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GrayWolf's Lair

GrayWolf's Lair

A Posse ad Esse. From Possibility To Realization.

  • 1. About-Us
    • 1.1 Article by Graywolf/JD Ellis
    • 1.2 History and about
    • 1.3 The Grey Wolf in Alchemical symbology
    • 1.4 From Russia with love!
    • 1.5 Dr Kate Welch and our presentation at PSU
    • 1.6 What happened?
  • 2. Legal, Political, & Current Affairs
    • 2.1.1 Latest NORML Articles
    • 2.2 The Oil Wars
    • 2.4 Extraction Innovators U-tube regarding closed loop extraction evolution
  • 3. Medical
    • 3.1 Granny Storm Crow’s List 2019
    • 3.2 RIP Brandy
  • 4. Authors Columns
    • 4.1 Graywolf
      • 4.1.1 About JD aka Graywolf
      • 4.1.2 The Elvis(es) have left the building
      • 4.1.3 Posting standards for reader comments
      • 4.1.4 Process Evolution
      • 4.1.5 About 1.1’s new artwork by Dented Art
      • 4.1.7 Modern Extractor Bonus E02 POD cast with Graywolf.
      • 4.1.8 Where is this handbasket named Facebook headed??
      • 4.1.9 Thoughts and sayings
      • 4.1.10 New Nostalgic Book, by D. Gold
    • 4.2 Eloquent Solution
      • 4.2.1 About Carla Kay, Eloquent Solution
    • 4.3 Pharmer Joe
    • 4.4 Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
      • 4.4.1 About Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
      • 4.4.2 Cannabis Formula from the US Dispensatory, 1870
      • 4.4.3 Cannabinoid Carboxylic Acids, THCA and CBDA
      • 4.4.4 Introducing Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
    • 4.6 D Gold
      • 4.6.1 About D Gold
      • 4.6.1.1 Hello and recollections, by D Gold
      • 4.6.2 Red oil in the late 60’s and early 70’s
      • 4.6.3 PURE THC for three bucks a gram?
      • 4.6.4 Dave Golds MEGAPLANT Challenge
      • 4.6.5 Questions About Long Term Flower Storage?? by Dave Gold
      • 4.6.6 The Chilum by Dave Gold
      • 4.6.7.Canna-Beer by D. Gold
        • 4.6.7.1 D Gold’s Cannabeer update
        • 4.6.7.2 A few more thoughts on CANNABEER by D Gold
        • 4.6.7.3 CO2 for cheap, beer for free by D Gold
      • 4.6.8 COVID, CBD, TERPENES, by D Gold
    • 4.7 Doug Cody
      • 4.7.2  The Solvent Wars, by Doug Cody, Cannabis Home Sciences
  • 5. Upcoming Speaker & Vendor Events
  • 6. Classes
  • 7. Raffles
  • 8. Essential Oil Safety
    • 8.1 Sweet Mary’s Charms
    • 8.2 Plant Waxes
    • 8.3 Salvaging Moldy Material
    • 8.4 Sweet Mary’s Charms II
    • 8.5 Oh Sweet Mary, What is that perfume you’re wearing?
    • 8.6 Where does all the color come from?
    • 8.7 Vaping illnesses and deaths
    • 8.8 Characterizing the smell of Marijuana by odor impact of volatile compounds
    • 8.9 Guide to buying Delta-8-THC, by Erich Berkovitz
    • 8.10 FDA Residual Solvent Standards
    • 8.11 Dr Justin Fischedick On Plant Terpenes
    • 8.12 Butane/Propane Mystery oil
    • 8.13 How much LPG mixture can I safely load in my tank?
    • 8.14 Please do not immolate yourselves extracting BHO Indoors
  • 9. DIY CannaMed Production
    • 9.1 Safety
      • 9.1.1 DIY Canna-med Production Safety
    • 9.2 Growing
      • 9.2.2 Indoor garden
      • 9.2.4 A crash course in grow room automation
    • 9.3 Harvesting Drying and Curing
    • 9.4 Extraction
      • 9.4.1 Hand rub Charas
      • 9.4.2 Dry sieve
        • 9.4.2.2 Refining to full melt using electrostatic charges
      • 9.4.3 Bubble
      • 9.4.4 Rosin Extraction
      • 9.4.5 Vegetable and Nut Oil Extraction
      • 9.4.6 Glycerol Extraction
      • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction
        • 9.4.7.1 QWET
        • 9.4.7.2 Subzero extraction
        • 9.4.7.3 Giant Tea ball extraction
        • 9.4.7.4 Alcohol Extraction Overview
        • 9.4.7.5 Recovery stills
      • 9.4.8 Isopropyl extraction
        • 9.4.8.1 QWISO
      • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane
      • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction
        • 9.4.9.1 Pentane, Hexane, and Heptane simple Alkanes
        • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions
          • 9.4.9.2.1 Butane Safety and social responsibility
          • 9.4.9.2.2 Overview of BHO extraction
          • 9.4.9.2.3 Butane Mystery Oil Removal using a Terpenator
          • 9.4.9.2.6 Mystery oil content by lighter fuel brand
          • 9.4.9.3 Absolute Amber from Banana Silver Ladyboys by Jump117
      • 9.4.10 n-Butane, Isobutane, and Propane Rated GRAS by FDA
      • 9.4.11 BHO Open Blast
      • 9.4.12 Thermos extraction
      • 9.4.13 Lil Terp Passive Extractor
      • 9.4.14 Active Closed Loop
        • 9.4.14.1 Vapor boost for cold injections
        • 9.4.14.2 Unloading Columns With Air
        • 9.4.14.3 The History of BHO
      • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane
        • 9.4.15.1 Extraction
        • 9.4.15.2 Recovery
      • 9.4.16 Vacuum Purging
      • 9.4.17 Extracting oil from fan leaves and stems
      • 9.4.14.4 The Cotton Candy Extraction Technique
    • 9.5 Formulation and Application
      • 9.5.1 Holy Anointing Oil
      • 9.5.2 Graywolf’s EZ CBD Topical
      • 9.5.3 Suppositories
      • 9.5.4 Dab and Vaporizations Sytems:
      • 9.5.5 Cannabuttons
      • 9.5.6 Cannapops
      • 9.5.7 Royal Jelly
      • 9.5.8 Adabadoya snowballs
      • 9.5.9 Yet another way to vape without using e-pen carts
  • 10. The Alchemist Resource
    • 10.1 Decarboxylation
      • 10.1.1 Decarboxylation of Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) to active THC
      • 10.1.2 Decarboxylating Ethanol Tinctures In Situ
      • 10.1.3 Closed Wash Decarb by Ichiban Crafter
      • 10.1.4 Decarboxylation 101
    • 10.2 Winterizing
    • 10.3 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane and brine wash
    • 10.4 Isomerizing
    • 10.5 THC-O-A Acetate
    • 10.6 Sweet Mary’s Charms III
    • 10.7 CRC
      • 10.7.1 First Column Chromatography experiment
      • 10.7.2 CRC Murphy Murri style
      • 10.7.3 CRC 101, Intro to CRC and packing a poor man’s CRC
      • 10.7.4 ADSORBENT CLAYS, THEIR DISTRIBUTION, PROPERTIES PRODUCTION, AND USES
      • 10.7.5 Multicomponent Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Liquid Phase: Predictive, Engineering Models, Molecular Simulations and Experiments.
      • 10.7.6 Opalene Silica Grandular Absorbent by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.8 Short Path
      • 10.8.1 Introduction to Short Path Distillation, by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.9 THC-a Diamond Mining General Overview
      • 10.9.1 Diamond Mining by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.10 Alkanes and Alkane alcohols as solvents
    • 10.11 Isolation of D9-THC from Hemp and analytical aspects
    • 10.12 Sustainable Production of Cannabinoids with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Technologies
    • 10.13 Rate of THC Decomposition to CBN, et al
    • 10.14 Plant Waxes
    • 10.15 Identifying cannabis strains by terpene profile
    • 10.16 What are Anthocyanins
