7% Post Reaction Soap testing

[Head Womble]

This is the best way to go, that said I have a feeling you'll take to it quickly and be up to speed in no time,
you do need to make mistakes and learn from them, so every fail is still progress.

Thanks Mark I think you are giving me far to much credit for the meagre intelligence I have. 

I know you've done a lot of reading, and some of your posts have shown you have a reasonable understanding of the process.
As a classic car restorer your obviously a hands on person so should get on well with bio.

[therecklessengineer]

OK, I've been convinced.

I did try a 5% water wash a couple of years ago. It formed the Mother Of All Emulsions and I ended up abandoning the batch.

I'll give it another crack (although maybe on my minimum of 100 litres just in case it goes wrong.)

[Head Womble]

OK, I've been convinced.

I did try a 5% water wash a couple of years ago. It formed the Mother Of All Emulsions and I ended up abandoning the batch.

I'll give it another crack (although maybe on my minimum of 100 litres just in case it goes wrong.)

If you do form an emulsion it's easy to fix, just add a few liters of meths and it should split quickly.

[julesandtash]

Or a small amount of any acid of your choice.

[nigelb]

...or some of your glyc!

[Head Womble]

Earlier on in this thread I said I did not think this method would work with NaOH or KOH,
Steve (I think) said it worked for him with KOH.

Well I've now done a batch with NaOH, done the 7% prewash and then went straight into pump washing,
no emulsion at all (I did have some acid to hand just in case).

I'm going to try this again on my next batch and report back.