cashewman1
Rising Star
Hi guys,
I just figured out this is the only place I will be able to post haha but at least I can finally ask my friends questions.
Included is also a small summary of what hes been doing, if anyone sees errors please let me know so I can tell him
Heres the the deal. My friend tried an A/B extraction (QT's Extraction tek for students) with about 30 g MHRB. My friend didnt get diddly from this 2 month attempt and was very discouraged.
Now my friend has finally found enough time to try again. He is trying nomans STB tek and wow it was already working wonders. He had about 26 g MHRB, 26 g Lye, and about 400 ml water. After letting it all mix together for a while he added in about 25 ml VMP naptha for the first pull. He took the initial 25 ml pull and put it in the freezer, the next morning he had some very pretty spice, needless to say it was very exciting.
Next he added another 25 ml naptha and repeated steps then put into seperatory funnel to remove. Unfortunately he was in a rush and added 25 ml naptha (that was heating up on magnetic stir plate and starting to boil so didnt want to leave it there any longer). to his extraction jar before he had finished removing the rest of naptha from the seperatory funnel. The seperatory funnel ended up getting clogged with debris due to some shady decanting. In an attempt to unclog the seperatory funnel he accidentally broke his valve that controls the rate of flow for the funnel, and in a fit of frustration dumped everything back into the extraction jar.
So now his extraction jar has 50 ml of warmish naptha sitting in it. He didnt think this would be a problem if he combined the second and third pulls of naptha together so was not very worried. He jimmy rigged his funnel valve so it was at least functional and proceeded to remove the 50 ml naptha from solution.
After trying to freeze precip on it I believe he realized it was too dilute, so now hes trying to evaporate some naptha off the top so he can refreeze precip, seeing as it is the 2nd and thrid pull combined he wants to ensure he can get it to work because he believes it will contain a good amount of spice in it.
He also did another pull after that with around 20 ml warm naptha and freeze preciptated, there were crystals in the morning but still non in the jar containing the second and thrid pull combined.
He is planning on continuing to do small pulls until no more crystals show up.
Now, the questions
1. Is there way to make the naptha quickly evaportate from his combined 2nd and third pull? It seems as if it is taking a while, he is skeptical of applying heat in fear of damaging product and does not want to transfer it to a different wider container, (In a 400 ml pyrex beaker right now).
2. After the freeze precip is over, Does he simply poor out all the naptha through a coffee filter into a seperate container to evaporate for extra crystals?
3. Does he Allow the crystals he currently has to dry out inside of collection jar after naptha is poured off or to dry out on coffee filters, Just a little confused at this part. he Was planning on dumping naptha and leaving containers upside down to dry out in order to drip off excess naptha and oils.
I know this was a long post so thanks so much if you made it this far and please any incite would be helpful
Thanks everyone
I just figured out this is the only place I will be able to post haha but at least I can finally ask my friends questions.
Included is also a small summary of what hes been doing, if anyone sees errors please let me know so I can tell him
Heres the the deal. My friend tried an A/B extraction (QT's Extraction tek for students) with about 30 g MHRB. My friend didnt get diddly from this 2 month attempt and was very discouraged.
Now my friend has finally found enough time to try again. He is trying nomans STB tek and wow it was already working wonders. He had about 26 g MHRB, 26 g Lye, and about 400 ml water. After letting it all mix together for a while he added in about 25 ml VMP naptha for the first pull. He took the initial 25 ml pull and put it in the freezer, the next morning he had some very pretty spice, needless to say it was very exciting.
Next he added another 25 ml naptha and repeated steps then put into seperatory funnel to remove. Unfortunately he was in a rush and added 25 ml naptha (that was heating up on magnetic stir plate and starting to boil so didnt want to leave it there any longer). to his extraction jar before he had finished removing the rest of naptha from the seperatory funnel. The seperatory funnel ended up getting clogged with debris due to some shady decanting. In an attempt to unclog the seperatory funnel he accidentally broke his valve that controls the rate of flow for the funnel, and in a fit of frustration dumped everything back into the extraction jar.
So now his extraction jar has 50 ml of warmish naptha sitting in it. He didnt think this would be a problem if he combined the second and third pulls of naptha together so was not very worried. He jimmy rigged his funnel valve so it was at least functional and proceeded to remove the 50 ml naptha from solution.
After trying to freeze precip on it I believe he realized it was too dilute, so now hes trying to evaporate some naptha off the top so he can refreeze precip, seeing as it is the 2nd and thrid pull combined he wants to ensure he can get it to work because he believes it will contain a good amount of spice in it.
He also did another pull after that with around 20 ml warm naptha and freeze preciptated, there were crystals in the morning but still non in the jar containing the second and thrid pull combined.
He is planning on continuing to do small pulls until no more crystals show up.
Now, the questions
1. Is there way to make the naptha quickly evaportate from his combined 2nd and third pull? It seems as if it is taking a while, he is skeptical of applying heat in fear of damaging product and does not want to transfer it to a different wider container, (In a 400 ml pyrex beaker right now).
2. After the freeze precip is over, Does he simply poor out all the naptha through a coffee filter into a seperate container to evaporate for extra crystals?
3. Does he Allow the crystals he currently has to dry out inside of collection jar after naptha is poured off or to dry out on coffee filters, Just a little confused at this part. he Was planning on dumping naptha and leaving containers upside down to dry out in order to drip off excess naptha and oils.
I know this was a long post so thanks so much if you made it this far and please any incite would be helpful
Thanks everyone