ResolvableOwl
Notorious Lyear
The idea of lye masterbatching has quite some appeal. Masterbatchers: What is everyone storing it in? How do you dose? Which tricks have proven, which don't work as intended?
I'm somewhat reluctant to just use a bucket and somehow spill the lye with a dipper/funnel into another container, just to weigh it, and discard (eww) or dump back (even more eww) the surplus lye. How does the everyday routine of lye masterbatch handling look like in practice?
A few ideas that might or might not work well and/or keep the lye from air contact (soda ash, evaporation/hygroscopicity, dirt) and/or meet my exceptional demands on laziness:
Squeeze bottle (lab-grade, or ketchup/mustard-style, or the ones like used for mini drop swirl)
Accordion-style foldable water tank
Bag-in-box
Dosing bottles (preferably the two-lid ones that are easier to refill)
Bottle-top dispenser, Dispensette® (okay, that's slowly approaching rocket science)
Couldn't one just use a good ol' soap dispenser bottle too?
(Am I overthinking this? Is this what overthinking feels like?)
I'm somewhat reluctant to just use a bucket and somehow spill the lye with a dipper/funnel into another container, just to weigh it, and discard (eww) or dump back (even more eww) the surplus lye. How does the everyday routine of lye masterbatch handling look like in practice?
A few ideas that might or might not work well and/or keep the lye from air contact (soda ash, evaporation/hygroscopicity, dirt) and/or meet my exceptional demands on laziness:
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(Am I overthinking this? Is this what overthinking feels like?)