Well hexane and chloroform are both extremely nonpolar, is there an advantage over those?
If I were you, I'd look up the polarizability for a bunch of differnt common liquids and use one that pretty close to what THC is or less.


I've seen in the best quality instructions I could find TsOH being used for isomerization.

The expense I was referring to was for the rotovap and Soxhlet extractor. The column chromatrgraphy setup doesn't look *that* cheap, but the cheapest of the set. If I found it all used I think I'm lookin at $800 minimum. I think it's worth it though. I don't like working with crude home-setup approximations when you're dealing with chemistry - especially when the product is going into your body.
Wow! Idea it would be that expensive. If you can, look around to find a cheap nonpolar column. I've used them in labs before, and they didn't seem that high tech.

Do you have any experience using any of this equipment or procedures for the purpose of making honey oil?
Not for honey oil, but this thread def has me thinking about ways to extract pure THC off the buds. I'm thinking that maybe you could do something like this, but you'd draw the THC out of cannabutter.