Winterized BHO not staying fully solid?

Unicloner

Active Member
is there a way to make my winterized BHO stay solid at room temp? My first couple runs done from video learning via you tube and i need some advice please. I am theorizing that since it is an oil type product it will not stay solid the warmer it gets. It stays solid and shatters like glass in the freezer. Also its a pain in the ass to break into grams or whatever amount i would like to carry with me? any tips for this as it makes a mess?
 

Unicloner

Active Member
I blasted my glass tube and when finished I let the butane evaporate off at 70 degrees in a glass jar with the lid on but not tight. Once it stops bubbling/reacting/evaping I add 4x the amount of grain alcohol. I then stir and heat to 150 degrees to induce a second reaction and once this is complete I freeze for 24 hours. I filter through unbleached coffe filters into 4 glasses (doing all this in a freezer)Once I have the strained liquid I combine all and strain once more. I evaporate in a large Pyrex dish until all that is left is a sticky film. Evap is at 150 degrees. Scrape out with razor before it solidifys I freeze and it stays solid but as soon as I pull it out its very hard to work with
 

Fadedawg

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Not likely with that much heat. Carboxylic acid is highly unstable, but it is the shatter form that you seek, and can only be achieved by keeping the temperatures low.

That is easier with a vacuum, and I like 115F in a -29.5" vacuum on a <1/6" thin film, and then set out to harden after the solvent bubbles cease.
 

skepler

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While I think 150° is too high, people who are vacuum purging at 115° are using a higher effective temperature than 115° because the vapor pressure is lower under vacuum. I live at 6600' altitude. Water boils at 200° here, not 212°. Retention of the lighter terpenes is imperative for flavor. I can guarantee the effective temperature under a vacuum of -29.5" is much higher than 115° if that is what it measures since everything will go through its phase change at a lower temperature. I tried doing the calculations, but get a number that seems absurdly off using The Engineering Toolbox. http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/
 
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