Hey there from Drizzle! Love the video! That box flip at 0:21 was like a magic trick itself, you should put a warning next time😂 We hope that Merlin400 becomes an effective assistant in your lab. Out of curiosity: have you tried the extract without the terps? Do you decide the % of the terpenes based on the quality?
Yes I did a test dab before adding the terps and it was quite tasty. I just did 10% to ensure it would work effectively in the vape as it did have quite a bit of chlorophyll and the like that may of clogged it. But it worked out great regardless.
@drizzlelife1187 Can the machine handle cold solvent? Deep freezing the ethanol in a vapor tight vessel before running would improve color, but I know some polymers, especially 3d printed ones, and seals you might use in a commercial unit wouldn't do well with cold solvent.
I thought that grinders tend to keep some rests of the thc, not sure if unsignificant but I would like to know if it affects the ammount of oil it produces
OVER all a great machine and great video, love the Hirb.. 4.6 grams with a bit of alcohol weight is a terrible return.. Seems like could use the plunger while filter is still in place and get another 2 grams out of it. YOU know you were thinking that when you saw all that oil in there..lol.. Can you also run machine with no heat at all? I make mine with frozen alcohol frozen weed then combine and soak and then strain. I run it through a magnetic stirrer and lose all my alcohol , not recover and reuse but no heat ever... .. Dang wrote this while watching the vid and was excited when i saw that many empty carts thought you were going to fill all of them. i read below 5 carts .. I guess that around 20 a cart minus expenses and you know what your getting.. thanks for vid and making supplies easy for people.
how many carts would you estimate can be filled using the 28g of flower once its been cut and thinned with the terps? thanks for the video. interesting product.
Wait until Winter. Keep the bud in paint-strainer mesh bags outdoors overnight when the temps get below zero. Shake the bud bags inside a clean 5 gal deli-bucket. Move them around, turn them over, and keep shaking. Most of what comes through is trichomes. If you lightly crush the bud in the bag, in that cold, the pieces break into pieces that are too large to go through the mesh. bag. A little plant material dust comes through with more trichs. Use a flat brush to wipe the sides of the bucket so all the yield is on the bottom. The Everclear has been out overnight, is at or below zero, and the trichomes are dissolved in it. Then it can go in a machine, or a vacuum pump and micron filters.
A freezer only goes down to zero. The freezing point of alcohol is 170 degrees below zero. Leaving stuff out overnight in below freezing weather is easier to handle, and just as important, it Stays at that temp while you work. Just wear a hat & gloves.@croniccaterpillar8396
Ok that's a nifty machine right there, so compact too! When you were testing it, did you ever feel that the heat element might over time damage the bottom of the extract elevator?
@@CartandPod Oh excellent! This is why its important to have independent product reviews. Thanks again for this video and excellent edit job! The whole video was well paced and fun to watch you make extract.
I know from watching your channel that extra ethanol liquid that dripped out of the herb compartment *could* be collected into a beaker and warmed until that excess evaporated to get a small amount of concentrate Will i ever do this, probably not but its cool that were learning stuff ❤ thats a bad ass machine bet it was expensive
It’s not made with pure heat as it has a vacuum, so it’s not rso, you could all it honey oil I suppose. Decarbing is to make it thinner for vapes like I said in the video. No other reason.
Hello from germany I would be interested to know if I can just put my AVB leftovers in PG for several weeks, then filter it and smoke it in a vapepen? You have so much experience, do you think it works well enough?
I bought an Alpha 420 machine (for edibles) thonking edibkes were going to be my thing and bought everything for it; big bottle everclear, silicone gummy trays, letchin, etc.. I'm selling it now. I never used it as I found out edibles weren't what I had thought they were going to be. Ha. I smoked flower and got tired of coughing. This is what I should have bought instead. Been doing the carts all year now so I think i figured out whatvi like & don't like. Question: How does it vape? Your batch.. how did it turn out? I got sold on buying a couple carts from this new company and man both of them were awful. The taste & made me cough.
the meaning of distillate is in the word itself….. if it’s not distilled in a distillery then it is not a distillate….. hahahaha a distillate has to go through the process of distillation. That’s what makes a distillate a distillate. it doesn’t matter what in it, vodka is a distillate for example, because it is a distilled product. It’s really that simple. If it comes out of a distillery or distillation set up then it is a distillate.