    • 10.17 Phytocanabinoids: a Unified Critical Inventory,
    • 10.18 Carbon Scrubbing & Diatomaceous Earth (DE) Filtering, by Ichiban Crafters
    • 10.19 190 Proof Ethanol from scratch
  • 11. Commercial Processes
  • 12. Extraction Booth and Ventilation
    • 12.1 Extraction Booth and Ventilation System Design
  • 13. Certification
    • 13.1 Certification
  • 14. Resources
    • 14.0 Resources
  • 15. DIY Equipment
    • 15.1 The History of the Terpenator According to Gospel
    • 15.2 Lil Terp
    • 15.3 Heat exchangers
      • 15.3.1 Ethanol recovery heat exchanger
      • 15.3.2 Counter flow heat exchangers
      • 15.3.3 Tri Coil Heat Exchanger Design
    • 15.4 The Evapanator DIY Rotary Thin Film Evaporator
    • 15.5 The DIY Rotary Evaporator by Siskiyou Sam
    • 15.6 ASME Pressure pots
    • 15.7 Pot still
    • 15.8 Ethanol fractionating still
      • 15.8.1 Refluxing columns for producing 190 proof Ethanol
    • 15.9 Sanitary Clamp Pressure Ratings
    • 15.10 DIY Seed Separator
    • 15.11 Convert EXT-420 to selectable single or double stage operation
    • 15.12 Refurbishing a used Napco Vacuum Oven and Controls
    • 15.13 Ethanol Subzero
    • 15.14 DIY Vacuum chamber
    • 15.15 Distilling and Polishing LPG
    • 15.16 Plant turnover and dipping fixture
    • 15.17 Induction heated nails
    • 15.18 Electric nails
    • 15.19 Tumbling
    • 15.20 The Grinning Reaper
    • 15.21 How to make DIY Dry sieving frames
    • 15.22 Material choice for extractor systems
    • 15.23 Mk VIII Inline Dewaxing
    • 15.24 DIY SCFE CO2
    • 15.25 Hot vapor assist
    • 15.26 Acoustical Extraction
    • 15.27 Automating the Extraction Process
    • 15.28 Extractor Column Design
    • 15.29 Remediating spent BHO extraction material for residual solvent
    • 15.30 Behold the Mk III Evolution and ancillaries
    • 15.31 Let’s discuss universal pump laws!
    • 15.32 Cannabis Extraction Thermodynamics 101
  • 16. Commercial Equipment
    • 16.1 Producers columns
      • 16.1.1 ABM Equipment bulk cannabis drying system
      • 16.1.2 Lab Baths – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
      • 16.1.3 DIRTY PURGE – Contamination Threats In Vacuum Purging
    • 16.2 Equipment tests
      • 16.2.1 Extract Craft Source Turbo
      • 16.2.2 Testing D Gold’s ISO-3
      • 16.2.3 HMI Titanium Skillet
      • 16.2.4 Evaluation of Heidolph Instruments Hei-VAP Precision ML G3
      • 16.2.5 Testing the CAT Scientific MCX-66 Stirring Hotplate
      • 16.2.6 Testing the Extract Craft EtOH Pro
      • 16.2.7 Field testing the Medxtract Essential
    • 16.3 Plant tours
      • 16.3.1 Subzero Scientific
  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:
    • 17.1 An $8M industrial-scale, USDA-Certified CBD/THC distillate-making facility for $3.75M.
    • 17.2 Miscellaneous Processing Equipment
    • 17.3 More misc equipment from Sam
    • 17.4 More from Sam
    • 17.5 New stuff from Sam
    • 17.7 New stuff from Sam
    • 17.8 More goodies from Sam
    • 17.8 Used flash chromatography unit from Subzero Scientific
  • 18.0 The vacuum cooking and aluminum bead sous vide test sled
    • 18.0.1 The Vacuum Cooking and Aluminum Bead Sous Vide Test Sled, Chapter 2
    • 18.1 Sous Vide cooking with aluminum beads
      • 18.1.1 Aluminum Bead Crème Brulee Sous Vide
      • 18.1.2 Egg Bites
    • 18.3 Produce food concentrates extracting and boiling at low temperatures under vacuum
      • 18.3.1 Test 13 F-Extracting wild blackberry concentrates from spent pulp

