Here's a good tutorial from another site....
Pouring ground bud into...The solvent situation
The process of making oil always involves using a solvent of some sort to dissolve the cannabis resins off the plant material, then somehow separating the solvent from the resin. The quality of the oil depends on the quality of your plant material, the amount of solvent you remove from the finished product, and the amount of time your solvent is exposed to the plant material.
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The amount of solvent removed from the oil is dependent upon what type of solvent you use and how you go about removing it.
Traditionally, isopropyl alcohol is used as a solvent as it's cheap, easy to come by and doesn't generally arouse suspicion from your local drugstore clerk. However, the problem with isopropyl is that it boils away at a relatively high temperature, making it fairly difficult to remove all of it from the finished product. Have you ever smoked thin, watery oil that tasted acrid? That's because not all of the isopropyl was removed. It's very unhealthy to be burning and inhaling alcohol. It's also a fire-hazard.
Fitting the butane...Making oil with alcohol poses the same threat of fire, as you need to slowly boil off the isopropyl in a water bath, something that requires an open heat source such as an electric element or gas burner.
Alternatives to alcohol are ether and chloroform, both of which boil away at almost room temperature and therefore have a better chance of being completely removed from the oil. However, they are very hard to come by and there is the risk of not just fire, but succumbing to the anaesthetic fumes of either.
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onto the extractor.The butane solution
In recent years, those in the know in Amsterdam have been using butane. The beauty of butane is that it's widely available, not outrageously expensive, and can reasonably be bought from your local hardware store as lighter refills.
Dutch seed guru Soma uses butane-derived oil in a 1:3 oil/bubble hash concoction called Jelly Hash, which can be stretched and played with like Silly Putty.
Butane flowing out the bottom of the ExtractorAnother strength of butane as a solvent is that, because it's under pressure, it shoots out of the can quickly enough not to be dallying around the plant material. In order to get the resin into the solvent, the solvent is usually poured over the plant material or the plant material is soaked in the solvent for a short period of time and then removed. One concern is that if you expose the solvent to the cannabis for too long, you'll start to dissolve off not just the THC-laden resins, but also chlorophyll, waxes and other naturally occurring substances that will degrade the oil's potency, color and taste. So you want to get in and out of there as quickly as possible.
The basic concept is a thick plastic tube with a tiny hole at one end and a perforated cap with a filter at the other. safety precautions you should take while making oil ( wear goggles, no baggy clothes, don't smoke, use ventilation) and trippy techno beats.
Put bowl in another...The procedure is simple:
1. Grind anywhere from 3g to 28g of shake/trim/bud (or some combination thereof) in a coffee grinder.
2. Put it in the Honey Extractor and close the cap.
3. Hold the Extractor filter-side down over a Pyrex bowl.
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bowl of hot water.4. Fit the tip of the butane can into the little hole.
5. Press down hard, waiting about 30 seconds or so for the Butane to flow out the bottom of the Extractor.
6. Feel like Bill Nye the Science Guy with your safety goggles on and the superkewl clouds of vapor rising about you!
7. Put the bowl in another bowl of hot water, or on a hot water bottle.
Remaining oil after the butane has evaporated.
8. Wait about 15 to 20 minutes for the Butane to evaporate completely.
9. Scrape the oil off the bowl.
10. Put it into one of those wee elfin bottles people put oil into.
11. Get very stoned.
Honey oil on blade.
Altogether used 21g of ganja to make approximately 1.5 g of oil of two grades ? the first "wash" which is the purest and the second and third which are still pretty damn good. Both were deep amber in color and before I heated them, looked exactly like creamy taffy. Or perhaps, honey.
oil on tin foil.Most importantly, is Honey Bee oil any good?