Why not make the lye-and-MHRB-stew in an inexpensive, glass, gallon wine jug..?
SWIM does, well a litre+ jar anyway. It's just getting the stew & naphta separated out in the funnel that's the problem. SWIM will try filtering it through a sieve though before putting into funnel.
Turkey basters are cheap too!
yes for plastic ones, but finding a glass/metal one is a nightmare round here - he did eventually get a metal one though, think it was about £20. Problem with it is SWIM either looses naphta or picks up lye. The intetion of the sep funnel is to get a better seperation so SWIM gets all the naphta out.
I can't believe you are actually using a precious sep' funnel to do the stb-lye-stew in..!?
I'm not, and never said I was.
I think you should go back and ask your chemistry professor how to use a sep' funnel ..!
I would but I never did chemistry beyond GCSE 20 years ago so I thought asking here would be easier.
And I chuckle at this attitude, amongst all those who think STB extraction is some kind of easy 'cheat':
"... It is a lot of hassle and doesn't work very well, SWIM was just looking for an easier way .. "
afterall ... filtration is so hard, and who wants to wait for clean results anyways, doing a safe and sound tek for which you don't need to wash, recrystalize and lose yeild..?!
I don't think STB is a 'cheat', its a process which seems to work, though I've had my problems with it.
What I meant was that SWIM had had to use several filters, swap them over, fill & empty sep funnel several times, suffer spills, blockages, and loss of naphta, the whole thing taking over 2 days & was looking for an easier way than doing this every time. It was a comment in relation to filtering MHRB sludge rather than the tek itself.
SWIM reckons he'll try running it through a sieve as Noman suggests, this sounds easier than the above.
Thanks