once stood back up and leave it to soak a little longer. If clean I move to second scrip bottle of clean alcohol mostly just doing a finial rinse with this one. I also use the second scrip bottle to top off the first/dirty bottle so second is only one I'm adding fresh alcohol to helping to keep it clean. I also have more than one pipe all basically the same so I can leave set to air dry for months once cleaned.
TOKABIGONE
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Hahaha Ckbrew I know yuck. That was a long time ago,lol! Here is the interesting thing to me. The bottom chamber of the pipe does not have charred remains, it is black soft tar and I know there is still cannabinoids left as it is basically decarbed resin I believe and I did dig some out one day to top my bowl and was more potent than my gone to long totally amber bud. I could probably press it for oil or whatever you make from the resulting goo. That's why I'm wondering if I clean it with Everclear I should have tincture which I could reduce further if I want. Or am I missing something? I have not done tincture yet but have supplies and will do some this weekend with an oz of that bud. It's squishy but not real sticky after 10 weeks cure.
TOKABIGONE
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I once used a dry corn cob hollowed out with a dry reed stem. Smoked fine!
TOKABIGONE
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Can't remember if I was sittin' on that sack of seeds or not!
Gingerbeard
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Don't do it TOKABIGONE . If cleaning pipe residue was a thing, people would be doing it. Have you ever heard of anyone successfully cleaning pipe residue? Have you ever heard anyone praise the taste and aroma of burning burnt stuff? Take it as it is. Buddy Ryan says he'll eat reclaim and resin. They give him the runs but he says it's worth the high. He drinks a lot of energy drinks so I can only believe a little of what he says. He might also do drugs.
You have to have your EBUD (Emergency Backup Dope) when your working stash gets depleted. I have two little containers for reclaim: old and new. I fill one as old. If needed, this gets used. If the old container gets filled up, I put it on the shelf and work on the new. If that one fills up I get rid of the old, the new becomes the old, and I fill up another. Rotating stock, you see? I absolutely loathe reclaim but know it's potency.
All that being said. I may never run out of concentrate, again (knocking on my wood.) Neighbor found the hook-ups for the pop-ups where you can get a $200 ounce of good budder or $420 for diamonds. If you figure I was paying $40 a gram from a dispensary, I'm saving a shit load of money. The people who do these are the people who sell to the 'illegal' dispensaries. One of our San Diego communities where such dispensaries were tolerated, stopped tolerating them and had them all raided and closed. The prices I mentioned are pre-raid figures. Now that those places are closed, the vendors have a shit load of overhead. Prices might go lower. Thinking about a half ounce jar of diamonds next to a half ounce jar of something terpy gives me a little tug. Right now they're only 1/8 oz jars.
I've read a trick that involves a penny if you get shatter that tastes like sulfur.
You have to have your EBUD (Emergency Backup Dope) when your working stash gets depleted. I have two little containers for reclaim: old and new. I fill one as old. If needed, this gets used. If the old container gets filled up, I put it on the shelf and work on the new. If that one fills up I get rid of the old, the new becomes the old, and I fill up another. Rotating stock, you see? I absolutely loathe reclaim but know it's potency.
All that being said. I may never run out of concentrate, again (knocking on my wood.) Neighbor found the hook-ups for the pop-ups where you can get a $200 ounce of good budder or $420 for diamonds. If you figure I was paying $40 a gram from a dispensary, I'm saving a shit load of money. The people who do these are the people who sell to the 'illegal' dispensaries. One of our San Diego communities where such dispensaries were tolerated, stopped tolerating them and had them all raided and closed. The prices I mentioned are pre-raid figures. Now that those places are closed, the vendors have a shit load of overhead. Prices might go lower. Thinking about a half ounce jar of diamonds next to a half ounce jar of something terpy gives me a little tug. Right now they're only 1/8 oz jars.
I've read a trick that involves a penny if you get shatter that tastes like sulfur.
Ckbrew
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Yes TOKABIGONE you are missing something. The reason that you can do an extraction with ethanol on bud is that you only dissolve the trichomes and content, not the rest- the plant material mostly cellulose, the lipids etc. Then that is filtered and reduced down. That is the separation.
The soft black tar you speak of is just as soluble as the THC from the trichomes. You can dissolve it, then reduce it, but you have not done any separation of material, you will wind up with what you started with. There may still be some viable THC in that, but I would still put that stuff in the yuck category. Start with the bud you will be much happier with the results.
The soft black tar you speak of is just as soluble as the THC from the trichomes. You can dissolve it, then reduce it, but you have not done any separation of material, you will wind up with what you started with. There may still be some viable THC in that, but I would still put that stuff in the yuck category. Start with the bud you will be much happier with the results.