OK so swim finished his 48hr LWR and planned to distill his honey after basing the reaction fluid because he's not too confident with the A/B. First off he boiled the reaction fluid to drive off any iodine. Then it was all down hill from there...
First mistake: swim forgot to wash the filtered honey with NP. Big mistake because the reaction fluid was bright piss yellow suggesting contaminants?
So swim proceeded straight to basing the reaction fluid expecting to see honey floating on top of the water. He checked the pH with papers before basing out of curiosity yep it was 1. He added about 170 mls of lye solution (probably close to saturation). He noticed it turn milky white in splashes then stay white completely. Before long swim made mistake number 2: he shook the flask to mix. Before long, yep you guessed it: HUGE EMULSIONS FORMED!
So swim tryed leaving it alone, hoping it would all go away
![Embarrassed :-[](https://thevespiary.org/talk/Smileys/default/embarrassed.gif)
. When he returned it was still there mocking him, upon closer inspection swim noticed needles of some sort clinging to the inside of the flask!. He checked the pH and it was 14, so swim is wondering could this be lye lock? on a positive note it does smell like unwashed pussy though!
Right now swim has a bowl of oatmeal porridge staring at him, the emulsion is REALLY baad!
Swim needs some advice on where to go from here. Should he add some NP to the sep funnel and hope he extracts some meth (albeit dirty) and continue with an A/B workup?
Swim really hopes all this is a result of missing the NP wash and nothing more sinister.
Swim has worked too hard and long to let this diversion stop him from reaching methville.
Any directions would be greatly appreciated!