How To Scrape And Smoke Resin
In addition to containing sticky oils, vapor is warmer than most parts in the air path so condensation occurs. After repeated use you'll notice a golden resin building up. There are a few ways to reclaim it.Cannabis Vapor CondensateAlcohol dissolves the resin which can then be used in a tincture or evaporated leaving the resin to vape.If you plan on making a tincture, use alcohol safe for human consumption. Everclear, vodka, or another high proof distilled beverage.If you plan on evaporating, use Isopropyl alcohol as it should evaporate the most cleanly. 99 or 50%, it doesn't really matter, higher percentages will work faster, the remaining percentage should be water only. Read the label. Grain alcohol contains trace amounts of sugar which can end up in your resin.
Other alcohols contain bittering agents and nasty shit you don't want in your resin. See below for evaporation methods.Scraping is an easy method that can work well with some heavily coated pieces. Use a suitable tool such as a bamboo skewer or bent paperclip. Chilling the piece for 30 minutes in a freezer prior to scraping helps loosen the resin.Fats such as butter and cooking oil can be heated and used to melt the resin for use in edibles.Heating glass parts gently with a torch works well for oil vapes.How to clean specific partsVarious glass parts: Extreme, Vapolution, etc.Soak the parts in a tall glass or ziplock bag until the resin is dissolved, scrape with cotton swab etc., if necessary.
Cover the glass with plastic wrap to prevent evaporation while soaking.Wands: SSV, DB, VW, etc.I like this method because it's fast. Cover the bottom of the wand tightly with plastic wrap and rubber band or hold it with your finger. Scrape any thick spots around the bowl with the blunt end of a bamboo skewer. Fallout 1 crashes on startup. Fill wand half way with iso and cover top with plastic wrap and rubber band. Shake the hell out of it until it starts to look clean.
See Evaporation belowFrickr has an easy method for.PD tubesYou can use the supplied purple cleaning bottles to soak the tubes. Personally I like to use the wand cleaning technique described above. An eye dropper is perfect for filling the tube, just hold both ends with your finger and thumb and shake.
Rinse with hot water.Whip tubingPersonally I don't use alcohol on whip tubing because of the porousness; it can affect the tubing causing it to smell like alcohol and there's a possibility of plasticizers leeching into the alcohol if you plan on reclaiming the resin. You can get a long screw with a head slightly larger than the inside diameter of your tubing and push it through to squeegee out the resin.
Easier if you cut the tubing into smaller sections. Check out on this.Evaporation. Pour the liquid through a filter (optional but will result in a cleaner product) into a pyrex pie plate. Place the pie plate on a pot filled with hot water to speed evaporation DO THIS OUTSIDE, THE FUMES ARE TOXIC AND FLAMMABLE. Once the alcohol has fully evaporated, scrape up the resin with a razor bladeOptionally you can gather the resin on a pin and gently heat it with a torch. Let it drip into a dish and stir.
The Best Way to Smoke Resin. The best way to smoke this resin is to put it back where you got it in the first place. On the parchment paper, herd the resin into a mound and pick it up between your index and thumb fingers. Lightly roll your fingers back and forth to create a resin ball.
This should help remove any traces of remaining alcohol.Any resin left in the plate after scraping can be salvaged by rubbing with butter for a snack.Freshly scraped straight from the wand.How to vape the resinTopic for another thread. Sunday, I ran my friends whip for him with my 99% iso and I ran probably an ounce of ABV for him with some more, he let it sit out overnight next to the fan to evap, next day he said he would give me some since I helped collect it. So today (weds), I went over to pick up my couple grams as usual and to get a little of that oil. So I drop him off after school, and he comes running out, and apparently, his grandmother cleaned his room for him and tossed the oil thinking it was trash, I blame him though, he had the oil wrapped up in a Now and Later wrapper, of course it looks like trash. No big deal as I am about to clean out my PD tubes, one of the reasons I had the iso on me when I was over there Sunday. Sigh, the difficulties of still living at home (I'm not trying to elicit any sympathy just saying what happened, sorry for it coming off in a complaining tone if it does). I did a bit of scraping last night.
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Things were apparently clogged up or at least more noticeable opening after I did the scraping. I think at some point my screen was not in right because some material found it's way down into the wand and tubing.I loosened something like.5/g of black and oil covered clumps.I formed it into a rectangle cube and then sliced off a tiny piece. I tried it in both a glass piece, and the vape. For me it must be vaped because it is extremely harsh on the throat. It seems though either way, a little piece will go on forever. How crazy is thatSA.
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I use a bong and I am an old hash maker. True test for a solvent is anything left after evaporation of solvent is not good. I get the stem warm with my gun and push the goo out with a aluminum tent stake.mix with some herb or abv and have fun. Don't forget the screens I reverse them and vape with no herb on them and it was thick.of course they were pretty sticky. I will probably use 91% iso on my glass bong and down-stem. My iso-2 used 100% iso for extraction.
(either bought or distilled) of course they used a hot water extraction to remove tars and terps which the use of low heat minimizes. An observation about wand hash: based on the fact that very little debris or resin seems to be accumulating in the part of the whip closest to the mouthpiece (of my da buddha/DBV), and tons of particles are in the wand, and then a little bit in the whip next to the wand, I assume that the majority of the wand hash is NOT THC/CB. vapor resin. This is because, I assume that if it were, why wouldn't there be more accumulation in the whip near the mouthpiece, since surely the THC/CB. vapor is flowing through that part of the whip as well (otherwise the effects wouldn't be felt). Does this argument make sense?
What's in the wand and tubing consists of both particulates that get through the screen, and condensed vapor. Condensation occurs when vapor hits a cooler surface.
The wand gets more accumulation simply because the vapor hits it first. As the wand gets coated with sticky condensed vapor, any particulates coming through will stay in the wand if they make contact. The whole whip is like a multi stage filter (although that's not its purpose). Like any such device, more stuff will be trapped in the first stage and less in the last. Does my answer make sense? Yep, makes perfect sense, altough the end of the whip near my mouthpiece should be MUCH cooler than the end near the wand, right? That's b/c the heat is closest to the wand end.
So based on the coolness factor alone, there should be more resin, but there's not. So it's like you say, filtering it somehow, which i don't really understand how, since the vapor coming through the mouthpiece-end of the whip is obviously full of thc vapor, otherwise i wouldn't get baked.so that leads me to think that most of the buildup is probably not condensed thc vapor.
Do you see what i'm saying?.e., i think that my argument would force me to conclude that the reason wand hash is so good is MOSTLY b/c of actual particulates/trichomes that come off the packed bud, rather than thc from the condensed vapor. So i'm not saying wand hash isn't great, but i guess i'm just nitpicking about what exactly we are harvesting. Or, for some reason the condensation is just much moreso near the wand end, but why is that, since the vapor travels through the whole whip, and the whip is surely cooler near the mouthpiece than near the wand? This might be an explanation: the condensation occurs when the warm vapor touches the cooler glass surface, by the time the vapor has reached your mouthpiece it has cooled down considerably.I've definitely got debris in my elbow and I'm kinda astonished it makes it through the fairly tight screen. Sometimes you can see a green piece, meaning plant matter I guess?
I can't wait to harvest.Does anyone have experience soaking Tygon 3350 in ISO? I wouldn't be using the tube again I'm just wondering if its worth it/safe with ISO or if the Silicone will leech into the end-product.