Ok swim has acquired everything aside from a mixing vessel and a separating device, probably try to find a glass turkey baster or a large eye dropper. For the vessel swim plans to use hdpe .5 gallon milk jugs. Swim plans to fill one with ph 14 water and another with a good amount of solvent, and will leave for a few days in a thick tub in the garage, he wants to be sure they do not melt or whatnot. Swim will also do a solvent with basic aqueous shake so he has an idea of what sort of pressure he will face. Swim can always acquire more unrefined wormspice, the vessel of base is where he wants to be most precarious. Swim is conflicted about the amount of water one should use and how much unrefined prepowdered wormspice per vessel. Swim would like to know if the 15ml of water is sufficient, should swim double it, is that excessive? Swim is starting with 224 grams of his wormspice, it is prepowdered. One container should hold 1.7 liters, leaving a little room for solvent. This would mean using more than 3 jugs. Which is not a problem at all, Swim does not want to end up with an emulsion goop that will not separate. Any thoughts on numbers. As far as the NaOH, new meter Swim is all to willing to play with it. Swim plans to use tapwater before the filter, swim has a well in a limestone table, and figures since he is going strait to base why not start with that. Swim has tested the water, whopping 8.4, the pipes are brand new. Swim plans to make basic water, 13.6, in a separate vessel, then another as far as it will go. Swim will add the unrefined wormspice to the extraction vessel after adding an amount of basic water Swim will then test and use the second to adjust. Should Swim go higher? Swim has plenty of solvent, naphtha is cheap, clean, and available. Swim can get pure xylene as well, but he says he will cross that bridge if and when he decides to. Given this should Swim go ahead and evaporate then cfc? Or should he combine pulls, evaporate down a little, then cfc? Swim has pyrex pie dishes with lids. Swim would love to have gorgeous giant crystals and is willing to play with it a bit, he is considering keeping the largest redissolving the rest and using the larger as the seeds. But wonders if these cycles will lead to yellowing and or loss. Is oxygen the main yellowing culprit? If Swim syphons in a bunch of nitrogen will this help? Swim thanks you all for your wisdom in advance.