yeah... Not a happy chappy with me right now.
Its 6:20am right now and I've been waiting up to do the 1st pull and quick evap for a later on today.
Started a STB extraction about 8ish last night.. 50g MHRB. Thought I'd go a little bit nuts and shake the jar instead of stirring it for half an hour. The reason for doing so was due to me putting a full can of naphtha in the emulsion and wanting to make sure I got as much alkaloids to migrate into the solvent as possible.
All was going to plan, other than the fact that it was taking a hell of a lot of time to separate into the layers. I had marked the jar (brand spanking new one might I add) where the naphtha level was before shaking it, about an inch deep, just so I knew when it was settled enough for the 1st pull.
1am... it was only just visible at about 1mm deep.
2 - 3am... Roughly the same.
4am... It was 1cm.
5am... Getting tired of this now and its still only 1cm deep from the original inch.
6am... "Maybe a hot water bath will speed this process along a bit" says I to I.
Filled the sink with warm water and placed the jar in, popped the lid to vent and resealed. Turned to go and sit down for a bit and heard a POP... "Shit!" I knew. I looked in the sink to see the inky mixture bellowing out the bottom. I could not face it straight away and went for a smoke to chill before cleaning up.
Got to the sink and realised that the solvent must still be sitting in the top part of the jar as I hadn't lifted it all the way out of the hot water bath. Managed to pull off about 50ml of the 100ml... but still, feeling a wee bit gutted here.
Ach well... We live and learn eh? lol
thought I'd share my misfortune with you all in hopes that someone wont make the same mistake I just did.
Peace!
Donnie
"accept the possibility that you may never come back, then your mind is truly open."
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