Okay, SWIM admits it. He is a bee-ple when it comes to dreaming. Swim chooses a few established hive authors, and follows their instruction or informational posts for any undertakings.
2 yrs ago, while assembling swim's (rote) knowledge on the three major players in swim's dreams, swim accidently copied the wrong post in an iodine thread. Specifically, Post 109162 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=7831.msg10916200#msg10916200)
(pebble: "Re: Home-made I2", Stimulants). As it turns out, the pebble post proved to be perfect for swim's situation. The end result has always been beautiful light grey iodine crystals. swim was not too concerned about yields because iodine is so inexpensive with the payoff being quick turnaround. Swim never looked back. Literally. Swim never read another thread on iodine again. Until now. Besides, swim had bigger fish to fry with pfed. :P Anyway, that applied to 2% tincture. But swim recently found a very safe 7% iodine resource.
Specifically, the wording is "Stronger Iodine Tincture" and consists of:
iodine....7%
potassium iodine.....5%
iso alc.....(99%).....82%
water.....q.s.
So after swim received it, swim mindlessly set about making a batch. Wow. What a mess! Upon filtering, swim was left with a huge black smudge and a few crystals at the bottom of the filter. So swim sets about trying to find the post he copied, looking for maybe a different pebble formula. Nothing. That worked anyway.
Does anyone know how to adjust the ratios on pebble's technique to accomodate the stronger tincure?
Please note that although swim has read sir geezmeister's technique (along with other esteemed bees posts) on how to extract 7% iodine, pebble's way worked well for swim because when swim awakes from a dream, swim cannot leave any evidence of his ever having been there.
so swim is reluctant to let go. help please?