i believen u kno who, being as how u felt compelled to reply.. =) now elaborate
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i believen u kno who, being as how u felt compelled to reply.. =) now elaborate
heres how to safely evaporate alcohol......
I have a fart fan exausting outside through a skylight but you can use a window too :-). I used a coffee maker heater so there is no spark but thats ok with the fan exausting the fumes I dont have to worry. I also had a version that was contained completely in a bucket that I cut holes in the lid for intake and exaust of air. I used the fan on the intake side so the brushes on the motor wouldnt build up alcohol or acetone. I used this version for Salvia extractions with acetone.
just so you know iso has poison mixed in so you dont drink it. I used to use it to extract alpha thrujone from wormwood and then evaporate it. Well I evaporated a couple liters and eat the resin and was sick for 5 days. Real sick. Butane thru a pipe packed with plant material is best. I have made tinture with my clipping. I would fill a vodka bottle with the small leaf trimming covered with crystals and then pour the vodka in and let it sit in a warm dark place for a couple months. It did not get me high but I smoke alot. One thanksgiving I put a half ounce to a ounce of kif on the turkey and served to my friends. They passed out but I guess I just was used to it more being a grower with a bowl in every room. Anyway stay away from the iso unless you mix 1 ounce per gallon of water for mites.
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acetone does not evaporate cleanly -- it leaves a residue behind.
isopropyl is wood alcohol. It's poisonous to humans. (see: BETTY FORD). Unless you can gaurantee complete evaporation, this could literally make you blind, or worse.
I've read (sorry can't cite the source) that iso and other "denatured" alcohols are processed with additives that are toxic to humans. This is to get around the taxes levied on consumable alcohol, since alcohol that is not for human consumption is not taxed.
Carbon tetrachloride evaporates more cleanly than acetone, but it's toxic to handle or breathe.
Don't even think about the various ethyl glycol solvents, such as used to be common in antifreeze. These molecules are similar enough to be taken up as alcohol by your tissues (mainly liver), but are dissimilar enough that your body can't process them. So they're in your innards forever -- for looong after they kill you.
Play it safe -- use food grade solvents or known friendly chemicals like butane!
I posted a detailed description of what i call my "prepetual motion goodness extractor" in another thread "BUTANE EXTRACTION". What makes this a good method is that it's a closed system that will extract, evaporate, recondense, extract some more, etc, for as long as you feel the need to cycle the solvent thru the donor material. It works with alcohol or butane, and also doubles as a still for extracting the pure alcohol from commercial booze. I run mine on the back porch on cold nights and drip part of an 8oz can of butane thru it most of the night. Then I evaporate off the butane, trap it in the coil, remove the extraction chamber, and make the last drip cycle into a bottle, which I seal and put in the deep freeze for next time. Not much wasted solvent, and not much chance for a flamable environment.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheist