mad_banshee
Rising Star
g1risMethyl said:SWIM is in the process of getting Xylene. Its smelly, and the wife thinks its a nasty chemical. He will get it soon enough, For now he put in another pull, and hopes that this exhausts the bark. It gives and gives, He hope its finally had enough.
I think that SWIMs last pull was pretty gnarly looking. It was quite yellow (nothing a nice cleaning/re-x cant fix but..) so Im sure SWIMs only going to pick up a tiny amount. He used ~55mL naptha, heated.
My swim picks up a LOT more spice using xylene, even after it seems exausted with naptha pulls. But you are right, xylene is nasty, nasty stuff and you must evaporate it outdoors. If you don't have an outdoor shed or something to use to evap it, then don't even consider working with xylene. Maybe try limonene or just move on to more bark. At about $80 a kilo for powdered bark, spice is very cheap no matter how you look at it. Do buy bark by the kilo as its cheaper that way.