Sludge in FECO

[UrbanHillbilly]

I am only just now realizing that the FECO I'm making has so much sludge. And believe it's due to the filter on my Pot by Noids unit has about a 150 micron mesh. The oil still works I suppose, but I'd like to get it a bit cleaner. Suggestions? Specifically, is there anything I can do about the oil I've already extracted?

 

[DemonTrich]

FECO your gonna have all kinds of chlorophyll, lipids, waxes, cannanaboids, and terpenes (and possible sugars). Thats the whole point of a FECO extract is to have those goodies in the extract.


How are you going about making said FECO?

 

[UrbanHillbilly]

FECO your gonna have all kinds of chlorophyll, lipids, waxes, cannanaboids, and terpenes (and possible sugars). Thats the whole point of a FECO extract is to have those goodies in the extract.


How are you going about making said FECO?

I use a little unit I bought out of the Netherlands called Pot by Noids. I was able to get a discount on a demo unit since I'm a medical patient. It practically automates making FECO, but only does a small batch at a time, about 20 grams which yields a couple of grams of FECO. It was perfect for personal use with my little grow tents. The challenge I have now is I just had a donation some poundage of good trim which should yield about 65-70% thc and I need to plow through processing this. Guess it's about time for another bottle of Everclear soon, lol.

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[DemonTrich]

Grab an alcohol distiller. They are about 100.00 or so. Mix biomass with ethanol, strain, dump into alcohol distiller, press button, viola, done. Evaped ethanol gets dripped out of the unit, the goodies stay inside. Open, scrape, do a final purge.

 

[Willie]

this dudes got the distillers listed under the video.

 

[DemonTrich]

There are 2 types of distiller, alcohol and h20. Alcohol boils at a lower temp than h2o. So make sure your buying the Alcohol distiller and not the h2o version. The h2o version will work, but heats it too much.

 

[UrbanHillbilly]

Grab an alcohol distiller. They are about 100.00 or so. Mix biomass with ethanol, strain, dump into alcohol distiller, press button, viola, done. Evaped ethanol gets dripped out of the unit, the goodies stay inside. Open, scrape, do a final purge.

What advantage would that offer over my current machine?

 

[DemonTrich]

They most likely do the same thing. But the alcohol distiller I'm guess is cheaper at 100+/-, and your item has been canna-taxed at a higher rate.

 

[DemonTrich]

Do you want a lighter color oil, or a cleaner extract? Feco isn't considered a clean extract, because of the chlorophyll, lipids, waxes, and sugars.

There are tricks to a lighter color, (buchner funnel w/fritted disc)/ Erlenmeyer flask, vac pump, celite 545, activated charcoal powder). but heat will just darken it again.

Activated charcoal is a color remediation powder, celite 545 acts as a filter screen for powders), but alumnium oxide removes lipids/waxes

 

[Deebs]

Some components I do with FECO. One is the freezing cold "quick" wash, the longer the wash the more chlorophyll you pull. Also I run filter pads on top of the fritted disk of the buchner funnel. I usually due 2-3 filters, each with a new filter pad, it filters out a lot of the lipids and waxes. I have used the activated charcoal and celite 545 layers in the buchner funnel also. It gets pretty clear, but for personal uses the extra cost was not quite worth it to me.

 

[Willie]

What advantage would that offer over my current machine?

Reclaiming the everclear, I think.

 

[DemonTrich]

Reclaiming the everclear, I think.

I thought that what his machine does (reclaim ethanol).

 

[Willie]

I thought that what his machine does (reclaim ethanol).

I looked at it but I didn't see where it promoted the collected alky. Hence the "I think"

edit....​

Our condenser recycles 95% of spirits. That's from the website so I was mistaken.