OK thanks. Still trying to find more lye, swim may have a problem here. It was hard enough signing for the first amount at the local guesstapo-general store. Swim lives in a small nosey suburban galaxy cluster. *sigh*

swim was thinking of making lye at home with a car battery charger, graphite rods and super salt saturated aqueous solution, outside of course avoiding accidental inhalation of any harmful gases. Anyone have any experience with this? swim has researched the sodium carbonate but hates the thought of having to wait so long for chemical breakdown.

Update: swim just checked and has just a little under a 1/2 Lb of pure Naoh Xtals.