Weird question about tars/resins.

Ok. I've built up quite the collection of roaches & tar babies* for those lean times that we all know are ahead someday. As far as roaches go, that's easy: leave 'em whole, or cut 'em outta paper, depending.

Tar babies have traditionally been smoked in a pipe or via knife hoots. I now have a whole tin full of little brown "half lolipop sticks", and I don't forsee myself smoking them anytime soon. During which time the collection will only increase. At the rate of 3 to 5 tar babies/week. So...

Is there any way to extract oil/THC from tars & resins? (I know hash is not a possibility: its tars, not trichomes.) The second* thought that comes to mind is modified butane extraction:

1) Freeze the tar babies, and a coffee grinder, in the freezer overnight.
2) Grind the frozen tar babies to frozen tar baby dust using frozen coffee grinder. Has to be done cold, at room temp would make a gooey mess. Has to be dust, butane won't "break up" any chunks.
3) Extract as per normal, except using coffee filter instead of coarser screen normally used.

Any other ideas? Suggestions? Comments? (I don't want to start a "why the fuck do you wanna smoke tar?" argument, tho)

EDIT: I'm not afraid of basic laboratory equipment.

* A tar bay is a rod of tars/resins I push out of my one hitter/bong stem using a ramrod. This is rolled up in a rolling paper. (cuz it's sticky. duh!)

* First thought was iso extraction. Tried it while I was in Germany. Not good results. Suffice to say that many, many chemicals in tar babies are alcohol-soluble.

i thinkj you will have similar results with butane, however more difficult to acheive

If I were you, I would place the tar on a heater, or place it somewhere to dry out, crush the tar into a black powder. Fill pill bottles up, store them away. When you run dry, just pour some powder into a bong bowl, and your good to go.
That's what I do, anyways.

I'm glad I stumbled across this thread...as I just cleaned out my stash box again recently and I am SO ready to throw away this HUGE baggie of "tar babies" from my pipes. It is literally several grams of black dust scraped from the inside of my pipes. I am not dry, so I'm not at a point where I would need to resort to smoking the nastiness...and I really don't think I ever will. I think I'd rather go dry than smoke all that tar.

BUT, I was just thinking the other day...the SAME EXACT THING YOU ARE THINKING! How can we extract the good parts from this mess and then throw it away. Unfortunately, you haven't gotten any good answers on the subject, so I'll have to go with what you've said. Sounds like the most reasonable thing as of now. I'm in no real hurry, other than I want that stinky baggy out of my stashbox asap. Let me know if you tried that method and how it came out.

As far as the roaches...take the papers off, dude. :)


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