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Different ratios of lye:water:MHRB:Naptha

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Mr. Bojangles

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I thought the correct ratio was 1:15:1:1 according to the original Norman's TEK

Yet I see people using 150mL of naptha per 100grams of MHRB

or

600mL of water per 100 grams of MHRB

Is there a point to all this? What are the advantages disadvantages?


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Water and NAOH should scale
Above mixture should scale with MHRB
Naptha amount doesn't matter- too little is hard to pull up, too much can be annoying.

Thats what logic leads me to believe, at least.
 
Indeed.

Mr. Bojangles said:
600mL of water per 100 grams of MHRB

Is there a point to all this? What are the advantages disadvantages?
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That's half what most people would use.
The disadvantage is that if there isn't another water you won't get a good separation layer, if one at all.
I remember seeing someone's first extraction attempt and they mistakingly put only 500ml in a 100g mhrb extraction and the non-polar layer never formed. Took him a while to realize he'd only put 500ml in and not 1 liter.
As with your base, it's better to add excess water than too little.
But all this information, and more, exists in the thread I linked and others.
 
SWIM does 1:10:1 bark:water:lye but does admit to not actually weighing anything. Naptha is enough to pull swim says something like a 1/4 inch. Maybe half a turkey baster full, sometimes 2 of them for easy pulls.
 
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