I wish is was still lab manager, is hard asf to get 99.9 ethanol as a regular consumer. But I don't want to settle for 95 or 97, too much impurities imo
@@Noox38as a former alcoholic I always wondered why 95 percent was the most pure, what else is in there (Everclear) I assumed it was just water and ethanol
Off topic, why do I need to decarb live resin to vape it when the vape coil gets hot enough to decarb it. Doesn’t the vape coil get hot enough to decarb just like a smoked flower doesn’t need decarbing cuz of the flame.
I have thought that with the cannna butter machines, its basically like a tall coffee pot they have at AA meetings or a 3 gallon electric soup pot, just ad a lid that accommodates a hand held emulsifier and good to go. This machine way different then that . i just don't think the 4 gram return was incredible nor do i like using heat. The concept and the fact it makes it,recovers alcohol , decarbs that's a lot in a machine.. Is it worth 1300.00 they should send me one like lenovo sent me one , i did reviews on the large batch machine and is the only machine on the market that is similar to this one.
@@CartandPod ha thats funny I was about to spend a bunch of money and time making THC ejuice I've seen one dude on TH-cam do it and the comments say different but I've been watching your videos a lot longer than his and he only has one vid up about it
@@CartandPod not trying to beat a dead horse here but there are a lot of studies that show MCT oil being used as a binder MCT oil is safe to vape and is commonly used with your experience would you run this option as content on your channel I don't have work right and my main source of education on all things cannabis is TH-cam and it's how I save money to be proactive and self sufficient
I usually say bud but cannabis flower is what it actually is, the buds you smoke are the flower of the cannabis plant. But I mostly say it to avoid TH-cam blocking the video
Yea 100%; but sadly you're not getting a chiller into a desktop sized device I don’t think. This is a great unit for beginners but won’t make as good product as a proper chilled system at well below zero I agree.
Why are you adding terps to a ethanol extract? It already contains the original plants terpenes, The only time you lose terpenes and need to add them is when you are using a short path distillation set up, Also your oil is dark because of the chlorophyll . After your extraction you could of winterized it and cleaned it right up and it would be nice and golden
I like the part where you did a room-temp ethanol extraction with air-dried flower, got the exact black goo you should expect from a room-temp ethanol extraction, then blamed the plant material. I get it, the EZ Bake Oven was popular in its simplicity... but it's oversimplifying vape-quality extraction in order to sell your appliance.
The plant material is a couple years old regardless. But yes of course properly chilled ethanol will perform much better but that’s not really within reach for the average consumer. Also I have no ownership or stake of this appliance, but it is a great entry level option, but that’s exactly what it is, a cheap entry level option. You’d need to spend an exponential amount more money to get a proper chilled extraction.
This isn’t a video about making the best possible oil, or even a presentable quality; it’s about making cheap oil easily and affordably using a desktop device.
@@CartandPod What happens if you pour chilled ethanol in, instead of room-temp? Overpressure something as it comes back up to temp? Longer heat-up for solvent removal?
You can freeze both the herb and solvent with this machine for better results. Just don’t go past -40C as that is the limits of the materials (petg). They have a blog post about it here drizzle.life/knowledge-base-2/advanced_techniques/joining-the-gold-rush-making-golden-extract-with-merlin400/ I just wanted to keep it simple for the video so didn’t do any chilling.
@@CartandPod That's important to mention! Plus, extracting that cold leaves behind a lot of the co-extracted lipids that make cheap vapes harsh. Instead of skipping winterization, you can skip the need for it. ;)
Bro made some emo vape carts lmao that literally looks like the shit people tried to sell in high school, I wonder if they made it the same way (minus the device).
Brother it may have to do a lil with flower age but really its the merlin. Your putting glorified rso and many rso's look even better then that often being triple distilled these days. The best youll get from the merlin us a dark amber by no means are you reaching the hues of many of the carts n pods you see on market and not distty but resins and rosins even. Just cant be done with that heating times and with ethanol in that matter. If it was a quicker wash maybe but tge way that thing works. Love your channel just not this device, id even go the blast route n heat vac seal purge n add terps to that before id ever use this or recommended for anything other then tincture, edibles, straight rso to anyone. Cheers 😶🌫️ 💨
Why not fill an insulated thermos with biomass. Pre chill your solvent with 10$ of dry ice. Pour Solvent into thermos, soak. Cut open 5-10 micron rosin bag and stretch it across opening with rubberband and pour? Roto the ETOH out and not smoke solvents? (or make a cheap $60 vac oven from home depot) This JANKY machine is clownshoes.
