Hmmm... it doesn't seem this user interface allows me to reply to specific posts?

I guess I wasn't clear on why I don't wanna be buying lye. I cultivate Cubensis pretty much year-round. Even if I had the lye near my sinks and bathrooms, I'm pretty sure the DEA wouldn't mind switching from searching for meth to busting me for cultivation. Damn police state bull-shit. :lol:

As such, I use hydrated lime all the time for casing material. I have a couple pounds of it in my closet right now. I had read yield will drop significantly by using hydrated lime instead of NaOH, however.  I've only taken up to Gen Chem II in college, without the labs, so I'm not nearly as well versed as I should be to start swapping things out without first gaining significant approval from others about what happens. I also know from experience hydrated lime is not easily soluble in water, so I'd need to know how to get around that one as well.

Thank you very much for all of the input, folks. Please keep it coming, I very much appreciate it. Are there any teks using hydrated lime around here I could have access to? I'll be getting MHRB from a very reputable source, word-of-mouth advertising, so it'll be great starting product, and others have reported up to 3% yield by weight from this stuff using lye. I'd like to approach that, if at all possible. It seemed to me an A/B method would be better for dissolving the DMT as opposed to STB, if using another base other than NaOH.

...one other thing - I had read in a post earlier yesterday on here that I can take sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and turn it into sodium carbonate by baking on high for about 2hrs? Is this accurate? If any of you can steer my to some links about that, I'd appreciate it as well. Otherwise, I'm bound to stumble onto it anyway. I assume all of this stuff is outlined in explicit detail around this site somewhere. Just gotta dig around.

EDIT_I found some info on the conversion here.

Thanks again, all!