Moisture problem with bho

So the most recent 3 runs I've done i have struggled with moisture problems. Never had this problem
before then burn, somehow I'm getting water into certain slabs but just into certain parts of the slab. That part of the slab will pop and crackel like crazy, while the rest of the slab is fine. In the last few blast I've also noticed that after a certain point while blasting the butane in the dish will start to clump like a crystal like form, and I'm assuming those are the parts with mosture in them. Its not the entire blast, just little chunks of it. I know it's water because when I release the pressure in my vacuums oven, moisture will form on the inside of the glass.

Things I'm doing that I've eliminated from the equation.

1.) Not spilling water into it from the double boil
2.) wiping the basting tube dry of all the condensation before re-packingz
3.) The product being blasted is dry dry

Like I said I've been doing this to a while and never experienced this. Please let me know any thoughts!

Thanks

Prolonged cold temperatures will condensate moisture out of the air into your dish.

Are you open blasting or closed loop?

If closed loop, check your storage tank for accumulated water.

If open, try blasting into a deeper container sitting in the hot water. If the atmosphere humidity can reach the vaporization line in the dish, it will form ice that later melts into the extraction. In a deeper dish, the LPG vapors float the atmosphere high enough in the dish that it can't reach the vapor line.

Fadedawg said:

Are you open blasting or closed loop?

If closed loop, check your storage tank for accumulated water.

If open, try blasting into a deeper container sitting in the hot water. If the atmosphere humidity can reach the vaporization line in the dish, it will form ice that later melts into the extraction. In a deeper dish, the LPG vapors float the atmosphere high enough in the dish that it can't reach the vapor line.

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This makes sense to me, I had to change my water dish out to a shallower one, (was a bowl) as the steam would keep doing that fog roll thing, and would cause some moisture....

Winterizing solves the problem even if there is some.... just saying...

Flagg420 said:

This makes sense to me, I had to change my water dish out to a shallower one, (was a bowl) as the steam would keep doing that fog roll thing, and would cause some moisture....

Winterizing solves the problem even if there is some.... just saying...

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That works!

You could put a cover over the dish while evaporating, one that just sits on loosely. The butane fills the space and seeps out around the cover, preventing moist air from getting in there because it's slightly pressurized gas coming out. While blasting, I suppose you would want a cover of some sort too, maybe a piece of clear polyethylene sort of wrapped around the bottom of the tube and over the dish, clear so you can see what's going on while keeping out moisture. Or maybe a solid cover with a tube hole in it.