Distillation

[Turpman]

Lets talk about these little short path stills.
Im interested in makimg some concentrates.
I brew beer and have a big still 5g kettle with reglux so i can make my own alc.
Are the cheep chinese ones in e bay ok?
I have a vuccume pump already. What temp does the cold trap have to be?

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

Lets talk about these little short path stills.
Im interested in makimg some concentrates.
I brew beer and have a big still 5g kettle with reglux so i can make my own alc.
Are the cheep chinese ones in e bay ok?
I have a vuccume pump already. What temp does the cold trap have to be?

I have 4 differant distillation setups. And a bunch more apperatus'.
A couple are fleabay purchases.
There is a tincture thread here that covers alot of this operation.
There many ways of doing the same thing.
I make tincture regularly and mostly use a 2000ml rig with mantle, 3 way thermometer adapter, a 200mm condensor, 105* vacum adapter and a recieving vessel.
I also use a small Harbor Freight pond pump in the sink with ice and water to cool column.
If ya dont have a stirrer mantle you'll need to use boiling chips to prevent bumping, which is a big mess.
Alcohol boils at 79*C and will begin to pull over at about 74* C.
For my uses i decarb before soaking.
I have a short path apperatus but havent had enough "goo" at a time to run it yet.

 

[Turpman]

Thanks @Skunky Dunk Farms. I take the cheep chinese ones are good enough fot the hobbyist.

 

[Skunky Dunk Farms]

Thanks @Skunky Dunk Farms. I take the cheep chinese ones are good enough fot the hobbyist.

Yep

 

[Rozgreenburn]

Should I get a distillation setup? I regularly make extracts & RSO, and I don't want to keep evaporating my alcohol into the air. I was looking at a 3 pot 3 gallon setup on EBay for only $75! I evap at least $75 of alcohol every year and probably closer to $150. I'd love some input, as I'm thinking seriously about this.

 

[DemonTrich]

For ethanol recovery, I'd look into a rotovap. You can cheap out and get a 125.00 alcohol distiller. You would still lose a bit of ethanol, but would recover much more vs evap into the air.

It's the same as a water distiller, but is temperature controlled by a dial. I used one many yrs back before i got a rotovap.

When I hear (or read) a distillation setup, I think of a short path distillation setup to make distillate (pure form of cananaboids, no terps, solvents).

 

[Chefdave]

Rotary evaporators are the best for full spectrum ethanol extraction. They are not cheap even on alibaba with a vacuum water chiller your looking at 1000 bucks for a 2lt setup. Short path distillation is for seperation and isolation of individual compounds through different temps and vacuum. Short path also is not scalable. Lab grade ethanol is 40 bucks a gallon on amazon. If your not using but 3 gall a year wont be a good investment. I have a 2lt setup which can handle 1lt of qwet base. I dont even use it anymore because cartridge market is flooded with cheap 15 dollar a gram vape carts. I do decarbed keif and bubble hash pressed through 25 micron mesh for edibles and concentrates now. Solvent free and terps contained. Cheers