It seems like ya wasted a lot. I’m not sure what. But this contraption is WAYYYY to much for a simple process. I use a glass tube. A Pyrex cake dish. Parchment paper. Boom.
$1000 for a machine that makes QWET 😳 thats insane. With less than $200 worth of equipment you can make much higher quality QWET. That finished product was super dark, $1000 and it doesnt even use a vacuum chamber, hard pass. Not to mention this doesn't even seem like it's really QWET more like RSO which you probably already own everything you need to make RSO at home. Google will save you a grand, your welcome
This device has a vacuum chamber, I just used older bud as that’s all I had in hand. I could have also used cold ethanol to make it better but then I wouldn’t be exploding with views from comments like yours. No one likes clean oil on TH-cam they like this shit I made and your paragraph of engagement proves that :)
@@CartandPod So you're happy to advertise an overpriced hunk of junk that makes crappy extracts on your channel. More channels should out themselves like you do so it's easier to know who not to support.
@shakinbabybacon5815 this is very cheap compared to alternatives, it seems you have more of an issue with the fact that I didn’t use chilled ethanol and fresh flower than anything to do with the machine. But regardless I do not care if you like the machine or not, I’m just correcting your erroneous statements is all.
@@CartandPod My issue is you could accomplish the same thing with a freezer, a couple mason jars, some coffee filters and a heat source. With ~$200 in equipment you could get even better results and do much higher quantities at a time. For $600 you can purchase the source turbo, which I also think is a waste of money for the reasons above but still $400 cheaper than this. Or this thing for $1000. It's laughable
@shakinbabybacon5815 if I used chilled ethanol this would have made far better results too. But you need to remember most people are ignorant and cannot handle doing all that shit themselves. Many people need a machine such as this to do the work for them either because they are disabled physically or cannot or will not learn the science behind what is happening to do it themselves. Of course you can buy some glassware and do it cheaper that can be said about any extraction.
@@CartandPodwith that pile? Clean glass and a freezer will blow it away, if you really wanna get wrekt throw some dry ice in and you will get clear to light yellow product…but solvent concentrates are trash anyway, live rosin for life. Also love ur channel!
3D Printed plastic SHOULD NOT be used like this wth. Microplastics, off gas, etc. Plastic will leach into whatever you use this machine for. I can't believe they overlooked simple polymer science. Unsafe af.
As you said food grade is appropriate for ethanol as well as the flower, and the only part that sees any heat is made of glass. Try to actually articulate what you think the issue here is if you truly believe there to be one.
@thc_temple You can’t even explain the issue, what issue? How is this getting microplastic into the concentrate? Do you even know what food grade means?
@@thc_temple AYYYYY FUCKING LMAOOOO. Glad to spot bullshit fr. I did prop work, so I studied this stuff. The plastic that 3d printers use leak period lmao. It comes from how they're printed, it's essentially not solid molecularly. Any chemical processes is going to perpetuate this. Shits wack, don't use this product. It's also $1000 which... Blows my fucking mind. How are you going to use additive manufacturing... Which is traditionally for prototypes... Shits wack. The proper material would be Surgical Grade Steel or Titanium, and Glass. Not some plastic outta someone's ender 3 clone. Tell this company to do better.
I have an issue with decarbing where it'll take many hours, like 5-7 hours to even if I go up to 240-250 degrees Fahrenheit. Have you ever experienced that and is it true 250 is the highest you want to go?
Yes don’t go over 250, you can do it around 226 the lowest or so (just off the top of my head if my numbers are off) but don’t go over 250 or under the low. It shouldn’t ever take that long though, you might have been purging solvent with the heat if it bubbled that long.
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Hey there from Drizzle!
Love the video! That box flip at 0:21 was like a magic trick itself, you should put a warning next time😂
We hope that Merlin400 becomes an effective assistant in your lab.
