I am currently extracting from MHRB. I have extracted several times before, and the last few times I seem to have lost some naptha. I had half a pound of powdered bark, and used the lazy man's tek. I have done this several times before. I mixed the sodium hydroxide into about a half a gallon of water. I used about 1/4 of the sodium hydroxide. The label says 545grams. I then added my bark, it was already in powder form. I stirred for a half hour or so, let it set for 15 minutes, stirred for 5, then added the naptha. I stirred for 15 minutes, then let it settle for another 15. On a side note, I was only able to find 4 single quarts. When I went in to Ace they had none. I asked if they can order it and they told me it was on a banned list in CA. They said they can no longer order it. I went to another store and they told me they can only sell the quart size, and will find out if it is banned or if he can still get it. I got the 4 quarts. I added the first quart, stirred, let settle, then tried to pour off the naptha. I only had 250ml of naptha. When it went in there was 1000ml. So I added more sodium hydroxide and stirred, added another 1000ml of naptha, stirred, let settle, poured off my 1000ml. I did not pour off the first one, I just put it all back in the soup. The second time when I pulled 1000ml I did pour that into an evap dish. I added a little more water thinking this may free up my other 1000ml of naptha. I then added another 1000ml of naptha. This is my third quart. I heated this one up in a warm water bath. I stirred, tried to pour off the naptha, and again only had 250ml of naptha. I tried adding more water and sodium hydroxide. At this point I have 2000ml or 2 of my quarts of naptha absorbed into the DMT soup. I am warming up the 4th can of naptha and am about to add that in. At this point I also have almost the entire bottle of sodium hydroxide in the soup too. I can't figure out how to get my naptha out. I am hoping after adding this 4th quart i can get at least the 1000ml off of it. I may try adding more water or sodium hydroxide to make it let go of my 2000ml of lost/absorbed naptha. Any advice for me? This happened last time too, and I just got more naptha to add and pull. Now that the naptha is hard to get and possibly banned, I only have these 4 quarts and would like to recover the 2000ml I have absorbed into my soup.
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So now I just added the 4th quart of naptha to my mixture. I stirred for 5 minutes. It too was warmed up. So now I have 1/2lb of root bark, 1 gallon of water, 3/4 of sodium hydroxide(a 500+gram bottle), and 3000ml of naptha in a batch. 2000ml of that naptha seems to be absorbed into the mixture. I am letting it all settle and will see how much I can pour off. I have the mixture in a big stainless steel cooking pot that can easily hold 3 gallons. I think this may be part of the problem in pouring off. I have such a large surface area that causes the naptha to be spread more thin over the base layer. But it still seems like more then 250ml would easily pour out. When I was stirring it seems like the base layer and the naptha actually start mixing together in one soup, then the naptha would divide into its own yellowish layer. In the past the naptha would always form a top floating layer. Now it seems it has just absorbed into the mix and it is not dividing. I don;t know if it's because it's warm, or because I need more water or sodium hydroxide. I still have 1/4 of the sodium hyrdoxide left..roughly 125-200 grams.
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