Another Tincture Thread - Try it, You'll like it

You're a wonderful guy and I applaud you. This really is a good process as many have found, maybe needing a tweak here or there, but overall a good product and I'm sure we can get this worked out. Izzy brought up a good point about the Everclear not being as pure as expected. Which state do you get the Everclear from? If New York, you may want to check out Spirytus which is 96% instead of 95% for Everclear. Full proof Everclear is also available in Michigan but not Minnesota or Washington, or Maine. I think that covers most of the border states near you, unless you're going to Alberta soon, where they do sell it.

I'd say that if you have the ability to create a better mousetrap, go for it. You could invent the Isomerizer2 of the 21st century. In fact, if you could put together a decent affordable iso2 type gadget, you would become a cannabis god. But when you design something, keep in mind the affect alcohol will have on any o-rings as well as leaching compounds from plastics and other chemical. You want it to be convenient but safe.

Do me a favor this time, though. Lets just do a 7g batch as a first time. That will take you at maximum of 10oz of the alcohol and leave plenty for a bigger batch after and allow us to work it out without a lot of pressure.

Thanks again for your great attitude.

 

That's quite a gizmo, but it looks a little hard on the lungs.

 

Try smoking the hash oil first, on a bowl or on a paper with some trim. Let's make sure that stuff works and then you'll know what to expect.

 

John Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful is my favorite feel good band of all time and I've been dying to drop a few of these in. So, if you haven't heard of them or him, get ready. I'm going to drop some of my favorites throughout the day. If you don't care for peace, love, dove, as they used to say, just pass them by, but if you like non-violent lyrics and a summer of love attitude, I hope you like them. Don't here these on oldies anymore. Don't have much else to say this morning except to thank you for putting up with me.

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I warned you!

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Well, durgahands, as I sit here smoking my home grown ass-kicking Tangerine Dream that I grew in my closet, there are no dumb or stupid questions. There is no reason you can't make a batch to use as cocktails. To do that, you could use any liquor at least 80 proof, whatever flavor you prefer. There is a school of thought that using any alcohol stronger than that is a waste and doesn't draw a higher degree of cannabinoids. But of course you can't reduce those lower percentage liquors down to the drop range that you can with 151 or 190. But they make great shots and mixers. I've even seen recipes for a thc absinthe, homemade. When you've completed your runs, just don't reduce it. Don't use extra weed because you may run into saturation issues and you want a product to enjoy throughout the night without knocking you out. It will take a little experimentation to decide the right amount for the cocktails you like, then use the empty rum or vodka bottle to hold your "special cocktail" mix. I've heard that vodka makes a delicious enhanced brew and rum, too, if you like that flavor. I would have been interested in a tequila product if I still drank.


The castor oil is great tip. When I was growing up in the 50's, my dad and other relatives commonly used castor oil rubs for callouses, corns and other rough, hard labor skin issues. Also mustard plasters for deep arthritis pain and bad coughs. It could burn the hell out of your skin if not careful, but it seemed to be effective. I remember the pungent smell of those, since I slept with my dad. Nails added a contribution about using Absorbine Horse Liniment and how it works especially well with a little of the GD added to it as an immediate pain reliever. Like his, your tip will be added to the guest contributions index. Anything natural and homeopathic and used to remedy the ailments of getting not so old is welcome.


I'm glad you're liking the GD so well and experiencing it's benefits. The hot water bath is a double boiler style arrangement using the jar in the place of a bowl. The thing to keep in mind is that with a water bath using a jar, you have a much smaller surface area from which the alcohol can evaporate. To get the water hot enough to get a better evaporation rate, you'll start to get big bubbles from the water forming under the jar and threaten to tip it over. I put a couple of plain round cotton makeup pads between the bottom of the boiler and the jar. That should diffuse the bubbles unless you're boiling the water really fast. Also, at that temp you'll be boiling the water away and water vapor will be everywhere around your jar, but don't put a lid on it. As the inner GD starts to warm and become active, you'll see what appears to be condensation on the inside of the jar. If you take your finger and run it around the inside glass and smell it, it's alcohol distilling out into the air and it will get stronger as it reduces. And keep the water level up to at least the top of the GD level unless it threatens to splash into the GD. Just keep an eye on it and you should have no problem, but you're water temp should never go above 212.

