All in all the second extraction still produced an acceptable product.
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Yes, definitely usable since I ran it through the coffee filters. Still a bit green but if there is any resin there its well worth using and then I still have my clean stuff too. In future, I will run the second extraction several times with different batches before I recover the alcohol but I need to know how much I am getting with the second run so I only ran this batch once. Happy it worked out; I think I have my system now.
Good work on the still! Your using a hot plate for heat?
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Thanks, oldsmokey. Yes, my stove is gas and I don't want to use an open flame hence the hot plate.
I might have to copy your design I have been thinking of making some oil.
That small amount of green is still a very good product.
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Feel free to copy it oldsmokey. Be careful; I have distilled alcohol before and used to be a stationary engineer (boiler man) so I feel competent. Please for your own sake take all precautions. I only take responsibility for myself.
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I agree. Am curious what the washes yield.
Experiments are very valuable
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For sure. I also find them interesting and fun to see if my predictions are right. Retiring recently and with lockdown, I need some entertainment and experiments are good for that. So does having a head full of tincture at night, lol.
I think I would be going a little nuts by now without that.
I have a syringe full of Rick Simpson oil. I put it under my tongue and the high is more like smoking flowers. It’s extremely potent.
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No doubt. For cancer patients, they recommend a gram a day of that stuff, they must be totally wasted. This tincture does the job nicely for me in a different league from oil infusions; just not the same, much smoother calmer.
RSO is good stuff, what I have anyways.
I understand the dangers involved. It's just I am thinking of how much iso(money) just went up in to the air through the years such a waste. What do you think of using ice to condense the alcohol instead of water? Could just have a drain at the bottom for the water to drain into the sink. Then just top off with ice as needed.
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Yes, it broke my heart letting all that good drinking ethanol evaporate too. You could use ice but I found the condenser didn't heat up too fast. I may have been able to distill 16 ounces without adding cool water but I was just being cautious.
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Did you make it yourself?
No got it from a friend
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A friend indeed.
Yep didn’t know he was sending that
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Nice.