ughmm just going.., a hand sized piece of glass will keep me goooooooooooooooooooooooing
:] looks beautiful . thats a lottta
would love to seee some different chunks from you blackforest, with a few good details on how you went about removing solvents..
Thanks, I enjoy chemistry and new creations!
I try to keep it really simple when making this shatter. I mainly use power 5x due to the cost ($26/case).
I blast into a round pyrex dish which is already in a warm water bath.
When all the but is done evaporating, I simply scrape from the bowl (scrape from middle towards you, gets every last drop) and put onto Martha wrap (aluminum backed parchment paper).
Place that into my vac it pro, already on a griddle at about 110 deg.
Mufin/deflate....muffin/deflate until it self pops and then starts to roll onto itself. At this point it's still opaque, and as it heats up, it turns transparent. In the past I would stick it to itself and re-do all over, but this last time I did not touch it at all.
I let it sit in there and purge and purge. I can always make it continue to purge as I raise the temp, but don't let it get over 130 deg. The griddle surface goes between 160 -200 deg. At 200 deg griddle, my chamber is about 130 deg and the oil is about 120ish. This takes about 3+ hrs of vac/heat. When it's done I just pull it out and let is cure in the basement, 65 deg and 16% humidity. To get it off the parchment, I lay it on a table and pull the parchment down when sliding off the edge. The shatter stays in one piece. I rotate until it's completely lose from the parchment. Will break into a zillion pieces of dropped!
That's it man, that's what I've been doing. End product tastes like plant material.
I've also winterized the oil w/ everclear which is a great tasting end product as well.
I've been running scrap material, (some lower popcorn) and really just been experimenting on how to get a fully purged product which I feel as though I am achieving. I'm also going to do some quizo runs because it looks like a nice product and i would like to experiment w/ non-solvent extracts in the future.
