so swim has been using a glass turkey baster for her seperatins


however she. or her roommates rather have broken 2 of these damn things. and now she cannot find them at the store she was gettign them from

so she has 420 grams of lye bark mix waiting to be rolled but she does not have a way to seperate the naptha.


any ideas? whats a good substatute? any notable glass baster dealers???


thank you soo

well..you can try just pouring it off..thats what SWIM does..what are you using to hold the lye mix?

she is using gal jugs

of the apple cider variety

pouring off always seemed way tooo risky

Fak


k so i just checked with the hardwere peeps

they say they only get a shipment form those people bi guarterly

so that means they wont have any more till march



looks like shes stuck taking a new aproche here


i thick it was 69ron who sugggested using baby nasel aspiratiors

i saw those a few days ago but was wary as they are made of rubber and i did not know how that would react with napth

also they arnt all THAT long

so i dunno how far she could even get it in the jug

soooooo

im thinking

pouring

nasal aspirator

syringe?



those are her only options seemingly

they all seem risky in there own way


i dont see her lose alot of naptha spillign it and or not being able to pour it just right

and dont want her to end up with plastic tainted crystals


hmmmmmm


help plz

well pour it off into a container you ARE NOT going to use for crystallization...and a container that is good for pouring...so you pour out of your gallon jug...and you will get some lye mix in there..but then just pour the naptha off of that..its not the best way but it works

i guess thats one way

the double pour eh?

so dose swim always pour ? and can it be done with relative ease

is it all that time cosuming to do that over and over and over?


i guess its just a diffrent dance
cus truthfull swim says the turkey baster is a pain in the ass

i pipette would be the shit

pouring was a no go she says



honestly thats seemes pretty inpossible i dont understand how anyone does that


man

ok things r lookin bleak

Same. For the LIFE of me, I can't pour it without getting the same amount of lye as I do naptha.

I'm also out of turkey basters too.

What I decided to do, was to take a HDPE baster, and, using a bit of chemical resistant tubing, attach a small glass eyedropper onto the end of it... Seems to work fine IMO.

looks like swim is gonna just eye dropper the whole mess
thats gonna bee like 1600ml all told


wow

just use a plastic baster. the naptha will degrade it over time but it should be fine i havent had probs with plastic but it seems if you go to the cheap ass stores they have the glass ones. i paid 15 bucks for my plastic one and found the glass one in the supermarket for 5. youll find one if you check out the right stores but there's no prob with plastic for short term.

ok then


cus that is literaly fucking tooo sucky to handel


i mean what used to take 10 min is taking an hour

swim is not happy about having to spend that much time infront of open naptha container


thanks

ill just go plastic

Is there no medical equipment store anywhere around, like cirurgical material and so on? google it..

SWIM found his nice glass pippette in one of these stores...

swim actualy did end up asking a freind about the nearest lab supply store

its not too far away

and she could probly obtain a quality glass pippette but

she sayed all that will wait till next time

definately get a seperatory funnel, it's indespensible. It's the only way to go.

i agree
but that would require switching to atb then would it not

as sludge is too chunky for most sep funnel

You can siphon off the naphtha with LDPE tubing. This is sold anywhere transparent PVC tubing is sold. LDPE is semi transparent and sort of rubbery.

Done that before too... God getting a nice mouthful of it sucks.

i used a plastic turkey baster on my first extraction without trouble.

Do not use a syringe. I tried that to, the rubber at the end of the plunger gets messed up, comes off, sticks to the syringe, and the syringe cant be aspirated anymore.

A FOAF is all about pipettes. It's good to have a variety of shapes and sizes too. Like a really thin one when that layer gets so shallow.