Out of curiosity: have you tried the extract without the terps? Do you decide the % of the terpenes based on the quality?
Yes I did a test dab before adding the terps and it was quite tasty. I just did 10% to ensure it would work effectively in the vape as it did have quite a bit of chlorophyll and the like that may of clogged it. But it worked out great regardless.
Haaaaaa🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 now I can't un listen 👂👁️👀🤣
@drizzlelife1187 Can the machine handle cold solvent? Deep freezing the ethanol in a vapor tight vessel before running would improve color, but I know some polymers, especially 3d printed ones, and seals you might use in a commercial unit wouldn't do well with cold solvent.
Good to see he's still making videos this man helped me make solventless carts in the past
After decarboxylation, you can run it through a wipe film evaporator to get a more golden product
You or someone should show us what you mean
Great video! One question: it looks like you made FECO. Shouldn’t that be winterized b4 vaping? Just curious. TIA
maplestory music is a trip
I don't know if I would want to smoke it but that's awesome RSO nice alot easier!!!!! love it does it all thanks for the info
Man, I love your videos. I’m constantly coming back to see when you post. Keep up the good work.
Love the convenience of the machine. But I have one suggestion, if you want to get a larger yield of oil I would grind the herb first.
I thought that grinders tend to keep some rests of the thc, not sure if unsignificant but I would like to know if it affects the ammount of oil it produces
@@quirijn3865 Just rinse the grinder out with everclear and add it to the total volume in the reservoir.
Bunch of nerds
@@susdadnerds who get baked af
If you use a grinder it will cause chlorophyll to get into your extract. Better off to seperate buds by hand for a cleaner product
Nothing better than watching you read that manual with Henesys in the background. love the vids
OVER all a great machine and great video, love the Hirb.. 4.6 grams with a bit of alcohol weight is a terrible return.. Seems like could use the plunger while filter is still in place and get another 2 grams out of it. YOU know you were thinking that when you saw all that oil in there..lol..
Can you also run machine with no heat at all? I make mine with frozen alcohol frozen weed then combine and soak and then strain. I run it through a magnetic stirrer and lose all my alcohol , not recover and reuse but no heat ever... .. Dang wrote this while watching the vid and was excited when i saw that many empty carts thought you were going to fill all of them. i read below 5 carts .. I guess that around 20 a cart minus expenses and you know what your getting.. thanks for vid and making supplies easy for people.
Carts are 1 gram so 28 since that’s an oz, I’ve got videos where I fill a lot more at once if that’s your thing
how many carts would you estimate can be filled using the 28g of flower once its been cut and thinned with the terps? thanks for the video. interesting product.
About 4-5 but keep in mind each batch will vary significantly based on the quality of the flower.
Cool to see this thing is largely 3d printed parts :) With a nice amount of tech going on too.
Love the videos, super informative and dives into the side of cannabis most people don’t.
I came to learn about the Merlin400. I stayed for the maplestory music.
This dude been on his game for years now.
I know the yield will probabily be poor, but i wonder how well the machine would do if used with shake and trim.
Wait until Winter. Keep the bud in paint-strainer mesh bags outdoors overnight when the temps get below zero. Shake the bud bags inside a clean 5 gal deli-bucket. Move them around, turn them over, and keep shaking. Most of what comes through is trichomes. If you lightly crush the bud in the bag, in that cold, the pieces break into pieces that are too large to go through the mesh. bag. A little plant material dust comes through with more trichs. Use a flat brush to wipe the sides of the bucket so all the yield is on the bottom. The Everclear has been out overnight, is at or below zero, and the trichomes are dissolved in it. Then it can go in a machine, or a vacuum pump and micron filters.
Was trying to keep it simple for the video, but yea dry ice and isopropyl mixed makes a good cooling liquid to freeze the ethanol and bud
A freezer only goes down to zero. The freezing point of alcohol is 170 degrees below zero. Leaving stuff out overnight in below freezing weather is easier to handle, and just as important, it Stays at that temp while you work. Just wear a hat & gloves.@croniccaterpillar8396
The Merlin website says using ethanol through the machine is not recommended
This device looks so amazingly practical i probably the next device i will need to make some medication with ease 😮
Don’t miss the discount code in the description if you do buy one
Ok that's a nifty machine right there, so compact too! When you were testing it, did you ever feel that the heat element might over time damage the bottom of the extract elevator?