Day: January 11, 2023

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  • 18.0 The vacuum cooking and aluminum bead sous vide test sled

18.0.1 The Vacuum Cooking and Aluminum Bead Sous Vide Test Sled, Chapter 2

Posted on January 11, 2023April 7, 2023 10 mins

Chapter 1 ended with the test sled ready for trials and I reported my successes using aluminum beads in leu of water for sous vide […]

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  • 18.3 Produce food concentrates extracting and boiling at low temperatures under vacuum

18.3.1 Test 13 F-Extracting wild blackberry concentrates from spent pulp

Posted on January 11, 2023April 7, 2023 3 mins

Wowza, shazam!  What an intensely flavorful extract!! I extracted concentrate from spent wild blackberry pulp, after squeezing the berries for juice, that both Grayfox and […]

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  • 18.0 The vacuum cooking and aluminum bead sous vide test sled

18.3 Produce food concentrates extracting and boiling at low temperatures under vacuum

Posted on January 11, 2023April 7, 2023 6 mins

Test 3A:  My first experiment concentrating using vacuum was serendipitously Jalapeno syrup for use in Jalapeno lemonade and was inspired by Grayfox returning to the lair […]

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  • 18.1 Sous Vide cooking with aluminum beads

18.1.2 Egg Bites

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 2 mins

Here is a aluminum bead sous vide based on the Starbuck recipe: 4 eggs 4 tablespoons cottage cheese 1/4 cup Monterey Jack Cheese shredded 1/4 […]

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  • 18.1 Sous Vide cooking with aluminum beads

18.1.1 Aluminum Bead Crème Brulee Sous Vide

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 2 mins

Well, that was sure good and with benefits!  I was looking at recipes to try in my aluminum bead bath and Grayfox mentioned that Crème […]

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  • 18.0 The vacuum cooking and aluminum bead sous vide test sled

18.1 Sous Vide cooking with aluminum beads

Posted on January 11, 2023April 21, 2023 6 mins

My first trials using the new test sled was with the aluminum bead bed and relied on my previous experience using the Sous Vide Art […]

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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.7 New stuff from Sam

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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.8 Used flash chromatography unit from Subzero Scientific

Posted on January 11, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

Gently used Biotage Flash 150 System for Flash Chromatography, original price of $100,000+. Also includes Knauer 2.1S UV detector a $5000+ value and custom rack for ease of […]

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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.8 More goodies from Sam

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 2 mins

Hi guys, I have the following liquidation units for sale. #1) A never-used industrial-scale packaging solution that includes the following turnkey setups: – A Dried […]

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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.5 New stuff from Sam

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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.4 More from Sam

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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.3 More misc equipment from Sam

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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.2 Miscellaneous Processing Equipment

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 0 mins
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  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:

17.1 An $8M industrial-scale, USDA-Certified CBD/THC distillate-making facility for $3.75M.

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 0 mins
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  • 16.3 Plant tours

16.3.1 Subzero Scientific

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 3 mins

One of Graywolf’s Lair new columns is about my visits to local cannabis equipment manufacturers, and I started with Subzero Scientific, handily located in Gresham, […]

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  • 16.2 Equipment tests

16.2.7 Field testing the Medxtract Essential

Posted on January 11, 2023May 15, 2023 12 mins

Sometimes good thangs come in twos and this was one of those occasions, cause shortly after publishing my results from testing Extract Crafts EtOH Pro, […]

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  • 16.2 Equipment tests

16.2.6 Testing the Extract Craft EtOH Pro

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 15 mins

While I participated in beta testing Extract Crafts Turbo vacuum still back in 2016, alas I missed that opportunity when they were beta testing their […]

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  • 16.2 Equipment tests

16.2.5 Testing the CAT Scientific MCX-66 Stirring Hotplate

Posted on January 11, 2023April 7, 2023 3 mins

Thermolyne Cinarec 2 and CAT MCS-66 stirring hotplates Truth is shorter than fiction!  As a measure of how we voted with our feet after we […]

