So my first ever extraction attempt seemed to be a great success.
I did Q21Q21's Tek 1. Everything went smoothly, I took notes, was organised and all that. The Tek is petro-chem free, entirely foodsafe and much easier to perform than I had expected. Loading the resulting material into my newly built machine, I felt an expectancy sure, but I did not expect such a success first time. It's as easy to attain full blast off with this as any other spice I've ever tried. But I'm ahead of myself.
After collecting all the vinagary spice-water I began evaporating it in a pot on low heat. There was about 100 ml of fluid, fairly clear at first. Right away, when it began to heat up I noticed two cream colored/off white filaments materialise within the fluid. Hmm, I thought the JimJam was supoosed to be all red. Prodding these two filaments (thin, less than an inch long, I thought they may be DMT crystals of some ilk at first) they currled up and became little glogules, smaller than a match head each. At the end I have red goo (highly active and the experience was fabulous) and also two little whitish bits.
Looking over my gear--the trukey baster I used is plastic, not glass!
Can D=limonene dissolve plastic so fast? I dipped the baster into solvent four times. First to grab all the spice vinagar out from under the Limonene, second to cleanup and grab whatever I missed the first time, then same with the water. Brief. Or is there any chance that these whitish bits are merely wholesome plant alkaloids?
Fishing 'em out, they snap in half a bit too readily, bending very little. A glimmer of hopeful doubt?
Then again, the baster has a slightly melted tip. This is after sitting, with a drop of solvent at the end of it's resivoir for hours--so it's not 100 percent conclusive that it definately did melt whilst dipped into the spice/solvent. Still....
I'd say the globs are plastic.
The brief seconds of plastic to solvent contact could only have melted the tiniest bit.
The globules formed immediately under heat--thus the extreme majority of that tiny bit of contamination can easily be sorted out.
Blech, I aint smoking plastic with my spice, no matter how nominal the amount. I just can't do it knowingfully.
Still, it hurts to throw out a decent batch, my first exraction, when the contamination evidence is not airtight.
*Edit* The D-limonene used was Grumbachers Grumtine. An artists paint thinner, brush cleaner. It evaps clean, msds only lists D limonene. Other ingredients used were white vinagar, powdered MHRB, mrs wages pickling lime.
I did Q21Q21's Tek 1. Everything went smoothly, I took notes, was organised and all that. The Tek is petro-chem free, entirely foodsafe and much easier to perform than I had expected. Loading the resulting material into my newly built machine, I felt an expectancy sure, but I did not expect such a success first time. It's as easy to attain full blast off with this as any other spice I've ever tried. But I'm ahead of myself.
After collecting all the vinagary spice-water I began evaporating it in a pot on low heat. There was about 100 ml of fluid, fairly clear at first. Right away, when it began to heat up I noticed two cream colored/off white filaments materialise within the fluid. Hmm, I thought the JimJam was supoosed to be all red. Prodding these two filaments (thin, less than an inch long, I thought they may be DMT crystals of some ilk at first) they currled up and became little glogules, smaller than a match head each. At the end I have red goo (highly active and the experience was fabulous) and also two little whitish bits.
Looking over my gear--the trukey baster I used is plastic, not glass!
Can D=limonene dissolve plastic so fast? I dipped the baster into solvent four times. First to grab all the spice vinagar out from under the Limonene, second to cleanup and grab whatever I missed the first time, then same with the water. Brief. Or is there any chance that these whitish bits are merely wholesome plant alkaloids?
Fishing 'em out, they snap in half a bit too readily, bending very little. A glimmer of hopeful doubt?
Then again, the baster has a slightly melted tip. This is after sitting, with a drop of solvent at the end of it's resivoir for hours--so it's not 100 percent conclusive that it definately did melt whilst dipped into the spice/solvent. Still....
I'd say the globs are plastic.
The brief seconds of plastic to solvent contact could only have melted the tiniest bit.
The globules formed immediately under heat--thus the extreme majority of that tiny bit of contamination can easily be sorted out.
Blech, I aint smoking plastic with my spice, no matter how nominal the amount. I just can't do it knowingfully.
Still, it hurts to throw out a decent batch, my first exraction, when the contamination evidence is not airtight.
*Edit* The D-limonene used was Grumbachers Grumtine. An artists paint thinner, brush cleaner. It evaps clean, msds only lists D limonene. Other ingredients used were white vinagar, powdered MHRB, mrs wages pickling lime.
