I went ahead and added more water according to that ratio. The lime is whats worrying me now. PH is fine but hoping emulsions dont form when I start pulls. I know lime is for dryteks but I had a bunch and prefer safer materials. I believe it will work, even if having to wait for separation a bit longer.
n0thing wrote:Why not just scale up the water? Haven't got a big enough pot?
I am talking about scaling up the saline solution as described in the tek (salt + water).
n0thing wrote:I have never had a problem using too much salt. I just dump it all in until it won't dissolve... obviously once it cools more salt will drop out. That way you can be sure you have full saturation and... salt is pretty cheap so what r u worrying about? Couldn't see anywhere in the tek that it says salt is "detrimental" as long as you dont add the salt before the acid cook
Search for the long thread where cyb and chemistryptaman are exploring the salt idea, cyb states his trial with fully saturated saline wasnt as successful as a less saturated solution. I also intuitively thought to supersaturate the water but will stick to the script on this due to experience with yields suffering because of straying from what is known to work.
Running Bear wrote:I wouldn't upscale it. It would be more difficult to properly mix the solution. All you need to do is buy another extraction vessel. You could easily walk into goodwill and find one for a couple dollars. I always do 2 at the same time.
I used a big pot with electric mixer and a gallon jug. Waiting on NPS order to do pulls.
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