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  • 16.2 Equipment tests

16.2.4 Evaluation of Heidolph Instruments Hei-VAP Precision ML G3

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 10 mins

Here is an evaluation of the Heidolph Instruments Hei-VAP Precision Ml G3 rotary evaporator that was loaned to us by Heidolph Instruments and tested by […]

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  • 16.2 Equipment tests

16.2.3 HMI Titanium Skillet

Posted on January 11, 2023April 7, 2023 4 mins

 Before the Titanium Nail, Hash Master Kut designed a system called the HMK Ti Curve Skillet.  Besides its utilitarian aspects, Hash Master Kut and his […]

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  • 16.2 Equipment tests

16.2.2 Testing D Gold’s ISO-3

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 8 mins

For perspective, let’s start with a trip down memory lane for ya’ll brothers and sisters who became aware of the cannabis scene before the early […]

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  • 16.2 Equipment tests

16.2.1 Extract Craft Source Turbo

Posted on January 11, 2023May 15, 2023 4 mins

It’s good to be us when people send us peachy keen equipment to test, and we were recently smiled on by Extract Craft, who submitted […]

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  • 16.1 Producers columns

16.1.3 DIRTY PURGE – Contamination Threats In Vacuum Purging

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 6 mins

by Mary Babitz, Founder – Cascade Sciences In my years of working with engineers, the most interesting remains the Aerospace Contamination Engineer.  Working with them […]

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  • 16.1 Producers columns

16.1.2 Lab Baths – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Posted on January 11, 2023April 7, 2023 5 mins

By Andrea Ashley, Cascade Sciences  Let’s start with the ugly – oil baths. Oil baths are used for reactions that require heating/reflux temperatures up to 200°C. […]

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  • 16.1 Producers columns

16.1.1 ABM Equipment bulk cannabis drying system

Posted on January 11, 2023May 15, 2023 3 mins

ABM Equipment of Vancouver, WA has developed a new system which dries up to 10,000 lbs. of cannabis per hour with minimal loss of cannabinoids. This […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.32 Cannabis Extraction Thermodynamics 101

Posted on January 11, 2023March 21, 2023 38 mins

Now that more brothers and sisters are using closed loop LPG and EtOH extraction systems at subzero temperatures, questions regularly arise as to how much […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.31 Let’s discuss universal pump laws!

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 6 mins

There is a lot of discussion about which recovery pump is best suited for our application and my first thought is to ask which one […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.30 Behold the Mk III Evolution and ancillaries

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 6 mins

While I first shared the Terpenator design on 2-7-2011 on both SPR and IC Mag, and subsequently the fully automated Mk II, it was really […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.29 Remediating spent BHO extraction material for residual solvent

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 2 mins

In answering process questions via email or at other forums, one cropped up that I thought I might share.  That was how do you process […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.28 Extractor Column Design

Posted on January 11, 2023April 6, 2023 6 mins

A discussion of extraction column design would not be complete without first discussing subzero extraction.  As the LPG cannabis extraction process has evolved, we’ve learned […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.27 Automating the Extraction Process

Posted on January 11, 2023May 15, 2023 12 mins

I recently got a call querying the details of how we automated the extraction process on the WolfWurx Mk VA2’s, but the story actually predates […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.26 Acoustical Extraction

Posted on January 11, 2023April 5, 2023 3 mins

Besides the highly individualized hand jive style of extraction using a screen, the question arises as to how much support we might expect from music, […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.23 Mk VIII Inline Dewaxing

Posted on January 11, 2023April 5, 2023 2 mins

There are a couple divergent lines of thinking with regard to BHO extraction.  In Plan A, we chill the LPG low enough to minimize plant […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.25 Hot vapor assist

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 3 mins

As the temperature of LPG drops, so does its pressure.  The Engineering Tool Box offers a handy reference showing the pressure of different mixes at […]

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  • 15. DIY Equipment

15.24 DIY SCFE CO2

Posted on January 11, 2023May 15, 2023 34 mins

Sooooooo, why not passive SCFE CO2 extraction!  The sabriousness of CO2 certainly makes it attractive, and C02 becomes supercritical at only about 31C/87.8F at 1073 […]

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