I don’t think so, the elevator is made of some kind of composite material like cork or something and seems to not react to the heat at all.
@@CartandPod Oh excellent! This is why its important to have independent product reviews. Thanks again for this video and excellent edit job! The whole video was well paced and fun to watch you make extract.
Always love seeing your awesome videos! Thanks for the content
bro always in the lab yessir
Sorry if you already said it, how long did the extraction take start to finish?
2-3 hours
Just curious why you didn’t use a syringe filter like in other videos you do?
It’s not worth the effort and is only an optional step if you have dirty oil essentially
I know from watching your channel that extra ethanol liquid that dripped out of the herb compartment *could* be collected into a beaker and warmed until that excess evaporated to get a small amount of concentrate
Will i ever do this, probably not but its cool that were learning stuff ❤ thats a bad ass machine bet it was expensive
I just got mine. Its 800 €... so pretty expensive. Good jnvestments tho hopefully...
Yes prob should have left it to drop longer haha. Wasn’t expecting it to drip 💧
I think it turns that colour because of oxidation over time so yea fresh bud has a gold colour but having black liquid does not mean it’s bad
Does decarb isn’t oil make it less potent? Also what kind of concentrate would you call this? Just oil…rso?
It’s not made with pure heat as it has a vacuum, so it’s not rso, you could all it honey oil I suppose.
Decarbing is to make it thinner for vapes like I said in the video. No other reason.
So would the end product be live resin if i used fresh frozen flower then could i separate the terps and diamonds off it to make carts that way
Hello from germany
I would be interested to know if I can just put my AVB leftovers in PG for several weeks, then filter it and smoke it in a vapepen?
You have so much experience, do you think it works well enough?
I mean technically it would “work” but that would suck and be extremely weak.
How do you get all the data and waxes out of this Extraktion? The card will get clog by this compound’s
The cart worked without getting clogged as it was viscous enough and my carts I use and sell can handle the waxes.
if you freeze it before recovering the alcohol the waxes sink to bottom or could filter it warm i imagine@@CartandPod
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Dude used maplestory music......love it❤❤❤❤
nice LTT mouse pad!
Thank you for the video and to see the process done!
I bought an Alpha 420 machine (for edibles) thonking edibkes were going to be my thing and bought everything for it; big bottle everclear, silicone gummy trays, letchin, etc.. I'm selling it now. I never used it as I found out edibles weren't what I had thought they were going to be. Ha. I smoked flower and got tired of coughing. This is what I should have bought instead. Been doing the carts all year now so I think i figured out whatvi like & don't like.
Question: How does it vape? Your batch.. how did it turn out? I got sold on buying a couple carts from this new company and man both of them were awful. The taste & made me cough.
I’d make a cart brand with that distillate and call it ‘black magic’
Thats not distillate but yeah…
@@GregoryMcBride-qf7hxRSO/FECO is just distilate with plant fats and lipids still in the end product, other than that literally the same thing.
the meaning of distillate is in the word itself…..
if it’s not distilled in a distillery then it is not a distillate….. hahahaha a distillate has to go through the process of distillation. That’s what makes a distillate a distillate. it doesn’t matter what in it, vodka is a distillate for example, because it is a distilled product. It’s really that simple.
If it comes out of a distillery or distillation set up then it is a distillate.
Love you videos glad your reping the cb industry
What type of plastic is that alcohol going into? Can't have on a lab coat and give no info, lol.
Does decarbing degrade the terps in the extract? Also curious why the final extract is so dark?
The plant material was old is why it was dark mostly, but yes decarbing will damage the natural terps
Best part about working in a lab is that I can order extra of stuff I need and Nick it. You know how cheap 4L of EtOH is? They’ll never miss it 🤭
I wish is was still lab manager, is hard asf to get 99.9 ethanol as a regular consumer.
But I don't want to settle for 95 or 97, too much impurities imo
@@Noox38as a former alcoholic I always wondered why 95 percent was the most pure, what else is in there (Everclear) I assumed it was just water and ethanol
What are the pods on the cartandpod site compadable with?
