onesickfreak
Rising Star
- Merits
- 42
so ive ran orions tek three times now... (mostly to the letter)
but ive only been getting a .3% yeild...
as ive been reading other teks, i see things (i think) ive been doing wrong...
1) during my acid boil, i was boiling down, then adding more vinegar/water (ph of 4, test with litmus paper), not pouring off, adding more, then combining and reducing.
2) i add my lye (to a ph of 14) and then salt (i then read on a soap making forum that salt wont dissolve well in lye, that i should add salt then lye..)
3) about an hour after lye is added, i then add naptha and pull (X3), do the freeze precip, then evap the rest...
ok, so correct me if im wrong, but i need to do multiple boils... combine, then reduce. add salt, then lye. now, do i need to wait longer (maybe a day or two) before my pulls? i think i read (or misunderstood) but do i need to let my solution cool down before i add WARM naptha?
and i have another question that i probably shouldnt worry about yet but im still wondering... if i drop a bud of some quality smoke into my saturated naptha for like an hour or so, then dried it back out, would i have "supercharged" the bud with some spice, or do you think the actives in my smoke would end up in the naptha?
thanks
but ive only been getting a .3% yeild...
as ive been reading other teks, i see things (i think) ive been doing wrong...
1) during my acid boil, i was boiling down, then adding more vinegar/water (ph of 4, test with litmus paper), not pouring off, adding more, then combining and reducing.
2) i add my lye (to a ph of 14) and then salt (i then read on a soap making forum that salt wont dissolve well in lye, that i should add salt then lye..)
3) about an hour after lye is added, i then add naptha and pull (X3), do the freeze precip, then evap the rest...
ok, so correct me if im wrong, but i need to do multiple boils... combine, then reduce. add salt, then lye. now, do i need to wait longer (maybe a day or two) before my pulls? i think i read (or misunderstood) but do i need to let my solution cool down before i add WARM naptha?
and i have another question that i probably shouldnt worry about yet but im still wondering... if i drop a bud of some quality smoke into my saturated naptha for like an hour or so, then dried it back out, would i have "supercharged" the bud with some spice, or do you think the actives in my smoke would end up in the naptha?
thanks
