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what do people feel is generallly the biggest amount of MHRB to do at once? SWIM has over 5kg of root bark (4kg powdered, 1kg root bark). Would it be best to do it split it up 2 - 2 - 1 ? Swim would rather do as much at once as possible. How much spice (roughly) should SWIM expect from that if everything goes ok Swim is gonna try the Lextek this time after trying a STB on his first attempt. Lextek is ok for powdered MHRB right?
 
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calculate the vol of the container as said previously .. note how much H20 some of the teks require and how big your containers are....... if your doing something like a noman STB you you can just about do 200/250g MHRB in a average glass jug and your outta room, so simply look at total vols required altho most teks say they can be taken up or down accordingly Hope it helps _ p e a c e
 
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With any extraction above lb,kilo you're going to have a volume of liquid- and hence weight- that's going to be very difficult to deal with.A 2k extraction is going to equal something like 20k of strongly basic liquid to manipulate and try to mix.
 
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I see, thanks. Swim was mainly concerned at having to do multiple extractions and had hoped to do it in as few as possible. But I see your point about the volumes involved. I will advise him to do in smaller amounts.
 
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(using noman's tek) max vol of mixture = g of mhrb x 16 ie, 15ml of water and 1ml of naptha for each gram of bark does not include vol of bark or naoh crystals, so leave room for that.
 
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Edgar my Aardvark just did a 2 kilo extraction all in one shot and he thinks it`s the way to go.He has a super large stainless steel pot that holds about 5 gallons.After recrystalizing three times to get it super clean he ended up with 26 grams of clean snortable spice.That`s 1.3 percent yield from his super high quality rootbark he gets from a certain vendor.And it was done all in less than 48 hours.If you have the place to work,and a large enough pot,go big,it is worth it.
 
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attempting large extractions was always appealing to swim... BUT swim learned her lesson about large extractions the hard way. When things go wrong with large extractions you have SO MUCH MORE TO LOOSE. Practice makes perfect, not that you don't have practice, i have no idea how much you have done b4. I would def. steer away from doing 2 kilos at a time.
 
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OK, this is SWIMs second try. First attempt used 220g and probably threw most of it away while extracting -.-. Swim started with 100g MHRB and followed Nomans tek. This is what he got from the first 3 jars(4th jar still in freezer) after freeze precip: [img:3822013742]http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6113/p1000259rd3.jpg[/img:3822013742] He has 0.5g of what looks to me like nice looking crystals. Should he do an ammonia wash or just recrystallize, or is it fine how it is? If he recrystallizes, I see people say to heat the naptha and crystal seperately then add together. Is it not ok to add them, and then heat it up in the same vessel? also, to grow big crystals one would just leave it in the naptha and let it evaporate without fans? This is the solvent SWIM was using and it worked fine for the extraction (0.5grams from 100g is spot on right?). Any reason it shouldnt be ok for recrytallizing also? So Swim is kinda stoked cos he has another 5kg of mhrb still :p [img:3822013742]http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7606/p1000248wj6.jpg[/img:3822013742] SWIMS first try at this ended up with not much spice and then didnt have much luck at vaping, but he now has a "machine" so hes looking forward to finally trying this!!
 
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Hey man, congratul-a-fuckin-lations! That stuff must be pure hexane if thats what you got off a freeze precip. Nice :p My guess is that one might lose 10 - 20% of that in a recrystalization but I bet one pass with that solvent would give someone water clear shimmery needles that vaporize and leave NO burnt ichor residue in the glass Do it Youll never go back Youll laugh when noobs speak of how harsh it is to smoke HAHA But I digress in my melogamania... Yes one needs to heat the solvent and spice separately because one needs to add just enough solvent to dissolve the spice at that temperature Heat a pan of water with two shotlasses in it When its almost boiling turn off the heat and put your spice in one and your solvent in another Add a little solvent to the spice - just enough to wet it Let everyhthing warm up - turn the heat back on if necessary (no open flame tho) - the spice should look like a somewhat yellow oil (not very yellow in your case) and the solvent should feel warm to the touch Now add solvent to the spice a little at a time keeping the whole process warm with your water bath There will come a point when everything goes into the solvent At this point one needs to stop adding solvent, give the mixture a final swirl and let it sit in its water bath for twenty four hours Then move it to the refrigerator for twenty four hours Then to the freezer for twenty four hours After that pour off the solvent, scrape out the shotglass and separate the crystal from the slag. Cheers
 
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havent weighed yet, but looks so awesome! [img:aed1c2bf5d]http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/2549/p1000269xg1.th.jpg[/img:aed1c2bf5d][img:aed1c2bf5d]http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9733/p1000278sv5.th.jpg[/img:aed1c2bf5d] how do you go about separating the crystals from the slag, SWIM was using a knife and a magnifying glass but still some dark stuff in that pile. [img:aed1c2bf5d]http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9654/p1000281ih0.th.jpg[/img:aed1c2bf5d] And what do you do with the dirty bits?
 
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