First try with "good'ol A/B with lye and vinegar"

[wurrgit]

Good evening all!

Im currently in the process of doing an extraction using the method from this tek.

In the written tek 160g was used but i figure it should scale alright.

The amount of MHRB powder being used is 100g.

The MHRB poweder was added to a litre water in a pot, acidified with 1.5 tablespoons of 6% vinegar and let to boil lightly for half an hour.

The result has been left alone for about six hours now and the MHRB does not seem to precipitate to the bottom of the container very well.



Am i just impatient or doing something else wrong?

I tried to search but its hard to get a relevant result as most posts about precipitating seem to be about freezing the solvents.

Im thankful for anyhelp the good people of the Nexus can offer

 

[q21q21]

SWIM is not too experience with A/B but he has made a couple brews.

Something that he does with brews with a large amount of sediments is use 2 funnels each with a cotton ball in it.

The brew is poured through on funnel+cotton ball until it clogs, then it is left to settle for a few minutes then the clear brew on the top is pour, or better suctioned off with a baster and poured through the second funnel.

The sediments are very attracted to the cotton ball, much more than settling via gravity, even just tossing a couple cotton balls into the brew may get the sediments to settle better.
Usually it only takes 1-3 tightly packed cotton balls in the second funnel to filter a even 2 liter brews.


Hope this helps.

 

[wurrgit]

Thanks for the quick answer, ill try it right away!

Not sure if you remember me but i asked some questions about your tek via PM earlier, i couldnt find any lime of the right kind around here so i seem to be trying this way instead.
For the next time if there is one ill order lime as i feel that your tek would be better for me to try.

Anyways, ill post back with any progress i get

EDIT: that did the trick!
After pouring through cotton balls i put the plant matter in a peice of tshirt and squeezed the last bit of fluid out and now its in a second light boil to get more magic out.
(the plant matter will be saved even after this to maybe get a third and fourth boil later, for now i will go on in the process as soon as this boil is over)

 

[wurrgit]

There is forward momentum

Im doing pulls with heptane and its turning slightly yellow and cloudy.

From what ive read this is normal so i hope its going the right way

EDIT: I just took a look in the freezer and there seems to be crystals building in the heptane.

Will post back tomorrow with pics as well as a report on how much the yield was, Happy Dance

EDIT2: I thought it would be nice to include more info on what i did so here goes:

After the plant matter was separated from the acidic water by filtering through a tshirt and by squeezing it was boiled down to about a litre.
The litre was a bit much for the bottle i have so it was separated into two halves.
Water and lye were mixed in the bottle, then half of the acidic water was added and shaken to help with the bacification.
Then heptane was added and the bottle put into a double boiler to bring the temperature up.
I did three 30ml heptane pulls per half litre of MHRBwater and used a 10ml syringe to make sure none of the base got into the jar that is being used for the FP.
(and the rubber plunger expanded a bit in contact with the solvent as i had read it would, it got a bit stiff but luckily it didnt become unusable)

I figure there wont be a problem with using so much solvent as almost all of it can be recovered and reused.

 

[wurrgit]

Sorry for the tripplepost but i though someone might be interested in seeing the resuls, i sure was



So i got some yellow and seemingly a bit oily xtals, havnt poked around in the jar yet.

Would these be OK to smoke as they are?

Im gonna read up on some teks for cleaning it up a bit and post back with questions if i have any.

 

[q21q21]

looks great, SWIM would smoke it.

Good work!

 

[dg]

looks 100 times better that what i first made using qt tek
good work, welcome to the Nexus btw

 

[wurrgit]

q21q21: Ive promised a friend that i would wait so that i could have her sit for me but i couldnt wait and smoke some i did, whoa what an experience!
According to the scale i have i only took 16mgs and the whole room started buzzing and turned into a cartoon(candyland?) and the walls danced for some minutes afterward.

Very interesting and strange but for a heavier dose im going to wait until i have a sitter, if anything to have the "the machine" taken away from me when im going away.

I have to say that i didnt find the smoke bad at all, i can sure tell why people describe it as burning plastic but it wasnt bad even tho i dont smoke tobacco or weed.
Might get harder when inhaling larger doses.

dg: Thanks!