Transferring oils for long term storage

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You're gonna make me try to rig up something to test vacuum on a syringe and/or vial at this rate. The more I think about it, the more I think you could pull more vacuum with a syringe than a vacuum sealer, but I might try to give it a whirl if I can find my shitty vacuum gauge. Honestly don't know if the difference even matters, but it might give me something to do after my next surgery BS.

Edit: A proper vac chamber may be a whole different animal though.

A good vacuum chamber/sealer will pull dissolved air out of liquids, According to the gauge mine gets close to -1 bar vacuum. ie around 99% of the air out. Could get even closer to 100% with a longer cycle.

Be curious to see how much you can get out with just a syringe, imagine it could require multiple attempts and work best with a low dead space syringe. Mind you I noticed some syringes leak air bubbles through the plunger when dealing with heavy oils.

 

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A good vacuum chamber/sealer will pull dissolved air out of liquids, According to the gauge mine gets close to -1 bar vacuum. ie around 99% of the air out. Could get even closer to 100% with a longer cycle.

Be curious to see how much you can get out with just a syringe, imagine it could require multiple attempts and work best with a low dead space syringe. Mind you I noticed some syringes leak air bubbles through the plunger when dealing with heavy oils.

I'd wager you can prob get close to 1 bar of vac from a syringe, at least momentarily. Will maybe piece something together when the time is there and see what we learn.

The biggest drawback to the approach you suggested is storage, which if you're not storing a ton long term is maybe not too bad. Getting into 50-100 vials or more would start to get tricky keeping the oils off all the stoppers. You'd almost need a rack of some kind and that's more space in a freezer vs vial cases.

Appreciate the discussion in any case, and thanks for posting your findings.