ok, decided to start the first reclaim experiment after all... have the alcohol reclaim filtered twice through coffee filters, now it's sitting in a stainless steel cup, on top of my coffee cup warmer, in the window evaporating. I will try to keep an eye on it, as it evaps, and see if I can catch it when there is about a 1/3 of the alcohol left, still liquid, but mostly gone. I want to see if adding a drop or two of the d-lim at that stage will have any effect. Right now it's probably about 1/2 cup full of the reclaim liquid. This is the darkest, nastiest reclaim liquid I have, so I am curious to see how well this works.
update:
Ok, there was maybe 1/8" of liquid in the bottom of the SS cup, so I took it off the coffee cup warmer, and added one drop at a time of the d-lim, up to 4 drops. Didn't notice much separating, but I went ahead and filtered it anyway, a little more of the sediment came out, but I don't think it did that much really. Conclusion is that the alcohol was still too saturated for it to work in small amounts. So now, I am just going to evap off the rest of the alcohol, and then take the oil and add a drop or two to that, and see what happens. I know this wasn't very controlled, I am really just testing out long shot ideas on reclaim I don't really care if I waste....
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I waited until it was about 90% evaportated, and put one drop at a time, up to 4 drops in the mostly condensed oil, and still did not see much of a visible change. I had a splash of everclear left, so I put that on the oil, swished it around to get it mixed, then ran it through another coffee filter. The oil is slowly becoming more amber/redish gold looking, than the original black it started out. I did notice another layer of sediment in the last coffee filter. So it must be doing something to help separate the contaminants. I will let this evap off and see what my final product ends up looking like.
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still on final purge of the first try. The oil has a very dark red tint to it, there is some orange smell still, 8 drops total were added to this batch. I suspect this jar of reclaim is from some previous combusted parts, mixed in. It has that ash/burned resin smell that bongs get after use for combustion. I don't know if I will call this one a success, or if I will even try to use this oil, but I did get the chance to mess around a bit to see if it would work while there is still solvent present.
I want to try again with some more recent vapor only reclaim, that doesn't stink. This time I think I will follow the original plan, make the first round of oil, purge, then add the d-lim once the oil settles, so I can minimize the amount added to maybe 2-3 drops if possible. I am working with such small amounts of oil, maybe a gram or less in the end product.