how to make ghetto shatter from alcohol

HobbyGrowArtist

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short and simple, you will need a good quantity of cannabis, a large funnel, coffee filters, isopropyl alcohol 99%, and several large drinking glasses, a pryex glass baking dish.
first thing to do is put the large drinking glasses and isopropyl alcohol in a freezer, prepare the cannabis by breaking it up.
put 2 coffee filters inside the funnel then put the funnel inside the cooled drinking glass, then put broken up cannabis into the funnel,
once that set up is completed then pour the chilled isopropyl alcohol into the funnel on top of the cannabis until its all covered in alcohol, filtration should be slow, make sure to stir it around a bit while its draining.
of course you gotta do a second wash with some isopropyl but this should be done within a 4 minute window. i say 4 minutes of complete soaking and stirring.
if the alcohol in the glass comes up to the funnel switch it out with a new glass. once the alcohol drains out grab the filter paper and squeeze the rest out as a gravity filtration will take some time.

keep doing these steps until all the cannabis is consumed, keep switching drinking glasses out for new chilled ones, once you got all your extractions done then pour the glasses into a glass pryex baking dish. this next step should be done slow and outside somewhere, but you need to evaporate the alcohol, best to let it sit in a well ventilated area or outside on a warm day.

congrats what you got left is butane grade extract but it was done with alcohol. additional heating may be needed depending how much it dried out and water content, it can vary from being a thick liquid to being a hard dry crust when scraping it with a razor.
 

Thundercat

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holy shit, someone actually came up with similar method. my twist on it was to freeze everything before use.
Lmao you didn’t add a twist it’s been done like that for years. I posted a tutorial several years ago of how I make qwiso. It’s in my sig line at the bottom of this post. I didn’t invent it either, just applied what I learned from others.
 

meangreengrowinmachine

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Walmart sells these 1 gallon clear "cookie Jars" i think they are labeled as that fit perfectly with a cheap wire filter and I use 3 un bleached pre alcohol rinsed filters. No squeezing until the 3rd run of the material that you will be using for edibles. I am also soaking the material after for a day or longer in the freezer and evaping that ... just to see what I get. Only would ever use that in edibles though also.
 

PJ Diaz

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I'm not sure exactly, but the ISO I used to make gave me these weird hangovers after good dab sessions of the stuff. Almost felt like I was gonna black out a couple times. Stopped the ISO and the weird symptoms also went away. You can't drink ISO without getting sick, so here's something in there other than water and alcohol.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I'm not sure exactly, but the ISO I used to make gave me these weird hangovers after good dab sessions of the stuff. Almost felt like I was gonna black out a couple times. Stopped the ISO and the weird symptoms also went away. You can't drink ISO without getting sick, so here's something in there other than water and alcohol.
interesting, thanks. I’ve only used it to wash equipment.
 

Thundercat

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I'm not sure exactly, but the ISO I used to make gave me these weird hangovers after good dab sessions of the stuff. Almost felt like I was gonna black out a couple times. Stopped the ISO and the weird symptoms also went away. You can't drink ISO without getting sick, so here's something in there other than water and alcohol.
Lmao you can’t drink it because of the chemical make up of the alcohol. It’s just water and alcohol though. Im not sure where your weird symptoms came from but iso is a very clean solvent.

Ethanol works well for these extractions too but is waaaaay more expensive.
 

meangreengrowinmachine

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Lmao you can’t drink it because of the chemical make up of the alcohol. It’s just water and alcohol though. Im not sure where your weird symptoms came from but iso is a very clean solvent.

Ethanol works well for these extractions too but is waaaaay more expensive.
I agree I have used iso with ZERO Ill effects. Just amazing shatter
 

meangreengrowinmachine

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Pure isopropyl alcohol would normally evaporate completely at room temperature in our standard atmosphere. If there is a residue, it is due to dissolved or suspended impurities, including anything it may have dissolved from the surface that it is evaporating on.
 

PJ Diaz

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Lmao you can’t drink it because of the chemical make up of the alcohol. It’s just water and alcohol though. Im not sure where your weird symptoms came from but iso is a very clean solvent.
I'm sure ISO is clean, but are we sure that the other 1% in 99% ISO is only water in every bottle of "rubbing alcohol"? All I know for sure is the symptoms corresponded directly with my use of qwiso, and the issues stopped immediately when I discontinued. I do agree that it makes a decent product, aside from the side-effects I had.
 

Boatguy

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I'm sure ISO is clean, but are we sure that the other 1% in 99% ISO is only water in every bottle of "rubbing alcohol"? All I know for sure is the symptoms corresponded directly with my use of qwiso, and the issues stopped immediately when I discontinued. I do agree that it makes a decent product, aside from the side-effects I had.
I use the mg chemicals iso from mouser.. 99.9% if that makes you feel better.
No bad effects around $10 a qt
 

meangreengrowinmachine

Well-Known Member
Walmart sells these 1 gallon clear "cookie Jars" i think they are labeled as that fit perfectly with a cheap wire filter and I use 3 un bleached pre alcohol rinsed filters. No squeezing until the 3rd run of the material that you will be using for edibles. I am also soaking the material after for a day or longer in the freezer and evaping that ... just to see what I get. Only would ever use that in edibles though also.
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