Xylene pull ??'s

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SWIM did two Xylene Pulls with the remaining MHR bark solution yesterday, and when SWIM was finnished doing the pulling and cleaning the sep funnel, a question came to mind. Should SWIM do a sodium cabonate (washing soda) wash like SWIM does when pulling with naptha? SWIM's internet was down due to a virus so he couldn't post a question then. So SWIM went ahead and did the wash and is now waiting for evaporation. Which brings up ahother question. SWIM doesn't usually use evaporation to get a yeild, after trying freeze precip and getting a much, much cleaner Spice , with no need for recrystlization. When SWIM evaped before, the recrystalization removed a hairball from the dust collected while evaporationg, and the dish was well covered! I know SWIM can't use freeze precip with xylene. So anyway, is there a good way to clean the red/white Spice combo from a xylene pull/evap without separating them, (I.E. cleaning with naptha)?? Thanks for the tips!! Cheers WS

 

[Noman]

Id recomend yer friend pull with xylene and evap and then wash with naptha and then wash that with heptane and dry all those down and see what he gets. He should learn quite a bit with that. He should throw in any other solvents he can get his hands on. The more data the better in that area.

 

[Big Inhale]

swim did a xylene pull dried out the jungle spice then put that in a shotglass with some elfspice then poured a small amount of naptha over the two then stirred and evaped the result was a yellow wax that takes a less amount to get where swim wants to be it also seems to fade in to the trip instead of being a pschedelic blast off

 

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[quote:3231860b89]swim did a xylene pull dried out the jungle spice then put that in a shotglass with some elfspice then poured a small amount of naptha over the two then stirred and evaped the result was a yellow wax that takes a less amount to get where swim wants to be it also seems to fade in to the trip instead of being a pschedelic blast off[/quote:3231860b89] Nice! Thanks!! WS

 

[PrOtAgErUs]

Swim does evap. after Xylene pull and gets a RED GOO, that needs to be disolved into hot naptha and then freeze per. or evap. into crystals.... so he was told in a dream.

 

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Do any of you know if doing a distilled water+sodium carbonate ("super washing soda") wash on the [i:62e5ba8aea]"Spicy"[/i:62e5ba8aea] Xylene is a good or bad idea? SWIM uses the [b:62e5ba8aea]Vovin[/b:62e5ba8aea] extraction tek. After naptha pulling, it suggests washing the "spicy" naptha in distilled water with a tiny, pinch of sodium carbonate (Arm & Hammer "Super Washing Soda") mixed into the water and shaking the piss out of it. (The water/naptha separation is almost instant so you can/should really shake it up) After draining the water/sodium carbonate layer, (do not let the water & naptha sit together in the sep funnel for very long) one would then wash the "spicy" naptha 2 more times with [b:62e5ba8aea]just distilled water[/b:62e5ba8aea], [u:62e5ba8aea]NO sodium carbonate[/u:62e5ba8aea]. SWIM has always done this with SWIM's extractions using naptha, and the result has always been [b:62e5ba8aea]crystal clear naptha[/b:62e5ba8aea], that when freeze precipitated, produces beautiful, clear to white crystals squeezed out of the naptha that don't seem to benifit much, if at all, from additional re-crystalization cleanings!! So SWIM did the '[i:62e5ba8aea]distilled water+sodium carbonate[/i:62e5ba8aea]' wash with SWIM's xylene pull. Man, xylene takes [b:62e5ba8aea]forever[/b:62e5ba8aea] to evaporate!! And stinks to high heaven!! SWIM is hoping that SWIM didn't mess up the xylene pull by doing the sodium carbonate wash, all of this stinky waiting would be for not!! And if this [i:62e5ba8aea][b:62e5ba8aea]red spice[/b:62e5ba8aea][/i:62e5ba8aea] is not the most outstanding experience ever, SWIM's not sure working with xylene would be worth the trouble to ever try again!! P.U. ....[i:62e5ba8aea]xylene[/i:62e5ba8aea]......[i:62e5ba8aea]smells[/i:62e5ba8aea]........[i:62e5ba8aea]terrible[/i:62e5ba8aea]...........([b:62e5ba8aea]thump!![/b:62e5ba8aea]) WS