A friend I haven't talked to in some years called me from his satellite phone while floating on an iceberg in international waters and had a few questions. He had some leftover STB goop and wanted to clean it up some. He has some HCL in the form of pool cleaner,lye,brew-rite cleaner,glassware,xylene and of course good clean iceberg water.
He was thinking of doing a wash with the brew rite first on the goop then adding 3x volume of ph adjusted water to the goop and solvent mixture after it has been separated from the brew rite mix. He wanted to know would it need any heat and is a ph of 4 good or should he go lower to make it into a hydrochloride? He was then going to discard the oil side after 2 additional pulls of ph adjusted water. After that a lye solution of 10-13 would be made to basify the water with a clean fresh solvent being used to pull the magic back to the solvent. He just wanted me to ask if that would work and if heat would be required so he could set that up if needed. If this sounds OK I will ring up the satellite phone and let him know.
He was thinking of doing a wash with the brew rite first on the goop then adding 3x volume of ph adjusted water to the goop and solvent mixture after it has been separated from the brew rite mix. He wanted to know would it need any heat and is a ph of 4 good or should he go lower to make it into a hydrochloride? He was then going to discard the oil side after 2 additional pulls of ph adjusted water. After that a lye solution of 10-13 would be made to basify the water with a clean fresh solvent being used to pull the magic back to the solvent. He just wanted me to ask if that would work and if heat would be required so he could set that up if needed. If this sounds OK I will ring up the satellite phone and let him know.
