Quickwash ISO alcohol hashish

[Mycorama]

ive talked to a couple of people on mycotopia who were intrested in how to make ISO hash, so i decided to post a thread.

isophrol alcohol is just another name for rubbing alcohol, which is cheep and found at almost any general store, usually near the first aid junk..

anyways.
all you will need is:
-a bottle of rubbing alcohol, which costs about $1.50 where i live. you want to try and find the highest %age of alcohol, the lower the % the longer it will take to dry, no effect in poitency, just duration of how long the alcohol will take to dry.

-your stash, usually i smoke my dank buds, and use the shwagg for making my hash. the smallest amount ive ever used to make quickwash was probably a gram. youll just want to use a perportional amount of alchol to how much weed you have.

-a sieve, an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for straining the alcohol from the plant material.

-a plate, like any plate you would eat off of. you ned a flat surface though, no bumps on it otherwise it will be difficult to scrape your hash off of after the alcohol evaporates.

-a razor blade, which most of us probably already have around the house.

Directions..

take your pot, grind it up as much as possible.

then put the weed into a air tight container, film cansiters work good for smaller amounts, perscription pill bottels work good too, just anything that you can put a liquid in, shake it, and not have any of the liquid come out.

fill the canister with rubbing alcohol just up to the top of the weed, so that the buds are floating in the alcohol.

shake violently for ONLY UP TO TWO MINUTES, any longer will expose the sugars in the plant to the alcohol. which would make your hash that much more impure.

after shaking, strain the plant materail from the alcohol with your sieve onto your plate.
you could probably wash your plant material again after it dried.

once you have the alcohol seperated from the plant material on the plate you can let the alcohol evaporate, leaving the resin glands that dissolved into the rubbing alcohol.

scrape the hash off of the plate once ALL of the alcohol has evaporated and smoke at your leasure.


this is probably one of the cheepest ways to make hash, at least cheepest ive came across so far anyways.
works great and doesnt take TOO long...
i hope this helps someone.

[golly]

That does sound simple ...So would you say - the finer the screen the better..?
Thnx for posting..

[Mycorama]

well kinda, you want it the let enough of the liquid drop to the plate without dropping plant material.
the sieves at the store used for cooking work perfect.
you could also use panty hose, which actually works really well.

you can have a small amount of plant material on the plate with the hash.
diffrent strains have diffrent resin, sometimes a little plant material helps it burn a little better.
i always end up with a few hairs or maybe a bud or two on the plate, i just used tweesers to snatch it off before it drys.

[golly]

Cool ....So is there much difference in the smoke between a 2 min extract and say an 8 hr extract..?

[cap]

Originally Posted by golly

Cool ....So is there much difference in the smoke between a 2 min extract and say an 8 hr extract..?

night and day.

Directions..

take your pot, grind it up as much as possible.

then put the weed into a air tight container, film cansiters work good for smaller amounts, perscription pill bottels work good too, just anything that you can put a liquid in, shake it, and not have any of the liquid come out.

fill the canister with rubbing alcohol just up to the top of the weed, so that the buds are floating in the alcohol.

shake violently for ONLY UP TO TWO MINUTES, any longer will expose the sugars in the plant to the alcohol. which would make your hash that much more impure.

after shaking, strain the plant materail from the alcohol with your sieve onto your plate.
you could probably wash your plant material again after it dried.

once you have the alcohol seperated from the plant material on the plate you can let the alcohol evaporate, leaving the resin glands that dissolved into the rubbing alcohol.

scrape the hash off of the plate once ALL of the alcohol has evaporated and smoke at your leasure.

tips:
dont grind your buds up, this decreases the end-quality.

a coffee filter is fine for the filtration step
(foaf uses a single, brown/unbleached 'basket' filter sitting in a small stainless collander)

avoid plastic! glass is always best when working with ANY solvent.
if you must use plastic make sure it is 'HDPE' like what rubbing alch. is sold in.

use a hot water bath to evap.

use as little amount of solvent as possible, just be sure to fully saturate the material.
a half pint packed with material can be washed with a half pint of 91% isopropyl alch.

dont use 70%. if this is all you can get try the baked/nuked epsom salt tek
before use, to pull some of the excess water out of the stuff,
otherwise it will take forever to evap and quality of the end-product will suffer.

note:
using mexibrick/schwagg is cool,
but remember the concentrate will only be as good as what u started with >
shit in,
shit out.

be well

[akoutdoors]

IMO the coffe filter is too slow and absorbing to use in a small QISO extraction.
Keep in mind the slow drain speed when filling the filter up with alchy.
It is best to use a small screen just small enough to keep plant matter out of the end alchy in the plate.
Screen size does not matter in the end product purity like it does in solid extractions.

[cap]

it has to be fine enough to keep all contaminants out.

foaf used to use a 24k gold metal filter/screen/mesh jammy,
now he just uses a single unbleached coffee filter.
trial and error have gotten him to this point. to each his own tho.

btw, the coffee filter doesnt even get fully saturated by the end.
maybe the white ones do? never used them.
in response to the time it takes to strain-
5 minutes and im done and doing dishes.
i understand what u are sayin, but it's a quick wash --
if a filter is preventing draining into the evap dish fast enough,
its my opinion that you oughtta rethink your technique.
i dont have this problem, akoutdoors...but thanks for the suggestion.

anything will work as a filter. use what is convenient

[Mycorama]

i dont like useing coffie filters either.
unelss your going to be putting a lot of alcohol through it i think its a little too absorbent.

why does grinding up your buds make a diffrence in your end result? i like to grind the buds up, so that i dont have to soak them for as long, keeping out as much plant sugar as possible.

Originally Posted by golly

Cool ....So is there much difference in the smoke between a 2 min extract and say an 8 hr extract..?

actually. youll have a nasty thick green syrup. alcohol will obsorb the plant sugars and it will give you a headache to smoke.
so the quicker you can wash it the better.

Originally Posted by Cap

use a hot water bath to evap.

dont use 70%. if this is all you can get try the baked/nuked epsom salt tek
before use, to pull some of the excess water out of the stuff,
otherwise it will take forever to evap and quality of the end-product will suffer.

note:
using mexibrick/schwagg is cool,
but remember the concentrate will only be as good as what u started with >
shit in,
shit out.

a couple things here i dont like.
first of all, alcohol absorbs water, so in my mind i could see the steam from the warm water absorbing into the alcohol taking longer to dry.

and what % you use doesnt make a diffrency in what you end up with, it just changes the amount of time it will take to evaporate.

and when you concentrate shitty buds to a gram of hash it will definitaly be better then smoking a bowl of the shitty weed.
you have a higher concentration of the stuff that gets you high.
so you get higher.

[Mycorama]

nylon panty hose work perfect as filters

[cap]