 

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No more.

 

I've had other requests for stories and even a suggestion of using a monetized site where I get a small dividend for views, advertising oriented. It's hard for me to talk to myself on the webcam, which I had forgotten I had. I have a lot of expressive facial ticks that I have a tendency to over exaggerate when I'm alone, a weird form of self-entertainment. I need a good headset microphone to ensure a decent sound and I'd like to get a halfway good vidcam, maybe a pawnshop. I have a studio idea but that will have to wait for the real camara. Webcam won't reach.

I used to make chillums like that but by that time no one but an old timer knew what it was or how to use it comfortably. I went looking for a modern chillum and found these little glass things that bear no resemblance to the real thing. They're little and made of glass. The chillum is the only real pipe I use on a regular basis. With the piece in the last finger space, the smoke is naturally air cooled and makes for a great smoke. I somehow edited out the best hits of the video where I'm choking pretty hard. It's a great piece but needs manual dexterity.

Thanks for the encouragement, JoJo, although you may regret it later. Or I may. Every time I've gotten in trouble in my life it was because of encouragement from others. But like I said at the beginning of the video, I am an activist and have always been. Anonymous activism is just whining from cowards. Anonymous supporters are the base of any alternate culture and extremely valuable, but the actual activists have to make it real, especially in this no-name, take no blame, instant gratification era. That's me, but I'm afraid it's a lost art. Flash mobs just emphasize that.

I'll shut up now and save my energy for the next one, which should be next week. I want to do a video of my Tangerine Dream Birthday Dragon process.

 

In fact, that was going to be the first tutorial I was going to post but they won't be purchased and dried before I'm ready for the GD. Last night I just got a wild hair (guess where) and decided to do an initial test run. I promise they will get better, at least technically. I used to have a professional mixing program that I paid good money for, but it got left behind on my old computer. I have the free version now and had a much better cut but for the life of me could not figure out how to convert the project file to an uploadable format. I can add background music and other production techniques if I can get it figured out. Watch out.

The machine you're talking about is an Iso2 isomerizer and was sold out of High Times for around $400. Now, if you can find a new one (overstocked for 30 years) it will cost you 10 times that. I would give at least one of my remaining teeth for one. It did great for homegrown/wild weed because it made hash oil out of it and that would be almost pure thc, the better the weed, the more oil. I sure wish I had one now. With the right weed, you could get cherry oil out of it. It can even be used with ethanol/Everclear. If I win the lottery, I'm going to look up one of those suckers and buy it, maybe two.

It's interesting that you looked at the husks and still saw whole trics still after 2 runs. I knew there was still a little left there just like there would be with the plant material. I just never felt the need to wring the last atom out of it. After all, it grows on trees, kinda, just like money, but unlike money, I can grow my own "trees", so I just don't go that fine. But by all means, stick that stuff in with your depletion stash. It can only make it better. And now that you bring it up, others may begin to do that too. Thanks for mentioning that and again it shows how the sharing nature of this thread makes for the greater good of all.

As for the old hippie, you ain't seen the hippie yet, just the old man. The reason I look like one, though, is because I am and proud of it.

 

the iso2 - right you are. I had forgotten the name but I do recall buying it from High Times
I just checked out ebay and somebody has one for sale for 1200.00 - good luck getting that!

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Like they say, "you've got to play to win", so that scenario's not very likely. See, nothing wrong with my memory, surprisingly. If you have science equipment experience or machining skills, you could make one, but it probably wouldn't be as cool looking as the Iso2. An Iso2 with today's reefer would be heaven.