All pax era devices
You should try second extraction...
Can you run the same cannabis a second time
Can you use Peg400 also to make it vapeable?
Absolutely not
Maplestory music 😂
Is it giving you as much or as good extract as a good rosin press? Like truthfully
Definitely more than I’d get from pressing the flower as it was dry and old
@@CartandPod but if you did both, Would you get more from the press or from the merlin400, im happy for you to DM me the answer
Pressing dry flower is brutal, you get almost no yield
Thanks im tired of arguing with people on reddit
Off topic, why do I need to decarb live resin to vape it when the vape coil gets hot enough to decarb it. Doesn’t the vape coil get hot enough to decarb just like a smoked flower doesn’t need decarbing cuz of the flame.
Decarbing lowers viscosity making it flow better in the cart
Nothing to do with activation
who is this Herb guy you keep mentioning ?
Eh? Herb is flower is cannabis
So you could probably do this process with a regular coffee machine as well?
No? Where’d you get that idea?
I have thought that with the cannna butter machines, its basically like a tall coffee pot they have at AA meetings or a 3 gallon electric soup pot, just ad a lid that accommodates a hand held emulsifier and good to go.
This machine way different then that . i just don't think the 4 gram return was incredible nor do i like using heat. The concept and the fact it makes it,recovers alcohol , decarbs that's a lot in a machine.. Is it worth 1300.00 they should send me one like lenovo sent me one , i did reviews on the large batch machine and is the only machine on the market that is similar to this one.
@mikescott7408 this uses vacuum to purge and the heat is minimal actually
@@mikescott7408wheres your review video?
Question? Can food grade propylene glycol and food grade vegetable glycerin be infused with THC and then vaped in a mod tank
No it will seperate
@@CartandPod ha thats funny I was about to spend a bunch of money and time making THC ejuice I've seen one dude on TH-cam do it and the comments say different but I've been watching your videos a lot longer than his and he only has one vid up about it
@seanirons4910 yea I tried that method back in like 2015 it just doesn’t work
@@CartandPod not trying to beat a dead horse here but there are a lot of studies that show MCT oil being used as a binder MCT oil is safe to vape and is commonly used with your experience would you run this option as content on your channel I don't have work right and my main source of education on all things cannabis is TH-cam and it's how I save money to be proactive and self sufficient
@seanirons4910 I wouldn’t say mct oil is safe to vape, it’s pure lipids. You’ll end up with lipid pneumonia
The whole comment section is just you getting flamed
What would be the terpene base? MCT oil? vegetable glycerin (VG); propylene glycol (PG)?
Just pure terpenes. Never use and adulterant such as pg or mct oil
That color though
Can you use other solvents?
Have you tried the Levo?
Yes I have a video on it
im curious in this machine.. but it seems mega unstable with it flopping around like that... is it not leveled?
In the fast forward part that’s the camera flopping around from my adjustments to focus, not the device moving.
The device has foam leveling pads and extra ones if your surface is wonky. It stays nice and flat
When did it become flower? What happened to weed or bud?
I usually say bud but cannabis flower is what it actually is, the buds you smoke are the flower of the cannabis plant. But I mostly say it to avoid TH-cam blocking the video
@@CartandPod good to know. I was just curious because I’ve heard flower used so much lately I thought I was missing out on something lol.
It says right on Merlins website NOT to use ethanol....
And it says right on my website not to use isopropyl. We all got our opinions man
Will it work with ISO, 95%+ is so expensive
It’s actually designed to use iso but I personally don’t like using iso so I used ethanol
Maple story BGM I see you
Bro i woulda ran that first cycle 3 times w: the same ounce… i’d buy 3 more of those extraction glass containers & yah
Cool product. Colder the better for the cannabis and the everclear
Yea 100%; but sadly you're not getting a chiller into a desktop sized device I don’t think. This is a great unit for beginners but won’t make as good product as a proper chilled system at well below zero I agree.
THE BEST ALWAYS
Login menu music? Cud b wrong
Nah it’s Henesys hunting grounds track
Very nice. But a 1000 bucks 😅?
Yea they went out of business already hahahaha
@@CartandPod 😅 oh no
bro saying herb is crazy
isnt alcohol bad to vape
what makes you think there would be alcohol left in the end product?
