The "Pet Ether"/Mason Jar Method

Overall Description

Distill pet ether from Coleman's camping fuel or equiv. Acetone, methanol, ethanol should be avoided as they rip too much junk out of the plant matter resulting in crappy product. In Glass Blender add trash/shake/bud and cover with pet ether. Blend for 5 mins, pour off pet ether, repeat 2 more times. (take proper precautions to put out fires!) Combine results, allow sediment to settle, decant, distill off pet ether. Mason jars are excellent vessels for this project. Punch 1/4" hole in top and soldier 3" of 1/4" copper pipe to mason jar lid. Create condesor out of 10' 1/4" copper pipe rolled into coil and immersed in cool water. For extra credit, combine resulting oil with loose cigarette tobacco, purchase pre-made cigarette tubes with filters (Rizla brand) from local smoke shop (200 for $4) along with $15 packing tool. End product smells like tobacco and will get you stoned. 80 grams trash = 24 cigs. Great for mixed company and bars! Have fun, bee safe! (pet ether & sparks = Fire!)

Distillation of Coleman's/Ozark Trail Into Pet Ether and Condenser Assembly

If one were to use the little butane blow torch (thin blue one found at most radio shacks) it is perfect for soldiering the copper pipe to the mason jar lid. Sand the top of the mason jar lid with steel wool to remove the varnish, punch hole using steel punch with the lid resting on soft piece of wood. Slip copper pipe into hole, heat the PIPE with the torch, use rosin cored soldier, smaller the better. hold lid with vise grips, don't use too much heat, just enough to get soldier to melt. If done correctly you will not burn the white coating on the inside of the mason jar lid. get some 3/8 clear tubing from home depot. connect this between mason jar and copper coil. Not-me put the copper coil in plastic pitcher, drilling a hole on the bottom for the end of the coil to stick out, and hot glued to seal. Fill pitcher with cool water run another piece of clear tubing from bottom of coil into 2nd mason that has TWO pipes soldiered to lid (liquid in and air out) Make sure this receiveing vesel is BELOW the level o f the bottom of the condensor! (usuall this vessel sits on the floor) To distill Colemans (actually the Ozark Trail brand from wally-mart gives better yield) Pour fuel into first mason jar and seal with one holed lid, put mason jar in 2 quart pot, fill pot with water, put pot on stove, plumb, turn on stove and bring water to gentle boil. Change water in condesor when it is very warm to touch. After you have your pet ether, blend it up with the trash/shake/bud. pour the now green/amber pet ether into clean mason jar. Repeat process for camping fuel distillation, but use the green/amber pet ether this time. Very little waste. distill off pet ether till you have 100 ml or so left, pour this over your tobacco and mix. Allow to air dry in front of fan. Then place in 230F oven to finish drying of the pet ether (if you don't it will taste like shit) unfortunatly the oven will also remove the moisture from the tobacco. You can throw tobacco in veggie steamer, or place moist paper towel in with it and cover with plastic rap and let sit over night. Pack cigs and have fun.

More Condensers Anyone?

My condensor is 5 foot of 1/4" OD soft copper pipe. Took large soup can, wraped copper pipe around it to create coil, then placed coil in 2 quart round rubbermaid cannister. Don't need anything fancy, pet ether is amazingly stable stuff, I have been using the same clear 3/8" OD (1/4" ID) tubing from Home depot since day one. I glued some legs (3/4" inside corner moulding) to the cannister so it is free standing at about a level just below the kitchen counter. This is an amazingly simple setup, It works well, has very little fumes (other than when running the blender), and its cheap. I've also had good results using the PVC and Butane, but its a little wastefull in my opinon, Venting all your solvent just doesn't feel right. Using the Pet ether process their are hardly any fumes, you get good yields, and you recycle your solvent. I can produce nearly 400 cigs using a single gallon of solvent. Your only loss is during the blending and transfer stages.