Ghostofjez
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2005
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I actually kept the left over 'gunk' aka paracetemol and dried it out to see how much roughly i'd filtered, and it turned out it was almost the whole lot as it almost filled all of the 4 empty discarded co-codamol capsules. So as I said, teabag method seems to be only suitable when working with SMALL AMOUNTS like this ONLY. If I was to do a CWE on anything over 3 or 4 grams i'd buy coffee filters as the tea bag method is inefficient and only good in a pinch when using small amounts of APAP. I'd be hesitant to use clothing to be honest, the gaps between the fabric often seem too large to be used as a suitable filter.
On the one hand you are right it's not really worth a CWE for such little material, but then again 1 gram is the recommended maximum dose and this is a harm reduction board. You don't want to fuck around with paracetemol overdosing as everyone reacts differently. I've read cases where 3000mg of paracetemol has required hospitalisation due to liver damage, so it would be irresponsible to say it isn't worth it. IzaBadger! can unfortunately tell you all about apap overdose. Sorry to hear about that.
It was also an opportunity for a 'trial run' to get familiar with the extraction process before using high amounts of paracetemol found in the OTC products which obviously you cannot fuck about with and use tea bags for ;-). If I was working with anything more than 3-4 grams of paracetemol and the solution ended up being anything less than transparent I wouldn't drink it for shit. You cannot cut corners, liver damage has no symptoms and neither does the first 24 hours of paracetemol overdose. That personally scares the shit out of me and it should scare everyone else too.
Peace.
On the one hand you are right it's not really worth a CWE for such little material, but then again 1 gram is the recommended maximum dose and this is a harm reduction board. You don't want to fuck around with paracetemol overdosing as everyone reacts differently. I've read cases where 3000mg of paracetemol has required hospitalisation due to liver damage, so it would be irresponsible to say it isn't worth it. IzaBadger! can unfortunately tell you all about apap overdose. Sorry to hear about that.
It was also an opportunity for a 'trial run' to get familiar with the extraction process before using high amounts of paracetemol found in the OTC products which obviously you cannot fuck about with and use tea bags for ;-). If I was working with anything more than 3-4 grams of paracetemol and the solution ended up being anything less than transparent I wouldn't drink it for shit. You cannot cut corners, liver damage has no symptoms and neither does the first 24 hours of paracetemol overdose. That personally scares the shit out of me and it should scare everyone else too.
Peace.