Extraction DHO, using Dimethyl Ether

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I made a bit of DHO yesterday, not BHO, I wont use butane, too many nasty bits. DME (Dimethyl Ether) is used in the food and pharmaceutical industries for extractions. It should not come into contact with rubber, silicone ect. Only glass, stainless steel on the extraction. I extracted into a small box made of teflon paper (PTFE)
make a box,I used another box to form the paper
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DME can, paper, and homemade blast tube
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Frozen trim
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blasted the full 500ml can (I only bought the bowl inside to photo, I didn't blast indoors)
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An hour later
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That was yesterday, I don't have a vacuum to purge in, instead it'll sit in the grow room, on top of my light, and I'll leave it for 24 hours. DME has a much lower evaporation temp than butane, so I'm confident everything has evaporated, I've never tatsted any taint in the final product. I'll get some photos up later, I'll let it sit for a few more hours.
 
Would diethyl ether work? DME seems to be pretty toxic!

Also to further clean up tarry oil from low quality leaf, what works astoundingly well is to obtain some activated charcoal and powder it in a mortar and pestle and then chuck a tablespoon or two into the solution, then filter and evaporate. This turns the oil into what is known as 'honey oil' due to its final colour and when it burns it leaves no residue.
 
Would diethyl ether work? DME seems to be pretty toxic!

Also to further clean up tarry oil from low quality leaf, what works astoundingly well is to obtain some activated charcoal and powder it in a mortar and pestle and then chuck a tablespoon or two into the solution, then filter and evaporate. This turns the oil into what is known as 'honey oil' due to its final colour and when it burns it leaves no residue.
yeah, to be honest mate, I've dropped the DME, expensive, and not the product I thought it was. I've gone back to butane. You live and learn
 
Nice experiment least you tried both as you said it's very expensive I've only use butane as long as its purged properly id say both are as healthy plus I bought a cheap vac ECT as i do a few runs a year
 
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