wilderness face
Rising Star
I feel it is my duty to bring this to everyone's attention. I feel like a complete moron, as I should, so I am weary of posting this onto a public forum. However I think it is my responsibility to post this.
SWIM attempted his first extraction (AB). He must have done it wrong (he used too much liquid, and i don't think his ph meter was working correctly.) He proceeded to the freeze precipitation step (he had previously verified his naptha was free of impurities by evaporating it as suggested). The next morning he saw white clumps inside his jar (not crystals).
He hadn't seen any pictures of real crystals precipitating at this point. So he was very excited. He dumped out the naptha and put the white clumps on a pyrex plate to dry. When they reached room temp, however, they melted and turned clear. SWIM thought something was wrong but let them continue to dry. When they finished drying there was almost nothing on the plate. What was on the plate was some white spots that looked like spots on wine glasses that came out of the dishwasher. Barely visible. SWIM knew he did the extraction wrong (he just eyeballed everything and used a very small amount, just to test the theory of the procedure), but figured some spice must have come through and that's what he thought the spots were.
At this point he basically ran a razor over the surface to pick up all the almost invisible white stuff. He got roughly the amount of 1/4 of the size of a BB. Which was such a small amount of stuff that he couldn't even make out what color it was. All he knew was that there were some hairs/dust caked on it from drying. Not much. He put this in a pipe and smoked it. He definitely felt something, and got a slight rush, but no other effects. Within 5 minutes he smoked some tobacco out of a pipe (he inhales).
At this point his lungs felt like they were burning. This continued for several hours and got worse and he felt like he couldn't breathe and went to the hospital. They did some tests and gave him some oxygen and albuterol and told him to come back in two to four days days, which he didn't. His lungs continued to burn for three days. He went back to work. Several days later he was at work and he felt better and didn't have any problem breathing. He decided to smoke a cigarette (he is a fucking idiot). From that point on he felt like he couldn't breathe and the pain in his lungs had come back. Today at work he felt like he was going to pass out and possibly die, and used all the albuterol, which seemed to make it worse after it wore off. Now he feels like his lungs are filling up with water.
Please note that there was no liquid on the bottom of the plate and what was on the razor and subsequently smoked in the pipe was SO SMALL he couldn't even really see it because it was covered in the dust that had landed on the plate. The point of me posting this is that I want everyone to know how TOXIC this VM&P Naptha shit is. The brand was Crown and was bought from Lowe's (if that even matters). My concern is that if SWIM inhaled one puff of this concentrated toxin, others are slowly killing themselves by distributing it over their crystals.
SWIM subsequently put NEW naptha straight from the can into a jar in the freezer and pretty much the same thing happened. What he thought was white spice was impurities collecting and freezing out of the naptha. He tried this with xylol (same brand) and something _crystallized_ and is currently floating in the xylol.
SWIM attempted his first extraction (AB). He must have done it wrong (he used too much liquid, and i don't think his ph meter was working correctly.) He proceeded to the freeze precipitation step (he had previously verified his naptha was free of impurities by evaporating it as suggested). The next morning he saw white clumps inside his jar (not crystals).
He hadn't seen any pictures of real crystals precipitating at this point. So he was very excited. He dumped out the naptha and put the white clumps on a pyrex plate to dry. When they reached room temp, however, they melted and turned clear. SWIM thought something was wrong but let them continue to dry. When they finished drying there was almost nothing on the plate. What was on the plate was some white spots that looked like spots on wine glasses that came out of the dishwasher. Barely visible. SWIM knew he did the extraction wrong (he just eyeballed everything and used a very small amount, just to test the theory of the procedure), but figured some spice must have come through and that's what he thought the spots were.
At this point he basically ran a razor over the surface to pick up all the almost invisible white stuff. He got roughly the amount of 1/4 of the size of a BB. Which was such a small amount of stuff that he couldn't even make out what color it was. All he knew was that there were some hairs/dust caked on it from drying. Not much. He put this in a pipe and smoked it. He definitely felt something, and got a slight rush, but no other effects. Within 5 minutes he smoked some tobacco out of a pipe (he inhales).
At this point his lungs felt like they were burning. This continued for several hours and got worse and he felt like he couldn't breathe and went to the hospital. They did some tests and gave him some oxygen and albuterol and told him to come back in two to four days days, which he didn't. His lungs continued to burn for three days. He went back to work. Several days later he was at work and he felt better and didn't have any problem breathing. He decided to smoke a cigarette (he is a fucking idiot). From that point on he felt like he couldn't breathe and the pain in his lungs had come back. Today at work he felt like he was going to pass out and possibly die, and used all the albuterol, which seemed to make it worse after it wore off. Now he feels like his lungs are filling up with water.
Please note that there was no liquid on the bottom of the plate and what was on the razor and subsequently smoked in the pipe was SO SMALL he couldn't even really see it because it was covered in the dust that had landed on the plate. The point of me posting this is that I want everyone to know how TOXIC this VM&P Naptha shit is. The brand was Crown and was bought from Lowe's (if that even matters). My concern is that if SWIM inhaled one puff of this concentrated toxin, others are slowly killing themselves by distributing it over their crystals.
SWIM subsequently put NEW naptha straight from the can into a jar in the freezer and pretty much the same thing happened. What he thought was white spice was impurities collecting and freezing out of the naptha. He tried this with xylol (same brand) and something _crystallized_ and is currently floating in the xylol.
