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.
Volker Reviewed by Volker on . 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. Rating: 5