Reusable micro filters for oil production

[MotaMan420]

Hey all , just want an opinion -- I just re-started ( after 43yrs) making oil with my once thrown out clippings and I am searching for re-usable mesh bags I can reuse when straining the veg matter from my solvent.. Tired of solvent being used up when soaked up in throw away cloth or paper filters.

Thanks

MotaMan

 

[Joe Brewster]

Look for milk nut bags or poly mesh coffee filters. Do you reclaim your solvent?
I just finished making a few batches

 

[greenjeans]

This may gross some people out - but - I have been using nylon pantyhose - the short ones. I guess you could use regular panty hose and cut them down.
I only have used it for coconut oil infusion - not sure how it would work for alcohol.
Oh Gawd, I hope no one says that this turns your oil into an aphrodisiac!!!!!!! Oh No!!!!

 

[MotaMan420]

Thanks for the get backs guys -- yes I reclaim my solvent .. I use a Vevor distiller , works like a charm , just gotta watch the volume recovered , cause the amount going in is not the amount coming out.. Have to watch so oil is not cooked ..

MotaMan

 

[MotaMan420]

Worse yet jeans , would for oil to have that stink !

MotaMan

 

[MotaMan420]

Forgot to mention I am using a Magic Butter Machine to remove the goodies from my clippings and it turns the vegetable matter to a very fine silt so I need a filter (s) to get all of this out prior to my distilling the alcohol out..

MotaMan

 

[Joe Brewster]

cause the amount going in is not the amount coming out..

What do you mean, you lose some just distilling. I lose most of mine in the material. you can only
get so much out, maybe a high-speed Centrifuge like salad spinner
I get what I put in my distiller back out
Still have to strain it, might have to use vacuum to get it thru the super fine poly mesh
I just let mine drip dry at -30c

Forgot to mention I am using a Magic Butter Machine to remove the goodies from my clippings and it turns the vegetable matter to a very fine silt so I need a filter (s) to get all of this out prior to my distilling the alcohol out..

MotaMan

Heating your solvent & weed removes chlorophyl, plant waxes & lipids
You need to do cold quick wash to get clean oil, colder the better

 

[MotaMan420]

Hey thanks for the input -- about the distiller -- I put in 7 1/2 cups of alcohol /oil solution and got 5 cups of alcohol out , what was left in distiller was not 2 1/2 cups , more like 3/4 of a cup.. So I can only surmise that loss was due to evaporation.. The receiving vessel is open and not contained - Vevor is distiller name - but they basically all look alike, except for the vacuum ones.

I will wash prior to extraction in the future --thanks

MotaMan

 

[Joe Brewster]

Hey thanks for the input -- about the distiller -- I put in 7 1/2 cups of alcohol /oil solution and got 5 cups of alcohol out , what was left in distiller was not 2 1/2 cups , more like 3/4 of a cup.. So I can only surmise that loss was due to evaporation.. The receiving vessel is open and not contained - Vevor is distiller name - but they basically all look alike, except for the vacuum ones.

I will wash prior to extraction in the future --thanks

MotaMan

Need one like this

https://www.420magazine.com/community/attachments/still61bwyn4kg8l-_sl1001_-jpg.1900225/