Salvaging Oil from used Vape Carts
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I don’t recommend you actually do this, this is just an experiment for fun.
I go through a lot of Carts and pods, as you can see here.
I’ll be showing you another method on how to salvage the extra oil out of your used Carts, pods, and containers.
The first step is to get some isopropyl alcohol and clean the outsides of each pod and cartridge to make sure there are no contaminants or bacteria.
Here I have my lovely assistant cleaning each of them and tossing them into a beaker, be sure to remove any bits of silicone or plastic.
Once all the pods and containers are wiped off and cleaned, high-proof alcohol was poured into each container to sit for a bit.
I then poured some high-proof alcohol into the beaker.
For each of the jars that had some concentrate really stuck to them, I gave them a quick scratching with a glass stir rod before pouring them into the beaker as well.
I then used the rod to stir the contents of the beaker, then put it on a hotplate at a low heat to help the alcohol dissolve all the thc it can.
After stirring and heating for about 10 minutes I strained the liquid through a coffee filter.
I then poured the solution into a larger flask to begin boiling it off.
This took quite some time to accomplish. I could have collected the vapors but my water pump was broken so I had to let them just go into the fume hood. Be extremely careful whenever you are evaporating alcohol such as this as the vapors are highly combustible and may explode if not properly ventilated.
Please don’t try doing anything with explosive vapors such as this unless you are aware of the dangers and have appropriate safety gear.
As the alcohol content lowers are the water content rises, you can see some THC starting to separate out of the solution entirely. It also started to get pretty cloudy, this is due to the high water content compared to alcohol content.
I transferred to a beaker at this point as I wanted to ensure ease of collection once it started to boil down to a concentrate.
I took some extra alcohol and swished it around in the flask to get all of the concentrates. As I pour it back in you can see that the white cloudiness disappears as the alcohol content rises compared to the water content.
I proceeded to finish boiling off the rest of the alcohol in the beaker until there was about 20ml or so left.
I then poured what remained into a small glass jar, and set up a little rig so I could use a heat gun to remove the concentrate that was stuck to the beaker.
I poured some alcohol into the beaker and scratched at it with a stir rod to ensure I collected everything into the glass jar.
I placed the jar onto a hotplate and let it stir for a bit at low heat, before letting it settle for a while so I could remove the water with a syringe.
The water is cloudy because of the ouzo effect, when you add water to alcohol certain oils are no longer soluble, and they come out of the solution in the form of microdroplets that make the solution look cloudy like this.
One of the most important steps when dealing with concentrates and solvents is to ensure you do a proper vacuum purge. Here I am using a vacuum pump I made in a previous video along with some rubber adapters to use the jar itself as a small vacuum chamber. This allows me to heat the concentrate more easily and also ensures a more effective vacuum as there is less total volume, but using a regular vacuum chamber would be fine.
After that I was left with nice clear amber oil, I poured it out onto parchment paper and used a heat gun to get it all out of the jar. After letting it cool down, and it became a nice shatter consistency.
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36 Comments
Nick Venters
This is EXACTLY the science I’m fascinated with. Immediate sub!
HerbGrowingLegal
I don't know how I feel about this lol good video tho !
Leviathan
Wonder if you can send them to britney griner…bet she's dying to vape rn
AyeZayWhatYouDoin
Fiend activities lol
acrock21
iso okay to use… you gotta cook the alcohol out anyway. lots of people including myself use rso made from iso.
Counting Dineros
So much work for 20 bucks worth of dat shit?
BlueFeather Lopez
WOW
bong donkey
Thats kinda gnarly. Cool process, but not for me.
Ron Garrison
Screw that buy time you get all that equipment to do that you just buy like 4 more carts.
ɑʟpʜɑ ɱɑсʜɪиɑ
Subbed. Now I just need to build a lab.
Brandon George
Bro…. u had maybe 75 or 100 containers and carts? Maybe more?
And what average person has this stuff?
It's a great idea ?! But, hello?!?!?
Permabulk
Bro I was just trying to get the rest of the oil out of my carts. This is chemistry all over again my man after the beaker of stuff I lost it :/
Joshua Baker
That's is way to much work for nothing I'm no
Joshua Klecka
Bare hands?
M Jones
Doin way touch just for that
Paula Black
Very interesting!
William Wilson
I mean cool. But I will save like 6 hours and $1500 in equipment and just go buy another few grams..
bluesakura
I did this but with my hair dryer for the heat component lol ??? #BadBitch
Spaceman
There was definitely more than a hundred strains, I bet you had an amazing yet confusing couple of hours
Dark Fafnir
This some crackhead stuff ……. normies don't have a chemistry kit at home…do not do this
Cameron McNamara
Quality work, make a Dmt extraction video lol
Format It
Now you also have glue from the labels in your mix thanks to the solvent
Toasty
That’s nasty
Joshua Martinez
Please don't do this lol
f youtubecensorship
I love how stoner chemists used iso for qwiso for decades and now it's bad. They are all still around new dude.
JĆKøstāàWRłD
Video never gets old love watching this when I’m bored scrolling thru YouTube , kinda reminds me of mac & devin go to high school ? ??
Colin Jarrett
He down bad ?
Ben Dover
Anyone remember when weed was the simple mans drug?
Now that shit requires an entire laboratory setting and a chemistry degree…
Matt Ryan
Impressive
Sugar Shain
my man is fiending
Klevixz on ctlr
this is the biggest fiend shit ive seen
Birdman
Love the Maplestory music
Sowhat9987
This definitely some fein stuff
Jon Singleton
For all the really stoned people about too attempts this if you don't have a flow hood like he did please do it outside or your gonna blow yourself up when you take that bong rip waiting on it too evaporate
Arturo Alvarado
This worse than rolling a joint out of roach weed
Angry Drunk
I've done a simpler method of simply swishing all the carts in grain alcohol, letting it evaporate in the sun or by a heat vent, then pour it back into an empty cart. About 32 or so empties to fill one back up, and the taste was actually decent.