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So for the first tek, you add vinegar to the pulled limolene or xylene. Can you also do the vinegar thing with naphtha too? I would rather evap vinegar than naphtha. Also, I seem to be having problems evaping my naphtha. It seems to evap very slow. Thanks.

So for the first tek, you add vinegar to the pulled limolene or xylene. Can you also do the vinegar thing with naphtha too? I would rather evap vinegar than naphtha. Also, I seem to be having problems evaping my naphtha. It seems to evap very slow. Thanks.

I'm curious how much difference it makes doing the initial A part, with the Hot Vinegar.
Would STB be acceptable with this tech? Would it take longer but still work; would heat be helpful STB?

Also, with the addition of concentrated Vinegar, wouldn't this render the need for more Lime to properly basify?
For example maybe a full 1:1 Lime Mimosa is needed after adding pure Vinegar to the initial A/B step?
Thanks...

SWIM did 4 trial runs for his first limeteks.

SWIM is very interested in the exact timing of the reactions as would be clearly deduced by reading his tek. So he did pulls using naptha every 2-3 hours for 2 of them and literally got no measurable product until 1.5 days when finally the naptha got some product.

In total he got about .6% the first time with lime STB
The second time he got about .85% using naptha.
It was also quite a bit more yellow than using the A/B method.

The 3rd and 4th were done with limonene and gave very similar results. On the 4th he didn't even bother adding the solvent till 48 hours had past.

During the 4th trial SWIM read amor-fati's then brand-new tek and was suprised by the lack of "wait 48 hours"
He then tried simply adding some hot vinegar for the first step in a tiny 30g batch and was SHOCKED when in the span of 3.5 hours he had .75% and finally .93 after the last pull.

As for the vinegar:
Vinegar is a very very very weak base compared to the lime and even using 1:2 lime to MHRB is quite a large excess using straight 5% vinegar. According to 69ron's brief limetek only 1:4 is actually needed, it's just lime is so cheap it's never a worry to be safe and using 1:2 or 2:3 or even 1:1.