I dont know if you can do that or not, but thats not the way you should do it. What you want to do is after you get your cystals and wash them with dh20 you put them in like 10+ coffe filters, then take about 3 or 4 paper towles, stack them on top of each other and fold them in half.. so now you should have 10+ coffe filters holding your I and 4 paper towels stacked on top of one another and folded in half.

Take the coffe filters, fold them in half so they are the shape of half a moon, set that on your folded paper towels and fold the towels the other way now. so they are in the shape of a square, then put it on the floor and step on it really hard, dont stop, just step and rock back and forth.

Then if you have oven dried epson salt, which you should, you should put a fair amount in the bottom of a glss jar, fold a paper towel into a square again and set this on top of the salts in the jar, then take your I that you did all that other stuff to out of the filters it was in and put into two or three new filters, and put this in on top of the towles in the jar, seal the top, put away for a about 5 hours, change the coffe filters again and put back away for a good amount of time.. your done.

Don't know if it matters or not, but swim dreams of I2 washed with DH2O, not tap water. Swim's theory is the less contaminants, the better. Storing I2 in plastic is not a good idea, as I2 seeps through plastic. Keeping it in an air tight container is a good idea. As far as swim knows, pouring water through it is good enough, as lond as enough is used.

thanx for all the replies! yes using dh2o kirb - the water here is not only full of contaminants, it honest to god makes u stupid. hence hillbilly mentality. not from this area originally, at all!!

storing it with plastic and papertowel in airtight glass jar in the dark. again thanx cause last batch of i came out great!

yeah swim has the stupidness in his area too swim always did think it was the water...lol swims not from his area either...but anyways do most peeps use half the peroxide to tinc or match it swim used (for a test) 1oz I2/ 1ozperoxide/ half that of water and drops of acid maybe 7 or 8. then tried 1oz I2/ 1/2oz. peroxide/ 1/2oz. of water and drops of mur didnt seem to make diff. just curious as to what other people use

[This message has been edited by sitbcknchill (edited 12-16-2003).]

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oh its the water that does it,,

and heres me thinking its from relations with relations...

sry kirb swim ment 1/2 peroxide on other try

Hello my brothers--

It has been quite some time since I have been able to visit the ole site. Chronic computer problems caused me to save everything to disk, data wipe the drives and start over. Documenting 20GBs worth of files was a shitload of work.

Anyway, I've still been doing lots of research and thought I'd add a little something to this thread.

Iodine from 2% tincture is a strange and sometimes unpredictable bird. There are times when it seems as though you just threw everything together and it came out so clean and dry the filters hardly even turned blue. Others are meticulously measured and timed and come out looking like silver slop.

I have a few tips that may give you something to consider when working with 2% tincture in the little 30ml. bottles.

Contrary to most of what you read, iodine crystals are not very susceptible to light. A brown colored jar is great, but not necessary. They are however very susceptibe to air. Keep the container tightly sealed at all times and limit the number of times the contaiiner is opened.

When the crystal extraction is complete and you have this hard silvery grey lump in front of you, don't leave it sitting out. Put the lump on a piece of clean cardboard about 4X4 in.sq. Then break the lump up into small pieces using a plastic knife or similar. Scrape it into a small glass container (jar). Sit this jar on the piece of cardboard and put a bigger jar over it, upside down, making sure the mouth of the jar is not bigger than the cardboard. This is essentially a homemade bell jar. Put this entire setup in the freezer for a few hours. 2 or 3 minimum and 24 won't hurt anything. When you remove from the freezer, dry any moisture that has collected on the outside of the small jar and put the jar into a dessicator. A dessicator is easily made using as jar that you can get your hand into, adding oven dried epsom salt, table salt, and damp rid up to about 1/4th full. Cover this with a few folded up paper towels and you're good to go. The jars with the rubber gasket and glass lid that clamps down works great for this and are easy to find at the arab owned dollar stores (not those chain stores). A day or two in the dessicator and the iodine will be very dry. The exposure to air is minimal and there is little, if any, noticable loss. If you sublime this iodine, it will be as pure as the iodine used by even the pickiest of garage chemists. There are many more things you can do to increase iodine yields, but many don't like reading outrageously long threads and much gets missed anyway. Hope this helps a little.