Why are you adding terps to a ethanol extract? It already contains the original plants terpenes, The only time you lose terpenes and need to add them is when you are using a short path distillation set up, Also your oil is dark because of the chlorophyll . After your extraction you could of winterized it and cleaned it right up and it would be nice and golden
Bruh try watching the video lmfao everything you asked I addressed
i love your videos!!
Thanks!
maplestory
I like the part where you did a room-temp ethanol extraction with air-dried flower, got the exact black goo you should expect from a room-temp ethanol extraction, then blamed the plant material. I get it, the EZ Bake Oven was popular in its simplicity... but it's oversimplifying vape-quality extraction in order to sell your appliance.
The plant material is a couple years old regardless. But yes of course properly chilled ethanol will perform much better but that’s not really within reach for the average consumer.
Also I have no ownership or stake of this appliance, but it is a great entry level option, but that’s exactly what it is, a cheap entry level option. You’d need to spend an exponential amount more money to get a proper chilled extraction.
This isn’t a video about making the best possible oil, or even a presentable quality; it’s about making cheap oil easily and affordably using a desktop device.
@@CartandPod What happens if you pour chilled ethanol in, instead of room-temp? Overpressure something as it comes back up to temp? Longer heat-up for solvent removal?
You can freeze both the herb and solvent with this machine for better results. Just don’t go past -40C as that is the limits of the materials (petg). They have a blog post about it here drizzle.life/knowledge-base-2/advanced_techniques/joining-the-gold-rush-making-golden-extract-with-merlin400/
I just wanted to keep it simple for the video so didn’t do any chilling.
@@CartandPod That's important to mention! Plus, extracting that cold leaves behind a lot of the co-extracted lipids that make cheap vapes harsh. Instead of skipping winterization, you can skip the need for it. ;)
Nasty af
Bro made some emo vape carts lmao that literally looks like the shit people tried to sell in high school, I wonder if they made it the same way (minus the device).
Looks like rso
800 dollars for a 3d printed 😢 better off with a levo for that price
When smart stoners become a chemist
I'm sorry bro but what you need is a Nug Smasher and make you some nice Rosin. Peace
I’ve got a video on the nugsmasher as well :)
@@CartandPod I'm so sorry this was the first video I've seen✌️ I'm looking forward on seeing your videos. I'm so ripped again sorry. I'm not a hater
Brother it may have to do a lil with flower age but really its the merlin. Your putting glorified rso and many rso's look even better then that often being triple distilled these days. The best youll get from the merlin us a dark amber by no means are you reaching the hues of many of the carts n pods you see on market and not distty but resins and rosins even. Just cant be done with that heating times and with ethanol in that matter. If it was a quicker wash maybe but tge way that thing works. Love your channel just not this device, id even go the blast route n heat vac seal purge n add terps to that before id ever use this or recommended for anything other then tincture, edibles, straight rso to anyone. Cheers 😶🌫️ 💨
This was made using a vacuum to evaporate off the ethanol with low heat, and no heat was used in the infusion step, so it’s not really RSO at all.
That “long heat time” isn’t a heat time it’s slow because it’s low heat and vacuum purging. If you mean the decarb though that is optional as I say
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No way I’m putting 200 oz and getting 4.5 grams of vape. After time, material, and electricity. You’re taking a loss
A $200 ounce would prob get more; this was a $35 ounce
he may not be able to get $35 ounces...@@CartandPod
Why not fill an insulated thermos with biomass.
Pre chill your solvent with 10$ of dry ice.
Pour Solvent into thermos, soak.
Cut open 5-10 micron rosin bag and stretch it across opening with rubberband and pour?
Roto the ETOH out and not smoke solvents? (or make a cheap $60 vac oven from home depot)
This JANKY machine is clownshoes.
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Don't throw flower away put it on pizza 🍕, in your eggs whatever you do don't throw it away! 🤯🤯🤯🤯😳😵💫
It seems like ya wasted a lot. I’m not sure what. But this contraption is WAYYYY to much for a simple process. I use a glass tube. A Pyrex cake dish. Parchment paper. Boom.
butane? he's using a food grade solvent here...
Yummy. Fats and lipids.
Definitely did it too long I feel
Dude how do you handle expensive devices, little bit more respect is needed.
