Also, SWIM was wondering if a sodium carbonate wash would help take away the colouration that entered the naptha due to the absence of the defatting step that comes with doing STB?

Yes! SWIM said he did actually read that one and forgot about it. SWIM also realized recently his deep freeze wasn't cold enough due to an item blocking it from closing all the way. So that may also solve the apparent yield issues as well. Thanks for the reply!

Purp, SWIM thinks that looks very very right. Also, another SWIM noted the jar mentioned in the above comment did smell a lot like the desired product, but when smoked was clearly more fats and chemical than anything, and that it really burned. Bad idea trying to smoke it, he said. But he...

I've got a question.. Is there such thing as leaving the materials in the lye solution for too long? SWIM used STB, with 2.5 kg, and left it in for about a month and a half in total. He's been doing pulls and such, not yeilding a whole lot (about a g of greenish slime with .5 g of some light...

SWIM was happy to hear this. It actually went along well with a process he recently completed. He says he freeze precipped the naptha, but the stuff at the bottom was a mix of Xtal and yellowish gunk. He poured out most of the solvent, then poured hot water over the jar and shook vigourously. He...

SWIM was wondering, for educational purposes, if one was using A. Confusa, and ended up coming out with some gunk from the STB process, would it be at all possible/prudent to do the A/B extraction with the extracted precipitate/scrapings? Would it ruin the research material, or would it still...

SWIM has also been wondering about this. SWIM said he's had success with doing the freeze precipitation. He also did STB. More results to come, but SWIM was also wondering if he took the precipitate, then acidified it, defatted, and Re-extracted, then would that work at all? Would it work better?