SingularFusion
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Hello everybody. I have a string of questions please, if you dont mind. I will do my best to be succinct
I recently took up the hobby and felt freebase was the right path. Included pics are my first extraction. Q21Q21 lime tek with wundbenzin 40/60 (hexane/heptane from what I think I have learned), absolutely performed to the letter of the tek, inputs weighed. That was 0.51% recovery on the first pull. I have yet to take the process further but will adhere to the schedule outlined in the tek
The only deviation was that the bark/vinegar/water/lime mix was extremely dry before adding nps, with no visible moisture on the bottom of the glass. About the consistency and appearance of good compost/earthworm castings but dry and crumbly like cheesecake base before you press it into the cake tin. Best analogy I could think of, sorry
No aqueous phase was observed after the addition of nps either, but I proceeded. Some solvent loss was noted, perhaps 25% total. There were also some very tiny crumbs of bark that rode on the solvent through the sieve into the precip dish, maybe half a dozen which I picked out with a scalpel, but some tiny flecks were unrecoverable. Things appear to have gone smoothly anyway after freeze precip and product has all the physical characteristics expected, melts beautifully with a golden hue to the resulting oil and leaves no chalky residues, smelling of sickly sweet faint plastic. So I feel like if there is calcium contamination (I am not even sure if that is possible tbh) that would present as chalky residue left behind on vapourisation?
So the other questions are about the mixing of teks and specifically the addition of a salty brine step such as in the max ion tek, but applied to the Q21Q21 lime tek at perhaps the third or maybe final pull so as to force those remaining alkaloids into the nps more drastically. As I would be adding moisture volume, this would also kinda 're-wet' my material and allow a distinct polar/non polar layer to properly evolve during the extraction. That is my thought process. Please poke holes at will
Can this work, or do the salt and calcium present a problem and react together to form unwanted compounds? I assume the only thing detrimental that could be formed here would be calcium chloride but I have no background in chemistry and am not even sure if that is possible in the first place, much less whether or not that would be carried over into the final product? Can somebody help please? If you rather give me links so I can teach myself instead of just giving me the answer then I would also be most grateful for that
It's a lot for a new fella to take in all this stuff and it may very well be that I proceed to the letter on this extraction anyway, just to be faithful to the tek, but I would love to know more about this for the next round, where I might like to try a more wet version of the same tek. Other teks will also be performed in due course for comparison
Thanks for your help and have a nice day
I recently took up the hobby and felt freebase was the right path. Included pics are my first extraction. Q21Q21 lime tek with wundbenzin 40/60 (hexane/heptane from what I think I have learned), absolutely performed to the letter of the tek, inputs weighed. That was 0.51% recovery on the first pull. I have yet to take the process further but will adhere to the schedule outlined in the tek
The only deviation was that the bark/vinegar/water/lime mix was extremely dry before adding nps, with no visible moisture on the bottom of the glass. About the consistency and appearance of good compost/earthworm castings but dry and crumbly like cheesecake base before you press it into the cake tin. Best analogy I could think of, sorry
No aqueous phase was observed after the addition of nps either, but I proceeded. Some solvent loss was noted, perhaps 25% total. There were also some very tiny crumbs of bark that rode on the solvent through the sieve into the precip dish, maybe half a dozen which I picked out with a scalpel, but some tiny flecks were unrecoverable. Things appear to have gone smoothly anyway after freeze precip and product has all the physical characteristics expected, melts beautifully with a golden hue to the resulting oil and leaves no chalky residues, smelling of sickly sweet faint plastic. So I feel like if there is calcium contamination (I am not even sure if that is possible tbh) that would present as chalky residue left behind on vapourisation?
So the other questions are about the mixing of teks and specifically the addition of a salty brine step such as in the max ion tek, but applied to the Q21Q21 lime tek at perhaps the third or maybe final pull so as to force those remaining alkaloids into the nps more drastically. As I would be adding moisture volume, this would also kinda 're-wet' my material and allow a distinct polar/non polar layer to properly evolve during the extraction. That is my thought process. Please poke holes at will
Can this work, or do the salt and calcium present a problem and react together to form unwanted compounds? I assume the only thing detrimental that could be formed here would be calcium chloride but I have no background in chemistry and am not even sure if that is possible in the first place, much less whether or not that would be carried over into the final product? Can somebody help please? If you rather give me links so I can teach myself instead of just giving me the answer then I would also be most grateful for that
It's a lot for a new fella to take in all this stuff and it may very well be that I proceed to the letter on this extraction anyway, just to be faithful to the tek, but I would love to know more about this for the next round, where I might like to try a more wet version of the same tek. Other teks will also be performed in due course for comparison
Thanks for your help and have a nice day
