That tek left very little to be explained. Nice write-up!

Okay, I read through the whole thing, and the only question I can come up with, anyone is free to chime in about:

I've read that extremely alkaline solutions can cause significant weakening of glass containers. Is it such that I need to throw away the vessels I use for basification after a certain number of uses? I think it would suck to lose all that MHRB due to a glass container shattering.