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Couple of Questions on 1st Straight to base extraction

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karma1485

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swim is a semi experienced extractor attempting her 4th extraction, all previous extractions have been successes. swim is attempting her first straight to base following Nomans tech. First Question: Swim finds that the Naptha separates out of the RB mixture within 3 minutes of tilting it. Is this normal? She thought that it would take more like an hour for the Naptha to completely separate. Another question: Is there any reason to use glass containers rather than plastic ones, plastic containers are easier to find and cheaper. Any thoughts or comments on this will be appreciated. Question 3: would more experienced extractors recommend evaporating the pulled naptha down to 50% before freeze precipitating it? Keeping in mind that Swim will complete 6 pulls at 400ml of naptha on a pound of mimosa RB depending on responses to the next question. One last question: At what point does pulling become excessive? Swim is attempting 6 pulls at 400 ml of naptha on this pound of powdered RB just for the hell of it even tho the tek only calls for 3. Swim intends to heat the 5th and 6th pull in a warm water bath to 100 degrees f. aprox. :idea:
 
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The naptha separates out so quickly because of the huge amount of lye. This is normal. Just make sure the agitation is good and thorough. HDPE plastic containers work fine. Evaporating the solvent helps freeze precipitation greatly. Extra pulls are only excessive if one isn't pulling anymore spice. After the first three, one could cut the amount of naptha used in half if they wanted. Vortex's tek (Lazy Man) goes into pretty good detail on heating the solution for later pulls. After three or four, my friend does a couple with toluene and calls it good.
 
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