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New poster here, and I hope I didn't skip any requisite steps in proceeding right here and starting a topic.
I will be performing Noman's tek this weekend, and I am quite excited. However, I know that the proportion of lye/water/naphtha is relatively important, and one of the addendums made to the tek has me a bit thrown off.
Originally, the tek calls for 15ml water/1g lye/1g MHRB.
However, at the bottom of the tek, it states that if your bark comes pre-powdered (as mine does), that you are to use 1.5-2x the amount of water.
Okay, easy enough. However, does that mean I must increase the amount of lye I use as well? Or can I use the increased amount of water and the originally stated amount of lye?
Also, is there anything against using more than the needed amount of naphtha? My original plan was to use 100g of MHRB and anywhere from 40-80mL of naphtha per pull. However, the gallon jar I will be pulling from is very wide, and I am concerned that I will not be able to grab enough naphtha at low amounts.
If I were to use, say, 100-125mL of naphtha per pull, could I not just evap that down to around 50mL before I throw it in the freezer? I know that larger amounts of naphtha, esp if not fully saturated, has issues precipitating, but hypothetically 125mL naphtha would certainly absorb all of the dmt. Then, as long as I evaporated it down to a super-saturation (around 50mL), it should precipitate fine, correct? Or am I missing something?
I figure that, in using a larger amount of naphtha, I would "miss" pulling proportionally less of it and therefore proportionally less final product.
Any help would be appreciated, and I hope I followed the posting rules correctly.
I will be performing Noman's tek this weekend, and I am quite excited. However, I know that the proportion of lye/water/naphtha is relatively important, and one of the addendums made to the tek has me a bit thrown off.
Originally, the tek calls for 15ml water/1g lye/1g MHRB.
However, at the bottom of the tek, it states that if your bark comes pre-powdered (as mine does), that you are to use 1.5-2x the amount of water.
Okay, easy enough. However, does that mean I must increase the amount of lye I use as well? Or can I use the increased amount of water and the originally stated amount of lye?
Also, is there anything against using more than the needed amount of naphtha? My original plan was to use 100g of MHRB and anywhere from 40-80mL of naphtha per pull. However, the gallon jar I will be pulling from is very wide, and I am concerned that I will not be able to grab enough naphtha at low amounts.
If I were to use, say, 100-125mL of naphtha per pull, could I not just evap that down to around 50mL before I throw it in the freezer? I know that larger amounts of naphtha, esp if not fully saturated, has issues precipitating, but hypothetically 125mL naphtha would certainly absorb all of the dmt. Then, as long as I evaporated it down to a super-saturation (around 50mL), it should precipitate fine, correct? Or am I missing something?
I figure that, in using a larger amount of naphtha, I would "miss" pulling proportionally less of it and therefore proportionally less final product.
Any help would be appreciated, and I hope I followed the posting rules correctly.