"I thought i did this already when i did the titrations, are you sayind i should just add extra HCL."Well first of all you pulled with xylene and went straight to titration. Which means any gakk that followed along with the pseudo into the xylene is now back in with your pseudo water after the titration with HCL.
The purpose of this method was to deal with the PH identity crisis that the gakks gave the resulting crude pseudo. Also to leave a majority of the gakks in the NP after filtering out the pseudo.
Then fresh NP is used (sans gakk) fresh water and the HCL drops the PH from 9-10 down to 6 where it belongs and sends it back down into the polar to bee isolated and evapped.
Im not quite sure if this method is still effective. Even newer gakks may have rendered this method obsolete like most of the other extraction techniques on this board.
Swim's last mishap included the use of a different NP (odorless MS) rather then Xylene.
Swim will revisit the modified tetra trap with gassing, going back to Xylene as the NP, with some precleaning of the GUPS first to see if this makes a difference.
Swim checked the lot #'s on the successful extractions and compared it to the failure and they were of the same lot.
The yellow oil started to release from the GUPS before any heat was actually used.
He usually mixes the GUPS and carbonate and sprays it down with tetra. Adds the Xylene and puts it on the coffee warmer. The water is added after the carafe is already sitting on the heat source.
On the failure using MS for the NP. The water had already been added prior to the addition of the NP and heat and the carafe had been sitting for 20 minutes before he finally got around to heating. He watched the yellow oil ooze from the tetra saturated GUPS! Maybee an excess of water was used, thereby releasing the gakks before the water had a chance to evap or get absorbed by the GUPS. All speculation of course.
The MS may have also had additional "entrained" water?
Swim will try a 24 hr gum spirits soak prior to the original extraction method.
Concerning overall yields, Swim is not that impressed with either the gakkinator or Fester's method.
After all of this time, money and solvents, Swim could have very easily afforded a semester with two classes of Org chem at the University, had basic distillation methods down to a science and been half way to a successful L-PAC biosynth by now.
Eventually, these fuckers will bee getting rich off of someone "other then Swim's" failures.
Swim has been here too long to stay with pills and bee happy about it. They can find a new generation of suckers.
Something to think about... and Swim is tired of JUST thinking about it, ya know?