Im sure that machine is pricey
so you’re either using really shitty weed, or you over cooked it my guy. This is all user error here.
EZ bake ovened the 💩 out of that resin
$1000 for a machine that makes QWET 😳 thats insane. With less than $200 worth of equipment you can make much higher quality QWET. That finished product was super dark, $1000 and it doesnt even use a vacuum chamber, hard pass.
Not to mention this doesn't even seem like it's really QWET more like RSO which you probably already own everything you need to make RSO at home. Google will save you a grand, your welcome
This device has a vacuum chamber, I just used older bud as that’s all I had in hand. I could have also used cold ethanol to make it better but then I wouldn’t be exploding with views from comments like yours. No one likes clean oil on TH-cam they like this shit I made and your paragraph of engagement proves that :)
@@CartandPod So you're happy to advertise an overpriced hunk of junk that makes crappy extracts on your channel. More channels should out themselves like you do so it's easier to know who not to support.
@shakinbabybacon5815 this is very cheap compared to alternatives, it seems you have more of an issue with the fact that I didn’t use chilled ethanol and fresh flower than anything to do with the machine. But regardless I do not care if you like the machine or not, I’m just correcting your erroneous statements is all.
@@CartandPod My issue is you could accomplish the same thing with a freezer, a couple mason jars, some coffee filters and a heat source.
With ~$200 in equipment you could get even better results and do much higher quantities at a time.
For $600 you can purchase the source turbo, which I also think is a waste of money for the reasons above but still $400 cheaper than this.
Or this thing for $1000. It's laughable
@shakinbabybacon5815 if I used chilled ethanol this would have made far better results too. But you need to remember most people are ignorant and cannot handle doing all that shit themselves. Many people need a machine such as this to do the work for them either because they are disabled physically or cannot or will not learn the science behind what is happening to do it themselves. Of course you can buy some glassware and do it cheaper that can be said about any extraction.
LMFAO ---- this is sooo bad to do ....
Looks pretty bad, ngl
Let’s see you do better :p
@@CartandPodwith that pile? Clean glass and a freezer will blow it away, if you really wanna get wrekt throw some dry ice in and you will get clear to light yellow product…but solvent concentrates are trash anyway, live rosin for life. Also love ur channel!
@sunnohh I mean where’s your video? :p
I would be asking for a refund you wasted alot of good flower for 4 g of some burnt ass wax I have better color reclaim in my silicon nectar collector
you made the merlin look really bad and wasteful
Hmm.. nah rosin superior.
3D Printed plastic SHOULD NOT be used like this wth.
Microplastics, off gas, etc.
Plastic will leach into whatever you use this machine for. I can't believe they overlooked simple polymer science.
Unsafe af.
There are different grades of plastic for 3d printing. This uses an appropriate grade. You do know even medical devices are 3d printed now right?
@thc_temple what vaping or combustion occurs inside this device?
As you said food grade is appropriate for ethanol as well as the flower, and the only part that sees any heat is made of glass. Try to actually articulate what you think the issue here is if you truly believe there to be one.
@thc_temple You can’t even explain the issue, what issue? How is this getting microplastic into the concentrate? Do you even know what food grade means?
@@thc_temple AYYYYY FUCKING LMAOOOO.
Glad to spot bullshit fr.
I did prop work, so I studied this stuff. The plastic that 3d printers use leak period lmao.
It comes from how they're printed, it's essentially not solid molecularly. Any chemical processes is going to perpetuate this. Shits wack, don't use this product.
It's also $1000 which... Blows my fucking mind. How are you going to use additive manufacturing... Which is traditionally for prototypes... Shits wack.
The proper material would be Surgical Grade Steel or Titanium, and Glass.
Not some plastic outta someone's ender 3 clone.
Tell this company to do better.
I have an issue with decarbing where it'll take many hours, like 5-7 hours to even if I go up to 240-250 degrees Fahrenheit. Have you ever experienced that and is it true 250 is the highest you want to go?
Yes don’t go over 250, you can do it around 226 the lowest or so (just off the top of my head if my numbers are off) but don’t go over 250 or under the low.
It shouldn’t ever take that long though, you might have been purging solvent with the heat if it bubbled that long.
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