Hey folks,
SWIM's been using a lot of Xylene recently and plagued by head-aches, long waits for evaporation and complaints from house mates about the smell of it. The thing is SWIM's been getting so much more spice using this stuff that his standard solvent won't pull and to sacrifice this extra spice would be sinful.
Is it OK to just evaporate small amounts of the solvent at a time? SWIM has started to empty small quantities of his Xylene pulls into a petri dish a little bit away from an electric heater and temperature probed to check the temperature doesn't go above 45C (it's in a conservatory at the back of the house and the heat from the sun can push this up a fair bit at times). His total evaporating time has gone down from days to a matter of hours and the smell can only be found close to the source.
I'm just running this through here to check it's usefulness, as SWIM see's no problem with it, but as he hasn't heard of anyone using this method he's a little anxious to continue. As the Xylene evaporates leaving the crude product a little exposed would the conditions degrade the product at all? SWIM leaves the last evaporation in the dish when he pours the next one on to bring the product together to make it easier to manage so the same product will spend quite a lot of time under heat in open air. Is this a problem?
Much greatefulness in advance.
SWIM's been using a lot of Xylene recently and plagued by head-aches, long waits for evaporation and complaints from house mates about the smell of it. The thing is SWIM's been getting so much more spice using this stuff that his standard solvent won't pull and to sacrifice this extra spice would be sinful.
Is it OK to just evaporate small amounts of the solvent at a time? SWIM has started to empty small quantities of his Xylene pulls into a petri dish a little bit away from an electric heater and temperature probed to check the temperature doesn't go above 45C (it's in a conservatory at the back of the house and the heat from the sun can push this up a fair bit at times). His total evaporating time has gone down from days to a matter of hours and the smell can only be found close to the source.
I'm just running this through here to check it's usefulness, as SWIM see's no problem with it, but as he hasn't heard of anyone using this method he's a little anxious to continue. As the Xylene evaporates leaving the crude product a little exposed would the conditions degrade the product at all? SWIM leaves the last evaporation in the dish when he pours the next one on to bring the product together to make it easier to manage so the same product will spend quite a lot of time under heat in open air. Is this a problem?
Much greatefulness in advance.
